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Pilgrimage and power : the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954

Title
Pilgrimage and power : the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954 / Kama Maclean.
Author
Maclean, Kama, 1968-
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Description
xv, 344 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-332) and index.
Contents
The power of discourse, representations of the Kumbh Mela, c. 1760-2004 -- Sovereign spaces Allahabad Fort and the Sangam, 1765-1860 -- Mela as resistance: the modern beginnings of the ancient Kumbh in Allahabad, 1857-1870 -- Proclamation, pilgrimage, and politics religion as a contestable space, 1860-1900-- Competing for minds and at the Mela organisation, nationalism, and propaganda, 1906-1942 -- The Sarkari Mela : the Allahabad Kumbh, 1954.
Call Number
*OLY 08-7031
ISBN
  • 9780195338942 (alk. paper)
  • 0195338944 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2007039456
OCLC
173299432
Author
Maclean, Kama, 1968-
Title
Pilgrimage and power : the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954 / Kama Maclean.
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-332) and index.
Research Call Number
*OLY 08-7031
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