Banaras Reconstructed - Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City

Madhuri Desai is associate professor of art history and Asian studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the coeditor of Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories: Imperial Legacies, Architecture, and Modernity.

List of contents

Introduction | The Paradox of Banaras

1. Authenticity and Pilgrimage

2. Palimpsests and Authority

3. Expansion and Invention

4. Spectacle and Ritual

5. Order and Antiquity

6. Visions and Embellishments

Conclusion | Banaras Revisited

About the author

Madhuri Desai is associate professor of art history and Asian studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the coeditor of Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories: Imperial Legacies, Architecture, and Modernity.

Summary

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of California, Berkeley, 2008) under the title: Resurrecting Banaras: urban space, architecture and religious boundaries.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Madhuri Desai, Madhuri Desai
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780295741994
• ISBN: 978-0-295-74199-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Global South Asia; Global South Asia; Banaras Reconstructed; Global South AsiaGlobal South AsiaGlobal South AsiaGlobal South AsiaGlobal South AsiaBanaras Reconstructed
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous