Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism English 2005
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ISBN:
9788178240473
Publisher:
Permanent Black
Pages:
319
Weight:
740 g
Dimensions:
20 x 25 x 5 cm
Book Cover:
Hard Cover
Thema:
- Hinduism
The Ganapati utsava, a major festival of western India dedicated to the elephant-headed god, raises compelling questions about the interplay of religion, spectacle and cultural politics. In a book that spans a century of epochal history, Raminder Kaur considers how the public festival has been interwoven with everyday lives as well as the making of the modern Indian nation. The festival was mobilised as a potential vehicle for political critique in the 1890s, pre-eminently by Bal Gangadhar Tilak. As such, this book deploys a single major cultural and religious event to study the variety and cultures of contemporary Hinduism and their complex histories.
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