Banaras

Author : Diana L. Eck
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307832953
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banaras written by Diana L. Eck and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sacred city of Banāras on the River Ganges is one of the oldest living cities in the world—as old as Jerusalem, Athens, and Peking. It is the place where Shiva, the Lord of All, is said to have made his permanent home since the dawn of creation. There are few cities in India as traditionally Hindu and as symbolic of the whole of Hindu culture as Banāras. In this eloquent, finely observed study, Diana Eck shows how the city over the centuries has become a lens through which the Hindu vision of the world is precisely focused. She reveals the spiritual and historical resonance of this holy place where great sages such as the Buddha and Shankara were taught, where ashrams, palaces, and universities were built, where God has been imagined and imagined in a thousand ways. She describes the rites of its temples, the busy life of its riverfront, and the exuberance of its festivals. She tells how people travel from all over India to Banāras for the privilege of dying a good death here, for they believe that on the banks of the River Ganges where “the atmosphere of devotion is improbable in its strength,” it is possible to be released from the earthly round forever. In her account of the sacred history, geography, and art of the city, its elaborate and thriving rituals, its myths and literature, and its importance to pilgrims and seekers, Diana Eck uses her wealth of scholarship to make the Hindu tradition come powerfully alive so that we come to understand the meaning of this sacred city to the millions of believers who have been coming here for over 2,500 years.

Author : Winand M. Callewaert
Publisher : Hemkunt Press
ISBN 13 : 9788170103028
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banaras written by Winand M. Callewaert and published by Hemkunt Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan P. Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521466257
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in Banaras written by Jonathan P. Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Hindu death rituals and the sacred specialists who perform them in the Indian city of Banaras.

Author : Bradley R. Hertel
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791413319
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Banaras written by Bradley R. Hertel and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on contemporary popular religious traditions, the book represents a substantial contribution to the study of modern religious practices in Banaras, holy city of India. This book offers in-depth, ethnographic views of many contemporary popular religious practices that have, for the most part, received little attention by scholars. Topics covered include the Ramlila celebrations, devotion to Hanuman, and goddess worship, and the way that Banarsi Boli, the local dialect of Banaras, supports its users in their identification with the sacred city.

Author : Martin Gaenszle
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447051873
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visualizing Space in Banaras written by Martin Gaenszle and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Banaras is widely known as a unique, impressive and particularly ancient historical place. But for many it is above all a universal, cosmic, and in a sense timeless sacred space. Both of these seemingly contrasting depictions contribute to how the city is experienced by its inhabitants or visitors, and there is a great variety of sometimes competing views: Kasi the Luminous, the ancient Crossing, the city of Death, the place of Hindu-Muslim encounter and syncretism, the cosmopolitan centre of learning, etc. The present volume deals with the multiple ways this urban site is visualized, imagined, and culturally represented by different actors and groups. The forms of visualizations are manifold and include buildings, paintings, drawings, panoramas, photographs, traditional and modern maps, as well as verbal and mental images. The major focus will thus be on visual media, which are of special significance for the representation of space. But this cannot be divorced from other forms of expressions which are part of the local life-world ("Lebenswelt"). The contributions look at local as well as exogenous constructions of the rich topography of Kasi and show that these imaginations and constructions are not static but always embedded in social and cultural practices of representation, often contested and never complete.

Author : Laksh Maheshwari
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9357087001
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancestors written by Laksh Maheshwari and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been two years after the black element was discovered; two years since Jay disappeared, believed to be dead. The revelations continue for the Somvanshis, as they deal with the changes that the black element caused in their bodies. As Karan makes discoveries that shake him to his core, Shantanu Somvanshi finds the key that he has been waiting for in the shape of a young, strong-minded girl. The Ancestors takes the reader on a whirlwind ride with twists and turns that will shock.

Author : Sandria B. Freitag
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520313399
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Power in Banaras written by Sandria B. Freitag and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of ten essays on Banaras, one of the largest urban centers in India's eastern Gangetic plain, is united by a common interest in examining everyday activities in order to learn about shared values and motivations, processes of identity formation, and self-conscious constructions of community. Part One examines the performance genres that have drawn audiences from throughout the city. Part Two focuses on the areas of neighborhood, leisure, and work, examining the processes by which urban residents use a sense of identity to organize their activities and bring meaning to their lives. Part Three links these experiences within Banaras to a series of "larger worlds," ranging from language movements and political protests to disease ecology and regional environmental impact. Banaras is a complex world, with differences in religion, caste, class, language, and popular culture; the diversity of these essays embraces those differences. It is a collection that will interest scholars and students of South Asia as well as anyone interested in comparative discussions of popular culture. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Author : Vertul Singh
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9357088709
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banaras written by Vertul Singh and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banaras has been home to sages, artists, poets, musicians and seekers from all parts of India. The ancient canon of texts passed down orally by the sages was written and transcribed in the lanes and by-lanes of this city. Over the centuries, the art of grafting and subsuming the religious and cultural ethos became the hallmark of Banaras. In this book, Vertul Singh presents a kaleidoscopic view of Banaras that charts a narrative spanning from the present-day city and its origins as Kashi to the fin de siècle of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which witnessed the city’s inclusionary development as a cultural and pilgrimage centre, an opulent trading hub and a basilica of political power. Weaving facts, interesting anecdotes and untold stories to make a rich tapestry, this book is an insider’s account and an unparalleled portrait of the city.

Author : Rana Singh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443815799
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banaras written by Rana Singh and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrating the making of the Hindus’ most sacred and heritage city of India (Banaras) this book will serve as lead reference and insightful reading for understanding the cultural complexities, archetypal connotations, ritualscapes and vivid heritagescapes that maintain India’s pride of history and culture.

Author : Madhuri Desai
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295741619
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banaras Reconstructed written by Madhuri Desai and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras’s refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps and its spectacular riverfront was depicted in panoramas and described in travelogues. In Banaras Reconstructed, Madhuri Desai examines the confluences, as well as the tensions, that have shaped this complex and remarkable city. In so doing, she raises issues central to historical as well as contemporary Indian identity and delves into larger questions about religious urban environments in South Asia.