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Performative Polities and the Cultures of Hinduism (Public Uses of Religion in Western India)

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Publisher: Permanent Black
Author Raminder Kaur
Language: English
Pages: 325 (Figure: 3)
Cover: Hardcover
21.5 cm X 14 cm
Edition: 2003
ISBN: 8178240475
IDG479
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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

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