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Author Desai, Madhuri (Madhuri Shrikant), author.

Title Banaras reconstructed : architecture and sacred space in a Hindu holy city / Madhuri Desai
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 292 pages)
Series Global South Asia
Global South Asia.
Summary 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. 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
Notes Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of California, Berkeley, 2008) under the title: Resurrecting Banaras : urban space, architecture and religious boundaries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Hindu architecture -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Sacred space -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Architecture and society -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
Architecture and society
Buildings
Hindu architecture
Sacred space
Constructions -- Inde -- Benares (Inde, Uttar Pradesh).
Architecture -- Aspect social -- Inde -- Benares (Inde, Uttar Pradesh).
Lieux sacres -- Inde -- Benares (Inde, Uttar Pradesh).
Architecture hindoue -- Inde -- Benares (Inde, Uttar Pradesh).
SUBJECT Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Subject India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021692790
ISBN 9780295741611
0295741619