Description: Banaras Reconstructed : Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City, Paperback by Desai, Madhuri, ISBN 0295741996, ISBN-13 9780295741994, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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.
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Book Title: Banaras Reconstructed : Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Banaras Reconstructed : Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City
Language: English
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Hinduism / History, Buildings / Religious, General, Asia / India & South Asia, History / General
Publication Year: 2017
Item Weight: 23.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Religion, Architecture, History
Author: Madhuri Desai
Item Length: 10 in
Series: Global South Asia Ser.
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
