Culture and Power in Banaras
  CONTRIBUTORS
  PREFACE
 expand sectionNOTES ON TRANSLITERATION

 expand sectionINTRODUCTION:  THE HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BANARAS

 collapse sectionPART ONE—  PERFORMANCE AND PATRONAGE
 expand sectionIntroduction to Part 1—  Performance and Patronage
 expand sectionOne—  Ram's Story in Shiva's City:  Public Arenas and Private Patronage
 expand sectionTwo—  The Birth of Hindi Drama in Banaras, 1868–1885
 expand sectionThree—  The Rise of a Folk Music Genre: Biraha

 collapse sectionPART TWO—  IDENTITY AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF COMMUNITY IN BANARAS
 expand sectionIntroduction to Part 2—  Identity and Constructions of Community in Banaras
 expand sectionFour—  Protection and Identity:  Banaras's Bir Babas as Neighborhood Guardian Deities
 expand sectionFive—  Work and Leisure in the Formation of Identity:  Muslim Weavers in a Hindu City

 collapse sectionPART THREE—  BANARAS IN WIDER ARENAS
 •Introduction to Part 3—  Banaras in Wider Arenas
 expand sectionSix—  Forging a New Linguistic Identity:  The Hindi Movement in Banaras, 1868–1914
 expand sectionSeven—  State and Community:  Symbolic Popular Protest in Banaras's Public Arenas
 collapse sectionEight—  Land Use and Environmental Change in the Gangetic Plain:  Nineteenth-Century Human Activity in the Banaras Region
 •Historiographical Perspective
 •Banaras:  Characteristic Features
 collapse sectionEnvironment and Resource Base
 •Physical Features
 •Agriculture
 •Human Population
 expand sectionEnvironmental Alterations
 •Conclusion
 expand sectionNine—  The Ecology and Cosmology of Disease in the Banaras Region

  LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
 expand sectionBIBLIOGRAPHY
 expand sectionINDEX
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