| Culture and Power in Banaras |
| CONTRIBUTORS |
| PREFACE |
 | NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION |
| INTRODUCTION: THE HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BANARAS |
 | PART ONE— PERFORMANCE AND PATRONAGE |
| Introduction to Part 1— Performance and Patronage |
| One— Ram's Story in Shiva's City: Public Arenas and Private Patronage |
| • | The Performance |
| • | Origins of the Tradition |
| • | The Rise of Elite Patronage |
| • | The Book in Print |
| • | Changing Styles of Performance |
| • | Conclusion |
| Two— The Birth of Hindi Drama in Banaras, 1868–1885 |
| Three— The Rise of a Folk Music Genre: Biraha |
| PART TWO— IDENTITY AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF COMMUNITY IN BANARAS |
| Introduction to Part 2— Identity and Constructions of Community in Banaras |
| Four— Protection and Identity: Banaras's Bir Babas as Neighborhood Guardian Deities |
| Five— Work and Leisure in the Formation of Identity: Muslim Weavers in a Hindu City |
| PART THREE— BANARAS IN WIDER ARENAS |
| • | Introduction to Part 3— Banaras in Wider Arenas |
| Six— Forging a New Linguistic Identity: The Hindi Movement in Banaras, 1868–1914 |
| Seven— State and Community: Symbolic Popular Protest in Banaras's Public Arenas |
| Eight— Land Use and Environmental Change in the Gangetic Plain: Nineteenth-Century Human Activity in the Banaras Region |
| Nine— The Ecology and Cosmology of Disease in the Banaras Region |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| INDEX |