Culture and Power in Banaras

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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

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

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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

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