Vrindavan's encounter with modernity : changing environment and life-worlds in an Indian temple town /

Vrindavan's encounter with modernity : changing environment and life-worlds in an Indian temple town /

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Author / Creator:	Kumar, Samrat Schmiem, author.
Imprint:	Zürich : LIT Verlag GmbH, [2019]
Description:	211 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Kulturwissenschaft = Cultural studies = Estudios culturales = Études culturelles ; Band/Volume 58 Kulturwissenschaft (Münster in Westfalen, Germany) ; Bd. 58.
Subject:	Economic history. Social conditions. Vrindāvan (India) -- Social conditions. Vrindāvan (India) -- Economic conditions. Vrindāvan (India) -- Religious life and customs. India -- Vrindāvan.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12030373

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ISBN:	9783643910790 3643910797 9783643960795 3643960794
Notes:	"Revised and updated version of disseration, University of Oslo 2015"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	Over the last decade traditional Indian temple towns have transformed into centres for urban lifestyles and tourist activities. One of these is the historic temple town Vrindavan in North India, on which this study focuses. Exploring the multiple socio-cultural realities present in the town, the author engages with the narratives of the residents as they respond to the socio-environmental changes against the backdrop of national and regional modernisation processes. Here the imaginaries of a mythic Vrindavan, with its pristine and sacred environment, are evoked in narrations on contemporary modernity.

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