Performative politics and the cultures of Hinduism : public uses of religion in Western India /
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| Author / Creator: | Kaur, Raminder |
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| Imprint: | Delhi : Permanent Black ; Bangalore :bDistributed by Orient Longman, c2003. |
| Description: | xix, 306 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Permanent Black monographs. Opus 1 series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5355033 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations and Maps, Preface
- 1. The Promise of Performative Politics: Mobilised Efficacy
- Festive Moments;
- The Public Field
- A Multifaceted Festival
- Slippery Performers
- 2. 'Seething with Sedition': Recasting Tilak's Interventions
- Martial Murti
- Fire in the Belly of the Gods
- A Festival in Ferment
- A Whirlpool of Movements
- 3. The Spectacle of Drama and the Drama of Spectacle: Creative Patriotism
- A Long Train of Etceteras
- Fractured Publics, Moving Scenes
- Mandap Types
- Spectacular Politics
- 4. Ganesh Chaturthi: Festival as Praxis: 'An Antidote to Vague Despair'
- Engaging with Mandap Tableaux
- Synaesthesia, Pleasure-Principles
- Society of Spectator
- Vitality
- The Immersion Procession
- The 'Saffronisation' of Public Space
- 5. Mandal, Media, and the Market: Gods and Goods
- The Business of Religion
- Marking the Event
- Overviewing of the Three Rounds
- Assessing the Competition
- 6. Open Secrets: Contemporary Political Culture in Maharashtra
- The Eye of the Tiger
- Street Poetics
- Sainik Spectacles
- An Art of Stage-Craft or State-Craft?
- Variant Versionings of the Nation
- Spectacles and Spectators
- 7. Nuclear Reactions: Bombs and the Nation
- Gods, Bombs and the Social Imaginary
- Explosive Scnes
- The Destroyer of Worlds
- 8. A Nation Magic Mirrors: National or Natural?
- Envisaging the Nation
- Heroic Figures
- Iconic Events
- Space and Territory
- Gendered Tropes of the Nation, Perceptions of the Other
- Future Horizons
- Modern Totems and Metaphors
- Homing In
- 9. An Imperfect Osmosis
- Glossary and Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index