Banaras: making of India`s heritage city / Rana P.B. Singh

By: Singh, Rana P.BMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Newcastle ; Cambridge scholars, 2009Description: xvi, 408 p. PBISBN: 9781443813211DDC classification: 291.350954
Contents:
aranasi : light and dark -- Foreword / Niels Gutschow -- Preface : a call for co-pilgrimage -- Geographical personality : setting and landscape -- Transformation on the Cradle of Time -- Representation through the cartographic art in the 19th century -- Sacred geometry and cosmogram -- Shiva's universe : making of territorial complexities -- Sun images : ordering, cultural astronomy and worship -- The riverfront heritagescapes : the Ganga Ghats -- Archetypal architecture and making of an university township -- Kashi Kshetra : pilgrimage circuit of the Panchakroshi and Antargriha Yatras -- Making the heritagescape : intangible -- Reflections on making the heritage city -- Modern lifeways : place, society and turnings -- Appendix 1. Hindu festivals with Tithi and Roman dates, CE 2009-2018 -- Appendix 2. Historical and cultural happenings in North India and Banaras, AD 1000-2009.
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aranasi : light and dark --
Foreword / Niels Gutschow --
Preface : a call for co-pilgrimage --
Geographical personality : setting and landscape --
Transformation on the Cradle of Time --
Representation through the cartographic art in the 19th century --
Sacred geometry and cosmogram --
Shiva's universe : making of territorial complexities --
Sun images : ordering, cultural astronomy and worship --
The riverfront heritagescapes : the Ganga Ghats --
Archetypal architecture and making of an university township --
Kashi Kshetra : pilgrimage circuit of the Panchakroshi and Antargriha Yatras --
Making the heritagescape : intangible --
Reflections on making the heritage city --
Modern lifeways : place, society and turnings --
Appendix 1. Hindu festivals with Tithi and Roman dates, CE 2009-2018 --
Appendix 2. Historical and cultural happenings in North India and Banaras, AD 1000-2009.

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