Pilgrimage and power: the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954 /

Maclean, Kama

Pilgrimage and power: the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954 / Kama Maclean - 1st ed. - New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. - 344 p.

I. The Power of Discourse
Representations of the Kumbh Mela, c. 1760-2001
.2. Sovereign Spaces
Allahabad Fort and the Sangam, 1765-1860
3. Mela as Resistance
The Modem Beginnings of the Ancient Kumbh
in Allahabad, 1857-1870
4. Proclamation, Pilgrimage, and Politics
Religion as a Contestable Space, 1860-1900
5. Competing for Minds at the Mela
Organization, Nationalism, and Propaganda, 1906-1942
6. The Sarkari Mela
The Allahabad Kumbh, 1954

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