Rana P B Singh
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This book, consisting of ten essays, and annotated list of important 108 pilgrimage places, deals with deeper awareness and understanding of the complexities and subtleties of pilgrimage in the contexts of the mythology, history, system, structure and functioning of Hindu pilgrimages and Sacred Space in India, and illustrated with case studies of Shaktipithas, Chitrakut, Varanasi, Gaya, Vindhyachal, Mathura, Kumbha Mela, while emphasising the textual traditions, ...
The twelve essays deal with current debate in pilgrimage studies and spirit of place that helps to understand the deeper relationship between human psyche and sacred environment, citing illustrations from different parts of the world, like Canada, China, India, Israel, Nepal, Pakistan, Romania, Spain and Tibet, representing many religions, linking locality with university and narrating the prospective features. These studies will pave the path of the newly ...
This anthology deals with the current debate in heritage studies and planning implying theoretical constructs and case studies, citing illustrations from different parts of the world, like Cambodia, India, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, UK, and USA. On the lines of the perspectives of UNESCO World Heritage Committee the prospective features and in-depth local structures are portrayed with field expereiences, thus the dimension of heritage ecology is broadened. This ...
This book describes various facets of geography, history and heritage of Varanasi, the heritage city of India, on/about which a vast historical literature is available. The section on Geography covers the general background of the topography, climate, soils, vegetation, and human landscape. The history section gives a general brief outline of history, from the ancient to the modern, including a chronological chart. The issue of inscribing the heritage scapes, ...
This book is the first attempt to describe all the fifteen places with which the Buddha had direct association. Narration of each of these places accounts the mythology, legend, Jataka tales, cultural history, archaeology, field studies and general information. The books is illustrated with 55 photographs and 55 maps and figure, and also contain a description of the main link station like Varanasi, Allahabad and Gorakhpur. Nearby sites for excursion are also ...
This book expounds in a colourful way the diverse literary images that Banaras, the city known as the Cultural Capital of India and the holiest city for Hindus, has inspired and continues to inspire in different writers in the course of history. Few other cities in the world have so sparked the imagination of the artists as this paradoxical and undescribable city which seems to integrate all contradictions.
Kabir, Tulasi Das, Mirza Ghalib, Bhartendu ...
This volume of Marg is dedicated to the physical environment of Banaras as embodied in an extremely diverse series of historical monuments that overlook the ghats lining the river Ganga or are tucked away in the crowded streets and lanes of the city. Dating from the last eight hundred years or so, these buildings were erected by the Delhi sultans and their successor, the Mughal emperors, as well as by Rajput princes and Maratha kings and queens, and rulers of a ...
This book is the first detailed study on Panchakroshi and itsassociated inner sanctum, the Antargriha Yatra.
Assuming itself as the centre of the cosmos, Kasi (Varanasi, Banaras) has preserved up to date its mandalic system, which is experienced and revived by millions of devotees Hindus through pilgrimage. At least since the 15th century, devotees continuously perform pilgrimage on thesetwo circuits.The oral and mythological traditions of pilgrimage are narrated ...