Overview

'Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism' focuses on one of the major festivals of western India, the Ganapati Utsava, dedicated to the elephant-headed god. Raminder Kaur uses this occasion as the central anthropological and historiographical site within which to examine the dynamic relationship between spectacle, religion and nationalist politics.

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Author:   Raminder Kaur
Publisher:   Anthem Press
Imprint:   Anthem Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781843311386

ISBN 10:   1843311380
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   05 February 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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Raminder Kaur is a Lecturer at the University of Manchester. She completed her PhD at SOAS, University of London, in 1998. She is also co-editor of 'Travel Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics' (Zed Books, 1999), and co-author of 'Liquid Notions: Critical Reflections on Diaspora and Hybridity' (Sage, forthcoming).

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