Pilgrimage and Power. The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954
Kama Maclean covers the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, which is not merely a major Hindu religious pilgrimage but the largest religious gathering in the world
History
1 online resource (352 pages) illustrations
9780199713356, 0199713359
535505694
The power of discourse, representations of the Kumbh Mela, c. 1760-2004
Sovereign spaces Allahabad Fort and the Sangam, 1765-1860
Mela as resistance: the modern beginnings of the ancient Kumbh in Allahabad, 1857-1870
Proclamation, pilgrimage, and politics religion as a contestable space, 1860-1900
Competing for minds and at the Mela organisation, nationalism, and propaganda, 1906-1942
The Sarkari Mela : the Allahabad Kumbh, 1954