Hindu festivals in small town India: patronage, play, piety

This article shows how the burgeoning Hindu festivals in small town West Bengal – in Hooghly and Nadia – can be understood as a dynamic interplay of political patronage, play as rivalry and revelry, and finally piety. The article argues that in a strategic implementation of competitive Hindutva (Hin...

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Auteur principal: Sen, Moumita (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: 2023
Dans: Religion
Année: 2023, Volume: 53, Numéro: 3, Pages: 406-430
Sujets non-standardisés:B competitive Hindutva
B Mamata Banerjee
B Hindu festivals
B urbanisation
B small town India
B West Bengal
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