Visualizing Space in Banaras Images Maps and the Practice of Representation Ethno Indology 1st Edition by Martin Gaenszle, Jorg Gengnagel ISBN 978-3447051873 3447051876

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ISBN 13: 978-3447051873

Author: Martin Gaenszle, Jorg Gengnagel

The city of Banaras is widely known as a unique, impressive and particularly ancient historical place. But for many it is above all a universal, cosmic, and in a sense timeless sacred space. Both of these seemingly contrasting depictions contribute to how the city is experienced by its inhabitants or visitors, and there is a great variety of sometimes competing views: Kasi the Luminous, the ancient Crossing, the city of Death, the place of Hindu-Muslim encounter and syncretism, the cosmopolitan centre of learning, etc. The present volume deals with the multiple ways this urban site is visualized, imagined, and culturally represented by different actors and groups. The forms of visualizations are manifold and include buildings, paintings, drawings, panoramas, photographs, traditional and modern maps, as well as verbal and mental images. The major focus will thus be on visual media, which are of special significance for the representation of space. But this cannot be divorced from other forms of expressions which are part of the local life-world (“Lebenswelt”). The contributions look at local as well as exogenous constructions of the rich topography of Kasi and show that these imaginations and constructions are not static but always embedded in social and cultural practices of representation, often contested and never complete.

Table of contents: 

Sacred Topography

• Hans Bakker
  The Avimuktakṣetra in Vārāṇasī: Its Origin and Early Development

• Ravi S. Singh and Rana P. B. Singh
  Goddesses in Kāśī (Vārāṇasī): Spatial Patterns and Symbolic Orders

• Annette Wilke
  The Banarsi Navadurga Cycle and Its Spatial Orientation

• Sunthar Visuvalingam and Elizabeth Chalier-Visuvalingam
  Bhairava in Banaras: Negotiating Sacred Space and Religious Identity

Maps

• Axel Michaels
  Mapping the Religious and Religious Maps: Aspects of Transcendence and Translocality in Two Maps of Varanasi

• Jörg Gengnagel
  Maps and Processions in Banaras: The Debate Concerning the Pañcakrośīyātrā

• Sumathi Ramaswamy
  Enshrining the Map of India: Cartography, Nationalism, and the Politics of Deity in Varanasi

Images

• Niels Gutschow
  Panoramas of Banaras

• Joachim K. Bautze
  Examples of Unlicensed Copies and Versions of Views from Benares: Their Authorship and Identification

• Sandria B. Freitag
  Visualizing Cities by Modern Citizens: Banaras Compared to Jaipur and Lucknow

Social Practice and Everyday Life

• Nita Kumar
  The Space of the Child: The Nation, the Neighbourhood, and the Home

• Stefan Schütte
  The Social Landscape of the Washermen in Banaras

• Martin Gaenszle (in collaboration with Nutandhar Sharma)
  Nepali Places: Appropriations of Space in Banaras

• Vasudha Dalmia
  Visions of a New Banaras in the Early Twentieth Century

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