Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech CityU of Minnesota Press |
Contents
Civic Rituals in the New Silicon Valley | 1 |
Models of the Garden City | 38 |
The Urban Performative Complex | 67 |
The Children of Fire | 119 |
The Primal Goddess the Polyandrous Spouse | 139 |
Cities and Forests | 203 |
Conclusion | 237 |
A7 Landholding and family size of Vahnikula Kshatriyas | 261 |
Other editions - View all
Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-tech City Smriti Srinivas No preview available - 2001 |
Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-tech City Smriti Srinivas No preview available - 2001 |
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acres Agnikula Ambasura Anjaneya Arjuna associated Backward Classes Banga Bangalore City Bangalore Development Authority Bangalore District Bangalore Metropolitan Bhima bodies of water Cantonment castes century chariot City Corporation civic Cubbon Park cultural deity Delhi demon Devi Mahatmya devotees Dharmaraja Temple Doopanahalli Draupadi Draupadi cult Elusuttinakote emerged festival fire-walk forest Gante Pujari gardens groups Haider Halsur Hiltebeitel Hindu Hoskote households included Infant Jesus Kannada Karaga jatre Karaga performance Karaga priest Karaga Purana Karnataka State Gazetteer Kempe Gowda kinetograph Krishna land landscape lineage linked Madras Mahabharata Munivenkatappa Muslim Muthyallamma Mysore oral epic Pandavas Parvati percent political Potha Raja Primal Goddess procession Rama recitation region ritual players Road role sacred Sampangi Sampangiramnagar settlement Shiva shrine social south India space spatial Sufi Tamil Nadu Tank Tigala Tigalarapet tion towns troupe Vahnikula Kshatriya community various village Virakumaras Vokkaligas Vokkuta Samsthe
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Page xvii - This book was written in many cities, in the context of several conversations, and through the generous support of a number of institutions and persons. It is a pleasure to remember them all.