FOUR. Protection and Identity: Banaras's BIr Babas as Neighborhood Guardian Deities

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VII
4. CONTRIBUTORS IX
5. PREFACE XI
6. NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION XVII
7. Introduction: The History and Political Economy of Bañaras 1
8. PART ONE. Performance and Patronage
9. Introduction to Part 1 Performance and Patronage 25
10. ONE. Ram's Story in Shiva's City: Public Arenas and Private Patronage 34
11. TWO. The Birth of Hindi Drama in Banaras, 1868-1885 62
12. THREE. The Rise of a Folk Music Genre: Biraha 93
13. PART TWO. Identity and Constructions of Community in Bañaras
14. Introduction to Part 2 Identity and Constructions of Community in Banaras 117
15. FOUR. Protection and Identity: Banaras's BIr Babas as Neighborhood Guardian Deities 130
16. FIVE. Work and Leisure in the Formation of Identity: Muslim Weavers in a Hindu City 147
17. PART THREE. Bañaras in Wider Arenas
18. Introduction to Part 3 Bañaras in Wider Arenas 173
19. SIX. Forging a New Linguistic Identity: The Hindi Movement in Banaras, 1868-1914 179
20. SEVEN. State and Community: Symbolic Popular Protest in Banaras's Public Arenas 203
21. EIGHT. Land Use and Environmental Change in the Gangetic Plain: Nineteenth-Century Human Activity in the Banaras Region 229
22. NINE. The Ecology and Cosmology of Disease in the Banaras Region 246
23. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 269
24. BIBLIOGRAPHY 271
25. INDEX 287