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Walking with Pilgrims - The Kanwar Pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal (Hardcover)
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Walking with Pilgrims - The Kanwar Pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal (Hardcover)
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This volume makes a contribution to understanding pilgrimage, not
as a transient activity at the margins of daily life, but as an
event grounded firmly in the physical, symbolic and social
experience of the everyday world. The vital relationship between
pilgrimage and society is explored via a focus on a specific
pilgrimage - the Kanwar pilgrimage of Bihar and Jharkhand in India
and the southeast Terai of Nepal. The rising popularity of this old
but relatively unknown pilgrimage is striking and reflects profound
changes in caste, class and gender relation ships, subjectivity and
notions of work in a modern economy. Through the lens of pilgrimage
and pilgrims, the book explores the everyday context of life in
parts of rural Bihar and southeast Nepal, questions about agency
and desire in Hinduism, and the meaning given to symbolic life in a
changing world. This requires an integrative approach looking
beyond the performance of the pilgrimage to the historical,
economic and social-cultural context. The volume underscores the
role of popular and local history in understanding the life and
popularity of a complex phenomenon, such as the pilgrimage today.
Equal importance is given to the geography and climatic conditions,
for natural rhythms such as that of rains, rivers, planetary
movements, were and still are, intimately entwined with the
agricultural, socio-economic and ritual cycles. The particular
experience of the world that this engenders and its relationship to
the pilgrimage is described through the active voice of the
pilgrims and descriptions of rites, some new and many fast
disappearing. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or
distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan,
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
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