Varanasi

An Varanasi (; ; siring man Benares, Banaras ( ;)"Benares" is the name that appears in the 1909 official map of India or Kashi (; )) iyo an syudad sa Ganges river sa Amihanan na Indya na igwa nin central place sa tradisyon kan pilgrimage, kagadanan, asin pagluksa sa kinaban kan mga Hindu.*

{{cite book | last = Singh | first = Ravi Nandan | title = Dead in Banaras: An Ethnography of Funeral Travelling | year = 2022 | publisher = Oxford University Press |location = Oxford, UK | isbn = |quote = The present-day Banaras, at first sign, is a new place.  Rightly so, the baton must then pass on to an all new chronicling of the place.  Yet, a connecting link, as always, may come into play, between the book's time and other times of Banaras.  Let me give an example of what such a connection might look like.  Jonathan Parry (1994) in his classic Death in Banaras laments in the preface to the book that he could not incorporate the coming in of the electric crematorium in his descriptions of the funerary organization in Banaras.  Two decades later into my fieldwork, I found that it is in part, the efficiency of the open-air, manual cremation that Parry so effectively captures in his book that explains how a promising symbol of industrial modernity, the electric crematorium, falls short of the typecast. In the years between his book and my fieldwork, the electric crematorium sat lonely and was sparingly used against the cheer of the always-on, busy, manual pyres whose flames continue to dot the scene of the ghats in a contrasting relief. In this above sense, I believe, Parry already provides us a portrait of the electric crematorium's social imaginary in Banaras.  The question of the shift from wooden pyres to the electric crematorium is then not about competing technologies but th An syudad igwa nin syncretic tradition kan Muslim artisanship that underpins an saiyang relihiyosong turismo.* Namomogtak sa middle-Ganges valley sa habagatan-subangan na kabtang kan estado kan Uttar Pradesh, an Varanasi namomogtak sa walang tampi kan salog. Iyan igwa nin  sa habagatan-subangan kan kabisera kan Indya na New Delhi asin  sa habagatan-subangan kan kabisera kan estado na Lucknow.

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