Vrindavan's encounter with modernity
Subtitle: changing environment and life-worlds in an Indian temple town
By: Samrat S. Kumar
Series: Kulturwissenschaft = -- Cultural studies = -- Estudios culturales = -- Études culturelles -- Band/Volume 58; Kulturwissenschaft (Münster in Westfalen, Germany) -- Bd. 58.
Publisher: LIT Verlag GmbH
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9783643910790; 9783643960795
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Religious life and customs; Economic history
Description: Over the last decade traditional Indian temple towns have transformed into centres for urban lifestyles and tourist activities. One of these is the historic temple town Vrindavan in North India, on which this study focuses. Exploring the multiple socio-cultural realities present in the town, the author engages with the narratives of the residents as they respond to the socio-environmental changes against the backdrop of national and regional modernisation processes. Here the imaginaries of a mythic Vrindavan, with its pristine and sacred environment, are evoked in narrations on contemporary modernity.
Notes: "Revised and updated version of disseration, University of Oslo 2015"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.