Author: Madabhushini Narasimhacharya
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Category : NarasimĐha (Hindu deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Afsar Mohammad
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199997608
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Each year 300,000 pilgrims embark on a pilgrimage to the remote Indian village of Gugudu. Like many villages in South India, Gugudu is populated mostly by non-Muslims. Yet these pilgrims are coming to mark Muharram, which is observed by Shi'i Muslim communities across South Asia. In this book, Afsar Mohammad presents a lively ethnographic study of the textured religious life of Gugudu. Muharram, he shows, takes on a strikingly different color in Gugudu because of the central place of a local Hindu pir, or saint, called Kullayappa. This intense and shared devotion to the pir, Mohammad argues, represents local Islam interacting with global Islam. In the words of one devotee, "There is no Hindu or Muslim. They all have one religion, which is called 'Kullayappa devotion.'" Through his compelling fieldwork, Mohammad expands our ideas about devotion to the martyrs of Karbala, not only in this particular village but also in the wider world, and explores the intersection between an Islam with locally defined practices and global Hinduism.

Author: Lavanya Vemsani
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350138533
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Narasimha is one of the least studied major deities of Hinduism. Furthermore, there are limited studies of the history, thought, and literature of middle India. Lavanya Vemsani redresses this by exploring a range of primary sources, including classical Sanskrit texts (puranas and epics), and regional accounts (sthalapuranas), which include texts, artistic compositions, and oral folk stories in the regional languages of Telugu, Oriya, and Kannada. She also examines the historical context as well as contemporary practice. Moving beyond the stereotypical classifications applied to sources of Hinduism, this unique study dedicates chapters to each region of middle India bringing together literary, religious, and cultural practices to comprehensively understand the religion of Middle India (Madhya Desha). Incorporating lived religion and textual data, this book offers a rich contribution to Hindu studies and Indian studies in general, and Vaishnava Studies and regional Hinduism in particular.

Author: M. Krishna Kumari
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Category : Andhra Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: Rangachar Vasantha
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Category : Hindu temples
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
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Category : South Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 946

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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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Contributed articles chiefly on the history of India.

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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1118

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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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