Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City

by Madhuri Desai

Book Overview

Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras's refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps and its spectacular riverfront was depicted in panoramas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295741996
• ISBN13: 9780295741994
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher