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Auteur:	Desai, Madhuri
Titel:	Banaras Reconstructed Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City
Uitgever:	University of Washington Press
ISBN:	9780295741604
Serie:	Global South Asia
Land van oorsprong:	United States
Prijs:	€ 160.85
Verschijningsdatum:	27-06-2017
Bericht:	Langere levertijd (2-3 weken)

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Hinduism

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Verschijningsvorm:	Hardback
Paginas:	304
Hoogte mm.:	254
Breedte mm.:	178
Gewicht gr.:	862

 

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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).