The powerful ephemeral everyday healing in an ambiguously Islamic place /

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Main Author: Bellamy, Carla, 1971-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Series:South Asia across the disciplines.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Ambiguity: Husain Tekri and Indian dargah culture
  • Place: the making of a pilgrimage and a pilgrimage center
  • People: the tale of the four virtuous women
  • Absence: loban, volunteerism, and abundance
  • Presence: the work and the workings of haziri
  • Personae: transgression, otherness, cosmopolitanism, and kinship
  • Conclusion: The powerful ephemeral: dargah culture in contemporary India.