Kashi
Benares: A World Within a World (HB)
Ambivalent Encounters
Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful.
Cultural Landscapes and the Lifeworld (P.B.)
काशी रहस्यम (हिंदी अनुवाद सहित) एवं सूक्ति रत्नावली हिंदी व्याख्या सहित
स्कन्द पुराणीय 'काशीखण्ड ' इस ग्रन्थ से जैसे कशी स्थित विभिन्न तीर्थों, देवालयों, वापी, कूप अदि के भूगोल एवं इतिहास इन दोनों के ज्ञान के साथ उनके आध्यात्मिक एवं धार्मिक महत्व का परिचय प्राप्त होता है वैसे ही 'काशी रहस्य' के अनुशीलन से कशी से सम्बंधित गूढ़ तत्त्वों रहस्यों का ज्ञान होता है. काशीरहस्य यह प्राचीन ब्रह्मवैवर्त का तृतीय खंड है ऐसा उसकी अध्याय के अंत में दी गयी पुष्पिका से ज्ञात होता है.
Banaras in the Early 19th Century
Holy Kashi to Vibrant Varanasi
Kashi/Banaras/Varanasi is a world of its own, a veritable mini India, unique in almost all respects. Its contradictions can be seen in its blend of spirituality and darkness, sanctity and filth, purity and deceipt, culture and grossness.
Luminous Kashi to Vibrant Varanasi presents, as no other book has done before, all these aspects of this paradoxical and fascinating city, and gives an amazing quantity of information on the city, its history, culture and people; its temples and tirthas, mathas and institutions; its scholars, some of them the best in the country; its festivals and lilas; its literature, music, painting and culture; its silk trade and crafts; and its typical inhabitants: sadhus, pandits, pandas, babus, rais, thugs and gundas. More than all, the book finds out, with the help of mythology and metaphysics, the essence of Kashi-its luminosity and its vibrancy! It finally says: walk not in the dark alleys, plunge not in the shallows, but more into the luminosity, and dive deep into the oceans of knowledge. The Kashi you find depends on how far you walk, how deep you dive!
Death in Banaras
This book is primaryly about the priests and other kinds of 'sacred specialist' who serve them:about the way in which they organise their business,and about their representations of death and understanding of the rituals over which they preside.all three levels are informed by a common ideoligical preoccupation with controlling chaos and contingency.the anthro pologist who writes about death inevitably writes about the world of the living,and Dr Parry is centrally concerned with concepts of the body and the person in contemporary hinduism,with ideas about hierarchy,renunciation and sacrifice,and with the relationship between hierarchy and notions of complementarity and holism.
DEAD IN BANARAS
