Uprising of the Fools: Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India
(Part of the South Asia in Motion Series)
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The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees-called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians-are mostly young, destitute men, who have been left behind in the globalizing economy. But for these young men, the ordeal of the pilgrimage is no foolish...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1503601676
ISBN13:9781503601673
Release Date:March 2017
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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