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India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L. Eck

2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 37; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09700161.2013.782665

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Kalathmika Natarajan,

Indian History and Philosophy

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. See Faisal Fatehali Devji, ‘Hindu/Muslim/Indian’, Public Culture, 5(1), 1992, pp. 1−18. 2. Srirupa Roy, Beyond Belief: India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2007. 3. Sanjay Chaturvedi, ‘Representing Postcolonial India: Inclusive/Exclusive Geopolitical Imaginations’, in Klaus Dodds and David Atkinson (eds.), Geopolitical Traditions: A Century of Geopolitical Thought, Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 211− 235. 4. See Ashutosh Varshney, ‘Contested Meanings: India's National Identity, Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Anxiety’, Daedalus, 122(3), 1993, pp. 227−261. 5. TIME magazine cover page, 27 October 1947, at http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19471027,00.html (Accessed 1 February 2013). 6. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ‘Visualising India's Geo-body: Globes, Maps, Bodyscapes’, in Sumathi Ramaswamy (ed.), Beyond Appearances? Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India, Sage, New Delhi, 2003, pp. 151−189 7. See Srirupa Roy's account of the spatial practices of the Nehruvian nation state in Beyond Belief, no. 2, p. 136. 8. Sanjay Chaturvedi, no. 3, p. 230. 9. See Ashutosh Varshney, no. 4. 10. Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India, Penguin, New Delhi, 2004, p. 51. 11. Ravinder Kaur, ‘Mythology of Communal Violence: An Introduction’, in Ravinder Kaur (ed.), Religion, Violence and Political Mobilisation in South Asia, Sage, New Delhi, 2005, p. 37. 12. William Dalrymple, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, Bloomsbury, London, 2010. 13. See Shail Mayaram, ‘Beyond Ethnicity? Being Hindu and Muslim in South Asia’, in Kamala Visweswaran (ed.), Perspectives on Modern South Asia: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation, Blackwell, West Sussex, UK, 2011, pp. 16−22. 14. Shail Mayaram, ‘A New Tragedy of the Commons’, The Hindu, 19 October 2011, at http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article2552386.ece (Accessed 1 February 2013). 15. Shail Mayaram, Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997, p. 279. 16. Yoginder Sikand, ‘The Changing Nature of Shared Hindu-Muslim Shrines in Contemporary Karnataka, South India’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 25(1), 2002, pp. 49−67. 17. See Yoginder Sikand, Sacred Spaces: Exploring Traditions of Shared Faith in India, Penguin, New Delhi, 2003. 18. Joanne Punzo Waghorne, ‘Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line between Hindu and Christian’, History of Religions, 39(2), 1999, pp. 95−116. Emphasis in the original. 19. See Madhu Purnima Kishwar, ‘Amarnath Yatra: A Letter to Geelani’, Tehelka, 15 September 2012, at http://tehelka.com/amarnath-yatra-an-open-letter-to-hurriyat-leader-syed-ali-shah-geelani/ (Accessed 1 February 2013). 20. See Sheikh Mushtaq, ‘Hindu Pilgrims Brave Kashmir Violence to Seek Salvation at Cave Shrine’, Reuters, 14 July 2010, at http://blogs.reuters.com/india/2010/07/15/hindu-pilgrims-brave-kashmir-violence-to-seek-salvation-at-cave-shrine/ (Accessed 1 February 2013). 21. He called on local Kashmiri Pandits (seen as distinct from Indian Hindus) to manage the yatra along with their Kashmiri ‘Muslim brothers’. See ‘GoI Politicizing Yatra: Geelani’, Greater Kashmir, 2 September 2012, at http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Sep/2/goi-politicizing-yatra-geelani-29.asp (Accessed 1 February 2013). 22. ‘Amarnath Yatra: Acid Test of Devotion’, Press Information Bureau, Government of India, at http://pib.nic.in/feature/fe0799/f1507992.html (Accessed 1 February 2013). 23. Gautam Navlakha, ‘Pilgrim's Progress Causes Regression’, Economic and Political Weekly, 41(27/28), 8–15 July 2006, pp. 2975−2977. 24. For Brahmans, Vamana was the hero; for non-Brahmans, Mahabali was the heroic Dravidian who was duped by the cunning non-Dravidian Brahman Vamana; for the communist parties and trade unions, Mahabali's act was an ‘original instance of primitive communism’. See Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella, ‘The Return of King Mahabali: The Politics of Morality in Kerala’, in C.J. Fuller and Veronique Benei (eds.), The Everyday State and Society in Modern India, Social Science Press, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 137−162. 25. Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella, no. 24. 26. Advani visited the Katasraj temple complex near Lahore. See Muralidharan Reddy, ‘Playing Peacemaker’, Frontline, 22(13), 18 June–1 July 2005, at http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2213/stories/20050701005201000.htm (Accessed 1 February 2013). 27. Krishna visited the Dera Sahib Gurdwara and Data Darbar Sufi Shrine. See Iftikhar Gilani, ‘Krishna Wraps up Pakistan Visit’, DNA, 10 September 2012, at http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_krishna-wraps-up-pakistan-visit_1738929 (Accessed 1 February 2013). 28. M. Zulqarnain, ‘Red Alert in Pak Ahead of Guru Nanak Jayanti’, Outlook, 27 November 2012, at http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=781955 (Accessed 1 February 2013). 29. Yudhvir Rana, ‘Pakistani City with Guru Nanak Link to Get Holy Tag’, Times of India, 6 October 2012, at http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-06/india/34293365_1_guru-nanak-etpb-evacuee-trust-property-board (Accessed 1 February 2013). 30. ‘Free Pilgrimage for Senior Citizens in MP’, The Indian Express, 12 April 2012, at http://www.indianexpress.com/news/free-pilgrimage-for-senior-citizens-in-mp/935620 (Accessed 1 February 2013). 31. Madhya Pradesh is also ‘the only state that subsidises travel to holy places in Pakistan (Nankana Saheb shrine and Hinglaj Mata temple), China (Mansarovar), Cambodia (Angkor Vat) and Sri Lanka (Sita Mandir and Ashok Vatika)’. See ‘MP Cabinet Clears Free Pilgrimage for Senior Citizens’, The Indian Express, 20 April 2012, at http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mp-cabinet-clears-free-pilgrimage-for-senior-citizens/939135 (Accessed 1 February 2013).