Banaras reconstructed : architecture and sacred space in a Hindu holy city /

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 (riverfro...

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Main Author: Desai, Madhuri (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Series:Global South Asia.
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