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Download or read book Kumbh Mela written by Diana L. Eck and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on Kumbha Melā (Hindu festival) at Allahabad; includes articles on it's management, infrastructure and planning.
Book Synopsis Pilgrimage and Power by : Kama Maclean
Download or read book Pilgrimage and Power written by Kama Maclean and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, is a major Hindu religious pilgrimage and the largest religious gathering in the world. In 2001, according to the government of Uttar Pradesh, 30 million pilgrims were drawn to the confluence of the rivers Ganga and Yamuna on the most auspicious day for bathing. In an impressive feat of organization and administration, the first mela of the new millennium was managed to the overwhelming satisfaction of most, with an impressive health and safety record. The loudest complaint had to do with the intrusive presence of the media. Journalists, largely representing foreign media outlets, had swarmed to the mela, intent on broadcasting to a global audience sensational images of naked (or wet-sari-clad) Indians taking part in "ancient" religious rituals. Resistance to foreign interference with the mela has roots that go back 200 years. The British colonial state and the colonized had different ideas about what the Kumbh Mela represented: for the former, it was a potentially dangerous gathering that demanded tight regulation and control, but for the latter it was a sacred sphere in which foreign domination and interference were intolerable. In this book Kama Maclean examines this tension and the manner in which it was negotiated by each side. She asks why and how the colonial state tried to manipulate the mela and, more important, how the mela changed as Indians responded to the colonial power. In recent years many scholars have emphasized the extent to which the Kumbh Mela has been monopolized by the Hindu nationalist movement. Maclean seeks to situate the history of the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad within a much broader context. She explores the role of a pilgrimage fair like the Kumbh Mela in disseminating ideas, particularly political ones like nationalism and ideas about social reform. Kama Maclean tells the mesmerizing and important story of the Kumbh Mela with exciting detail as well as careful scholarly attention, illuminating for the reader the full scope of the event's historical and socio-political context.
Download or read book Kumbh Mela written by Edgar Bonnet-Behar and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kumbh Mela is a Hindu festival and probably the largest spiritual gathering in the world. Hundreds of millions of visitors attended the near month-and-a-half-long event. You will discover here, through photographs and a story, the evolution of cultural curiosity, of a half-declared mystical quest transforming into a spiritual experience of openness and introspective exploration. In Spanish, recordar means to remember. The re invites us to call back or come back, through the cor, through the heart. To remember would therefore be to come back through the heart. I hope that the openness and adventures that have known mine will resonate in yours.
Download or read book Kumbh Mela written by Diana L. Eck and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on Kumbha Melā (Hindu festival) at Allahabad; includes articles on it's management, infrastructure and planning.
Download or read book The Kumbh Mela written by Mark Tully and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where the Ganges and the Jamna meet people from many,many different traditions of Hinduism come together. Therewill be many genuinely holy men, some charlatans, and someobscurantists. But the majority of those who come to bathe inthe Sangam will be villagers. The Kumbh is an awe-inspiringdemonstration of simple piety and a clear example of the powerof myth.This is a small book presenting the Kumbh Mela, the biggestreligious festival in India. The renowned journalist MarkTully, who has covered with the BBC and as a free-lancer themain events in the recent history of India, gives in his inimitablestyle his impressions of the Kumbh Mela held at Allahabad in1989.
Download or read book Kumbha Mela written by Subas Rai and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Relating To Kumbh Mela Looks At The Linkage Between Religious, Historical,Scientific And Social Aspets Defining This Festival-What Brings A Vast Humanity To The Mela At Specified Times. 2 Parts Containing Containing 8 Chapters-References.
Download or read book Unfolding Faith written by Agam Gupta and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is a land of mythologies, customs and rituals. It contains almost all varieties of religious practices known to the world. The KumbhMela is one of the prominent religious practices of Hindu religion in India. This book has been designed to make you familiar with the various aspects of this great traditionalist Hindu practice. It starts with the legends attached to the origin of the KumbhaMela in India. It contains details about where and how the KumbhMelas take place in our country. There are four places in India where the KumbhMela is organized every twelve years. Between two KumbhMelas occur ArdhaKumbhs. However, the most important of all where devotees get a life-time fortune to take a holy dip is MahaKumbhMela. It takes place once in 144 years. The next KumbhMela is to be held in 2015 in Nashik. The book concludes with various details of Prayag, which is the venue of current KumbhMela. In contains details about the gathering, general administration, opportunities as well as threats and suggestion for beter planning Agam recalls the spiritual caravan of peace activists, Naga sadhus, tantriks, pilgrims, mystical walkers, wandering monks, miracle workers, roaming philosophers, natives of the land and foreigners at KumbhMela of 2013 in Paryag. The book contains the personal feeling of the author about the Mela, deliberation with administration, sadhus as well as tourists
Download or read book Kumbha written by Nityananda Misra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lucid and enlightening account, Nityananda Misra takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through the modern Kumbha Mela, the largest pilgrimage and the biggest festival in the world attended by crores of people. The book details the origin and symbolism of the Kumbha Mela, its dates and venues, and its awe-inspiring organization that has been called a wonder of modern-day management. It provides a personal close-up view of the visitors at the largest human gathering on earth-the sadhus, the kalpavasis, the tirthayatris, and members of new-age Hindu movements. The author sheds considerable light on the cultural aspects (literature, arts, and music) of the Kumbha and argues how the mela is perhaps the most diverse and inclusive human gathering and how the tradition is immortal, as if made so by the nectar of immortality which is believed to have spilled on the sites of the Kumbha Mela. Throughout the book, the author shows how diverse participants come and work together at the Kumbha Mela following the spirit of samgacchadhvam (“come together”)-a spirit that permeates the mela in his view. The author captures his personal experience too in Prayaga, Nashik, and Ujjain, leaving an anecdotal touch to the narrative. The final chapter presents an overview of the upcoming Ardha Kumbha Mela in Prayaga in 2019.
Download or read book Kumbha Mela written by Jack Hebner and published by Palace Editions. This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the famous Indian festival that occurs once every 12 years.
Book Synopsis Mahakumbh, the Greatest Show on Earth by : J. S. Mishra
Download or read book Mahakumbh, the Greatest Show on Earth written by J. S. Mishra and published by Har-Anand Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Is About Mahakumbh-2001 At Allhabad. Presents Mahakumbh In Its Totality Details Of Management Aspects-Highlights The Lessons Learnt From The Successful Execution Of This Mega Event-Suggests Strategies To Effectively Manage Such Mega Events In Future. Well Illustrated. Has 12 Chapters.
Download or read book Kumbh Mela written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kumbh Mela and the Sadhus by : Badri Narain
Download or read book Kumbh Mela and the Sadhus written by Badri Narain and published by Pilgrims Book House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kumbh Mela is the single largest religious congregation or, in fact, human gathering of any kind on Earth. Located at the sacred rivers when Jupiter, Sun and Moon are in precise positions, the Nectar of Immortality flows for blessing all mankind.
Book Synopsis Prayāga, the Site of Kumbha Mela by : D. P. Dubey
Download or read book Prayāga, the Site of Kumbha Mela written by D. P. Dubey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kumbh Mela written by Valerio Berdini and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 2010. Haridwar, India. The Kumbh Mela draws to a close. For hundred days, from dawn to dusk, tens of millions of pilgrims arrived to free their sins bathing in the holy waters of river Ganges. They gathered from all over the country to attend this eternal ritual that cancels time and space, equalizes ethnicity and castes. A slow, incessant, growing procession of ordinary people has transformed the Kumbh Mela in the largest human gathering the world ever recorded. Tha aim of this book is to challenge the archetypical depiction of the festival showing the Sadhus, the holy men and point the lenses to the vastness of Kumbh Mela from the perspective of the silent multitude of Indian people with no holy credentials, that make it. This book is dedicated to the people of India, the silent majority that attends the Kumbh Mela.
Download or read book KUMBHA written by HH Lokanath Swami and published by Padayatra Press. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soul of the Kumbh written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nashik Kumbh Mela by : Govind Swarup
Download or read book Nashik Kumbh Mela written by Govind Swarup and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once every twelve years the planets align in aconfiguration eagerly awaited by millions of Hindudevotees. It is time for the Nashik Kumbh Mela agathering of sadhus, pilgrims, and tourists whocongregate for a dip in the Godavari, one of India sholy rivers. The very act of setting out for the Kumbh,the journey, the austere, often difficult stay, allculminate in this holy dip, which the faithful believewill wash away their sins. Nashik Kumbh Mela: ASpiritual Sojourn draws us into the very heart ofthis ancient festival, with insights into its origin andsignificance, and into the world of the reclusivesadhus. Govind Swarup s close-ups and magnificentaerial shots capture the essence of this immense andtime-honoured congregation.