Kumbh Mela

Kumbh Mela
Title Kumbh Mela PDF eBook
Author Diana L. Eck
Publisher Hatje Cantz Verlag
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Allahabad (India)
ISBN 9783775739900

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Study on Kumbha Melā (Hindu festival) at Allahabad; includes articles on it's management, infrastructure and planning.

Pilgrimage and Power

Pilgrimage and Power
Title Pilgrimage and Power PDF eBook
Author Kama Maclean
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 352
Release 2008-08-29
Genre Religion
ISBN 0199713359

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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.

Kumbh Mela

Kumbh Mela
Title Kumbh Mela PDF eBook
Author Edgar Bonnet-Behar
Publisher BoD - Books on Demand
Pages 108
Release 2020-10-03
Genre Photography
ISBN 2322252859

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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.

Kumbh Mela

Kumbh Mela
Title Kumbh Mela PDF eBook
Author Diana L. Eck
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Allahabad (India)
ISBN 9789385285073

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Study on Kumbha Melā (Hindu festival) at Allahabad; includes articles on it's management, infrastructure and planning.

Kumbha Mela

Kumbha Mela
Title Kumbha Mela PDF eBook
Author Subas Rai
Publisher
Pages 264
Release 1993
Genre Religion
ISBN

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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.

Kumbha

Kumbha
Title Kumbha PDF eBook
Author Nityananda Misra
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 238
Release 2019-02-18
Genre Art
ISBN 9388414128

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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.

Unfolding Faith

Unfolding Faith
Title Unfolding Faith PDF eBook
Author Agam Gupta
Publisher Partridge Publishing
Pages 97
Release 2013-09-26
Genre Education
ISBN 1482812142

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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