Politics and pilgrimage in North India: Varanasi between communitas and contestation

Tourism

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 287-304

  Singh, Rana P B ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Communitas; India; Pilgrimages; Religious tourism; Sacred places; Turner; Varanasi

Indexed keywords

EID: 80955126653     PISSN: 13327461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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