Religiosity, Space-making, Exclusion

Kanwar Yatra’ Celebrations in a North Indian City

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6170643
AutoresAvishek Jha (0000-0002-2431-6021, The University of Melbourne, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen12
Número1
Páginas20-32
Fecha de publicación2024-03-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Indian Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2321-0230 • E-ISSN: 2321-7472
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/23210230241235368
OpenAlexW4392622335
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas13

Through an ethnographic study of Kanwar Yatra celebrations in a north Indian city, this article seeks to highlight the changing notions of public religiosity and mass celebrations in contemporary India. This article will first show how the festival of Kanwar Yatra is invested with diverse forms of religious performance and carnivalesque celebrations. In itself, these celebrations especially provide young people with avenues for fun and entertainment that combine ideas of lower middle-class consumerism with religious fervour in a public space. However, the evolving spaces that are built, even in the momentary conclusion of such a festival, are based on wider strategies of belonging and identity, often complicated further with the involvement of the state. Influenced by the projects of socio-cultural actors and political institutions, this article ultimately argues that Kanwar Yatra celebrations reproduce ideas of spatial domination, exclusion and surveillance of communities, with severe implications for minorities, especially Muslims

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