Walking with Pilgrims: The Kanwar Pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal

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Ruma Bose

Walking with Pilgrims

The Kanwar Pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal

Ruma Bose

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Routledge
17 September 2019

Religion: general; Hindu life & practice; Regional geography

This volume makes a contribution to understanding pilgrimage, not as a transient activity at the margins of daily life, but as an event grounded firmly in the physical, symbolic and social experience of the everyday world. The vital relationship between pilgrimage and society is explored via a focus on a specific pilgrimage – the Kanwar pilgrimage of Bihar and Jharkhand in India and the southeast Terai of Nepal. The rising popularity of this old but relatively unknown pilgrimage is striking and reflects profound changes in caste, class and gender relationships, subjectivity and notions of work in a modern economy. Through the lens of pilgrimage and pilgrims, the book explores the everyday context of life in parts of rural Bihar and southeast Nepal, questions about agency and desire in Hinduism, and the meaning given to symbolic life in a changing world.

This requires an integrative approach looking beyond the performance of the pilgrimage to the historical, economic and social-cultural context. The volume underscores the role of popular and local history in understanding the life and popularity of a complex phenomenon, such as the pilgrimage today. Equal importance is given to the geography and climatic conditions, for natural rhythms such as that of rains, rivers, planetary movements, were and still are, intimately entwined with the agricultural, socio-economic and ritual cycles.

The particular experience of the world that this engenders and its relationship to the pilgrimage is described through the active voice of the pilgrims and descriptions of rites, some new and many fast disappearing.

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By: Ruma Bose
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367422202
ISBN 10: 0367422204
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 17 September 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ruma Bose graduated in Medicine from Calcutta University and practiced as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in London. She obtained a Masters degree in Medical Anthropology from University College, London (2000). She has a special interest in anthropology and mental health, a subject she has taught, researched and written about.