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<p>This book is a fascinating investigation into how communalism plays out in everyday India. Using the metaphor of tana-bana - the warp and the weft of the Banarasi sari - the author reproduces the interwoven life of Hindu-Muslim relations in the Banarasi sari industry.</p> <p>As the city of Banaras in Uttar Pradesh takes the centre stage as the site of this ethnographic study, the author documents the dissonance in representations of Banaras as a sacred Hindu city and its essential plural char
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- Author
- Vasanthi Raman
- Publisher
- Routledge India
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780203151747
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Science, Weaving & Spinning, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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