The Future of Bangalore's Cosmopolitan Pasts : : Civility and Difference in a Global City / / Andrew C. Willford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Willford, Andrew C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 8 b&w illustrations

Bangalore is often heralded as India's future-a city where global technologies converge with multinational capital to produce a cosmopolitan workforce and vibrant economic growth. In this narrative the city's main challenge revolves around its success: whether its physical infrastructure c...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Series Editors' Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Conventions
• Introduction
• Chapter One. The Writ in Early Medieval Southern China
• Chapter Two. The Religious Life of Objects The Talismans of the Writ and Their Surviving Fragments
• Chapter Three. Beyond Talismans Alchemy, Charts, and Meditation in Relation to the Writ
• Chapter Four. From Local Lore to Universal Dao The Cavern of Divinity and the Early Daoist Canon
• Chapter Five. The Writ and Its Corpus The Rise and Fall of the Cavern of Divinity in Institutional Daoism
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1. List of Variant Titles for the Writ of the Three Sovereigns (Sanhuang wen) in Early Medieval Sources
• Appendix 2. Synopsis of the Principal Six Dynasties Sources Containing Fragments of the Writ of the Three Sovereigns (Sanhuang wen) and Its Oral Instructions
• Appendix 3. Comparative List of Talismans from the "Essential Instructions from the Western Citadel on the Great Characters in Celestia Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction: Identity in the Modern, Postcolonial World
• Chapter 2. Bangalore in History: Empires, States, and Borderlands
• Chapter 3. Rajkumar's Abduction and a Dispute over Water
• Chapter 4. The Kannada Movement and Tamil Revival
• Chapter 5. "What? Legitimacy? Just Use Vivekananda in the Name of the Movement"
• Chapter 6. Local Pluralisms: Domlur, Ulsoor, Malleswaram, and Melkote
• Chapter 7. Statue Politics: Political Darshan and Urban Space
• Chapter 8. The Psychiatric Troubling of Identity
• Conclusion: The Kumaraswami Festival and Civility
• Glossary and Abbreviations
• Notes
• References
• Index