Anne Feldhaus is a scholar of South Asian religion, and this Palgrave Macmillan book is her scholarly study of regional identity and geographical imagination as expressed through pilgrimage networks in Maharashtra, India. Its strength is that Feldhaus draws on extensive fieldwork and textual sources to show how pilgrimage routes actively construct a sense of regional belonging rather than merely connecting pre-existing sacred sites. Its limit is geographic specificity: the study is grounded in Maharashtra, so a claim about pilgrimage and regional identity elsewhere in India needs a source matched to that region rather than an extension of Feldhaus's Maharashtra-specific findings.
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Published by Palgrave Macmillan as Anne Feldhaus's scholarly study of pilgrimage and regional identity in Maharashtra, peer reviewed university-level scholarship. NotesScholarly study of regional identity and geographical imagination as expressed through pilgrimage in Maharashtra, India.
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AuthorAnne Feldhaus
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication Year2003
Source Typebook
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This source names India directly: "pilgrimage networks in Maharashtra, India."
Source Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in IndiaAnne Feldhaus
Claims Backed By This Source (28 claims)
This source backs 28 claims across the atlas. As facts: 21 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Pilgrimage Routes, 13 claims: 9 well-attested, 1 holds, 3 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
- Categories, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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