Kama Maclean is a historian of modern South Asia, and this Oxford University Press book is her academic history of the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage at Allahabad and its relationship to political power from 1765 to 1954, spanning the late Mughal, colonial and early independence periods. Its strength is that it treats the Mela not as an unchanging timeless ritual but as an event whose organization and meaning were actively shaped by shifting political authority across nearly two centuries, grounded in colonial administrative and Indian sources. Its limit is chronological, it covers this specific historical window ending in 1954, so a claim about the Kumbh Mela's more recent organization or its ancient origins needs a source addressing those separate periods rather than this one.
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A university press historical study of the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage at Allahabad and its relationship to political power. NotesHistorical study of the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage at Allahabad and its relationship to political power, 1765 to 1954.
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AuthorKama Maclean
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Year2008
Source Typeacademic monograph
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- Sacred Sites, 11 claims: 9 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Holidays & Festivals, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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- Religious Events, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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