Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India
by
Vikash Singh
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees—called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians—are mostly...