This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history.

In the Bengali speaking regions of Bangladesh and India, the Bengali term bede today often evokes stereotypical imaginations of itinerant people. Of highly cont

Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century. How far did colonialism transform north I

Study conducted in Bishnupur subdivision of Bankura District of West Bengal, India.