Landscapes of Urban Memory by Smriti Srinivas - 9780816636167

Landscapes of Urban MemoryThe Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City\nAuthor(s): Smriti Srinivas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816636167, 978-0816636167\nSynopsis\nA rich analysis of religion, civic life, and global transformation in India.\n\nEstablished in the middle of the sixteenth century, Bangalore has today become a center for high-technology research and production, the new Silicon Valley of India, with a metropolitan population approaching six million. It is also the site of the very popular annual performance called the Karaga dedicated to Draupadi, the polyandrous wife of the heroes of the pan-Indian epic of the Mahabharata. \n\nThrough her analysis of this performance and its significance for the sense of the civic in Bangalore, Smriti Srinivas shows how constructions of locality and globality emerge from existing cultural milieus and how articulations of the urban .