Stoddard (USA): 1-4 Preface and Acknowledgements: 5-6 Studies of Hindu Pilgrimages: Emerging Trends and Bibliography: 7-48 Hindu Pilgrimage: History, Mythology and Present Concerns: 49-78 Sacredscapes & Pilgrimage System: Some Reflections: 79-120 The 51 Shaktipithas (Goddesses) and Sacred places: 121-158 The Ganga River: Images, Sacrality and Salvific Places: 159-194 Hindu Places of Pilgrimage: Communitas and Contestation: 195-244 Interfaces in Pilgrimage Landscape: Sacrality and Spatial Geometry: 245-278 Cosmic Ordering and Self Organisation among Sacred Cities: 279-304 Pilgrimage-Tourism in the Hindu Tradition: Perspectives and Vision: 305-332 Green Pilgrimage Initiatives 333-368 Gazetteer of Hindu Pilgrimages Places (108) in India: 369-390 Index: 391-399 the author: 400.

This is the first full book of its kind and to be used as the major reference and text and will open new directions of understanding in pilgrimage studies. This book, consisting of ten essays, and annotated list of important 108 pilgrimage places, deals with deeper awareness and understanding of the complexities and subtleties of pilgrimage in the contexts of the mythology, history, system, structure and functioning of Hindu pilgrimages and Sacred Space in India, and illustrated with case studies of Shaktipithas, Chitrakut, Varanasi, Gaya, Vindhyachal, Mathura, Kumbha Mela, while emphasising the textual traditions, historical outline, contemporary pilgrimage tourism, issues of contestations and seduction of history, sacred geometry and cosmic order, and use of SOC theory.

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