Uprising of the fools : pilgrimage as moral protest in contemporary India /
Vikash Singh.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
- South Asia in motion .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : illegitimate religion -- Mastering uncertainty : performance and recognition in religion -- "Everything is a gift, Bhole" : custom and the ethics of care -- Ominous signs : of dread, desires, and determination -- Damning corpses : violence, religious or secular? -- Caste and the informal economy : subversive aesthetics of popular religion -- Wishful nightmares : triumphant neoliberalism and the resistances of religion -- War, nation, and the human as a thing.
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Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India--Haridwār. Religion and social status--India. Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects--India.