By Smriti Srinivas, «Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City» University of Minnesota Press | ISBN: 0816636168 | 2001-06 | PDF | 329 pages | 24,2 Mb
A rich analysis of what this Indian city can tell us about the intersections of religion, civic life, and global transformation.
Established in the middle of the sixteenth century, Bangalore has become in our day 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.