2006
DOI: 10.1080/00856400600865825
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Moving God(s)ward, calculating money: Wonders and wealth as essentials of atīrtha-yātrā

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“…the emergence of a totally impersonal pilgrimage market, in which the control of the flow of pilgrims came to be dominated by agents...'. 64 This historical review reminds us that not only have pilgrimage and commercial paybacks always gone together, 65 but also that the historical trajectory of pandas is in many ways defined by it. In a study of a Maharastrian noble who went on a pilgrimage in the mid-nineteenth century, we find an amusing description of a Prayag panda pressuring the royal pilgrim for donations-a scene not unlike that described above.…”
Section: Historical Trajectoriesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…the emergence of a totally impersonal pilgrimage market, in which the control of the flow of pilgrims came to be dominated by agents...'. 64 This historical review reminds us that not only have pilgrimage and commercial paybacks always gone together, 65 but also that the historical trajectory of pandas is in many ways defined by it. In a study of a Maharastrian noble who went on a pilgrimage in the mid-nineteenth century, we find an amusing description of a Prayag panda pressuring the royal pilgrim for donations-a scene not unlike that described above.…”
Section: Historical Trajectoriesmentioning
confidence: 99%