On Pilgrimages and Chariot Festivals
As part of the India Today/Copenhagen Tomorrow programme, and to celebrate the new study programme on Modern India and South Asian Studies - ADI and ToRS invite you to a series of late afternoon double-lectures this autumn. Tea will be served.
The second double lecture is by Associate Professor Peter B. Andersen and Associate Professor Erik R. Sand and will touch upon Pilgrimages and Chariot festivals.
Renuka Devi takes a trip round in her realm in Tranquebar
Associate Professor Peter B. Andersen
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
The temple of the Hindu goddess Renuka Devi towers in the centre of the Fishermens’ hamlet in the old Danish trading post Tranquebar in the present day Tamil Nadu. The paper will present Renuka Devi as a typically South Indian deity, and show how her chariot festival demonstrates the cohesion of the Fishermen society versus other religious and caste groups in Tranquebar. The paper is based on observations of the festival in 2007.
Pilgrimages to Pandharpur in Maharastra – Past and Present
Associate Professor Erik R. Sand
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
Abstract will follow soon.
India Today/Copenhagen Tomorrow
India Today/Copenhagen Tomorrow is a Danish/Indian project initiated by the Danish Holck-Larsen Foundation. The foundation was established by Henning Holck-Larsen, co-founder of the Indian company Larsen & Toubro in India.
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