Hinglaj Devi : identity, change, and solidification at a Hindu temple in Pakistan / Jürgen Schaflechner.

Hinglaj Devi : identity, change, and solidification at a Hindu temple in Pakistan / Jürgen Schaflechner.

9780190850555 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

English

1 online resource : illustrations, maps.

BL1243.79.P183 H568 2018

294.5350954915

The shrine of the Goddess Hinglaj is located in the desert of Balochistan, Pakistan, about 215 kilometers west of the city of Karachi. Notwithstanding its ancient Hindu and Muslim history, the establishment of an annual festival at Hinglaj took place only recently, 'invented' in the mid-1980s. Only after the construction of the Makran Coastal Highway (MCH), a road that now, coincidentally, connects the formerly distant desert shrine with urban Pakistan, was the increasingly confident minority Hindu community able to claim Hinglaj as their main religious centre, a site for undisturbed religious performance and expression. This work describes the dynamics that emerged after this dislocation, examining the political and cultural influences at work at the Hinglaj temple, and tracks this remote desert shrine's rapid ascent to its current status as the most influential Hindu pilgrimage site in Pakistan.

The shrine of the Goddess Hinglaj is located in the desert of Balochistan, Pakistan, about 215 kilometers west of the city of Karachi. Notwithstanding its ancient Hindu and Muslim history, the establishment of an annual festival at Hinglaj took place only recently, 'invented' in the mid-1980s. Only after the construction of the Makran Coastal Highway (MCH), a road that now, coincidentally, connects the formerly distant desert shrine with urban Pakistan, was the increasingly confident minority Hindu community able to claim Hinglaj as their main religious centre, a site for undisturbed religious performance and expression. This work describes the dynamics that emerged after this dislocation, examining the political and cultural influences at work at the Hinglaj temple, and tracks this remote desert shrine's rapid ascent to its current status as the most influential Hindu pilgrimage site in Pakistan.

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