Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India: A Study in Cultural Geography

Ancient Indian Aryan Aṣṭami average distance Badrinath Baijnath Bengal Bhagsunag Bombay Brahmans Buddhist Calcutta caste composition Census of India Chintpurni cultivating castes cultural darśana deity Delhi Dharmaśālā diffusion diversity Dravidian epic example Festivals Ganga Gaya Geography Gujarat Hardwar Haryana Himachal Pradesh Hindu Hinduism History holy places important interviewed Jwalaji Kangra Khatri-Arora large number levels of sacred Mahābhārata Mansa Devi Matsya Matsya Purāṇa mercantile castes Mother Goddess Naina Devi Navarātrās of Caitra number of pilgrims number of sacred Origin of Pilgrims pan-Hindu pattern percent pilgrim field Pilgrim Register pilgrimage places of pilgrimage priests proportion of pilgrims Punjab Purāņas purohits Rajputs ranks of sacred regional relationship Religion religious circulation religious literature Rewalsar rituals rivers sacred places sample sanctity Sanskrit scheduled castes scheduled-caste pilgrims SELECTED CASTE Shiv Bari shows Sikh Śiva social spatial specific Śrāvaṇa subregional sukhnā supraregional temple tīrthas traditional Ujjain Uttar Pradesh Varanasi yātrā