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Hindu Kingship Rituals (Hardback)

Power Relation and Historical Evolution

P&S History > Theology & Religion > Eastern Religions World History > Asia

Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Harvard Oriental Series - Opera Minora
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9781463240479
Published: 5th July 2019
Casemate UK Academic

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In recent decades, Nepal has witnessed a dramatic shift from its ancient form of Hindu kingship to a federal republican democratic secular order, with the official dissolution of monarchy in 2008. This study deals with the religious lives of the Śāh kings of Nepal, concentrating on such major rituals as the “coronation” (rājyābhiṣeka) and the autumnal navarātri (Goddess-centered) festival. This study unravels how religion and politics were deeply intertwined in the ritual activities, and how the rituals, in their traditional deeply religious and devotional settings, exerted a maximum of socio-political powers for the king and his institutions.

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