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Cults --- End of the world --- Kalki (Hindu deity) --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Kalkin (Hindu deity) --- Hindu gods --- Veterans --- American literature

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Indo-European literature --- Folklore --- India --- Hindu mythology --- Brahman mythology --- Mythology, Hindu --- Vedic mythology --- Mythology

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Kumbh Mela is the largest celebration on earth: depending on the zodiacal positions of Jupiter, the sun, and the moon, Hindus travel to certain places along holy rivers, the Ganges for example, for the purpose of bathing and cleansing themselves of sin. In 1989 fifteen million people are said to have attended, in 2001 around thirty million, and in 2013 approximately thirty-four million. In order to transport, house, and feed these enormous crowds of people, functioning temporary structures are required, which in each case are created by the communities hosting the gathering. In 2013, a team from Harvard University monitored the large-scale event from its preparation to the actual celebration itself. The volume presents the comprehensive research findings and includes city maps, aerial images, and photographs.

temporary structures --- festivals --- Environmental planning --- pilgrimages --- India --- Kumbha Melā (Hindu festival) --- Festivals --- Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages --- City planning --- Allahabad (India) --- Religious life and customs. --- Kumbha Melā (Hindu festival). --- Ruimtelijke ordening --- bedevaarten --- tijdelijke bouwconstructies --- festivals [celebrations] --- urbanisme

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Philosophy, Indic --- -Indic philosophy --- Philosophy, East Indian --- Hindu philosophy --- History --- Philosophy --- India --- -History

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For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritual practice throughout South Asia and among the global Diaspora. Originating from a single remote region of Himalayan Nepal, called Mustang, Shaligrams are all at once fossils, divine beings, and intimate kin with families and worshippers. Through their lives, movements, and materiality, Shaligrams then reveal fascinating new dimensions of religious practice, pilgrimage, and politics. But as social, environmental, and national conflicts in the politically-contentious region of Mustang continue to escalate, the geologic, mythic, and religious movements of Shaligrams have come to act as parallels to the mobility of people through both space and time. Shaligram mobility therefore traverses through multiple social worlds, multiple religions, and multiple nations revealing Shaligram practitioners as a distinct, alternative, community struggling for a place in a world on the edge.

Indian religions --- Himalaya --- Nepal --- Sacred stones --- Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Rocks --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Hinduism.