• Home
• Newsletter
• New Acquisitions

• Metasearch
• SavifaGuide
• OLC-Article Databases
• E-Journals
• Databases
• Document Server
• Digital Collections
• E-Toc-Alert Service
• Document Delivery Service

• Publishing
• Directory of
  South Asia Scholars
• Thematic Portals
• Suggest a Website
• Comments

• Special Subject Collection
• Project Description
• Partners
• Publications

Varanasi Displayed

One of the religiously most vibrant cities in India is situated at the Western bank of the river Ganga in Uttar Pradesh. It is located in time and space, its faces are manifold, it is represented out of different perspectives and various names refer to this city: Varanasi – also called Benares or Kashi.

The thematic portal Varanasi Displayed tries to bundle these manifold (in)sights on Varanasi that are carried on various media such as literature, films, maps, photographs or online resources:

• Introduction
• Picture gallery Views on Varanasi
• Varanasi Research Project Visualized Space,
  South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg
• Digitized literature
  • Greaves, Edwin
    Kashi the city illustrious or Benares
    Allahabad 1909
  • Havell, Ernest B.:
    Benares, the sacred city: Sketches of Hindu life and religion
    London [1912]
  • Sherring, Matthew A.:
    The sacred city of the Hindus: an account of Benares in ancient and modern times
    London 1868
• E-Publikationen
  • Alter, Joseph S.
    The Wrestler’s Body.Identity and Ideology in North India
    Berkeley, 1992
  • Cohen, Lawrence
    No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
    Berkeley, 1998
  • Freitag, Sandria B. (Ed.)
    Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment, 1800-1980
    Berkeley, 1989
  • Kumar, Nita
    Friends, Brothers and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras
    Berkeley, 1992
  • Lutgendorf, Philip
    The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas.
    Berkeley, 1991
• Online resources
• Bibliography
• Filmography
• Academic support