Smriti Srinivas (Ph.D in Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University) is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Mouths of People, the Voice of God: Buddhists and Muslims in a Frontier Community of Ladakh (1998), and Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India’s Hi-Tech City (2001). Her research interests are in urban cultures, social memory, cultures of the body, and religion.
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Acknowledgements
Note on Translation
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures, Maps, Tables, and Diagrams
Introduction
1. The Mendicant of Shirdi
2. The Arrival of the Avatar
3. The Sense of the Presence
4. Healing, Service, and Character
5. The Ideal Polis
6. Producing Space in Bangalore
7. Somatic Regimes of Citizenship in Nairobi
8. Sites of Sociality in Atlanta
Conclusion
Appendix: Overseas Sai Centers and Groups
Bibliography
Index
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