in the vicinity of Champaner. Legend has it that the hill is in fact a one-fourth chunk of anHimalayanmountainside that was brought byHanuman, a hero of the epic Ramayana; hence the name pava meaning a quarter. Presently a vast field of ruins at the Champaner-Pavagad region is a ...
Leslie Orr has recently examined grants from southern Tamilnadu in which the grants are given as orders directly from the deity themselves. 20 The economic, political, and ritual freedom that came along with these grants problematizes Foucault depiction of power in the ancien regime—power over de...