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The Concept of Sacred Cities in Asia with Special Reference to India

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The Asian City: Processes of Development, Characteristics and Planning

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Sacred places range all the way from small towns with a single religious focus to cities that symbolize in their microcosm the entire sacred cosmos of a particular religion. Small settlements with goddess temples, that attract thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of pilgrims at specific occasions, but are virtually deserted after the yatra (pilgrimage), share some common elements with cities which have large “sacred complexes” (to use Vidyarthi’ s term) or those that are known for their massive Kumbha fairs attended by millions of people.

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  1. Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 44242, USA

    Surinder M. Bhardwaj

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  1. Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA

    Ashok K. Dutt , Frank J. Costa  & Allen G. Noble ,  & 

  2. Department of Geography, Delhi University, Delhi, India

    Surinder Aggarwal

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Bhardwaj, S.M. (1994). The Concept of Sacred Cities in Asia with Special Reference to India. In: Dutt, A.K., Costa, F.J., Aggarwal, S., Noble, A.G. (eds) The Asian City: Processes of Development, Characteristics and Planning. The GeoJournal Library, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1002-0_5

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