Gods, men and mere mortals: organisation and safety at the Kumbh Mela

Sinha, Rohit (2018) Gods, men and mere mortals: organisation and safety at the Kumbh Mela [Online resource]

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In 2013's Kumbh Mela at Allahabad, nearly 120 million people gathered over 55 days in a temporary city of 20 sq km. In this photo essay, Rohit Sinha captures the event, part of UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, while describing how the city is built and what keeps it together.

Item Type	Online resource
Copyright holders	© 2018 The Author
Departments	South Asia Centre
Date Deposited	06 Dec 2018 14:24
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/91053