Indian Pilgrimage, An: Ramdevra

Synopsis: Ramdev, a medieval martial hero and saint of western India, has become the focus of a miracle cult spread by a growing body of folk music. The film follows a group of Hindus on pilgrimage from Bombay to Ramdev’s gravesite in a Rajasthan desert village. Shows both sacred and secular aspects of pilgrimage - the Bombay pilgrims make their collective offering; a woman goes into a trance as the spirit of Ramdev ‘enters’ her; tens of thousands of pilgrims mingle at the fair outside the temple, shopping at the bazaar, listening to preachers, hawkers and devotional singers.
Series: Contemporary South Asia Film Series
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Film; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 26 min.
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of production: 1974
Availability: Hire
Notes: Reviewed by P Hockings in ‘American Anthropologist’, Vol 78 (1976), p958.
Documentation: Instructor’s background guide to the film: ‘An Indian Pilgrimage: Ramdevra’, by Z & J Kurien, M R Binford and M Camerini (South Asian Area Center, University of Wisconsin, ca. 1975).
Uses: Courses in anthropology. *RAI
Subjects: Anthropology; Religious studies
Keywords: Hinduism; India; religious pilgrimages

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