Abstract
This anthropological study demonstrates how the interplay between international tourism and religious nationalism may be used by postcolonial elites against host communities. An anti-colonial, Occidentalist discourse of tourism as moral contamination has been employed by Hindu religious leaders to encourage and legitimise “spatial cleansing” of the Indian village of Hampi, which is both a UNESCO site and a Hindu holy land. Discursive condemnation of tourism as an invasion of barbarians destroying local culture has not actually targeted the tourists – as outsiders who are beyond the local Hindu frame of reference – but rather tourism service providers. A sedentarist perspective, associating displacement with cultural loss and commercial activity with capitalist immorality, has been employed in this process of Othering.
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