Peter van der Veer 
Gods on Earth [PDF ebook] 
The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre

This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his study of Sanskrit and Hinduism It provided a detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. This is Volume 59 of the London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology.