Ruling Devotion: The Hindu Temple in the British Imperial Imagination - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Deborah SuttonSeries:SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth CenturyPublish date:2024-09-01Pages:294
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438499208ISBN-10:1438499205UPC:9781438499208Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Asia, Modern, HinduismBook Topic:South, 19th Century, HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCHQ3CNXPJ
Ruling Devotion: The Hindu Temple in the British Imperial Imagination
From 1800 onwards, the Hindu temple occupied a fragile and uneasy proximity to Imperial governance in India. The colonial state sought to regulate and extract the wealth of large temples. Imperial scholars classified the extraordinary diversity of architectural forms from across India, and selected temples were defined as monuments and brought into the custody of Imperial archaeology. Over time,...
Series: SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438499208ISBN-10:1438499205UPC:9781438499208Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Asia, Modern, HinduismBook Topic:South, 19th Century, HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCHQ3CNXPJ
Deborah Sutton is Professor of South Asian History at Lancaster University. She is the author of Other Landscapes: Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-Century South India.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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