Ruling Devotion: The Hindu Temple in the British Imperial Imagination

Published by Permanent Black, 2024

8178246848 / 9788178246840

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This book is a colonial history of the Hindu temple. Despite the bewildering diversity of places, materials, and structures described by the term Hindu temple, a particular understanding of these edifices emerged during the imperial encounter in India from 1800 onwards. Deborah Sutton presents the defining preoccupations through which colonial understandings of the temple took shape: wealth, sensuality, depravity, and devotion. Her analysis draws on a wide range of literary, visual, and bureaucratic sources to encompass religious, cultural, archaeological, imperial, and art histories. The book charts the influence of several prominent scholars and writers: James Fergusson, Ram Raz, Rudyard Kipling, E.M. Forster, and Stella Kramrisch. It also charts less renowned voices that were sidelined by imperial history. Ruling Devotion highlights the Hindu temple as a place at which the imperial gaze was held and challenged. Through a series of case studies, it demonstrates that the colonial state rarely, and even then only temporarily, got its own way at the Hindu temple. Deborah Sutton is Professor of South Asian History, Department of History, Lancaster University. She has researched and published on the environmental, political, and cultural histories of modern South Asia.…

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Title
Ruling Devotion: The Hindu Temple in the British Imperial Imagination
Author
Deborah Sutton
Publisher
Permanent Black
Publication year
2024
Condition
New
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
8178246848
ISBN 13
9788178246840

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