Religion and the City in India

Author:   Supriya Chaudhuri
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032059587


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Supriya Chaudhuri
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032059587


ISBN 10:   1032059583
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction 1. The Making of a City: Religion and Society in the Chandimangal of Early Modern Bengal 2. Temple, Urban Landscape and the Production of Space: Srirangam in the Early Modern Tamil Region 3. Hazrat-i-Dehli: Chishti Sufism and the Making of the Cosmopolitan Character of the City of Delhi 4. The East India Company, English Protestants and the wider Christian community in seventeenth century Surat, Bombay and Madras 5. Reconfiguring a Lost Trace: The Buddhist ‘Revival Movement’ in late 19th century Calcutta and the Bengal Buddhist Association 6. From Faridpur to Calcutta: the journey of the Matua faith 7. On Residues and Reuse: A Festival and its Afterlife in an Indian Metropolis 8. The Leftover Untouch: Sensing Caste in the Modern Urban Lives of a Devotional Instrument 9. Mourning in the City: Imambaras as Sites of Urban Contestation in Kolkata 10. Performing Processions: Claiming the City 11. Memory and Space: Street Shrines and Popular Devotion in Amritsar 12. Convivial Spaces: The Art of Being Together and Separate in the Multi-Religious City of Ahmedabad 13. Religion, Heritage and Identity: The Contested Heritage-scape of Varanasi

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Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, India.

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