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OverviewFrom 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, the Imperial literary imagination transformed the Hindu temple from a place of worship and devotion into a space of wealth, sensuality, and violence. However, the Hindu temple also tested the Imperial state. Devotees and trustees manipulated and rejected attempts at governance, and the Hindu temple became a site at which the authority of the state was persistently modified or curtailed. Ruling Devotion combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the temple in particular localities, through the formation of pan-British-Indian policy and in the broadest of transnational realms of Imperial culture. Drawing on a huge range and diversity of archival materials, the book explores the preoccupations and frailties of the colonial state in India. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah SuttonPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438499208ISBN 10: 1438499205 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 01 September 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Images Abbreviations Glossary Acknowledgements Introduction The Temple in Imperial Culture Chapter Structure 1. Company Rule and Temples in the Madras Presidency, 1800–1841 Temples and the Topography of War Hindu Temples as the Property of the Company Government The ""Accounts of the Church"": Company Officers and Temple Revenues Competition, Succession Disputes, and Company Adjudication Assets, Accounts, and Corruptions in Temple Administration Christian Missions and the Ejection of the Company from Temples Conclusion 2. The Hindu Temple in Nineteenth-Century Architectural Scholarship IntroductionText, Architecture, and Buildings: Ram Raz and the Recovery of the Hindu Temple The ""Stone Book"": James Fergusson and Ethnographies of Architecture Fergusson's Taxonomies of Temple Architecture Self-reproduction and the Hindu Temple Conclusion 3. Colonial Archaeology and the Idea of the Temple as a Monument Temples as Monuments The Temples of Bhubaneswar Hindu Temples and Conservation Conclusion 4. Siting and Inciting Shrines in the City of Delhi The Shiv Mandir Dispute The Cities of Delhi and Temples as Rubble: The Removal of Shrines Creating Temples and Negotiating New Publics Rumour and Divine Emergence 5. Dark Spaces and the Body: The Temple in Victorian and Edwardian Literature Hinduism and the British Imagination Victorian Adventures Rudyard Kipling and the Hindu Temple Gods in History: E.M. Forster, Civilisation, and War E.M. Forster's A Passage to India Conclusion 6. The World Mountain: Stella Kramrisch and the Hindu Temple Stella Kramrisch and Indian Art Kramrisch and the Hindu Temple The Search for Acceptance: Stella Kramrisch, William Rothenstein, and British Art History A Better Alliance: Kramrisch and the Warburg Institute Exhibition, 1940 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index"Reviews""Deborah Sutton's pathbreaking study Ruling Devotion: The Hindu Temple in the British Imperial Imagination offers a new understanding of the modern history of the Hindu temple in India."" — The Wire Author InformationDeborah 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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