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Author:   Deborah Cherry
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 21.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780415739399

ISBN 10:   041573939
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   27 March 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Afterlives of Monuments 2. Configuring Sacred Spaces: Archaeology, Temples, and Monument-Making in Colonial Orissa 3. The Lives and Afterlives of Charlotte, Lady Canning (1817–1861): Gender, Commemoration, and Narratives of Loss 4. Mosque as Monument: The Afterlives of Jama Masjid and the Political Memories of a Royal Muslim Past 5. The Potala Palace: Remembering to Forget in Contemporary Tibet 6. The Production and Reproduction of a Monument: The Many Lives of the Sanchi Stupa 7. The Afterlives of Images: The Contested Legacies of Gandhi in Art and Popular Culture 8. The Many Lives of Nuclear Monuments in India 9. Permanent Transiency, Tele-visual Spectacle, and the Slum as Postcolonial Monument 10. Monuments and Memory for Our Times

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This essay highlights the encounter between the coloniser and colonised through the archeological efforts to render the temples as secular heritage and temple committees' efforts to guard the sacred realm.

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Deborah Cherry is Professor of Art History at the University of the Arts London and University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on modern and contemporary art.

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