Sutton, Deborah <br/><br/>
Ruling Devotion: the hindu temple in the british imperial imagination 
Sutton, Deborah 
 - Ranikhet  Permanent Black  2024 
 - xxii, 260p.  Includes glossary, abbreviations, images, bibliography and index 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788178246840 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Textual 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Archaeology,<br/>Art History<br/>Asian Studies