TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sutton, Deborah
TI  - Ruling Devotion: the hindu temple in the british imperial imagination
SN  - 9788178246840
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Ranikhet
PB  - Permanent Black
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Art History
KW  - Asian Studies
N2  - 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
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