Emma Natalya Stein (PhD, Yale) is Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. Her research investigates the relationships among sacred architecture, urban space, and tropical landscapes. Dr. Stein has conducted fieldwork throughout South and Southeast Asia.

• Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Illustrations, Introduction: All Streets Lead to Temples, An Ancient City, Layers of Time, Kanchi Known and Unknown, 1 Sandstone and the City: Building Pallava-Kanchi (ca. seventh through ninth century), 2 Realignment: Kanchi in the Chola Era (ca. tenth through thirteenth century), 3 The City and its Ports, 4 Kanchi Under Colonialism: What Happened in Kanchi while those Towering Gateways Arose?, Conclusion: Plastered Pasts, Epilogue: The Living Temple, Bibliography, Index

Emma Natalya Stein (PhD, Yale) is Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. Her research investigates the relationships among sacred architecture, urban space, and tropical landscapes. Dr. Stein has conducted fieldwork throughout South and Southeast Asia.

• Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Illustrations, Introduction: All Streets Lead to Temples, An Ancient City, Layers of Time, Kanchi Known and Unknown, 1 Sandstone and the City: Building Pallava-Kanchi (ca. seventh through ninth century), 2 Realignment: Kanchi in the Chola Era (ca. tenth through thirteenth century), 3 The City and its Ports, 4 Kanchi Under Colonialism: What Happened in Kanchi while those Towering Gateways Arose?, Conclusion: Plastered Pasts, Epilogue: The Living Temple, Bibliography, Index

Emma Natalya Stein (PhD, Yale) is Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. Her research investigates the relationships among sacred architecture, urban space, and tropical landscapes. Dr. Stein has conducted fieldwork throughout South and Southeast Asia.

• Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Illustrations, Introduction: All Streets Lead to Temples, An Ancient City, Layers of Time, Kanchi Known and Unknown, 1 Sandstone and the City: Building Pallava-Kanchi (ca. seventh through ninth century), 2 Realignment: Kanchi in the Chola Era (ca. tenth through thirteenth century), 3 The City and its Ports, 4 Kanchi Under Colonialism: What Happened in Kanchi while those Towering Gateways Arose?, Conclusion: Plastered Pasts, Epilogue: The Living Temple, Bibliography, Index