Ruling Devotion

The Hindu Temple in the British Imperial Imagination

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Deborah Sutton

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Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.A History Today's 2024 Book of the YearFrom 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-03-02
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Antal sidor294
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438499215

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Allmän historia och världshistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
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ImagesAbbreviationsGlossaryAcknowledgementsIntroduction The Temple in Imperial CultureChapter Structure1. Company Rule and Temples in the Madras Presidency, 1800–1841 Temples and the Topography of WarHindu Temples as the Property of the Company GovernmentThe "Accounts of the Church": Company Officers and Temple RevenuesCompetition, Succession Disputes, and Company AdjudicationAssets, Accounts, and Corruptions in Temple AdministrationChristian Missions and the Ejection of the Company from TemplesConclusion2. The Hindu Temple in Nineteenth-Century Architectural Scholarship IntroductionEarly European AccountsText, Architecture, and Buildings: Ram Raz and the Recovery of the Hindu TempleThe "Stone Book": James Fergusson and Ethnographies of ArchitectureFergusson's Taxonomies of Temple ArchitectureSelf-reproduction and the Hindu TempleConclusion3. Colonial Archaeology and the Idea of the Temple as a Monument Temples as MonumentsThe Temples of BhubaneswarHindu Temples and ConservationConclusion4. Siting and Inciting Shrines in the City of Delhi The Shiv Mandir DisputeThe Cities of Delhi and Temples as Rubble: The Removal of ShrinesCreating Temples and Negotiating New PublicsRumour and Divine Emergence5. Dark Spaces and the Body: The Temple in Victorian and Edwardian Literature Hinduism and the British ImaginationVictorian AdventuresRudyard Kipling and the Hindu TempleGods in History: E.M. Forster, Civilisation, and WarE.M. Forster's A Passage to IndiaConclusion6. The World Mountain: Stella Kramrisch and the Hindu Temple Stella Kramrisch and Indian ArtKramrisch and the Hindu TempleThe Search for Acceptance: Stella Kramrisch, William Rothenstein, and British Art HistoryA Better Alliance: Kramrisch and the Warburg Institute Exhibition, 1940ConclusionConclusion BibliographyIndex

"a fascinating exploration of the intricacies of British imperial engagement with the Hindu temple from the emergence through to the end of colonial rule in India. Sutton takes us on a journey of bureaucratic and legal entanglements, destruction and resistance as the colonial state sought to define, control and subjugate this central site of devotion in Indian society." — History Today"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