01191nam a2200193   450000500170000000800410001702000180005803700170007604000130009308400250010610000200013124500740015126000360022530000830026152006020034465000170094665000160096365000180097920251203124134.0250325b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9788178246840  cGeneral Book  aRTLcRTL  aY:3(Q2:45).2 R4qRTL  aSutton, Deborah  aRuling Devotion: the hindu temple in the british imperial imagination  aRanikhetbPermanent Blackc2024  axxii, 260 p.bIncludes glossary, abbreviations, images, bibliography and index  aThis 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.  aArchaeology,  aArt History  aAsian Studies