01311nam a2200217 4500 20251203124134.0 250325b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788178246840 General Book RTL RTL Y:3(Q2:45).2 R4 RTL Sutton, Deborah 306516 Ruling Devotion: the hindu temple in the british imperial imagination Ranikhet Permanent Black 2024 xxii, 260 p. Includes glossary, abbreviations, images, bibliography and index 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. Archaeology, 256899 Art History 747556 Asian Studies 854139 CC 0 GB Y:3(Q2:45).2 R4 1269259 1269259 0 0 CC 0 0 RTL RTL 2025-03-25 0 Y:3(Q2:45).2, R4 RT1585253 2025-03-25 15:08:24 2025-03-25 GB