Architecture of Sovereignty
Stone Bodies, Colonial Gazes, and Living Gods in South India
Kiadó: Cambridge University Press
Megjelenés dátuma: 2023. november 16.
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| ISBN13: | 9781009150156 |
| ISBN10: | 1009150154 |
| Kötéstípus: | Keménykötés |
| Terjedelem: | 320 oldal |
| Méret: | 237x158x25 mm |
| Súly: | 610 g |
| Nyelv: | angol |
| 662 |
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Rövid leírás:
Demonstrates how religious spaces are sites of contestation over sovereignty and broader debates about governance as they have been reconceived repeatedly.
Hosszú leírás:
In this innovative study, Gita V. Pai traces the history of the Pudu Mandapam (Tamil, 'new hall') - a Hindu temple structure in Madurai - through the rise and fall of empires in south India from the seventeenth century to the present. This wide-ranging work illustrates how south Indian temples became entangled in broader conflicts over sovereignty, from early modern Nayaka kings, to British colonial rule, to the post-independence government today. Drawing from methodologies in anthropology, religious studies, and art and architectural history, the author argues that the small temple site provides profound insight into the relationship between aesthetics, sovereignty, and religion in modern South Asia.
'Architecture of Sovereignty is a refreshing new examination of the south Indian Minaksi-Sundaresvara temple. Focusing on the temple's Pudu Mandapam, Pai expertly engages methodologies from history, art history, religious studies, and architecture to produce a rigorous diachronic biography and reception history of this prominent site from the 1630s through the present day. In doing so, the author adds important new chapters to the history of this celebrated temple and, more broadly, demonstrates how religious spaces-both grand and small-can serve as sites for the contestation of sovereignty, power, and governance as they are reconceived again and again throughout their histories.' Caleb Simmons, The University of Arizona
'Architecture of Sovereignty is a refreshing new examination of the south Indian Minaksi-Sundaresvara temple. Focusing on the temple's Pudu Mandapam, Pai expertly engages methodologies from history, art history, religious studies, and architecture to produce a rigorous diachronic biography and reception history of this prominent site from the 1630s through the present day. In doing so, the author adds important new chapters to the history of this celebrated temple and, more broadly, demonstrates how religious spaces-both grand and small-can serve as sites for the contestation of sovereignty, power, and governance as they are reconceived again and again throughout their histories.' Caleb Simmons, The University of Arizona
Tartalomjegyzék:
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on Transliteration and Spelling; Introduction: Sovereignty's Trace in Architectural Forms; Part I. Stone Bodies: 1. Constructing Kingship: Na&&&772;yaka Rule in Early Modern Madurai; 2. Co-opting a Local Goddess in Madurai: From Warrior Queen to &&&346;iva's Consort to Political Pawn; Part II. Colonial Gazes: 3. Imagining Civilization: Antiquarian Curiosities in Madura; 4. Tracing the Vernacular: Drawing Madura into Debates over Language in British India; 5. Illustrating Madura: Art as 'History' and State-Building; 6. Photographing Madura: The Living Temple as a Site of Ruin; Part III. Living Gods: 7. Producing Heritage: Culture as Commodity in Contemporary Madurai; Epilogue: Rejecting the State-Priestly Devotion and Protest in Modern Madurai; Bibliography; Index.
