From Temple to Museum
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'From Temple to Museum, a study based on rigorous field work south of the Ganga in Bihar, provides critical insight into the sculptural production of this richly interesting area, one with a complex history not only in antiquity but also during colonial and more recent times. Especially important in this region, perhaps best known for its Buddhist material, is the Uma-Maheshvara imagery that abounds, even at Buddhist sites, which Salila Kulshreshtha so effectively contextualizes.'
Frederick M. Asher, Professor, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota, USA
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Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. Les mer
The book highlights contentious issues in Indian archaeology such as renegotiating identities of religious images, reuse and sharing of sacred space by adherents of different faiths, rebuilding of temples and consequent reinvention of these sites. The author also engages with postcolonial debates surrounding history writing and knowledge creation in British India and how colonial archaeology, archival practices, official surveys and institutionalisation of museums has influenced the current understanding of religion, sacred space and religious icons. In doing so it bridges the historiographical divide between the ancient and the modern as well as socio-religious practices and their institutional memory and preservation.
Drawn from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of religious sculptures, classical texts, colonial archival records, British travelogues, official correspondences and fieldwork, the book will interest scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South Asian studies and Buddhist studies.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge India
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 372
- ISBN
- 9781138202498
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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'From Temple to Museum, a study based on rigorous field work south of the Ganga in Bihar, provides critical insight into the sculptural production of this richly interesting area, one with a complex history not only in antiquity but also during colonial and more recent times. Especially important in this region, perhaps best known for its Buddhist material, is the Uma-Maheshvara imagery that abounds, even at Buddhist sites, which Salila Kulshreshtha so effectively contextualizes.'
Frederick M. Asher, Professor, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota, USA
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