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From Temple to Museum - Colonial Collections and Uma Mahesvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley (Hardcover)
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From Temple to Museum - Colonial Collections and Uma Mahesvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley (Hardcover)
Series: Archaeology and Religion in South Asia
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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. It lays bare their purpose and
evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural
or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work
examines how these images may have moved during different spates of
temple renovation and acquired new identities by being relocated
either within sacred precincts or in private collections and
museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost. 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.
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