Salila Kulshreshtha
From temple to museum - London Routledge 2018 - 372 p. - Archaeology and religion in south Asia .
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.
9781138543188
Hindu sculpture
Asia--Ganges River Valley
Sita (Hindu deity)
Art
730.95484 / SAL/F
From temple to museum - London Routledge 2018 - 372 p. - Archaeology and religion in south Asia .
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.
9781138543188
Hindu sculpture
Asia--Ganges River Valley
Sita (Hindu deity)
Art
730.95484 / SAL/F