{"product_id":"ruling-devotion-9788178246840","title":"Ruling Devotion","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Deborah Sutton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\nDeborah 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. The book charts the influence of several prominent scholars and writers: James Fergusson, Ram Raz, Rudyard Kipling, E.M. Forster, and Stella Kramrisch. It also charts less renowned voices that were sidelined by imperial history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eRuling Devotion\u003c\/em\u003e   highlights the Hindu temple as a place at which the imperial gaze was held and challenged. Through a series of case studies, it demonstrates that the colonial state rarely, and even then only temporarily, got its own way at the Hindu temple. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nDeborah Sutton is Professor of South Asian History, Department of History, Lancaster University. She has researched and published on the environmental, political, and cultural histories of modern South Asia. \n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45616512893079,"sku":"9788178246840","price":714.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788178246840.webp?v=1769295005","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ruling-devotion-9788178246840","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}