Search Results - "Hindu"

Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds / by Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

“…SUNY series in Hindu studies…”
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The Hegemony of Heritage : Ritual and the Record in Stone / by Stein, Deborah L., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Hindu Temple in diachronic context -- Temple as geographic marker : mapping the tenth-century Sectarian landscape -- Temple as catalyst : renovation and religious merit in the field -- Temple as royal abode : the regal, the real, and the ideal in fifteenth-century Mewr -- Temple as palimpsest : icons and temples in the Sultanate era -- Temple as ritual center : tenth-century traces of ritual and the record in stone -- Temple as praxis : agency in the field in Southern Rajasthan -- Temple as legal body : aesthetics and the legislation of antiquity -- Conclusion heritage and conflict : Medieval Indian Temple as commodified.…”
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Writing Self, Writing Empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary / by Kinra, Rajeev

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a Hindu secretary at King Shah Jahan's court -- Chandar Bhan's intellectual world : a revisionist perspective -- A mirror for Munsh's : secretarial arts and Mughal governance -- King of Delhi, king of the world : Chandar Bhan's perspective on Shah Jahan, the Mughal court, and the realm -- Writing the Mughal self : Chandar Bhan's life and letters -- Making Indo-Persian literature fresh : Chandar Bhan's poetic world -- The persistence of gossip : Chandar Bhan and the cultural memory of Mughal decline -- Conclusion : ending at just the beginning : towards a postcolonial Mughal historiography.…”
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Dalit Studies /

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