From Temple to Museum: Colonial Collections and Umā Maheśvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley

ISBN-13: 9780367345426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 372 str.

Salila Kulshreshtha

Opis

This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond its creation. It 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 sites where these images were located.

Spis treści

List of figures.  List of tables.  Preface.  Introduction  Part I: The Making of Museum Collections  1. Creating Identities  2. Making of Museums  Part II: The Icon in Context  3. Sacred Sites  4. The Umā Mahesìvaramurti  5. Shifting Centres  6. Conclusion: From Sacred Icons to Objet d’art.  Glossary.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Salila Kulshreshtha is an independent researcher currently based in Dubai. She has taught Art History, History and Humanities in Mumbai at Rizvi College of Architecture and Indian Education Society’s College of Architecture and in the USA at the Old Dominion University and Virginia Wesleyan College. She secured her PhD in History from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her doctoral research focuses on how the spatial relocation of sacred sculptures brings about a change in their identity and ritual purpose. She has worked on issues of urban heritage and heritage education with INTACH and with the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum. Her forthcoming publications include Removable Heritage: Nalanda Beyond the Mahavihara and Between Shrines and Monuments: Heritage of Sacred Spaces in South Bihar. She has also published with the online journal wire.in. Her research interests include religious iconography, afterlives of shrines, colonial archaeology and the making of museums in South Asia.