Religion and the City in India

ISBN-13: 9781032059587 / Miękka / 2023 / 232 str.

Opis

This book offers fresh theoretical, methodological and empirical analyses of the relation between religion and the city in the South Asian context.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Making of a City: Religion and Society in the Chandimangal of Early Modern Bengal  2. Temple, Urban Landscape and the Production of Space: Srirangam in the Early Modern Tamil Region  3. Hazrat-i-Dehli: Chishti Sufism and the Making of the Cosmopolitan Character of the City of Delhi  4. The East India Company, English Protestants and the wider Christian community in seventeenth century Surat, Bombay and Madras  5. Reconfiguring a Lost Trace: The Buddhist ‘Revival Movement’ in late 19^th century Calcutta and the Bengal Buddhist Association  6. From Faridpur to Calcutta: the journey of the Matua faith  7. On Residues and Reuse: A Festival and its Afterlife in an Indian Metropolis  8. The Leftover Untouch: Sensing Caste in the Modern Urban Lives of a Devotional Instrument  9. Mourning in the City: Imambaras as Sites of Urban Contestation in Kolkata  10. Performing Processions: Claiming the City  11. Memory and Space: Street Shrines and Popular Devotion in Amritsar  12. Convivial Spaces: The Art of Being Together and Separate in the Multi-Religious City of Ahmedabad  13. Religion, Heritage and Identity: The Contested Heritage-scape of Varanasi

O autorze

Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, India.