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State University of New York Press Ruling Devotion: Hindu Temple in British Imperial Imagination

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Ruling Devotion explores how the British colonial imagination shaped understandings of Hindu temples from 1800 onwards. Drawing on historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives, this State University of New York Press publication examines the complex relationship between Imperial governance and India's temple traditions. The colonial state pursued dual objectives: regulating and extracting wealth from major temples whilst simultaneously classifying the architectural diversity of temples across India. Imperial scholars designated selected temples as monuments and placed them under Imperial archaeological control, fundamentally transforming their status and significance. This interdisciplinary study, recognised as History Today's 2024 Book of the Year, analyses how temples navigated the fragile and uneasy proximity to Imperial power, revealing the ideological frameworks through which British authorities interpreted and controlled sacred Hindu spaces during the long nineteenth century.

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Ruling Devotion combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to provide comprehensive analysis of Hindu temples under British colonial rule.

This State University of New York Press title won History Today's 2024 Book of the Year award, recognising its scholarly significance and contribution to postcolonial studies.

The book examines how Imperial scholars classified the extraordinary diversity of architectural forms across India to establish colonial control over temple spaces.

Explores the dual Imperial objectives of regulating temple wealth whilst designating selected temples as monuments under archaeological custody during the nineteenth century.

Part of SUNY's Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century series, situating Hindu temple history within broader contexts of colonialism and cultural governance.

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01 September 2024
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