03297namaa2200469uu 4500001001100000003000600011005001700017006001900034007001500053008004100068020001800109020001800127020001800145020001800163024003100181040001700212041000800229042000700237072001700244072001600261072001700277072001700294720003000311245009900341260002700440300002200467336002600489337002600515338003600541506005100577520176000628540006302388546001202451650002602463650002702489650003402516650002102550653010402571793001802675856011702693999001702810doab107908oapen20260305123952.0m     o  d        cr|mn|---annan230726s2018    xx |||||o     ||| 0|eng d  a9780367345426  a9781138202498  a9781315121215  a97813151212157 a10.4324/97813151212152doi  aoapencoapen0 aeng  adc 7aHBJF2bicssc 7aHRG2bicssc 7aHRGP2bicssc 7aJFSL2bicssc1 aKulshreshtha, Salila4aut00aFrom Temple to MuseumbColonial Collections and Uma Mahesvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley  bTaylor & Francisc2018  a1 online resource  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aFree-to-readfUnrestricted online access2star  aReligious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work examines how these images may have moved during different spates of temple renovation and acquired new identities by being relocated either within sacred precincts or in private collections and museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost. The book 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 these sites. The author also engages with postcolonial debates surrounding history writing and knowledge creation in British India and how colonial archaeology, archival practices, official surveys and institutionalisation of museums has influenced the current understanding of religion, sacred space and religious icons. In doing so it bridges the historiographical divide between the ancient and the modern as well as socio-religious practices and their institutional memory and preservation. Drawn from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of religious sculptures, classical texts, colonial archival records, British travelogues, official correspondences and fieldwork, the book will interest scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South Asian studies and Buddhist studies.  aAll rights reserveduhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights  aEnglish 7aAsian history2bicssc 7aEthnic studies2bicssc 7aHindu life & practice2bicssc 7aHinduism2bicssc  ahistory, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South Asian studies, Buddhist studies0 aDOAB Library.40uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/10790870zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication  c93162d93162