Ruling Devotion

Deborah Sutton is Professor of South Asian History at Lancaster University. She is the author of Other Landscapes: Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-Century South India.

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Introduction
The Temple in Imperial Culture
Chapter Structure

1. Company Rule and Temples in the Madras Presidency, 1800–1841
Temples and the Topography of War
Hindu Temples as the Property of the Company Government
The "Accounts of the Church": Company Officers and Temple Revenues
Competition, Succession Disputes, and Company Adjudication
Assets, Accounts, and Corruptions in Temple Administration
Christian Missions and the Ejection of the Company from Temples
Conclusion

2. The Hindu Temple in Nineteenth-Century Architectural Scholarship
IntroductionText, Architecture, and Buildings: Ram Raz and the Recovery of the Hindu Temple
The "Stone Book": James Fergusson and Ethnographies of Architecture
Fergusson's Taxonomies of Temple Architecture
Self-reproduction and the Hindu Temple
Conclusion

3. Colonial Archaeology and the Idea of the Temple as a Monument
Temples as Monuments
The Temples of Bhubaneswar
Hindu Temples and Conservation
Conclusion

4. Siting and Inciting Shrines in the City of Delhi
The Shiv Mandir Dispute
The Cities of Delhi and Temples as Rubble: The Removal of Shrines
Creating Temples and Negotiating New Publics
Rumour and Divine Emergence

5. Dark Spaces and the Body: The Temple in Victorian and Edwardian Literature
Hinduism and the British Imagination
Victorian Adventures
Rudyard Kipling and the Hindu Temple
Gods in History: E.M. Forster, Civilisation, and War
E.M. Forster's A Passage to India
Conclusion

6. The World Mountain: Stella Kramrisch and the Hindu Temple
Stella Kramrisch and Indian Art
Kramrisch and the Hindu Temple
The Search for Acceptance: Stella Kramrisch, William Rothenstein, and British Art History
A Better Alliance: Kramrisch and the Warburg Institute Exhibition, 1940
Conclusion

Conclusion

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