Constructing Kanchi

Emma Natalya Stein (PhD, Yale) is Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. Her research investigates the relationships among sacred architecture, urban space, and tropical landscapes. Dr. Stein has conducted fieldwork throughout South and Southeast Asia.

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Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Illustrations

Introduction: All Streets Lead to Temples
An Ancient City
Layers of Time
Kanchi Known and Unknown

1 Sandstone and the City: Building Pallava-Kanchi (ca. seventh through ninth century)
From Brick to Stone (the Seventh Century)
Sandstone Temples in the City (the Eighth Century)
The Temples of Pallava-Kanchi
Everywhere but Kanchi (the Ninth Century)
Conclusion: Foundations Laid

2 Realignment: Kanchi in the Chola Era (ca. tenth through thirteenth century)
Orienting the Gods
Pilgrimage and Processions
From Ancient Village to Temple Town
Local Style
Conclusion: Urban Logic

3 The City and its Ports
Part 1: K.ETRA
The River Networks
Over the Hills
The Coast
Part II: K.ATRA
Kanchi in a Buddhist World
The City and its Mirrors
Conclusion: From Kanchi to the Sea

4 Kanchi Under Colonialism: What Happened in Kanchi while those Towering Gateways Arose?
Embattled Territory
William Daniell’s Most Considerable Temple
James Wathen’s Soaring View
Henrietta Clive’s 'Hindoo Gods and Monsters'
Colonel Colin Mackenzie’s Search for the Jains
Surgeon George Russell Dartnell
James Fergusson's Downward Spiral
Prince Alexis Soltykoff's 'City of Infinite Temples'
Conclusion: Plastered Pasts

Epilogue: The Living Temple
Encounter
Expansion
Continuation

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