ISBN:
9781000429015
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (245 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge South Asian Religion Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.60954/091732
Keywords:
Cities and towns-Religious aspects
;
Cities and towns-India
;
India-Religion
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Religion and the city in India -- Note on Transliteration -- References -- Chapter 1: The making of a city: Religion and society in the Caṇḍī-maṅgala of early modern Bengal -- Introduction -- The Caṇḍī-maṅgala -- The making of a city -- From forest to city -- Urban orders in Kālaketu's city -- The city and history -- Conclusion: Religion and urbanism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Temple, urban landscape, and production of space: Śrirangam in the early modern Tamil region -- I: Śrirangam: The town and its description -- II: Religious conflicts and urban conformations: The town of Śrirangam from the thirteenth to seventeenth century CE -- Hindu-Muslim conflict and urban syncretism? -- Śrivaiṣṇava community and urban configurations -- Śrivaiṣṇava sectarian conflicts: Śrirangam and urban homogeneity -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Hazrat-i-Dehli: Chishti Sufism and the making of the cosmopolitan character of the city of Delhi -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4: The East India Company, English Protestants, and the wider Christian community in seventeenth-century Surat, Bombay, and Madras -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Reconfiguring a lost trace: The Buddhist 'revival' movement in late-nineteenth-century Calcutta and the Bengal Buddhist Association -- I. The Calcutta chapter: The new passion for things Buddhist among Bengali intellectuals -- II. Spilling over onto the visual register: New meanings and old structures -- III. Practising Buddhists and the colonial city: Interrogating the role of the Bengal Buddhist Association and Kripasaran Barua -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: From Faridpur to Calcutta: The journey of the Matua faith.
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