Religion and the city in India. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Supriya Chaudhuri.
• Editors: Chaudhuri, Supriya
• Contents: Introduction Supriya Chaudhuri 1. The Making of a City: Religion and Society in the Chandimangal of Early Modern Bengal Supriya Chaudhuri 2. Temple, Urban Landscape and the Production of Space: Srirangam in the Early Modern Tamil Region Ranjeeta Dutta 3. Hazrat-i-Dehli: Chishti Sufism and the Making of the Cosmopolitan Character of the City of Delhi Raziuddin Aquil 4. The East India Company, English Protestants and the wider Christian community in seventeenth century Surat, Bombay and Madras Haig Z. Smith 5. Reconfiguring a Lost Trace: The Buddhist ‘Revival Movement’ in late 19th century Calcutta and the Bengal Buddhist Association Parjanya Sen 6. From Faridpur to Calcutta: the journey of the Matua faith Sipra Mukherjee 7. On Residues and Reuse: A Festival and its Afterlife in an Indian Metropolis Tapati Guha-Thakurta 8. The Leftover Untouch: Sensing Caste in the Modern Urban Lives of a Devotional Instrument Sukanya Sarbadhikary 9. Mourning in the City: Imambaras as Sites of Urban Contestation in Kolkata Epsita Halder 10. Performing Processions: Claiming the City Nilanjana Gupta 11. Memory and Space: Street Shrines and Popular Devotion in Amritsar Yogesh Snehi 12. Convivial Spaces: The Art of Being Together and Separate in the Multi-Religious City of Ahmedabad Aparajita De 13. Religion, Heritage and Identity: The Contested Heritage-scape of Varanasi Pralay Kanungo
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.60954091732; Cities and towns -- Religious aspects; Cities and towns -- India; India -- Religion
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000429015; 9781000428971; 9781003029144
• Related ISBNs: 9780367901448
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