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Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Pre-modern South Asia book cover

1st Edition

Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Pre-modern South Asia

Edited By Tilottama Mukherjee, Nupur Dasgupta Copyright 2023
296 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

296 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

296 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history. It covers issues broadly related to religion, materiality and nature from differing perspectives and methods to offer a kaleidoscopic view of Indian history until the late eighteenth century. The essays in the volume focus on understanding questions of premodern religion, material culture processes and their spatial and... Read more

Introduction

Tilottama Mukherjee and Nupur Dasgupta

 

Part I: Sacred Spaces and Cultural Landscapes

1. The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces: Re-examining Early Coastal Temples in Gujarat

Himanshu Prabha Ray

2. Mathura: Exploring a Complex Associative Cultural Landscape (From 2nd century BCE to 2nd-century CE)

Indira Banerjee

3. Perfumes in 16th–18th century India: A ‘Religious-Cultural’ Artefact and the Formation of a Scent-landscape

Amrita Chattopadhyay

4. Patronage as Political Proxy: 18th-century State-building and Religious Patronage in Ajmer and Pushkar

Elizabeth M. Thelen

 

 

Part II: Religious Traditions and Texts

5. Anthologies of Difference: Situating the Anthologies of Sādhanamālā and Caryāpada in the Sacred Space of Tantric Buddhism

Ritwik Bagchi

6. The Transformative Presence of Sufis in Medieval Indian Environment: Anecdotes of Miraculous Conversion and Islamicisation in Chishti Literature from the Delhi Sultanate

Raziuddin Aquil

7. Conversion and Translation: Life and Work of Dom Antonio do Rosario

Deepashree Dutta

 

Part III: The Material and the Sacred in Bengal

8. Settlements of Kasimbazar and Murshidabad, CE 1650–1800

Gargi Chattopadhyay

9. Physical Environment, Customary Practices, and the English East India Company Regime: A Narrative of Salt Smuggling in late 18th-century Lower Deltaic Bengal

Arijita Manna

10. Rise of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and Evolution of Bengali Platter in 16th to 18th Centuries

Pritam Goswami

11. Early Medieval Material Culture of Coastal Bengal with special reference to the site of Kankandighi

Durga Basu

Biography

Nupur Dasgupta is a Professor of History and has been teaching in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, India, since 1991. Her area of interest is Ancient Indian History and Archaeology and History of Science, Technology & Medicine (Ancient – Modern). She was the recipient of the Charles Wallace Fellowship at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Tilottama Mukherjee teaches in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She holds a PhD. in History from the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Political Culture and Economy in eighteenth-century Bengal: Networks of Exchange, Consumption and Communication and is the co-editor of An Earthly Paradise: Trade, Politics and Culture in Early Modern Bengal.

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