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
Biography
Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, India.
