1. Introduction: Spaces of religion in urban South Asia
ISTVÁN KEUL
2. Defining the postcolonial sacred: contested places of worship and urban planning in Delhi after Partition, 1947-1951
CLEMENS SIX
3. Inclusivism and its contingencies: following temple-goers in Kanpur
KATHINKA FRØYSTAD
4. Conversionary Christian place-making in nineteenth-century Madurai
MARY HANCOCK
5. Sikh pilgrimage sites in the city of Nanded in Maharashtra
KNUT A. JACOBSEN
6. The production of Muslim space: mohalla life and Milad celebrations in Lahore
AMEN JAFFER and HAJRA CHEEMA
7. The boundary within: demolitions, dream projects and the negotiation of Hinduness in Banaras
VERA LAZZARETTI
8 Mantras of the metropole: Chetan Bhagat’s millennial Hinduism
MANISHA BASU
9. Kali and the Queen: religion and the production of Calcutta’s pasts and presents
DEONNIE MOODIE
10. Timelines and lifelines: landscape practices and religious refabulations from South Asia
SMRITI SRINIVAS
11. Land-grabbing deities: the politics of public space in a multi-religious neighbourhood
MOUMITA SEN
12. Making the "Smart Heritage City:" banal Hinduism, beautification and belonging in "new India"
PHILIPPA WILLIAMS
13. Hindutva 2.0 as advertised monotheism
ANUSTUP BASU
14. Purpose built: Islamabad, the Cold War, and non-Muslim Minorities in Pakistan
CARA CILANO
15. "We stand, but we do not pray:" religious plurality in a Mumbai chawl
ISTVÁN KEUL
Biography
István Keul is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. His areas of research include various aspects of the history and sociology of South Asian religions. He is the author of a monograph on the Hindu deity Hanuman and has edited volumes on tantra, Yoginis, Banaras and consecration rituals.
