1. Introduction: The Afterlives of Monuments 2. Configuring Sacred Spaces: Archaeology, Temples, and Monument-Making in Colonial Orissa 3. The Lives and Afterlives of Charlotte, Lady Canning (1817–1861): Gender, Commemoration, and Narratives of Loss 4. Mosque as Monument: The Afterlives of Jama Masjid and the Political Memories of a Royal Muslim Past 5. The Potala Palace: Remembering to Forget in Contemporary Tibet 6. The Production and Reproduction of a Monument: The Many Lives of the Sanchi Stupa 7. The Afterlives of Images: The Contested Legacies of Gandhi in Art and Popular Culture 8. The Many Lives of Nuclear Monuments in India 9. Permanent Transiency, Tele-visual Spectacle, and the Slum as Postcolonial Monument 10. Monuments and Memory for Our Times
Biography
Deborah Cherry is Professor of Art History at the University of the Arts London and University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on modern and contemporary art.
This essay highlights the encounter between the coloniser and colonised through the archeological efforts to render the temples as secular heritage and temple committees’ efforts to guard the sacred realm.
