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From Temple to Museum

Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implica-

tions and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and

inform contemporary preoccupations. This book traces the lives of religious

sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and

evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural or ritual set-

ting while also following their displacement. The work examines how these

images may have moved during different spates of temple renovation and

acquired new identities by being relocated either within sacred precincts or

in private collections and museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost.

The book highlights contentious issues in Indian archaeology such as rene-

gotiating identities of religious images, reuse and sharing of sacred space by

adherents of different faiths, rebuilding of temples and consequent reinvention

of these sites. The author also engages with postcolonial debates surround-

ing history writing and knowledge creation in British India and how colonial

archaeology, archival practices, ofﬁcial surveys and institutionalisation of

museums have inﬂuenced the current understanding of religion, sacred space

and religious icons. In doing so it bridges the historiographical divide between

the ancient and the modern as well as socio-religious practices and their insti-

tutional memory and preservation.

Drawn from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of religious sculp-

tures, classical texts, colonial archival records, British travelogues, ofﬁcial

correspondences and ﬁeldwork, the book will interest scholars and research-

ers of history, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South Asian

studies and Buddhist studies.

Salila Kulshreshtha

is an independent researcher currently based in Dubai. She

has taught Art History, History and Humanities in Mumbai at Rizvi College

of Architecture and Indian Education Society’s College of Architecture and

in the USA at the Old Dominion University and Virginia Wesleyan College.

She secured her PhD in History from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawa-

harlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her doctoral research focuses on

how the spatial relocation of sacred sculptures brings about a change in their

identity and ritual purpose. She has worked on issues of urban heritage and

heritage education with INTACH and with the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai

City Museum. Her forthcoming publications include

Removable Heritage:

Nalanda Beyond the Mahavihara

and

Between Shrines and Monuments: Heri-

tage of Sacred Spaces in South Bihar

. She has also published with the online

journal

wire.in

. Her research interests include religious iconography, afterlives

of shrines, colonial archaeology and the making of museums in South Asia.

Archaeology and Religion

in South Asia

Series Editor: Himanshu Prabha Ray, Ludwig Maximillian University

Munich, Germany; former Chairperson of the National Monuments

Authority, Ministry of Culture, Government of India and former

Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University,

New Delhi, India

Editorial Board:

Gavin Flood, Academic Director, Oxford Centre for

Hindu Studies; Jessica Frazier, Academic Administrator, Oxford Cen-

tre for Hindu Studies; Julia Shaw, Institute of Archaeology, University

College, London; Shailendra Bhandare, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford;

Devangana Desai, Asiatic Society, Mumbai; and Vidula Jaiswal, Jnana

Pravaha, Varanasi, former Professor, Banaras Hindu University

This Series, in association with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies,

reﬂects on the complex relationship between religion and society through

new perspectives and advances in archaeology. It looks at this critical

interface to provide alternative understandings of communities, beliefs,

cultural systems, sacred sites, ritual practices, food habits, dietary modi-

ﬁcations, power and agents of political legitimisation. The books in the

Series underline the importance of archaeological evidence in the pro-

duction of knowledge of the past. They also emphasise that a systematic

study of religion requires engagement with a diverse range of sources such

as inscriptions, iconography, numismatics and architectural remains.

Books in this series

Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India

History, Theory, Practice

Daniel Michon

Negotiating Cultural Identity

Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History

Edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit

www.routledge.com/

Archaeology-and-Religion-in-South-Asia/book-series/AR

From Temple to Museum

Colonial Collections and

Uma Mahesvara Icons in the

Middle Ganga Valley

Salila Kulshreshtha

First published 2018

by Routledge

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explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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ISBN: 978-1-138-20249-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-12121-5 (ebk)

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