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The making of a modern temple and a Hindu city : Kālīghāṭ and Kolkata / Deonnie Moodie.
LIBRA BL1243.76.C352 K355 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moodie, Deonnie, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kālīghāṭa (Temple : Kolkata, India).
- Hindu temples--India--Kolkata.
- Hindu temples.
- Middle class--Religious life--India--Kolkata.
- Middle class.
- Middle class--Religious life.
- Kolkata (India)--Religious life and customs.
- Kolkata (India).
- India--Kolkata.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 217 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Middle-class Hindus have worked to modernize Kālīghāṭ - the most famous Hindu temple in Kolkata - over the past long century. Rather than being rejected with the onslaught of European modernity, the temple became a facet through which Hindus could produce and publicize their modernity, as well as their cities' and their nation's"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The temples of modern India
- Reviving and reforming Calcutta's Hindu past
- A religious institution goes public
- Sacred space becomes public space
- Resisting middle class modernizing projects
- Bourgeoisifying Hinduisms and Hinduizing cities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Moodie, Deonnie, 1981- author. Making of a modern temple and a Hindu city
- ISBN:
- 9780190885267
- 0190885262
- OCLC:
- 1039666500
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