Jain Gods in the Time of Democracy

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1288-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 364 Seiten

Kajri Jain examines how the monumental statues erected in India following its economic reforms in the 1990s became a favored religious and political form with which to assert cultural, political, religious, and caste power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jain, Kajri

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Emergence 1
1. Statues and Sculptors 29
2. Democracy 81
3. Iconopraxis 120
4. Cars and Land 181
5. Scale 220
Notes 259
Bibliography 307
Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

Kajri Jain is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Toronto and author of Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art, also published by Duke University Press.