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The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how the relationship of architectural objects and societies to the built environment changes over time. Studying two surviving medieval monuments in southern Rajasthan—the Ambika Temple in Jagat and the Ékalingji Temple Complex in Kailaspuri—the author looks beyond their divergent sectarian affiliations and patronage structures to underscore many aspects of common practice. This book offers new and extremely valuable insights into these important monuments, illuminating the entangled politics of antiquity and revealing whether a monument’s ritual record is affirmed as continuous and hence hoary or dismissed as discontinuous or reinvented through various strategies. The Hegemony of Heritage enriches theoretical constructs with ethnographic description and asks us to reexamine notions such as archive and text through the filter of sculpture and mantra. 

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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. p. vii
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. ix-xiv
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. xv-xviii
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  1. Introduction: The Hindu Temple in Diachronic Context
  2. pp. 1-21
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  1. 1. Temple as Geographic Marker: Mapping the Tenth-Century Sectarian Landscape
  2. pp. 22-51
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  1. 2. Temple as Catalyst: Renovation and Religious Merit in the Field
  2. pp. 52-71
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  1. 3. Temple as Royal Abode: The Regal, the Real, and the Ideal in Fifteenth-Century Mewâr
  2. pp. 72-119
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  1. 4. Temple as Palimpsest: Icons and Temples in the Sultanate Era
  2. pp. 120-148
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  1. 5. Temple as Ritual Center: Tenth-Century Traces of Ritual and the Record in Stone
  2. pp. 149-185
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  1. 6. Temple as Praxis: Agency in the Field in Southern Rājāsthan
  2. pp. 186-219
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  1. 7. Temple as Legal Body: Aesthetics and the Legislation of Antiquity
  2. pp. 220-242
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  1. Conclusion: Heritage and Conflict: Medieval Indian Temple as Commodified Imaginary
  2. pp. 243-250
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 251-286
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 287-304
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 305-316
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