Chapters in this book
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Temple and Royalty
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How and when did the Hindu temple come to be associated with dynasties, rulers and political processes? The chapter traces the beginning of scholarship on the Hindu temple in the late 19th century and its subsequent ...
Chapter 5 Introduction to Temple Rituals
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The Introduction will discuss secondary writings on temples as a place for public worship of the deity which is done through several daily, monthly and annual rituals performed in different spaces in the temple complex. ...
Chapter 4 Constructing Temples, Constructing Power
(2023)
There is a dearth of archaeological vestiges for Hindu temples prior to the 6th century in the Tamil-speaking South, although we know through literature and epigraphy that they were built at least by the early 5th century. ...