TY - GEN AU - Garimella, Annapurna Ed. AU - Sridharan, Shriya Ed. AU - Srivathsan, A. Ed. TI - Contemporary Hindu temple : fragments for a history SN - 9789383243273 U1 - 726.1 PY - 2019/// CY - Mumbai PB - Marg Foundation KW - N1 - Contents 6 Introduction Annapurna Garimella 22 Temple Renovation and Chettiar Patronage in Colonial Madras Presidency Crispin Branfoot 36 Resilient Monuments and Robust Deities: Renewing the Sacred Landscape and Making Heritage Sites in Contemporary Bengal Pika Ghosh 48 Sri Govinda Dham: Devotion in Grievance Baishali Ghosh 60 Vrindavan and the Drama of Keshi Ghat John Stratton Hawley 74 The Contemporaneity of Tradition: Expansion and Renovation of the Vedanta Desikar Temple in Mylapore, Chennai Shriya Sridharan 84 Svayambhu in the Park: Temples in Jayanagar, Bangalore Annapurna Garimella 98 New Iconographies: Gods in the Age of Kali Vaishnavi Ramanathan 114 The Contemporary Political Economy of Traditional Aesthetics and Materiali Samuel K. Parker 132 Sacredness Outside Tradition? Dilemmas in Designing Temies 150 Index 152 Contributors ER -