TY  - GEN
AU  - Albery, Henry & Others Eds.
TI  - Power, presence and space : South Asian rituals in archaeological context 
SN  - 9780367749408
U1  - 203.80954 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Color photography
KW  - Macht
KW  - Su�dasien
KW  - Ritual / South Asia / History
KW  - South Asia / Religious life and customs
KW  - Islamic art
N1  - List of tables and figures    ix
List of contributors   xiii
Preface xvi
Introduction: The Archaeology of Ritual in South Asian Contexts      1
Part I: Power        17
1. Imagining Sacrifice in Ancient India: A Genealogy of Heesterman’s ‘Broken World’    19
Robert Yelle
2. Rituals of Power: Coinage, Court Culture and Kingship under the Great Mughals 39
Shailendra Bhandare
3. Ritual as Performed Constitutions—Badagas in the Nilgiris District,  83
Frank Heidemann 
Part II: Presence  101
4. Codified Relic Theft and Buddhist Propaganda: (Re)-Dedicating the Buddha’s Relics in the Indic Northwest    103
Henry Albery   
5. Naming Rituals and Sharing Power in the Time and Space of the Tamil Temple 141
Leslie Orr
6. Power, Processions, and the Festival Architecture of the Tamil temple 166
Crispin Branfoot
Part III: Space  191
7. Money for Rituals: Akṣayanīvī and Related Inscriptions from Andhradeśa, 193
Ingo Strauch
8. Neither Cave nor Temple: Expressions of Power and Divinity in the Rock-Reliefs at Badami 215
Lisa Owen
9. Ritualising Land and Cultivating Distinctions: Medieval Period Donative Practices, and a Political Ecology of the Raichur Doab  233
Andrew Bauer 
10. Sacred Frames: Knowledge, Culture and Ritual Agency in Ancient Tālukas of Karnataka (Late 10th–12th centuries)               258
Nupur Dasgupta 
Index      288


ER  -