Gods in the Time of Democracy

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Kajri Jain

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kajri Jain
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781478010340
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-1034-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts