Demolishing Myths or Mosques and Temples? (HB)

Demolishing Myths or Mosques and Temples? (HB)

Readings on History and Temple Desecration in Medieval India

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Editor: Sunil Kumar
Publisher: Three Essays Collective
No. of pages: 184
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Language: English
ISBN: 8188789593
Published on: 2008
Book Format: Hardcover
Category: Essay
Subject: Hindutva / Brahminism

Description

History, it is said, cannot be studied without reflecting on the practice of historians who narrate it. The articles in this volume introduce readers to the writings of four scholars who study the subject of temple desecration in interesting and different ways. They focus on the ways in which historians study the political culture, events, historical narratives, material remains and aesthetic norms of a time very distant from us. Through their focus on the theme of temple desecration, a subject of considerable import in political rhetoric today, these essays also underline how easily history can be subverted to serve narrow, cynical ends. At a time when history has become so important in the making of the nation’s identity, the articles in this book invite the readers to pause and reflect on the craft of history, the exciting and engaging conclusions to which it can lead and the worrying ends to which it can also be nudged.

CONTENTS

Introduction
Sunil Kumar

Indian Art Objects as Loot
Richard H. Davis

Somanātha: Narratives of a History
Romila Thapar

Temple Desecration in Pre-Modern India
Richard Eaton

Islam, Iconoclasm and the Early Indian Mosque
Finbarr B. Flood

Appendix:
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Address to the
Public Meeting at Somnath on October 31, 2001

Select Bibliography

Cover: ‘Rebuilding’ Somnath. Photo courtesy Bhatt Art Studio, Junagarh.

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