Images Abbreviations Glossary Acknowledgements Introduction The Temple in Imperial Culture Chapter Structure 1. Company Rule and Temples in the Madras Presidency, 1800-1841 Temples and the Topography of War Hindu Temples as the Property of the Company Government The "Accounts of the Church": Company Officers and Temple Revenues Competition, Succession Disputes, and Company Adjudication Assets, Accounts, and Corruptions in Temple Administration Christian Missions and the Ejection of the Company from Temples Conclusion 2. The Hindu Temple in Nineteenth-Century Architectural Scholarship Introduction Early European Accounts Text, Architecture, and Buildings: Ram Raz and the Recovery of the Hindu Temple The "Stone Book": James Fergusson and Ethnographies of Architecture Fergusson's Taxonomies of Temple Architecture Self-reproduction and the Hindu Temple Conclusion 3. Colonial Archaeology and the Idea of the Temple as a Monument Temples as Monuments The Temples of Bhubaneswar Hindu Temples and Conservation Conclusion 4. Siting and Inciting Shrines in the City of Delhi The Shiv Mandir Dispute The Cities of Delhi and Temples as Rubble: The Removal of Shrines Creating Temples and Negotiating New Publics Rumour and Divine Emergence 5. Dark Spaces and the Body: The Temple in Victorian and Edwardian Literature Hinduism and the British Imagination Victorian Adventures Rudyard Kipling and the Hindu Temple Gods in History: E.M. Forster, Civilisation, and War E.

M. Forster's A Passage to India Conclusion 6. The World Mountain: Stella Kramrisch and the Hindu Temple Stella Kramrisch and Indian Art Kramrisch and the Hindu Temple The Search for Acceptance: Stella Kramrisch, William Rothenstein, and British Art History A Better Alliance: Kramrisch and the Warburg Institute Exhibition, 1940 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index.