How Long to Read From Temple to Museum

How Long Does it Take to Read From Temple to Museum?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 32 minutes to read From Temple to Museum by Salila Kulshreshtha

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work examines how these images may have moved during different spates of temple renovation and acquired new identities by being relocated either within sacred precincts or in private collections and museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost. The book highlights contentious issues in Indian archaeology such as renegotiating identities of religious images, reuse and sharing of sacred space by adherents of different faiths, rebuilding of temples and consequent reinvention of these sites. The author also engages with postcolonial debates surrounding history writing and knowledge creation in British India and how colonial archaeology, archival practices, official surveys and institutionalisation of museums has influenced the current understanding of religion, sacred space and religious icons. In doing so it bridges the historiographical divide between the ancient and the modern as well as socio-religious practices and their institutional memory and preservation. Drawn from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of religious sculptures, classical texts, colonial archival records, British travelogues, official correspondences and fieldwork, the book will interest scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South Asian studies and Buddhist studies.

How long is From Temple to Museum?

From Temple to Museum by Salila Kulshreshtha is 271 pages long, and a total of 68,021 words.

This makes it 91% the length of the average book. It also has 83% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read From Temple to Museum Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 11 minutes to read From Temple to Museum aloud.

What Reading Level is From Temple to Museum?

From Temple to Museum is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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