Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia
In: Routledge South Asian Religion Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: spaces of religion in urban South Asia -- 2 Defining the postcolonial sacred: contested places of worship and urban planning in Delhi after Partition, 1947-1951 -- 3 Inclusivism and its contingencies: following temple-goers in Kanpur -- 4 Conversionary Christian place-making in 19th-century Madurai -- 5 Sikh pilgrimage sites in the city of Nanded in Maharashtra -- 6 The production of Muslim space: Mohalla life and Milad celebrations in Lahore -- 7 The boundary within: demolitions, dream projects and the negotiation of Hinduness in Banaras -- 8 Mantras of the metropole: Chetan Bhagat's millennial Hinduism -- 9 Kālī and the queen: religion and the production of Calcutta's pasts and presents -- 10 Timelines and lifelines: landscape practices and religious refabulations from South Asia -- 11 Land-grabbing deities: the politics of public space in a multireligious neighbourhood -- 12 Making the "smart heritage city": banal Hinduism, beautification and belonging in "New India" -- 13 Hindutva 2.0 as information ecology -- 14 Purpose built: Islamabad, the Cold War, and non-Muslim minorities in Pakistan -- 15 "We stand, but we do not pray": religious plurality in a Mumbai chawl -- Index.