Gods Beyond Temples

Contents HARSHA V. DEHEJIA Gods Beyond Temples 9 AMIT AMBALAL The Portable Shrinathji 15 SUMANTA BANERJEE The Odyssey of the Bankura Horse 19 NICHOLAS BARNARD Bejeweled Gods 25 MONISHA BHARADWAJ Living with the Gods 29 NARENDRA BOKHARE Small Shaiva Bronzes of Maharashtra 35 KUSUM BUDHWAR The Court of Divine Justice: Kumaon’s Golu Devata 43 INDRANATH CHAUDHURY Itinerant Singers: Baul, the Dancing Mendicants of Bengal 49 ROSEMARY CRILL Thread, Cloth and Costume: Textiles in the Hindu Tradition 55 YASHODHARA DALMIA The Gods of the Warlis 63 HARSHA V. DEHEJIA Urban Spaces as Visual Theophany 69 DEVANGANA DESAI Kurma: Support of the Cosmic Axis 77 JASLEEN DHAMIJA Surya: Light to Enlightenment 83 THOMAS DONALDSON Posts, Pots and Pebbles: Aniconic Village Goddesses of Orissa 87 RANJIT HOSKOTE Landscape as Shrine: Entering the Event Horizon of Tukaram 95 MAZHAR HUSSAIN Funeral Practices and Paradise Symbolism: Islamic Art and Architecture 103 STEPHEN HUYLER Gods of the Thresholds: The Liminal Arts of Hindu Householders 111 STEPHEN INGLIS Divinity and Pots in South India 117 JAYA JAITLY The Sons of Vishvakarma 125 ANEES JUNG The Unknown Sufi 131 MADHU KHANNA Svayambhu: The Nature Icons of Prakriti 135 RAVI KHANNA Divinity in Sound 143 SUNIL KOTHARI The Rasa Lilas of Braj 153 LALIT KUMAR Devotional Objects of the Jains 159 NANDITHA KRISHNA Utsava Murtis: When Gods Go Visiting 163 RICHARD LANNOY Reflections on Benaras 169 CORNELA MALIEBRIEN Mobile Shrines in India 173 CORNELA MALLEBRIEN The Bronzes of Bastar 179 PAOLA MANFREDI The Tree of Life 185 KIRIT MANKODI The Deotas of Himachal 191 ASHVIN MEHTA Divinity in Solitude 197 JAGDISH MITTAL Gods of the Fabrics: Sacred Images in Kalamkaris 201 PUSHPESH PANT Divinity of Food 209 MAKARAND PARANJAPE Ten Meditations on the Guru 215 CHRISTOPHER PINNEY Paper Gods 223 HAKU SHAH The Votive Horse of Gujarat 229 KAVITA SINGH The God Who Looks Away: Phad Paintings of Rajasthan 235 JAWAHAR SIRCAR The Aniconic Cult of Dharma in Bengal 241 TULSI VATSAL The Goddess as a Pot 249 ARCHANA VERMA Painting the Goddess: Folk Paintings from the Mithila Region 255 BIMLA VERMA Sanjbi: A Goddess of Murals 261 About the Contributors 265