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The State, the Temple and the “Divine Slave”

Institutional Transformation and Microhistory in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Jackie Assayag
Jackie Assayag*
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Center for Indian and East Asian Studies, Paris
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Long considered to be institutions outside of time, the temples of India are today the subject of ethno-historical studies that attempt to establish their continuous and recent transformations. Recent monographs, based especially on relationships between the central government and local authorities, reconstruct by periods their medieval, modern and present history, that is the long destiny of constant restructuring over time (Appadurai 1981; Fuller 1984; Reiniche 1989), showing that temples, whether large or small, never ceased being the center of important conflicts between social groups seeking dominance.

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Diogenes , Volume 38 , Issue 152 , December 1990 , pp. 73 - 100
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Copyright © 1990 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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