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Wondrous Modernity: Refashioning Religion in Urban India - The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kalighat and Kolkata. By Deonnie Moodie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xv, 217 pp. ISBN: 9780190885267 (cloth). - The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder. By Tulasi Srinivas. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2018. xvii, 296 pp. ISBN: 9780822370642 (cloth).
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The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kalighat and Kolkata. By Deonnie Moodie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xv, 217 pp. ISBN: 9780190885267 (cloth).
The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder. By Tulasi Srinivas. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2018. xvii, 296 pp. ISBN: 9780822370642 (cloth).
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2021
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1 Both cities have undergone legal name changes over the past twenty years, from Calcutta to Kolkata and Bangalore to Bengaluru. In this essay, I use the spellings that are employed by each author and that are appropriate to the time period mentioned.
2 See, for instance, Schaflechner, Jürgen, Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
3 The former is discussed in regard to Calcutta's Muslim literati in Bose, Neilesh, Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Colonial Bengal (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Sarkar, Mahua, Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008)Google Scholar.