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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 October 2009
      14 April 1988
      ISBN:
      9780511557729
      9780521053679
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557729
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.258kg, 192 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, Sociology of Religion, Sociology
      Series:
      Cambridge South Asian Studies (38)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, Sociology of Religion, Sociology
    Series:
    Cambridge South Asian Studies (38)
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    Religion under Bureaucracy is an innovative study of religion and politics in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu which focuses on the relationship between the state and the central religious institution of the area, the Hindu temple. Religion, politics, economy and culture intersect in the temple and Tamil Nadu has 52,000 in all, many richly endowed with land and prominent locally as sources of patronage and economic and political power. Dr Presley examines the institutional challenge that Hindu temples have presented to the developing South Indian state over the last century and a half and the ways in which a government publicly committed to non-intervention in religious matters has come to involve itself deeply in temple life - establishing a presence in temple management, regulating the use of the temple's material and symbolic resources and, beyond this, seeking to control many details of Hindu organisation, economy and worship.

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