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Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India.Appadurai, Arjun is the author of 'Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule', published 2008 under ISBN 9780521053587 and ISBN 0521053587.
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