Gods in the Time of Democracy

by Kajri Jain

In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is but one of many massive statues built following India's economic reforms of the 1990s. In Gods in the Time of Democracy Kajri Jain examines how monumental icons emerged as a religious and political form in contemporary India, mobilizing the concept of emergence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478010347
• ISBN13: 9781478010340
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages