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@article{ART002723147},
author={Hawon Ku},
title={Female Patronage of Jain Temples under Colonial Rule in Gujarat},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2021},
volume={78},
number={2},
pages={15-48},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.78.2.202105.15}

TY - JOUR
AU - Hawon Ku
TI - Female Patronage of Jain Temples under Colonial Rule in Gujarat
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2021
VL - 78
IS - 2
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 15
EP - 48
SN - 1598-3021
AB - This paper examines two Jain women and their patronage of temples during the 19th century, and how such patronage embodied a “non-confrontational resistance and contestatory behavior”. Ujambai, a wealthy Jain woman from Ahmedabad, built the Nandīśvaradvīpa Temple at Śatruñjaya (1840), one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites for Śvetāmbara Mūrtipujak Jains, and Harkunvarbai built the Hathi Singh Temple in Ahmedabad (1848), after the death of her husband. I suggest that in comparison to Ujambai’s temple, which aimed to differentiate her faith from the worldly approach of the Jain merchants while simultaneously challenging the symbolic limits set by traditional patriarchy, Harkunvarbai’s temple appropriated the temple architecture of male patrons to proclaim her status as householder. In addition, I argue that Harkunvarbai’s shift from religious patronage to civic duties also displayed the facility with which she replicated the patterns of contemporary male patronage.
KW - India;Gujarat;Colonial Rule;Women;Jainism;Patriarchy;Patronage;Temple;Architecture
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.78.2.202105.15
ER -

Hawon Ku. (2021). Female Patronage of Jain Temples under Colonial Rule in Gujarat. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 78(2), 15-48.

Hawon Ku. 2021, "Female Patronage of Jain Temples under Colonial Rule in Gujarat", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.78, no.2 pp.15-48. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.78.2.202105.15

Hawon Ku "Female Patronage of Jain Temples under Colonial Rule in Gujarat" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 78.2 pp.15-48 (2021) : 15.

Hawon Ku. Female Patronage of Jain Temples under Colonial Rule in Gujarat. 2021; 78(2), 15-48. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.78.2.202105.15

Hawon Ku. "Female Patronage of Jain Temples under Colonial Rule in Gujarat" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 78, no.2 (2021) : 15-48.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.78.2.202105.15

Hawon Ku. Female Patronage of Jain Temples under Colonial Rule in Gujarat. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 78(2), 15-48. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.78.2.202105.15

Hawon Ku. Female Patronage of Jain Temples under Colonial Rule in Gujarat. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2021; 78(2) 15-48. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.78.2.202105.15

Hawon Ku. Female Patronage of Jain Temples under Colonial Rule in Gujarat. 2021; 78(2), 15-48. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.78.2.202105.15

Hawon Ku. "Female Patronage of Jain Temples under Colonial Rule in Gujarat" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 78, no.2 (2021) : 15-48.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.78.2.202105.15