Kajri Jain examines how the monumental statues erected in India following its economic reforms in the 1990s became a favored religious and political form with which to assert cultural, political, religious, and caste power.

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Emergence  1
1. Statues and Sculptors  29
2. Democracy  81
3. Iconopraxis  120
4. Cars and Land  181
5. Scale  220
Notes  259
Bibliography  307
Index  323

Kajri Jain is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Toronto and author of Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art, also published by Duke University Press.