In her book 'Religion And Women in India: Gender, Faith, and Politics 1780s–1980s', Tanika Sarkar illustrates her arguments with fascinating and often little-known local details of the women and the men who worked to challenge the gender hierarchies of their times.

Temples in Madras presidency after the mid-eighteenth-century Carnatic wars furnish the starting point of Deborah Sutton’s pathbreaking study Ruling Devotion: The Hindu Temple in the British Imperial Imagination.