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Julia A. B. Hegewald, PhD (London), 1998, is professor of Oriental art history at the University of Bonn. She is author of Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types, Developments and Meanings (2002), Jaina Temple Architecture in India: The Development of a Distinct Language in Space and Ritual (2009), and about fifty scholarly articles, and editor of The Jaina Heritage: Distinction, Decline and Resilience (2010), In the Shadow of the Golden Age: Art and Identity from Gandhara to the Modern Age (2014), Jaina Painting and Manuscript Culture: In Memory of Paolo Pianarosa (2015) and, with Subrata K. Mitra, Re-use: The Art and Politics of Anxiety and Integration (2012). She is the series editor of the scholarly publication series Asian Art and Culture (SAAC). E-mail: julia.hegewald@uni-bonn.deJulia A. B. Hegewald, PhD (London), 1998, is professor of Oriental art history at the University of Bonn. She is author of Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types, Developments and Meanings (2002), Jaina Temple Architecture in India: The Development of a Distinct Language in Space and Ritual (2009), and about fifty scholarly articles, and editor of The Jaina Heritage: Distinction, Decline and Resilience (2010), In the Shadow of the Golden Age: Art and Identity from Gandhara to the Modern Age (2014), Jaina Painting and Manuscript Culture: In Memory of Paolo Pianarosa (2015) and, with Subrata K. Mitra, Re-use: The Art and Politics of Anxiety and Integration (2012). She is the series editor of the scholarly publication series Asian Art and Culture (SAAC). E-mail: [email protected]

Author’s Note: The material in this paper was first presented at a panel called “Mobile Merchants, Temple Communities, and the Transmission of Architectural Knowledge in Medieval India” during the fifteenth conference of the American Council of Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) in Minneapolis in September 2011. I thank the German Research Foundation (DFG), which has supported my research on Jaina temple architecture in India through its Emmy Noether-Programme since 2002. I am grateful to the Chandaria family in London and their relatives in East Africa for allowing me to reproduce figures 21a, 21b, and 22. Figures 23 and 24 are reproduced with gratitude to Verena Bodenstein. All other photographs in this chapter are by the author.

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