Temple to love : architecture and devotion in seventeenth-century Bengal / Pika Ghosh.
Material type: TextPublisher number: MWT11667978Series: Contemporary Indian studiesPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, �2005.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 255 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
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- Temples -- India -- Bengal
- Architectural terra-cotta -- India -- Bengal
- Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic -- India -- Bengal
- Architecture -- India -- Bengal -- History
- Architecture and religion
- Temples -- Inde -- Bengale
- Terres cuites architecturales -- Inde -- Benagale
- Terres cuites de l'Inde -- Inde -- Bengale
- Architecture -- Inde -- Bengale -- 17e si�ecle
- Architecture et religion
- ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious
- Architectural terra-cotta
- Architecture
- Architecture and religion
- Temples
- Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic
- India -- Bengal
- Tempels
- India
- Bengalen
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index.
Desire, devotion, and the double-storied temple -- A paradigm shift -- Acts of accommodation -- Axes and the mediation of worship -- Epilogue: A new sacred center.
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In the flux created by the Mughal conquest, Hindu landholders of eastern India began to build a spectacularly beautiful new style of brick temple, known as Ratna. This "bejeweled" style combined features of Sultanate mosques and thatched houses, and included second-story rooms conceived as the pleasure grounds of the gods, where Krishna and his beloved Radha could rekindle their passion. Pika Ghosh uses art historical, archaeological, textual, and ethnographic approaches to explore this innovation in the context of its times. Includes 82 stunning black-and-white images of rarely photographed structures. Published in association with the American Institute of Indian Studies.
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