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Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal

Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal

Ghosh, Pika

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Indian Studies

Religion General General ArchitectureIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0253344875
ISBN13: 9780253344878
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Apr 20 2005
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.01 Width: 7.38 Depth: 10.22
Language: English

[A]n excellent analytical study of a sensationally beautiful type of temple. . . . This work is not just art historical but embraces . . . religious studies, anthropology, history, and literature. --Catherine B. Asher

[A]dvances our knowledge of . . . Bengali temple building practices, the complex inter-reliance between religion, state power, and art, and the ways in which Western colonial assumptions have distorted correct interpretation. . . . A splendid book. --Rachel Fell McDermott

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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