Bibliograph

Temple to love, architecture and devotion in seventeenth-century Bengal, Pika Ghosh

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Temple to love, architecture and devotion in seventeenth-century Bengal, Pika Ghosh

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Temple to love

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Pika Ghosh

Series statement

Contemporary Indian studies

Sub title

architecture and devotion in seventeenth-century Bengal

Summary

"[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

Target audience

adult

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