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Author Ghosh, Pika, 1969- author.

Title Temple to love : architecture and devotion in seventeenth-century Bengal / Pika Ghosh
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 255 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Contemporary Indian studies
Contemporary Indian studies.
Contents Desire, devotion, and the double-storied temple -- A paradigm shift -- Acts of accommodation -- Axes and the mediation of worship -- Epilogue: A new sacred center
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index
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Subject Temples -- India -- Bengal
Architectural terra-cotta -- India -- Bengal
Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic -- India -- Bengal
Architecture -- India -- Bengal -- History
Architecture and religion.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious.
Architectural terra-cotta
Architecture
Architecture and religion
Temples
Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic
Tempels.
India -- Bengal
India.
Bengalen.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253023537
025302353X