Temple to love : architecture and devotion in seventeenth-century Bengal / Pika Ghosh.

Main entry:

Ghosh, Pika, 1969-

Title & Author:

Temple to love : architecture and devotion in seventeenth-century Bengal / Pika Ghosh.

Publication:

Description:

xv, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Contemporary Indian studies

Notes:
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.

Summary:

"In the flux created by the Mughal conquest in the seventeenth century, Hindu landholders in eastern India began to build a spectacularly beautiful new style of brick temple, sheathed with terra cotta narrative plaques and in a form unlike that of temples built for a thousand years before. In Temple to Love, Pika Ghosh draws on extensive archaeological and ethnographic research as well as textual evidence to explore this innovation in the context of its times."
"This original and richly illustrated study addresses important cultural issues central to understanding the roles of art and religion in the negotiation of power and the self-definition of communities. Including 82 high-quality black-and-white images of these rarely photographed structures, it will appeal to scholars, students, and all readers interested in Indian art and history."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0253344875 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780253344878 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Temples India Bengal.
Architectural terra-cotta India Bengal.
Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic India Bengal.
Architecture India Bengal History 17th century.
Architecture and religion.
Temples Inde Bengale.
Terres cuites architecturales Inde Benagale.
Terres cuites de l'Inde Inde Bengale.
Architecture Inde Bengale 17e siècle.
Architecture et religion.
Terres cuites architecturales Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
Terres cuites de l'Inde Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
Architecture Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) Histoire 17e siècle.
21.70 religious architecture.
Architectural terra-cotta
Architecture
Temples
Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic
Tempelbau
Terrakotta
Architektur
Tempels.
India Bengal
Bengalen
India.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Contemporary Indian studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 235646
Call No.: BIB 165508
Status: Available

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