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

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...

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Main Author: Ghosh, Pika, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
Series:Contemporary Indian studies.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 255 pages :)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index.
ISBN:9780253023537
025302353X