Temple to Love : Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal / Pika Ghosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghosh, Pika, 1969-

Series:

Contemporary Indian studies.

Contemporary Indian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and religion.

Architecture--India--Bengal--History--17th century.

Architecture.

Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic--India--Bengal.

Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic.

Architectural terra-cotta--India--Bengal.

Architectural terra-cotta.

Temples--India--Bengal.

Temples.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-246) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253023537

025302353X

OCLC:

607228984