TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ghosh,Pika
TI  - Temple to love: architecture and devotion in seventeenth-century Bengal 
T2  - Contemporary Indian studies
SN  - 9780253023537
AV  - NA6007 .T467 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Temples
KW  - India
KW  - Bengal
KW  - Architectural terra-cotta
KW  - Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic
KW  - Architecture
KW  - History
KW  - Architecture and religion
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Desire, devotion, and the double-storied temple --; A paradigm shift --; Acts of accommodation --; Axes and the mediation of worship --; Epilogue: A new sacred center; 2; b
N2  - 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
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