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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2005.
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Colección: | Contemporary Indian studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Desire, devotion, and the double-storied temple
- A paradigm shift
- Acts of accommodation
- Axes and the mediation of worship
- Epilogue: A new sacred center.