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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ghosh, Pika, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
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.