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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghosh, Pika, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tempels.
Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic.
Temples.
Architecture and religion.
Architecture.
Architectural terra-cotta.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Religious.
Architecture > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire.
Terres cuites de l'Inde > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
Terres cuites architecturales > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
Architecture et religion.
Architecture > Inde > Bengale > 17e siecle.
Terres cuites de l'Inde > Inde > Bengale.
Terres cuites architecturales > Inde > Benagale.
Temples > Inde > Bengale.
Architecture > India > Bengal > History.
Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic > India > Bengal.
Architectural terra-cotta > India > Bengal.
Temples > India > Bengal.
Bengalen.
India.
India > Bengal.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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