Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal
Hardback
Publication Date: 20/04/2005
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. Pika Ghosh is Assistant Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- ISBN:
- 9780253344878
- 9780253344878
- Category:
- Architecture
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 20-04-2005
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Indiana University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 280
- Dimensions (mm):
- 254x178x26mm
- Weight:
- 0.84kg
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