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Author : Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Temples and Legends of Bengal written by Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bimal Kumar Datta
Publisher : New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bengal Temples written by Bimal Kumar Datta and published by New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical study, with reference to architectural style.
Author : Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Temples and Legends of Bengal written by Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023112919X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal written by Rachel Fell McDermott and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and religious identity of Bengalis takes shape.
Author : David W. Kim
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303056522X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures written by David W. Kim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history. Contemporary society witnesses many travelers visiting sacred sites (temples, mountains, castles, churches, houses) throughout the world. These visits often involve discovery of new historical facts through the origin stories of the associated tribe, region, or nation. The transmission of oral tradition and myth carries on the significant meaning of those religious sites. This volume unveils multi-angle perspectives of symbolic and mystical places. The contributors describe the religio-political experiences of each regional case, and analyze the religiosity of local people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concept of iconography, syncretism, and materialism. In addition, contributors interpret the growth of new religions as the alternative perspectives of anti-traditional religions. This new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the practical agony and sorrow of regional people in the context of contemporary history.
Author : Sibabrata Halder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789380648088
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Temple Architecture of Bengal written by Sibabrata Halder and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan L Huntington
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004646507
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The 'Pāla-Sena' Schools of Sculpture written by Susan L Huntington and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David McCutchion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691040103
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Brick Temples of Bengal written by David McCutchion and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion, will be forthcoming.
Author : June McDaniel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226557235
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Madness of the Saints written by June McDaniel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-07-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although ecstasy has been explored in several Indian contexts, surprisingly little scholarship has been devoted to its central role in Bengali devotion. In The Madness of the Saints, June McDaniel undertakes the first comprehensive study of religious ecstasy in Bengal, examining the texts that describe it, the people who experience it, and the traditions that support it.
Author : Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury
Publisher : Bombay : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Temples and Legends of Nepal written by Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury and published by Bombay : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. This book was released on 1972 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. S. Biswas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Terracotta Temples of Bengal written by S. S. Biswas and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sreecheta Mukherjee
Publisher : Aesthetics Media Services
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Temples of Bengal written by Sreecheta Mukherjee and published by Aesthetics Media Services . This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aramana Karatt Balagangadharan Nair
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Temple Worship written by Aramana Karatt Balagangadharan Nair and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the various rituals performed at a Hindu temple.
Author : David McCutchion
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ISBN 13 : 9780608025247
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Brick Temples of Bengal written by David McCutchion and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. Srikumaran
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Theerthayathra written by K. Srikumaran and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study with reference to South India.
Author : Sarasi Kumar Saraswati
Publisher : Calcutta : G. Bharadwaj
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Architecture of Bengal: Ancient phase written by Sarasi Kumar Saraswati and published by Calcutta : G. Bharadwaj. This book was released on 1976 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Temple Architecture of Eastern India written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a systematic overview of the temple architecturebuilt in eastern India between the ninth and sixteenth centuries.Spanning eight hundred years, it defines the tradition of TempleArchitecture of eastern India and examines the traits of continuityand of disruption in the tradition.In the absence of many extant examples of temples in the regionduring this whole period, the study uses the architectural fragmentsand votive shrines housed in various archives and museumsof the world. The study locates and identifies more than fortytemples of the period up to 1500 CE, and goes on to documentand analyse them in order to develop an understanding of a regionaltype of nagara temple. The study identified the presence ofall three modes called latina, phamsana and valabhi of the northIndian nagara tradition of temple architecture.Another significant feature of the study is the analysis of there-use of earlier Hindu-Buddhist architectural fragments in laterIslamic structures in order to develop an understanding of theearlier architecture and to show how the re-use of such fragmentsinfluenced the architecture of the Sultanate period in a major way,forming the basis of an architectural vocabulary.In the concluding part, the origin and development of the Mughalperiod temples characterized by the chala, bangla and ratna typesis explained, while emphasizing the continuities and elements ofdisruptions that had taken place since the beginning of the ninthcentury.The foreword of the book is written by Dr. George Michell whohave earlier edited two best known books on the architecture ofthe region: Brick Temples of Bengal (From the Archives of DavidMcCutchion) PUP, Princeton, New Jersey, 1983 and IslamicHeritage of Bengal UNESCO publications, Paris, 1984.
