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Author : Sukhamay Bandyopadhyay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Temples of Birbhum written by Sukhamay Bandyopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sreecheta Mukherjee
Publisher : Aesthetics Media Services
ISBN 13 :
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231129181
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 : Richard M. Eaton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917774
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 written by Richard M. Eaton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations. Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change.
Author : Richard Maxwell Eaton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520080775
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 written by Richard Maxwell Eaton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations. Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change.
Author : Amarendra Nath Roy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Terracotta Temples of Bengal written by Amarendra Nath Roy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pika Ghosh
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025302353X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Temple to Love written by Pika Ghosh and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A]n excellent analytical study of a sensationally beautiful type of temple. . . . This work is not just art historical but embraces . . . religious studies, anthropology, history, and literature." —Catherine B. Asher "[A]dvances our knowledge of . . . Bengali temple building practices, the complex inter-reliance between religion, state power, and art, and the ways in which Western colonial assumptions have distorted correct interpretation. . . . A splendid book." —Rachel Fell McDermott 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. Published in association with the American Institute of Indian Studies
Author : Sreecheta Mukherjee
Publisher : Aesthetics Media Services
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Arts and Crafts of Bankura written by Sreecheta Mukherjee and published by Aesthetics Media Services . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a result of meticulous research on the arts and crafts of Bankura.
Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521011099
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia written by Himanshu Prabha Ray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to European expansion, communities of the Indian subcontinent had a strong maritime orientation. In this new archaeological study, Himanshu Prabha Ray explores seafaring activity, religious travel and political economy in this ancient period. By using archaeological data from the Red Sea to the Indonesian archipelago, she reveals how the early history of peninsular South Asia is interconnected with that of its Asian and Mediterranean partners in the Indian Ocean Region. The book departs from traditional studies, focusing on the communities maritime history rather than agrarian expansion and the emergence of the state. Rather than being a prime mover in social, economic and religious change, the state is viewed as just one participant in a complex interplay of social actors, including merchants, guilds, boat-builders, sailors, pilgrims, religious clergy and craft-producers. A study that will be welcomed by students of Archaeology and Ancient History, particularly those interested in South Asian Studies.
Author : Imma Ramos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351840010
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal written by Imma Ramos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviving Sati's corpse: Mother India tours and Hindutva in the twenty-first century -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : India. Superintendent of Census Operations, West Bengal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book District Census Handbook, West Bengal: Birbhum written by India. Superintendent of Census Operations, West Bengal and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : India. Superintendent of Census Operations, West Bengal & Sikkim
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book District Census Handbook, West Bengal: Hooghly written by India. Superintendent of Census Operations, West Bengal & Sikkim and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : India. Superintendent of Census Operations, West Bengal
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book District Census Handbook, West Bengal: West Dinajpur written by India. Superintendent of Census Operations, West Bengal and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1647229081
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape written by Himanshu Prabha Ray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape explores Hinduism as it was practised in temples across the Indian subcontinent throughout history, highlighting the temple’s significance as a marker of cultural identity. The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape illustrates how careful attention to the Hindu temple, its social history, and cultural landscape allows us to better appreciate how Hinduism has been practised and lived throughout history. The Hindu temple was not merely a place of worship or a static indicator of royal generosity but an institution that involved the active participation of the community for its establishment, maintenance, and survival. Rather than studying temples as isolated structures, The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape thus suggests that we need to examine them in the context of their social base and the sacred microcosms of which they form a part. Through a combination of textual study, archaeological evidence, and insights from contemporary anthropology, the book explores the diverse ways in which devotees, patrons, and visitors have engaged with temples, shrines, and their wider surroundings. Drawing attention to the vibrancy of the Hindu temple in different locales, The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape traces the ways in which Hindu notions of sanctity and sacredness were defined and redefined throughout history through the diversity of temple audiences, deities, and rituals. The book thus allows us to form a more accurate picture of Hindu religious life in the past and the central role the temple has played in consolidating Hindu identity. EXPERT ANALYSIS: Author Himanshu Prabha Ray provides authoritative analysis of the Hindu temple, drawing on her expertise as an award-winning Sanskrit scholar, historian, and archeologist. SUPPLEMENTAL STUDY: The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape provides a breadth of educational knowledge as a supplement to both academic coursework and the independent study of Hinduism. With the integration of discussion questions, suggested further reading, a glossary of key terms, and images throughout, The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape offers an accessible introduction to studying the history and significance of Hindu temples. EXPLORE THE SERIES: The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape expands the collection of academic texts developed by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Women in the Hindu World and The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation and Study Guide are also available in the series.
