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Book Synopsis Brick Temples of Bengal by : David McCutchion
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.
Book Synopsis Temples of Bengal by : Sreecheta Mukherjee
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 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Temple Architecture of Bengal by : Sibabrata Halder
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:
Book Synopsis Temples and Legends of Bengal by : Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury
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:
Book Synopsis Terracotta Temples of Bengal by : S. S. Biswas
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:
Book Synopsis Bengal Temples by : Bimal Kumar Datta
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.
Book Synopsis Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal by : Rachel Fell McDermott
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.
Book Synopsis Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal by : Imma Ramos
Download or read book Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal written by Imma Ramos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century onwards the concept of Mother India assumed political significance in colonial Bengal. Reacting against British rule, Bengali writers and artists gendered the nation in literature and visual culture in order to inspire patriotism amongst the indigenous population. This book will examine the process by which the Hindu goddess Sati rose to sudden prominence as a personification of the subcontinent and an icon of heroic self-sacrifice. According to a myth of cosmic dismemberment, Sati’s body parts were scattered across South Asia and enshrined as Shakti Pithas, or Seats of Power. These sacred sites were re-imagined as the fragmented body of the motherland in crisis that could provide the basis for an emergent territorial consciousness. The most potent sites were located in eastern India, Kalighat and Tarapith in Bengal, and Kamakhya in Assam. By examining Bengali and colonial responses to these temples and the ritual traditions associated with them, including Tantra and image worship, this book will provide the first comprehensive study of this ancient network of pilgrimage sites in an art historical and political context.
Book Synopsis The Calcutta Chromosome by : Amitav Ghosh
Download or read book The Calcutta Chromosome written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, into the strange life of L. Murugan, a man obsessed with the medical history of malaria, and into a magnificently complex world where conspiracy hangs in the air like mosquitoes on a summer night.
Book Synopsis Selected Hindu Temples of Bangladesh by : Babu Ahmed
Download or read book Selected Hindu Temples of Bangladesh written by Babu Ahmed and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Place of Devotion by : Sukanya Sarbadhikary
Download or read book The Place of Devotion written by Sukanya Sarbadhikary and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Hindu devotional traditions have long been recognized for their sacred geographies as well as the sensuous aspects of their devotees' experiences. Largely overlooked, however, are the subtle links between these religious expressions. Based on intensive fieldwork conducted among worshippers in Bengal’s Navadvip-Mayapur sacred complex, this book discusses the diverse and contrasting ways in which Bengal-Vaishnava devotees experience sacred geography and divinity. Sukanya Sarbadhikary documents an extensive range of practices, which draw on the interactions of mind, body, and viscera. She shows how perspectives on religion, embodiment, affect, and space are enriched when sacred spatialities of internal and external forms are studied at once.
Book Synopsis The Temples of Bankura District by : David McCutchion
Download or read book The Temples of Bankura District written by David McCutchion and published by Calcutta : Writers Workshop. This book was released on 1972 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal by : Bengal (India). Public Works Department
Download or read book List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal written by Bengal (India). Public Works Department and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by : Richard M. Eaton
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 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eaton ranges over all the important aspects of that community's history, whether political and social, or cultural and religious...This study must rank among the finest contributions to South Asian scholarship to appear for some while.
Book Synopsis Temples of Birbhum by : Sukhamay Bandyopadhyay
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:
Book Synopsis The Tribes and Castes of Bengal by : Sir Herbert Hope Risley
Download or read book The Tribes and Castes of Bengal written by Sir Herbert Hope Risley and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Temple Tales written by Sudha G. Tilak and published by Hachette India Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which holy place in India has the mysteries of the universe hidden away in an icy cave? Where would you find a shrine for a goddess of veggies? At which deity’s temple is the daily offering a tonic, of all things? This delightful and enchanting book opens the doors to the secrets and surprises hidden in temples across the country. These unique temples are not just places of worship, but living museums of architectural wonders, mind-boggling sculptures, graceful dances, colourful crafts and many other cultural activities. More than anything, they are treasure troves of lore and legend, teeming with tales of gods and goddesses, demons and devotees, plants and beasts, the magical and the mysterious – all just waiting to be discovered by you. Join Sudha G. Tilak as she takes you on an unusual journey to the country’s most sacred places, where the lines between fact and faith are blurred and stories come alive!
