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

by Pika Ghosh

" 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253344875
• ISBN13: 9780253344878
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 10.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher