Author: Sreecheta Mukherjee
Publisher: Aesthetics Media Services
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Brick Temples of Bengal
Author: David McCutchion
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691040103
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Description for this book, Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion, will be forthcoming.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691040103
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Description for this book, Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion, will be forthcoming.
Temples of Bengal
Author: Sreecheta Mukherjee
Publisher: Aesthetics Media Services
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher: Aesthetics Media Services
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Bengal Temples
Author: Bimal Kumar Datta
Publisher: New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Historical study, with reference to architectural style.
Publisher: New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Historical study, with reference to architectural style.
Temple Architecture of Bengal
Author: Sibabrata Halder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789380648088
Category : Hindu architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789380648088
Category : Hindu architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Architecture of Bengal: Ancient phase
Author: Sarasi Kumar Saraswati
Publisher: Calcutta : G. Bharadwaj
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher: Calcutta : G. Bharadwaj
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Brick Temples of Bengal
Author: David McCutchion
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608025247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608025247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Late Mediaeval Temples of Bengal
Author: David McCutchion
Publisher: Calcutta : Asiatic Society
ISBN:
Category : Church architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: Calcutta : Asiatic Society
ISBN:
Category : Church architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Temples and Legends of Bengal
Author: Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal
Author: Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023112919X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023112919X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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.
The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City
Author: Deonnie Moodie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190885289
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Kalighat is said to be the oldest and most potent Hindu pilgrimage site in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). It is home to the dark goddess Kali in her ferocious form and attracts thousands of worshipers a day, many sacrificing goats at her feet. In The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City, Deonnie Moodie examines the ways middle-class authors, judges, and activists have worked to modernize Kalighat over the past long century. Rather than being rejected or becoming obsolete with the arrival of British colonialism and its accompanying iconoclastic Protestant ideals, the temple became a medium through which middle-class Hindus could produce and publicize their modernity, as well as the modernity of their city and nation. That trend continued and even strengthened in the wake of India's economic liberalization in the 1990s. Kalighat is a superb example of the ways Hindus work to modernize India while also Indianizing modernity through Hinduism's material forms. Moodie explores both middle-class efforts to modernize Kalighat and the lower class's resistance to those efforts. Conflict between class groups throws into high relief the various roles the temple plays in peoples' lives, and explains why the modernizers have struggled to bring their plans to fruition. The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City is the first scholarly work to juxtapose and analyze processes of historiographical, institutional, and physical modernization of a Hindu temple.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190885289
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Kalighat is said to be the oldest and most potent Hindu pilgrimage site in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). It is home to the dark goddess Kali in her ferocious form and attracts thousands of worshipers a day, many sacrificing goats at her feet. In The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City, Deonnie Moodie examines the ways middle-class authors, judges, and activists have worked to modernize Kalighat over the past long century. Rather than being rejected or becoming obsolete with the arrival of British colonialism and its accompanying iconoclastic Protestant ideals, the temple became a medium through which middle-class Hindus could produce and publicize their modernity, as well as the modernity of their city and nation. That trend continued and even strengthened in the wake of India's economic liberalization in the 1990s. Kalighat is a superb example of the ways Hindus work to modernize India while also Indianizing modernity through Hinduism's material forms. Moodie explores both middle-class efforts to modernize Kalighat and the lower class's resistance to those efforts. Conflict between class groups throws into high relief the various roles the temple plays in peoples' lives, and explains why the modernizers have struggled to bring their plans to fruition. The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City is the first scholarly work to juxtapose and analyze processes of historiographical, institutional, and physical modernization of a Hindu temple.