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

"[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

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