Vanga Down the Ages: Cults, Icons and Temples

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Cults, Icons and Temples of 24 Parganas by Gourisankar De gives the fullest documentation any part of India has ever received with regard to its creative life. Nothing is committed, no shrine neglected, no diminutive clay image overlooked, no festival left unrecorded. The book is an encyclopaedia whose facts cohere not only by their regional propinquity but also by the almost breathless zest by which the author of the book has co-ordinated them in clear cut chapters from the earliest time to the present. In this most valuable conspectus the chapters on the popular cults and the one on the festivals provide local colour while those on the Brahmanical Religion, Buddhism and Jainism link the 24 Parganas, the largest district of West Bengal, with the rest of India and prove the important part this region played. While open to the current movements over nearly two thousand years they were given the stamps of the local genius.Particularly valuable are the chapters treating of the temples, the brick temples forming a crowning glory of this region and the author has not neglected the craftsman and patrons of these uniquely interesting monuments.Cults, Icons and Temples of 24 Parganas is a substantial addition to the art and culture of this district not only but also of the whole of India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gourisankar De

Poet, Archaeologist, Historian and Educationist, Dr. Gourishankar De has long association with Chandraketugarh and the art and architecture of India. Dr. De graduated with Honours in History from Presidency College, Calcutta. He was awarded University Medal for standing First in M.A. by Jadavpur University. He obtained Ph.D. Degree from the same institution; the examiners of his dissertation were Stella Kramrish and A.L. Basham who spoke highly of his dissertation. Dr. De was Reader and Head, Dept. of History, Sri Chaitanya Mahavidyalay, Habra. He was lecturer in History of Calcutta University for its P.G. Centre at Agartala and part-time lecturer in History, Jadavpur University (Higher Service Training Centre) and Burdwan University. Dr. De has contributed more than hundred articles to learned journals, national and international, and has published some significant papers in several All-India anthologies and Felicitation Volumes. Dr. De was the sectional president of the National Seminar on ‘Kushana Art: Genesis of Classical Indian Art’ organized by Patna Museum, on March 07-09-03.

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Title
Vanga Down the Ages: Cults, Icons and Temples
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8190333054
Length
xvi, 276 p., Plates.
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