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Nadia or Nabadwip with its headquarters at Krishnanagar was the birth place of Lord Chaitanya (1486-1527), the great religious reformer and a celebrated seat of Sanskriti learning. Being a great place of pilgrimage it is known as the Benaras of Bengal. The religious movement which is known as Vaishnavism and which Lord Chitanya initiated in mediaeval Bengal gave birth to a renaissance not only in religion but also in literature, art and architecture. While we ...
Since time immemorial Bengal has been the cultural representative of Nadia had been at one time, the culture of Bengal itself. The terracotta finds adorning our museums, temples and private collections testify that this expressive art once thrived in Nadia. Unfortunately, however, a subject reveals that these living witnesses have escaped the analytical eye of researchers, scholars and historians. The present study serves to fill this void in a remarkably ...