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Curves, spires, and minarets: Temples of Odisha and Maharashtra
Tue, Nov 07, 2017,
04:00 PM
at Seminar Room 24, First floor, Main Building
Dr Pushkar Sohoni
Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Science, IISER Pune
The temples of the regions of Maharashtra and Odisha have had very different trajectories for one and half millenia. While conceptually identical, their formal evolutionary paths have diverged, and resulted in the creation of regional styles. This lecture will compare the history of temple architecture in these two states.