Tamil Heritage Trust
Monthly Heritage Talk - "Early Medieval Temples of Eastern India" by Dr Sudipa Ray Bandyopadhyay
5.30 pm IST on Saturday, November 6, 2021. Talk in English.
Indian temple architecture has been broadly classified into three types:
nagara, dravida and vesara. Although the temples of eastern India
belong to the nagara type, there are a large number of regional
variations, particularly in Odisha which produced three major variations
- rekha deul, pidha or bhadra deul and khakhara deul.
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In her Talk, "Early Medieval Temples of Eastern India", Dr Sudipa Ray
Bandyopadhyay will discuss the architectural features of a few
representative temples in Bihar, Odisha and Bengal. She will then
introduce us to two temples in Odisha - the Varahi temple at Chaurashi, a
fine specimen of the khakhara deul and the Chausat Yogini temple at
Hirapur, one of the best examples of the hypaethral temples found in
eastern India.
Dr Sudipa Ray Bandyopadhyay is Professor in the Department of
Ancient Indian History and Culture at the University of Calcutta. She
was awarded a gold medal for her Masters degree and completed her PhD as
a Junior Research Fellow of Indian Council for Historical Research, New
Delhi. Dr Ray Bandyopadhyay has authored a book Architectural Motifs in
Early Medieval Art of Eastern India, and edited and co-edited several
books including those on Nataraja Images of Bengal, Saiva Iconography
and two volumes of Journal of Ancient Indian History among others. In
2015, the International Centre for Study of Bengal Art, Dhaka,
Bangladesh awarded her an Honorary Fellowship for her research
contributions on Bengal art. She is at present writing A Catalogue of
Stone Sculptures of a District Museum of West Bengal and also preparing A
Photographic Documentation of Early Medieval Temple Sculptures of
Karnataka.
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