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Pedro Pombo
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Pedro Pombo
Portuguese presence in Goa provoked deep changes in social and religious aspects of the local life. Within the ‘New Conquests’, the Goan territories conquered by the Portuguese in the second half of the eighteenth century, the freedom of practising religion was respected. Here, during the…
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Pedro Pombo
Portuguese presence in Goa induced profound changes in the the social and religious aspects of local life. The possession of the actual state of Goa by the Portuguese was made in two very distinct phases: while the so-called old conquest, comprising the actual talukas of Tiswadi, Bardez and Salcete…
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Pedro Pombo
Portuguese presence in Goa provoked deep changes in the social and religious aspects of local life. While part of the actual state of Goa was conquered in the beginning of the sixteenth century, the larger area of the territory came under Portuguese administration only in the eighteenth century.…
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Poorva Arun Salvi
The Hoysala dynasty, thriving in parts of Karnataka from around tenth century CE till the fourteenth century CE, developed their distinctive style of temple architecture, and the footprints of their work are still visible in the form of temples they built in Karnataka region. The herculean task of…
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Poorva Arun Salvi
The Lakshmi-Narasimha temple is a trikuta shrine (a shrine containing three garbhagrihas or sanctum sanctorums) located in Harnahalli village of Hassan district and is 35 km from Hassan, a city in Karnataka. The temple showcases a rich iconographic scheme wherein the influence of Vaishnavism is…
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Poorva Arun Salvi
The Hoysalas of Dwarasamudra, an important dynasty of South India, ruled over parts of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu for more than three centuries. Starting from a family of hill chiefs residing in the extreme west of Mysore, near the Ghats at Angadi in Mudigere district, they ruled over…
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Shatabdi Chakrabarti
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Madhurima Chaudhuri
Indian art, since time immemorial, had strong religious and devotional undertones—a result of diverse philosophical, political and socio-cultural developments across the landscape. The idea of appreciating art for art’s sake was non-existent, as every artistic element adhered to a greater symbolic…
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