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GOVINDADEVA : A DIALOGUE IN STONE
Edited by MARGARET CASE
Photographs by ROBYN BEECHE
Foreword by SHRIVATSA GOSWAMI
1996, xxi+305pp. line
drawings, b&w illus., ISBN: 81-85503-03-6, Rs 2000(HB)

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This volume is the second in the series of
publications relating to the Vraja region.
Incorporating the papers presented at a conference held in 191, the present study brings
into focus the multi-faceted and multi-layered personality of Vraja through the great
Temple known as Govindadeva of the Mughal period. It presents a detailed study of
Govindadeva's design and iconography, richly illusrated wih photographs and drawings,
Other chapters discuss the history of its construction and photographs and drawings.
Other chapters discuss the history of its construction and desecration under Aurangzeb,
and describe the temples built along the way for the image of Sri Govindadeva when he
travelled to his present home in Jaipur. Documentation from manuscript archives
brings alive the lineage of priests serving the temple, and the ritual life of the temple
is reconstructed from manuscript sources. The authors are noted Indian, American,
and European scholars.
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| MARGARET H. CASE lives in
Vrindaban and Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She has edited a number of volumes,
most recently Heinrich Zimmer : Coming into His Own (Princeton Unversity Press, 1994) |
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