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- W765139040 abstract "The thesis examines the contemporaryBengali practice of worshipping clay images. By clay is understood'unbaked' clay. The thesis makes a distinction between 'baked clay'(terracotta) images and 'unbaked' clay (terracruda) images and examinesthe preference for worshipping terracruda images.The worship of clay images is examinedwithin the context of image worship in general in India, referring tothe classical iconographical canons and other texts in which clay ismentioned as a suitable medium for the making of religious icons. Thestudy is restricted to the Hindu religion. The thesis does notrestrict itself to a purely iconographical approach.The thesis discusses the artistictradition that gave rise to the clay images of Bengal,as well asattempting to understand the religious significance of the images. Intracing the tradition, the author has used vernacular sources as wellas early records of travellers. In describing the contemporarytechnique of clay image making, the author has relied on recordedinterviews and photo-documentation taken during a three month period offieldwork in West Bengal.The thesis establishes that there hasbeen a tradition of worshipping clay images in Bengal that is at leasttwo centuries old and suggests that there are earlier precedents forthe tradition. It also concludes that it is a strongly regionaltradition that developed in Bengal and influenced the neighbouringstates of Bihar, Assam and Orissa. The worship of terracruda images inBengal is a regional practice that is the product of both classical and'folk' influences." @default.
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