Architecture, Nationalism, and the Fleeting Heyday of the Goan Temple

• Main Author: Kanekar, Amita
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: architectural chronology; heritage; Lopes Mendes; Souza and Paul
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss38/25; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1928/viewcontent/KK_2038_2C_202022_2025_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Goa_20Before_20India_20Late_Colonial_20Goan_20Society_20and_20Culture_20__20Kanekar.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This essay about the changing architecture of Brahmanical shrines in Goa uses archival images to argue that the period from the mid- nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth was the heyday of the Goan temple, an architectural type of pronounced heterogeneity. A significant number of...