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Khajuraho - Indian Temples and Sensuous Sculptures (Hardcover)
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Khajuraho - Indian Temples and Sensuous Sculptures (Hardcover)
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A privileged visual journey through one of the most famous Indian
heritage sites. Situated in the northern Indian state of Madhya
Pradesh, Khajuraho is renowned as much for the elegance of its
architecture as for the sensuality of its sculpture. Khajuraho has
become one of the unmissable sights for any traveller to India, and
owes its international reputation to the lavishness of its numerous
Hindu shrines. Formerly an important political and religious
centre, it is thought to have contained up to ninety-five temples,
as the many ruins concealed under otherwise-anonymous hillocks
scattered throughout the valley attest. Only twenty-five survive.
The earliest mention of Khajuraho dates from the seventh century.
After the collapse of the Candella kingdom, the site experienced
almost four centuries of oblivion, and the once proud city-state
turned into a sleepy village nestling in what had become an arid
basin for several months of the year. British hunters rediscovered
it quite by chance at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Since then, the area has undergone several phases of restoration,
as befits one of the leading sites of the world's cultural
heritage. The highly unusual nature of its temple depictions has
given this area a somewhat 'scandalous' reputation, unleashing,
over the years, interpretations of all kinds.
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