their cultural-evolvement and unanimous-acceptance among the natural artistic-sense and aesthetic-belief of the rural-folk.their sprawling geographical-presence among the common populace of Bengal.But, in both the cases, these terracotta-ornamentations exhibit two prominent features: They discovered inspiration and characteristics of the local folk culture in the works of Sultanate-era, considering their strong, lively and soulful motifs as to be extracted from the lokāyata archetype. On the other hand, others have identified the terracotta-plaques from Paharpur, Mainamati and Mahasthangarh as specimens of folk-tribal art. Most of them were built for and by the riches and hence couldn’t connect with the folk-tribal traditions of rural-Bengal. Some are of opinion that even after having a kind of mass-expression in nature and style, the temples and mosques of Bengal lack the other symptoms of folk-tribal character. But, whether the terracotta-ornamentation on religious-architectures of Bengal could also be included in the lokāyata-genre has always been a matter of great debate. In that sense, it could largely be traced in the history of human culture and art, in various forms of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, drama etc. Lokāyata, as a word, primarily denotes the philosophy of the masses – spread or found among the common-folk. This comparative study will be based on the cultural significance of the evolve of these terracotta tiles respecting the socio-cultural and political background of their timeline.
Another remarkable feature of the Chachra Shiv Temple of Jessore is locally produced wonderfully detailed terracotta facing tiles, no doubt by the descendants of the original makers, to entirely restore the front of the temple to a pristine condition. Its most remarkable feature, typical of late Mughal-era temples, is its superb surface decoration, with infinite panels of sculpted terracotta plaques. The Kantaji Temple, also known as the Kantanagar is the country’s finest example of brick and terracotta style. The Kantaji temple at North and the Chachra Shiv temple at South have been studied as these two are the most renowned and affluent with distinguished Bengal terracotta. This term paper is intended to unearth the motifs of surface ornamentation of our North and South Bengal temples in a comparative manner.
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