Atpur
Several terracotta temples were constructed in this town (located in Hooghly district about 50 km north-west of Kolkata) in the late-18th century by the Mitra zamindars who were associated with a larger zamindari in Burdwan. The largest and most ornate of these temples is the Radha-Govinda temple built in 1786 by Krishnaram Mitra, Dewan of the Burdwan Raj. The temples are classified by Michell as belonging to a style that became standardized in Hooghly and Howrah in the 18th century and is characterized by at-chala temples that have complex but unified decorative schemes.
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