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Author:   Shonaleeka Kaul (Associate Professor of Ancient Indian History in the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367225964

ISBN 10:   0367225964
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   07 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Introduction: Towards a Semantics of Architecture Shonaleeka Kaul 2. Form, Space and Consciousness: Architectural Principles in the Vastushastras Bettina Sharada Bäumer 3. Breathing Life into Monuments of Death: The Stupa and the 'Buddha Body' in Sanchi’s Socio-Ecological Landscape Julia Shaw 4. Spatial and Architectural Constructs of Tantric Buddhist Mandalas: A Cognitive Approach Pranshu Samdarshi 5. The Old Temple of Basgo, Ladakh: A hypothesis on the superimposition of the 'celestial assembly' on sculpture and Sangha Gerald Kuzicz 6. Temple and Territory in the Puri Jagannatha Imaginaire Manu V. Devadevan 7. Stepwells of Western India: Ranki Vav at Patan Rabindra Vasavada 8. Outer Places, Inner Spaces: Constructing the Gaze in Chola Chidambaram Aleksandra Wenta 9. Interpreting Public Space in the Jaina Basadis of Moodabidri Pratyush Shankar 10. On the Water’s Edge: Tracing Urban Form in Old Srinagar M.N. Ashish Ganju

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Shonaleeka Kaul is Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her previous works include The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini (2018), Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader (2014) and Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India (2010).

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