Late Temple Architecture in India, 15Th to 19Th Centuries

Continuities, Revivals, Appropriations, and Innovations

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ISBN:

9780199454679

Publication date:

02/02/2015

Hardback

352 pages

280.0x216.0mm

Price: 1395.00 INR

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ISBN:

9780199454679

Publication date:

02/02/2015

Hardback

352 pages

280.0x216.0mm

George Michell

This volume is the first comprehensive account of temple architecture in India during the period of Sultanate, Mughal, and British rule. For the most part neglected in historical surveys of Indian architecture, the temples that appear here are of interest for the startling diversity of their forms, structural techniques, and aesthetic qualities. 

Suitable for: This book will interest scholars, teachers, and students of medieval and modern Indian history, architecture, archaeology.

Rights:  World Rights

George Michell

Description

From the fifteenth century on, after a period of widespread destruction and demolition, India witnessed a resumption of temple patronage and building activity. These ‘late’ temples, however, are usually overlooked by architectural and art historians, who tend to privilege the earlier phases of Indian architecture and art, the prevailing assumption being that India’s ‘late’ temples are unworthy of serious attention. As illustrated in this volume, nothing could be further from the truth.  Accompanied by maps, photographs, as well as a selection of building plans, this book is the first wide-ranging account of temple architecture in the 500-year period that coincides with the rule of the sultanates, the Mughals, and the British.  Through a meticulous study of over 300 temples from 17 geographical zones, this book shows that, as far as temple architecture is concerned, these years were remarkably creative and vibrant. The temples built during this period display a startling diversity of forms, structural techniques, and aesthetic qualities. Rather than characterizing the appearance of domes, vaults, pointed arches, and other such ‘borrowings’ as inappropriately ‘Christian’ or ‘Islamic’, this volume attempts to understand how such attributes came to be integrated into a Hindu and Jain religious context. 

George Michell

Table of contents

CONTENTS
Note on Dates, Spellings, Maps, and Bibliographic References 
Preface 
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND
1. Patterns of Building Activity 
2. Devotional Cults and Temple Patrons
PART TWO: STYLISTIC TRENDS
3. Continuities and Revivals 
4. Appropriations 
5. Innovations 
6. Overview 
PART THREE: KEY MONUMENTS
The Extreme North
7. Himachal Pradesh and Jammu 
Central India
8. Braj 
9. Bundelkhand 
10. Avadh 
Eastern India
11. Bihar and Jharkhand 
12. Orissa
13. Bengal 
14. Assam and Tripura 
Western India
15. Rajasthan 
16. Gujarat 
Malwa and the Deccan
17. Malwa 
18. Maharashtra 
The Western Coast
19. Goa
20. Kanara and Malnad 
21. Kerala 
Southern India
22. Karnataka and Rayalaseema 
23. Tamil Nadu 
Glossary of Architectural Terms 
Bibliography 
Illustration Credits 
Index of Temples by Site 
Index of Building Patrons 

About the Author  

George Michell

George Michell

George Michell

Description

From the fifteenth century on, after a period of widespread destruction and demolition, India witnessed a resumption of temple patronage and building activity. These ‘late’ temples, however, are usually overlooked by architectural and art historians, who tend to privilege the earlier phases of Indian architecture and art, the prevailing assumption being that India’s ‘late’ temples are unworthy of serious attention. As illustrated in this volume, nothing could be further from the truth.  Accompanied by maps, photographs, as well as a selection of building plans, this book is the first wide-ranging account of temple architecture in the 500-year period that coincides with the rule of the sultanates, the Mughals, and the British.  Through a meticulous study of over 300 temples from 17 geographical zones, this book shows that, as far as temple architecture is concerned, these years were remarkably creative and vibrant. The temples built during this period display a startling diversity of forms, structural techniques, and aesthetic qualities. Rather than characterizing the appearance of domes, vaults, pointed arches, and other such ‘borrowings’ as inappropriately ‘Christian’ or ‘Islamic’, this volume attempts to understand how such attributes came to be integrated into a Hindu and Jain religious context. 

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Table of contents

CONTENTS
Note on Dates, Spellings, Maps, and Bibliographic References 
Preface 
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND
1. Patterns of Building Activity 
2. Devotional Cults and Temple Patrons
PART TWO: STYLISTIC TRENDS
3. Continuities and Revivals 
4. Appropriations 
5. Innovations 
6. Overview 
PART THREE: KEY MONUMENTS
The Extreme North
7. Himachal Pradesh and Jammu 
Central India
8. Braj 
9. Bundelkhand 
10. Avadh 
Eastern India
11. Bihar and Jharkhand 
12. Orissa
13. Bengal 
14. Assam and Tripura 
Western India
15. Rajasthan 
16. Gujarat 
Malwa and the Deccan
17. Malwa 
18. Maharashtra 
The Western Coast
19. Goa
20. Kanara and Malnad 
21. Kerala 
Southern India
22. Karnataka and Rayalaseema 
23. Tamil Nadu 
Glossary of Architectural Terms 
Bibliography 
Illustration Credits 
Index of Temples by Site 
Index of Building Patrons 

About the Author  

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