Sultanate architecture of Bengal: an analysis of architectural and decorative elements

Alamgir, Khoundkar

ISBN: 9788174791092, 8174791094

This book aims to trace the origin of different elements of Sultanate architecture of Bengal. Through six chapters, it studies various elements of Sultanate architecture in Bengal, Bangladesh etc.

Symphony in lines: an artistic introduction to the architectural heritage of Karnataka - India

Kamalesh, Artist

ISBN: 9789351562085, 9351562085

The book created by the author is unique in its depiction of cultural history, religions and philosophy of Karnataka, all of which help to place the art production and patronage of the area in its relevant social and cultural contexts.

Synthesis of Buddhist Saiva and Sakta tantras: an unknown Siddhapitha Maluti

Jha, Surendra

ISBN: 9788177021974, 8177021974

This book is primarily intended to introduce an unknown but unique village, Maluti located in the interiors of Santal Parganas in Jharkhand. It had been the centre of Vajrayana Tantric Sadhana.

Taking the Taj

Kullar, Shivjeet

ISBN: 9789381506158, 9381506159

This novel is a nail-biting, adrenaline-pumping account of what happens over the next twenty-four hours. Inside the Taj a young historian races to uncover a dramatic secret. It is a four-hundred-year-old secret as surprising as it is shocking, and capable of changing the way we look at the Taj...forever.

The Tanjavur Marathas: art, architecture and culture

Suresh, S

ISBN: 9788173055348, 8173055343

Based on extensive field explorations, museum and archival research in India, U.K. and the U.S.A., the study encompasses the religious and secular buildings, sculptures, paintings, furniture, textiles, jewellery, coins, toys and dolls, music and dance traditions and the cuisine of this little-known kingdom.

Tazias of Chiniot

Abbas, Ghulam

ISBN: 9789695620328, 9695620329

Temple architecture and imagery of South and Southeast Asia: Prasadanidhi: papers presented to Professor M.A. Dhaky, ed. by Parul Pandya Dhar & Gerd J.R. Mevissen, foreword ...

ISBN: 9788173055508, 8173055505

Kapila Vatsyayan, in cooperation with Indian Art History Congress and Devangana Desai.

Temple art, icons and culture of India and South-East Asia

Raman, KV

ISBN: 9788188934317, 8188934313

This book presents a valuable collection of essays written over a period of forty years during the author's illustrious career as a distinguished art-historians and archaeologists. It highlights the unique cultural relations between India and the countries of South-East Asia like Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.

Temples of Ernakulam district

Jayashanker, S

A monograph on the temples of Ernakulam District of Kerala, published udner Census of Indian series.;This monograph titled Temples of Ernakulam District, which is eighth in the District monograph-series, has a special significance as the district can claim to have the birth-place of the renowned philosopher-saint Sree Sankarachaarya in it. By adopting best elements of Hinduism and Buddhism in h...

The temples of Lhasa: Tibetan Buddhist architecture from the 7th to the 21st centuries

Alexander, Andrea et al.

ISBN: 9781932476200, 1932476202

Temples of South India

Reddy, VV Subba

ISBN: 9788121210225, 8121210224

Temples of the Gangas of Karnataka

Sarma, Inguva Karthikeya (1937- )

The temples of western Tibet and their artistic symbolism: the monasteries of Spiti and Kunavar, (Indo-Tibetica, III.1), tr. by Uma Marina Vesci and ed. by Lokesh Chandra

Tucci, Giuseppe (1894-1984)

ISBN: 9788185179223, 8185179220

The ten books on architecture, tr. by Morris Hicky Morgan, foreword by A.K. Jain

Vitruvius

ISBN: 9788174791788, 8174791787

These books demonstrate the role of architecture in development of technology. It covers wide ranging topics-from architectural education, and the development of humanity, to temple design and building typology, construction methods and materials, climatic effects and acoustics, aqueducts and waterworks, astronomy and sun dials, defense apparatus and other machinery.

High performance computer architecture

Prasad, Vishnu

ISBN: 9789393884336, 9393884331

A text book of Vastuvidya

Prabhu, Balagopal TS et al.

A guide for those interested in learn in the scientific and techno logical basis of the traditional architecture science of India. The book carries several graphic illustrations to make the understanding of subject easy.;

A theory of architecture

Salingaros, Nikos A

ISBN: 9789937623124, 993762312X

Through the looking glass: the grade I heritage of Mumbai

Lambah, Abha Narain

ISBN: 9788190112871, 8190112872

On the conservation of architectural heritage of Mumbai (Bombay).

The tirtha at Mukteswar: understanding its architecture, ed. by Ranjana Mital et al

ISBN: 9789383419197, 9383419199

The traditional Kerala manor: architecture of a South Indian Catuhsala house

Schildt, Henri

ISBN: 9788184701890, 8184701896

This work describes the feudal late mediaeval high-caste Kerala house. It lays particular emphasis upon the so-called 'four-house' mansion, called catuhsala in Sanskrit and naluke??u in Malayalam, the vernacular of Kerala. This palatial kind of mansion is regarded as ritually `complete' and, as such, appropriate - according to local Sanskrit treatises on architecture - to the feudal clergy, roy...