Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent

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This comprehensive revision acknowledges the great advance in scholarship across this extremely complex subject over the last three decades. It covers major invasions, migrations, dynastic conflicts and cultural and commercial connections, the main religious developments, and external architectural precedents.

Dedicated to the tracing of continuity across sectarian divides, Christopher Tadgell’s History of Architecture in India (1989) was the first modern monograph to draw together in one volume all the strands of India’s pre-colonial architectural history – from the Vedic and Native traditions of early India, through Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic and secular architecture. This comprehensive revision, Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent: From the Mauryas to the Mughals, expands the structure to acknowledge the great advance in scholarship across this extremely complex subject over the last three decades.

An understanding of Indian history and religion is the basis for understanding the complex pattern of relationships in the evolution of architecture in the subcontinent. Therefore, background material covers major invasions, migrations, dynastic conflicts and cultural and commercial connections, the main religious developments and their significance and repercussions, and external architectural precedents. While avoiding the usual division of the subject into ‘Buddhist and Hindu’ and ‘Islamic’ parts in order to trace continuity, the importance of religion, symbolism and myth to the development of characteristic Indian architectural forms in all their richness and complexity is fully explained in this fully illustrated account of the subcontinent’s architecture.

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PROLOGUE: EARLY INDIA PART 1: 4TH CENTURY BCE-4TH CENTURY CE INTRODUCTION: FIRST EMPIRES 1.1 STUPA AND MONASTERY IN THE EARLY IMPERIAL ERA 1.1.1 ASHOKAN FOUNDATIONS 1.2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF BUDDHISM 1.2.1 MANIFESTAT ION OF TRANSFORMATION: ART AND ARCHITECTURE 1.3 THE ADVENT OF HINDUISM AND THE ESOTERIC 1.3.1 THEOLOGY AND THE INVENTION OF THE TEMPLE 1.3.2 UNITY IN VARIETY OF SYMBOLIC FORM PART 2: 4TH-13TH CENTURY CE BUDDHISM ECLIPSED; HINDUS ASCENDANT 2.1 THE EARLY TEMPLE: EXCAVATION AND BUILDING 2.2 DECCANI ECLECTICISM AND THE DRAVIDIAN MERU 2.2.1 EARLY CHALUKYAN DERIVATIONS 2.2.2 EARLY PALLAVAN REPRESENTATION 2.2.3 RETURN TO ELLORA FOR THE APOGEE OF ECUMENICAL EXCAVATION 2.2.4 THE CHOLAS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS 2.3 ASCENT TO NAGARA MERUS: LATINA, SHEKHARI AND BHUMIJA 2.3.1 PRATIHARA FOUNDATIONS 2.3.2 SHEKHARI PROLIFERATION 2.3.3 APOTHEOSIS OF LATINAIN OR ISSA 2.3.4 THE BHUMIJA OF THE PARAMARAS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS 2.4 VE SARA: SYNTHESES AND ABSTRACTION IN KARNATIKA 2.4.1 LATER CHALUKYAN CROSS-FERTILISATION 2.4.2 HOYSALA SYNTHESIS PART 3: 13TH-18TH CENTURY ISLAM ASCENDANT : HINDUS AND JAINS DEFENSIVE 3.1 ISLAM IN INDIA AND THE PATTERN OF MUSLIM PATRONAGE 3.2 AFGHANS , TURKS AND THEIR DELHI SULTANATE 3.3 REGIONAL GRAVITY 3.3.1 RIVALS TO THE SULTANATE IN THE SOUTH 3.3.2 SUCCESSORS TO THE SULTANATE IN THE NORTH 3.4 THE MUGHALS : ADVENT 3.5 RETURN TO THE DECCAN: QUTBSHAHIS AND ADILSHAHIS 3.6 THE MUGHALS : APOGEE EPILOGUE: HINDUSTANI SYNCRETISM