Architecture in the Indian subcontinent

• Verfasst von: Tadgell, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Architecture in the Indian subcontinent
• Titelzusatz: from the Mauryas to the Mughals
• Werktitel: History of architecture in India
• Verf.angabe: Christopher Tadgell
• Ausgabe: Extensively revised and updated
• Verlagsort: London ; New York
• Verlag: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 398 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-032-11270-1
• Schlagwörter: (g)Indien / (s)Architektur / (z)Geschichte 300 v. Chr. - 1799
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Tadgell, Christopher: Architecture in the Indian subcontinent. - London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Überarbeitung von: The history of architecture in India
• K10plus-PPN: 185892829X

Abstract

"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"--