Delving into the architectural history of the Deccan region in India, this book offers a visual journey through its rich temple heritage. It features detailed maps that serve as guides for travelers seeking to explore these significant historical sites, making it an essential resource for both enthusiasts and tourists interested in the cultural and architectural legacy of the area.
Diverse architectural traditions such as the Hindue and Jain temples, the step-wells and houses with intricately carved woodwork, are the subjects of separate chapters, each of which is generously illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Maps provide the locations of monuments within the city and its surrounding environment.
An in-depth survey of Indian palaces. It contains photographs to display the beauty and atmosphere of these buildings, and George Michell evokes life within the palaces and describes their many elements: halls, courtyards, temples, mosques, private apartments and service quarters.
For more than 1500 years, from the Indian subcontinent to the islands of the Indonesian archipelago, the temple has embodied and symbolized the Hindu worldview at its deepest level and inspired the greatest architectural and artistic achievements in Hindu Asia. In The Hindu Temple , considered the standard introduction to the subject, George Michell explains the cultural, religious, and architectural significance of the temple. He illustrates his points with a profusion of photographs, building plans, and drawings of architectural details, making the book a useful guide for travelers to Asia as well as an illuminating text for students of architecture, religion, and Asian civilizations.Michell's discussion of the meaning and forms of the temple in Hindu society encompasses the awe-inspiring rock-cut temples at Ellora and Elephanta, the soaring superstructures and extraordinary sexual exhibitionism of the sculptures at Khajuraho, and the colossal mortuary temple of Angkor Vat, as well as the tiny iconic shrines that many Hindus wear around their necks and the simple shrines found under trees or near ponds.