Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār
eBook - ePub

Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār

Decoding the Historical Architectural Treatise

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eBook - ePub

Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār

Decoding the Historical Architectural Treatise

About this book

The Samr??g?as?tradh?r compiled arounf the 11th century by R?j? Bhoj is a significant treatise on architecture from pre-colonial India. The book presents and interpretive architectural analysis of select content of the Samr??g?as?tradh?r,explores the design process to generate temples, palaces, and dwelling units, and discusses its correlation with contemporary architectural paradigms. Also, the book looks at contemporary issues of identity and culture, as well as critical issues int he historiography of architecture in the postcolonial Indian subcontinent while unveiling layers of the traditional knowekedge systems informing the popular idiom of the V?st? Shastra. Strongly rooted in archival resources, this book will be indispensable for scholars of history of Indian architecture, heritage studies, South Asian history, conversation, architectural design processes, compuational architecture, and postcolonial studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of illustrations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Scholarship
  11. 3 Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār
  12. 4 Architecture
  13. 5 Analytical ruminations
  14. 6 Associative discussion
  15. Annexures
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index