1st Edition
Eloquent Spaces Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture
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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Towards a Semantics of Architecture
Shonaleeka Kaul
2. Form, Space and Consciousness: Architectural Principles in the Vastushastras
Bettina Sharada Bäumer
3. Breathing Life into Monuments of Death: The Stupa and the 'Buddha Body' in Sanchi’s Socio-Ecological Landscape
Julia Shaw
4. Spatial and Architectural Constructs of Tantric Buddhist Mandalas: A Cognitive Approach
Pranshu Samdarshi
5. The Old Temple of Basgo, Ladakh: A hypothesis on the superimposition of the 'celestial assembly' on sculpture and Sangha
Gerald Kuzicz
6. Temple and Territory in the Puri Jagannatha Imaginaire
Manu V. Devadevan
7. Stepwells of Western India: Ranki Vav at Patan
Rabindra Vasavada
8. Outer Places, Inner Spaces: Constructing the Gaze in Chola Chidambaram
Aleksandra Wenta
9. Interpreting Public Space in the Jaina Basadis of Moodabidri
Pratyush Shankar
10. On the Water’s Edge: Tracing Urban Form in Old Srinagar
M.N. Ashish Ganju
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Biography
Shonaleeka Kaul is Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her previous works include The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini (2018), Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader (2014) and Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India (2010).
