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Author : Amita Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015014085669
Author : Dieter Schlingloff
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783083497
Authored by one of the leading scholars of German Indology, “Fortified Cities in Ancient India” offers a comparative exploration of the development of towns and cities in ancient India. Based on in-depth textual and archeological research, Professor Dieter Schlingloff’s work presents for the first time the striking outcomes of intertwining data garnered from a wide range of sources. This volume scrutinizes much of the established knowledge on urban fortifications in South Asia, advancing new conceptions based on an authoritative, far-reaching study.
Author : Neelam Grover,Kashi N. Singh
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Human geography
ISBN : 8180690741
Covers A Wide Range Of Cultural Concerns Such As-Methodological Statements, Impression Of Culture On Landscape, Cultural Processes And Change, Cultural Traits And Distribution And Cultural Ecology, Has 29 Papers Contributed By Eminent Geographers From Indian And Abroad. Researchers In Cultural Geography, Anthropology, Sociology And History Will Find It Useful.
Author : Kiran Kumar Thaplyal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015062032910
Author : Binode Behari Dutt
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : 8182054877
Author : Greg Bailey,Ian Mabbett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139438902
Early Buddhism flourished because it was able to take up the challenge represented by buoyant economic conditions and the need for cultural uniformity in the newly emergent states in north-eastern India from the fifth century BCE onwards. This book begins with the apparent inconsistency of Buddhism, a renunciant movement, surviving within a strong urban environment, and draws out the implications of this. In spite of the Buddhist ascetic imperative, the Buddha and other celebrated monks moved easily through various levels of society and fitted into the urban landscape they inhabited. The Sociology of Early Buddhism tells how and why the early monks were able to exploit the social and political conditions of mid-first millennium north-eastern India in such a way as to ensure the growth of Buddhism into a major world religion. Its readership lies both within Buddhist studies and more widely among historians, sociologists and anthropologists of religion.
Author : Tej Ram Sharma
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : India
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Surjit Mansingh
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 879 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810865020
The Republic of India is the second most populous, the seventh largest by geographical area, and has the fourth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity in the world. While it has always been an important country, it has often been neglected. Of late, however, there has been much talk of the 'new' India, one with greater economic dynamism, a more active foreign policy, and the emergence of a huge middle class. With over a hundred new cross-referenced dictionary entries-the majority of which pertain to the last decade-and updating others, the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of India illustrates the rapidly evolving situation without neglecting the country's ancient past. The chronology has been brought up to date, the introduction expanded, and the bibliography includes numerous new titles.
Author : Ravi Kalia
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0809318768
In this informative new book, Ravi Kalia continues his examination of the planning of Indian cities begun with his earlier study of Chandigarh. Here, Kalia makes systematic inquiries into the political circumstances that brought about modern Bhubaneswar, the capital of the state of Orissa, to reveal the historical and social circumstances that shaped the city. In this account, Kalia brilliantly shows the interplay of indigenous religious forces, regional loyalty, and Western secular ideas in the context of twentieth-century international architecture and planning movements. This book will prove invaluable to historians, architects, planners, sociologists, and scholars interested in India, as well as those interested in urban planning in developing countries.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9004036911
Author : Piyush Tiwari,Jyoti Rao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317441366
The rapid expansion, urban form and development of the built environment in the world’s second most populous city, Delhi, has been the consequence of social, political, economic, planning and architectural traditions that have shaped the city over thousands of years. Whilst seamless at times, these traditions have often resulted in the fragmented development of the city’s built environment. This book charts the political, economic and social forces that drove development in India generally and in Delhi in particular, and investigates the drivers and constituents of Delhi’s urban landscape. The book provides a lens through which to examine the development path of a mega-city, which can be used as a guide in the development of emerging urban centres. Furthermore, the strengths and weaknesses of Delhi's built environment are critically analysed, with consideration to the role of the market, finance and policy over time. This book not only provides valuable insight into the physical evolution of Delhi and its surrounds, but it also asks broader questions about how people, power and politics interact with urban environments. It is essential reading for planners, architects, urbanists and social historians.
Author : P. K. Basant
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789380607153
The City and the Country in Early India: A Study of Malwa is about the emergence of urban centres in the sixth century bce, and analyses the processes and spatiality of urbanization, taking Malwa as its case study. Earlier research on urbanism has focussed on either literary or archaeological sources. While literary sources tend to locate the agency for change exclusively in preachers and rulers, in archaeology, the forces of change become nameless and faceless. The study of inscriptions from Malwa helps in restoring agency to common people. The beginnings of urbanism are to be found in the pre-literate past, and, therefore, require an analysis of archaeological data. Using insights from anthropology and studies of early states, in the first half of the book an attempt has been made to look for new ways to account for urbanization. The second half of the book tries to understand the process of urbanization by examining epigraphic and literary sources. The process of the emergence of urban centres created new forms of division of space: urban centres were surrounded by villages which in turn were surrounded by wilderness. This book tries to recover the histories of their complex interrelations. Since caste and kinship are considered central to the world of Indian sociology, an attempt has also been made to understand the relationships between caste, kinship and urbanism. Changes in the attitude of the literati towards the city and the country have also been examined.
Author : Vibhuti Sachdev,Giles Henry Rupert Tillotson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1861891377
An architectural biography of Jaipur, and a concise history of Indian architectural theory over the last 300 years.
Author : Daud Ali
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521816270
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Author : Kazi K. Ashraf
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780824839130
The Hermit’s Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent encounter with the question of excess and less, it is typically considered separate from asceticism. In contrast, this innovative book explores the rich and mutual ways in which asceticism and architecture are played out in each other’s practices. The question of asceticism is also considered—as neither a religious discourse nor a specific cultural tradition but as a perennial issue in the practice of culture. The work convincingly traces the influences from early Indian asceticism to Zen Buddhism to the Japanese teahouse—the latter opening the door to modern minimalism. As the book’s title suggests, the protagonist of the narrative is the nondescript hermit’s hut. Relying primarily on Buddhist materials, the author provides a complex narrative that stems from this simple structure, showing how the significance of the hut resonates widely and how the question of dwelling is central to ascetic imagination. In exploring the conjunctions of architecture and asceticism, he breaks new ground by presenting ascetic practice as fundamentally an architectural project, namely the fabrication of a “last” hut. Through the conception of the last hut, he looks at the ascetic challenge of arriving at the edge of civilization and its echoes in the architectural quest for minimalism. The most vivid example comes from a well-known Buddhist text where the Buddha describes the ultimate ascetic moment, or nirvana, in cataclysmic terms using architectural metaphors: “The roof-rafters will be shattered,” the Buddha declares, and the architect will “no longer build the house again.” As the book compellingly shows, the physiological and spiritual transformation of the body is deeply intertwined with the art of building. The Hermit’s Hut weaves together the fields of architecture, anthropology, religion, and philosophy to offer multidisciplinary and historical insights. Written in an engaging and accessible manner, it will appeal to readers with diverse interests and in a variety of disciplines—whether one is interested in the history of ascetic architecture in India, the concept of “home” in ancient India, or the theme of the body as building.
