{"product_id":"architecture-in-the-indian-subcontinent-9781032112701","title":"Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive revision acknowledges the great advance in scholarship across this extremely complex subject over the last three decades. It covers major invasions, migrations, dynastic conflicts and cultural and commercial connections, the main religious developments, and external architectural precedents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePROLOGUE: EARLY INDIA \u003cb\u003ePART 1: 4TH CENTURY BCE-4TH CENTURY CE\u003c\/b\u003e INTRODUCTION: FIRST EMPIRES 1.1 STUPA AND MONASTERY IN THE EARLY IMPERIAL ERA 1.1.1 ASHOKAN FOUNDATIONS 1.2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF BUDDHISM 1.2.1 MANIFESTAT ION OF TRANSFORMATION: ART AND ARCHITECTURE 1.3 THE ADVENT OF HINDUISM AND THE ESOTERIC 1.3.1 THEOLOGY AND THE INVENTION OF THE TEMPLE 1.3.2 UNITY IN VARIETY OF SYMBOLIC FORM \u003cb\u003ePART 2: 4TH-13TH CENTURY CE\u003c\/b\u003e BUDDHISM ECLIPSED; HINDUS ASCENDANT 2.1 THE EARLY TEMPLE: EXCAVATION AND BUILDING 2.2 DECCANI ECLECTICISM AND THE DRAVIDIAN MERU 2.2.1 EARLY CHALUKYAN DERIVATIONS 2.2.2 EARLY PALLAVAN REPRESENTATION 2.2.3 RETURN TO ELLORA FOR THE APOGEE OF ECUMENICAL EXCAVATION 2.2.4 THE CHOLAS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS 2.3 ASCENT TO NAGARA MERUS: LATINA, SHEKHARI AND BHUMIJA 2.3.1 PRATIHARA FOUNDATIONS 2.3.2 SHEKHARI PROLIFERATION 2.3.3 APOTHEOSIS OF LATINAIN OR ISSA 2.3.4 THE BHUMIJA OF THE PARAMARAS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS 2.4 VE SARA: SYNTHESES AND ABSTRACTION IN KARNATIKA 2.4.1 LATER CHALUKYAN CROSS-FERTILISATION 2.4.2 HOYSALA SYNTHESIS \u003cb\u003ePART 3: 13TH-18TH CENTURY\u003c\/b\u003e ISLAM ASCENDANT : HINDUS AND JAINS DEFENSIVE 3.1 ISLAM IN INDIA AND THE PATTERN OF MUSLIM PATRONAGE 3.2 AFGHANS , TURKS AND THEIR DELHI SULTANATE 3.3 REGIONAL GRAVITY 3.3.1 RIVALS TO THE SULTANATE IN THE SOUTH 3.3.2 SUCCESSORS TO THE SULTANATE IN THE NORTH 3.4 THE MUGHALS : ADVENT 3.5 RETURN TO THE DECCAN: QUTBSHAHIS AND ADILSHAHIS 3.6 THE MUGHALS : APOGEE EPILOGUE: HINDUSTANI SYNCRETISM\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406659985751,"sku":"9781032112701","price":45.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/architecture-in-the-indian-subcontinent-9781032112701","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}