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A social history of Indian architecture / V. S. Pramar.
LIBRA NA1501 .P74 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pramar, V. S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--India.
- Architecture.
- Architecture, Postmodern--Social aspects.
- Architecture, Postmodern.
- India.
- Architecture--India--Foreign influence.
- Architecture and society--India--History--21ist century.
- Architecture and society.
- Architecture, Postmodern--Social aspects--India.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- This volume is unique in examining the geographical, historical, and functional aspects of architecture in India. Looking beyond the point of view of dynasties, periods or religions, the book traces the various social and historical developments in the field. Following a multi-disciplinary approach that emphasizes sociological aspects, the volume examines in detail, settlement patterns, the architecture of individual houses and chaityas, as also structural materials used for their construction, in addition to those of palaces, funerary monuments, temples, mosques, and monasteries.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [246]-256).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0195670396
- OCLC:
- 63170629
- Publisher Number:
- 9780195670394
- Online:
- Publisher description
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