| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 295 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Foreword by Leon Krier"--Cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (253-262) and index. |
| Summary |
This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritualistic settings; and affirming their influential role in the contemporary Indian metropolis. Going beyond stereotypical presentations of Hindu temples dominated by chronological and stylistic themes, this study, addressed to architects, urbanists, and builders, combines historic scholarship, documentation, personal observations and fieldwork to expand the idea of the Hindu temple as a complex and contradictory cultural entity, that is both formal and informal, monumental and modest, historic and modern, and deserving of a far broader and deeper understanding. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hindu temples -- India.
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Hindu temples. |
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India. |
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City and town life -- India.
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City and town life. |
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City and town life -- Religious aspects.
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City and town life -- Religious aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Krusche, Krupail.
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Krier, Léon.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bharne, Vinayak. Rediscovering the Hindu temple 9781443841375 (DLC) 2012551620 (OCoLC)812688050 |
| ISBN |
9781443867344 (electronic book) |
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1443867349 (electronic book) |
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9781443841375 |
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1443841374 |
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