Just 60 years after winning independence from British rule, India's economy is booming and the nation is fast becoming a leading global power. With a population of a billion people, India's society is as varied as its awe-inspiring landscape. Home to a dizzying array of languages, ethnic groups, beliefs, and lifestyles, India can seem overwhelming in its complexity. India takes the lid off this cultural melting pot, showing how past events have shaped this diverse but unified nation, where tradition and modernity successfully coexist. Through stunning photography and insightful text, India offers an eye-opening, thought-provoking, and authoritative visual guide to one of the world's most exciting and vibrant nations.

India: People, Place, Culture, History

History

Abraham Eraly

Yasmin Khan

George Michell

Mitali Saran

Asia

In the 1780s, the artists Thomas and William Daniell made several journeys through India. In London by 1794, their aquatints were issued in volumes, entitled "Oriental Scenery". In this text, Antonio Martinelli's photographs reproduce the compositions, and George Michell looks at their history.

India: Yesterday and Today [Oct 01, 1998] George Michell

Travel

Airlife/Swan Hill

The architectural inventory documents all the structures of the Sacred Centre of Vijayanagara, the great ruined Hindu capital on the Tungabhadra River in central Karnataka. The Sacred Centre is of outstanding interest from the historical and religious point of view, since it is the oldest part of the Vijayanagara site, with shrines dating back to the ninth century AD. With the establishment of the capital by the Sangamas in the fourteenth century, it was the Sacred Centre that was first developed, with much building activity occurring around the Virupaksha sanctuary in Hampi. As the capital expanded under the Sangamas and Tuluvas in the course of the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth centuries, other significant religious monuments were establishmed in the Sacred Centre, especially in the urban quarters of Hampi, Krishnapura, Achyutapura and Vitthalapura. Scattered along the south bank of the Tungabhadra over a distance of some 5 km, these monuments fully illustrate the evolution of the Vijayanagara architectural style. The inventory is based on more than twenty years of fieldwork conducted by teams of architects and art historians under the guidance of the authors. It describes more than 400 structures, ranging from large-scale temple complexes, such as those dedicated to Virupaksha, Balakrishna, Tiruvengalanatha and Vitthala, to simpler and smaller shrines consecrated to a variety of deities, as well as mandapas, gateways, water features and other structures, most of which are reproduced here for the first time. The architectural descriptions, location maps, measured drawings and photographs are divided into three volumes.

Vijayanagara Architectural Inventory of the Sacred Centre (3 Volume Set)

Phillip B. Wagoner

Manohar

The 6th-century rock-cut cave temple on Elephanta island, in the middle of Mumbai harbor, is the home of Shiva, the greatest of all Hindu gods. Elephanta leads the reader through this magnificent cave temple, examining its overall architectural scheme and interpreting the myths of Shiva that are depicted so forcefully in the extraordinary stone sculptures. The outstanding photographs capture the beauty and magic of the cave.This book also contains fascinating accounts of European travelers, documenting their discovery of Elephanta from the 17th century onwards, and includes information on the ongoing efforts to preserve this monument that was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987.

Elephanta

Jaico Publishing House

Vijayanagara: Splendour in Ruins

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Mapin Publishing

Falaknuma: The Heavenly Abode is an elegantly designed and sumptuously illustrated book with more than 200 colour and black &amp; white photographs taken by Bharath Ramamrutham, one of the most talented and outstanding architectural photographers in India today. The book chronicles for the first time, the history, beauty and romance of a great edifice and contains the last record of a magnificent palace as it was, before conversion into a hotel.

Falaknuma, Hyderabad

Anthony Korner

Graf Publishing Pvt Ltd

Badami.Aihole.Pattadakal

Pictor Publishing Pvt Ltd,Mumbai.India

The Hoysala Legacy Belur, Halebidu, Somanathapura

Kamalika Bose

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