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041 _aeng
082 _a720.954
_bSAT
100 _aSatish Grover
245 0 _aBuddhist and Hindu Architecture In India
_c/ Satish Grover
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _bCBS Publishers & Distributors
_c©2003
_aNew Delhi
300 _axiii, 237 p.
_b: ill.
_c; 29 cm
504 _aBib and Ref
520 _aThe book is intended to provide sufficient reading for the student of architecture to be able to probe more detailed writings on the subject with sufficient confidence; to break down the cynicism of the practising modern Indian architect to the countrys architectural heritage and to arm the more inquisitively inclined tourist of India with sufficient background material to appreciate the essence of Indian architecture. To achieve the above it has been necessary to take some liberties from the classic way of writing a book on historical architecture. In this as far as possible In spite of the poor communication systems of the past every human action in one part of the world is somehow derived from another and interconnected with yet another. A study of history is meaningful only because it is so. The same principle is applicable to the history of architecture.
650 _aArchitecture India
650 _aBuddhist architecture India
942 _cENGLISH
999 _c521667
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