Chapter X, The Sixteenth Century
HUMÂYÛN’S tomb was an episode in Indian architectural history which, but for the great dimensions of the building and for its interest as one of the connecting-links in the evolution of the Tâj Mahall,...
View ArticleChapter XI, Vijayanagar and Bijapur
I HAVE already mentioned the fact that about 1576 Bengal became a province of Akbar’s empire, and that Gaur ceased about the same time to be a great Muhammadan building centre. It was not, however,...
View ArticleChapter XII, Hindu Buildings in the Sixteenth Century
IT would be impossible, without extending the scope of this work very largely, to attempt to give a summary of the many important buildings of the sixteenth century belonging to independent or...
View ArticleChapter XIII, The Seventeenth Century
AKBAR died in 1605, but the architectural history of the seventeenth century practically begins with the later buildings of Jahângîr’s reign (1605-28), though the most characteristic of the period...
View ArticleChapter XV
FOR nearly eighty years the spell of Macaulay’s literary genius has been over the British administration of India in matters educational, and there are still many placed in high authority who maintain...
View ArticleChapter III, The Thirteenth Century
HAVING now considered the Tâj Mahall as a typical example of Indian design produced under Muhammadan auspices, let us go back to the beginnings of Musulmân rule in India and attempt to realise the...
View ArticleIndian Architecture, Its Psychology, Structure, and History from the First...
INDIAN ARCHITECTURE, ITS PSYCHOLOGY, STRUCTURE, AND HISTORY FROM THE FIRST MUHANNADAN INVASION TO THE PRESENT DAYWITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. B. HAVELL AUTHOR OF "INDIAN SCULPTURE AND PAINTING,""THE...
View ArticleChapter VI. Mural Painting (The Ajanta Caves)
THE Mural decorations of Ajanta1 are pervaded by a spirit of sweet reasonableness. They are touched by no suspicion of affectation or doubt; by no shadow of pretence. They do not strut and Solomon,...
View ArticleChapter IV, The Fourteenth Century
AFTER the first century of Muhammadan rule in India, when the ruthless wholesale destruction of Buddhist and Hindu buildings had diminished, the Indian Musulmân builders, with the help of their Hindu...
View ArticleList of Plates
Havell, Ernest Binfield."List of Plates." In Indian Architecture, Its Psychology, Structure, and History from the First Muhannadan Invasion to the Present Day, xiii-xix. London: John Murray, 1913.
View ArticleExtracts from Opinions on the Dictionary
INDIAN ARCHITECTURE ACCORDING TO MĀNASĀRAŚILPA-ŚĀSTRA AND A DICTIONARY OF HINDU ARCHITECTUREPublished 1927OPINIONS AND REVIEWS, EXTRACTSAcharya, Prasanna Kumar."Extracts from Opinions on the...
View ArticleChapter V, The Fifteenth Century
MANDÛHavell, Ernest Binfield."Chapter V, The Fifteenth Century." In Indian Architecture, Its Psychology, Structure, and History from the First Muhannadan Invasion to the Present Day, 64-78. London:...
View ArticleChapter II
WE have already seen that the religious idealism and philosophy of the Arabs were summed up in the pointed arch. What the mihrâb was to the Musulman, the lotus was to the Buddhist and Hindu. The...
View ArticleChapter V. Mural Painting (Historical Sketch)
MURAL painting must ever be a subject of absorbing interest to artists and art lovers going as it does to the root of the matter. From the grey and misty era long before History itself began, when...
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To THE MOST HONOURABLETHE MARQUIS OF CREWE, K.G., ETC., ETC.,His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for India.THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNEDMost respectfully sheweth:—That they would draw...
View ArticleChapter IV. The Indian Room—The Frieze and Wall Paintings
Frieze nineteen inches wide is a variation in the Ajanta style (as this indigenous art may be termed) of the methods used in the ceiling border. The Gods whose pictures form the centre of each of the...
View ArticleChapter III. The Indian Room—Statuettes, Furniture, Ornaments, and Pottery
FIGURES in bronze and marble, and a group in silver are the contributions of students of the Modelling Class, and of the Silversmiths’ Class in the Department of the School of Art founded by Lord Reay,...
View ArticleChapter VIII, Gujerat Architecture in the Sixteenth Century
“As the style progressed,” says Fergusson, of the architecture of Gujerat, “it became more and more Indian.” Not only this, but it produced some of the most stately and beautiful buildings ever...
View ArticleChapter II. The Indian Room
Indian Room measures 18 feet square and 10 feet high. It is constructed throughout of Malabar teak and is a strongly built structure. Probably the feature that will first attract the attention of the...
View ArticleChapter IX, The Advent of the Moghuls
A FEW years after Mân Singh of Gwalior completed his palace, yet another Musulmân invader, Bâbar, the illustrious founder of the Mogul dynasty in India, came to contest the sovereignty of Hindustan...
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