Raje, Anant."Response: IIA – Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal 1993."Journal of The...
I feel greatly honoured in accepting the IIA Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal for 1993 for Architectural contribution and feel grateful to the President of the Indian Institute of Architects and the Council...
View ArticleMaqbool Fida Husain at the Husain-Doshi Gufa, Edited by Maqbool Fida Husain....
While the gufa has been the result of a kind of a jugalbandi between Doshi and Husain, their perceptions differ. While for Doshi, the cave is a part of the personal, quasi-spiritual quest, for Husain,...
View ArticleShaffer, Jim G.."The People of South AsiaThe Indo-Aryan Invasions: Cultural...
The concept of an Indo-European or Indo-Aryan group of peoples has played a prominent role in interpretative studies of Old World history and archaeology. For almost 200 years, scholars and quasi...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XXV. Tomb of Adam Khan In...
THE Pathans have left a large number of tombs scattered around Delhi, the forms of which are strangely characteristic of the stern and uncompromising qualities of the builders, when they had ceased to...
View ArticleGullapalli, Praveena."Early Metal in South India: Copper and Iron in...
In South India early metal artifacts, usually associated with megalithic sites, include both copper and iron. Although in some cases copper artifacts predate those made of iron, there is no evidence of...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy."Ruined Buildings Around the Kutb Minar, Near Modern Delhi....
DURING the governor-generalship of Lord Lawrence, Sir Stafford Northcote, in 1868, made the suggestion to the Government of India to conserve and record the most remarkable of the ancient monuments in...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy."Chapter I. The Ancient Cities of Delhi." In The...
MODERN Delhi is situated on the west bank of the river Jumna, the circuit of its walls is over five miles, and encloses a citadel of a circuit of one mile and a half, in which is the celebrated palace...
View ArticleJohansen, Peter G.."Landscape, monumental architecture, and ritual: a...
During the South Indian Neolithic period (3000–1200 BC), the agro-pastoral inhabitants of the South Deccan/North Dharwar region constructed large mounded features by heaping and burning accumulations...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy."Chapter II. General Description of the Buildings...
THE great tower, called the Kutb Minar, stands about eleven miles from modern Delhi, and is surrounded by ruins of Hindu and Muhammadan styles of all periods. Leaving Delhi by the Lahore gate, the road...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy."Chapter III. Masjid-i-Kutb-ul-Islam." In The Architecture...
THE fullest account of the Ancient History of the Kings of Delhi is given by Joseph Tieffenthaler. There is also a partial account by Mir Sheriben Afsos in the Khilassat attawarikh of the early history...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photographs II. General View of the...
THE inscription over the eastern gateway is a record by Kutb-ucl-din, that he took the materials from twenty-seven idolatrous Hindu temples, to build the Great Masjid. According to a calculation by...
View ArticleBanerjee, Pradipta."Rock of Eternity: The Megalith of Pallikonda."Ancient...
The south Indian megalithic age exhibits a wonderful range of sepulchral and non sepulchral stone monuments erected possibly within 1100 BC–300 AD. However, building megalithic graves fell into disuse...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph IV. Pillars in the...
THE principal aim of my visit to the Kutb ruins was to obtain facsimiles of the best pillars in the Colonnade. They have a beauty and variety of ornament unequalled, so far as is known, in the whole of...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.The Architecture of Ancient Delhi:...
UNDER THE SANCTION OF THE SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT OF THE COMMITTEETHE ARCHITECTURE OF ANCIENT DELHI. ESPECIALLY THE BUILDINGS AROUND THE KUTB MINAR, BY HENRY HARDY COLE, LIEUTENANT R.E., LATE...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph VI. Pillars in the Centre...
THESE pillars are grouped together opposite to the eastern entrance and their arrangement is octagonal in form. The dome which rests upon them is closed in by successive horizontal layers of carved...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XXIII. Exterior View of...
BELOW the Kutb pillar and to the east of Ala-ud-din's Gateway, is situated a small tornb which contains the remains of Muhammad Ali Masjid, also known by the soubriquet of Husain Pai Minar, and...
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