Chandra, Aditi."Potential of the ‘Un-Exchangeable Monument’: Delhi’s Purana...
During the Indo-Pakistan Partition, the exodus of Muslims and the influx of Hindus and Sikhs indelibly transformed Delhi. Both groups occupied some of the city’s Islamic monuments as refugee camps, of...
View ArticleCooper, Ilay."Vijayanagar or Victoria? The Ceiling of the Virupaksha Temple...
In February 1996, I visited Hampi for the first time, drawn in part by published promises of Vijayanagar murals in the Virupakshs Temple. Although I approached these paintings burdened with...
View ArticleMARINGANTI, ANANT."No Estoppel: Claiming Right to the City via the...
The right to the city, an idea mooted by French radical philosophers in 1968, has become a popular slogan among right to housing activists and inclusive growth policymakers. In Indian cities...
View ArticleMack, Alexandra."One Landscape, Many Experiences: Differing Perspectives of...
Landscapes have multiple meanings depending on the perspectives of those who experience them. Uncovering those perspectives for past landscapes depends on multiple lines of evidence, both...
View ArticleRowell, Lewis, and Bettina Baumer."Present at the Creation: Documenting the...
Reviewed Work: Kalātattvakośa: A Lexicon of Fundamental Concepts of the Indian Arts by Bettina Bäumer
View ArticleMathur, Saloni."Charles and Ray Eames in India."Art Journal 70 (2011): 34-53.
A photograph of the living room of the Eames house in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles has proven rather puzzling to historians of design. It depicts the famous Case Study House as...
View ArticleMukhopadhyay, S., Y. Pandey, R. Dharmaraju, P. K. S. Chauhan, P. Singh, and...
Microtremor measurements have been carried out in Delhi with an ultimate aim of seismic hazard microzonation for ground-shaking site effects. The parameters required are resonance frequency and...
View ArticleDallapiccola, A.L.."Ceiling Paintings in the Virupaksha Temple, Hampi."South...
One of the striking features of the Virupaksha temple, the most important living religious establishments in Hampi village (Hospet taluk, Bellary District), is the painted ceiling of the open pillared...
View ArticleLaw, B. C.."ANCIENT HISTORIC SITES OF BENGAL."Annals of the Bhandarkar...
Bengal contains many ancient historic sites and it is not possible to give a detailed account of them in the following pages. I shall therefore deal with some of them as briefly as possible.Vishnupura:...
View ArticleScriver, Peter, Katharine Bartsch, and Md. Mizanur Rashid."The Space of...
Though rarely acknowledged, cheap labour sourced through inter-colonial networks originating in British India was instrumental to the “European” exploration and development of colonial Australia in the...
View ArticleSrivastava, Sanjay."A Hijra, a Female Pradhan and a Real Estate Dealer:...
The history of 20th century Delhi is an intertwined history of the city and the slum. Investigating strategies of being and belonging deployed by the urban poor in the Delhi basti of Nangla Matchi,...
View ArticleVerghese, Anila, and Dieter Eigner."A Monastic Complex in Vithalapura, Hampi...
In Vithalapura, an important area of religious activity in Vijayanagara city, there is an unusual monastic establishment (Fig. 1). Vijayanagara, the "City of Victory", present-day Hampi, is in the...
View ArticleGadre, N. B.."PRACTICAL UTILITY OF RESEARCH LITERATURE LIKE VOLUMES VI & VII...
The contribution made during the last 25 years to the under- standing and revival of Indian Architecture by the seven volumes1 of "Mãnasãra Series" is well-known. The proposed introduction throughout...
View ArticleColomina, Beatriz."The Endless Museum: Le Corbusier and Mies van der...
What if the most radical modernist proposals for the museum were simultaneously projects for a new kind of house? What if the most public buildings of the last century were first incubated in the most...
View ArticleDhavalikar, M. K.."SŪTRADHĀRA."Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research...
The word sütradhära occurs in a number of ancient Indian epigraphical records. It has proved to be most enigmatic, for it is difficult to translate with precision. Consequently there does not seem to...
View ArticleBANERJEE, SUMANTA."Rabindranath - A Liberal Humanist Fallen among Bigoted...
The 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore this year is an occasion for reviewing the poet's estimation of his Bengali audience and the latter's attitude towards him. The relationship can be...
View ArticleBäumer, Bettina."Viewpoints: Levels of Dialogue."Journal of Hindu-Christian...
As in any human relationship, the relationship between religions is also taking place at many levels: There is the merely external physical or social meeting, which can take the form of a neutral...
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