Srinivasan, Sharada."Shiva as 'cosmic dancer': On Pallava origins for the...
This paper explores the origins of the Nataraja cult in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. The trajectory of the dancing Shiva is traced: from the processional worship of metal icons outside...
View ArticleBhargava, Mahabir Prasad, and Humayun Kabir.Enquiry Committee on Delhi School...
Session Number: 41Date of Debate: 12-Nov-1962Debate Type: Part 1(Question and Answer)Debate Title Subject: WRITTEN ANSWERS TO STARRED QUESTIONSDebate Title: Enquiry Committee on Delhi School of...
View ArticleRay, Niharranjan."Rural-Urban Dichotomy in Indian Tradition and...
The basic contention of this essay is that there is, at any rate there was, until very recent times, an ideological and behavioural conflict in Indian social life and economy between an urban and a...
View ArticleAdvani, L.K., P.C. Sethi, N.K.P. Salve, Piloo Mody, Sawai Singh Sisodia,...
Session Number: 114Date of Debate: 18-Jun-1980Debate Type: Part 2 (Other than Question and Answer)Debate Title Subject: CALLING ATTENTIONDebate Title: Decision of the Delhi Development Authority to set...
View ArticleKavuri-Bauer, Santhi.Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space...
Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and...
View ArticleDeokinandan, Narayan, and Anil K. Chada.Design for Gandhi Samadhi In 19. Vol....
Session Number: 19Date of Debate: 18-Nov-1957Debate Type: Part 1(Question and Answer)Debate Title Subject: ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONSDebate Title: DESIGN FOR GANDHI SAMADHIQuestion Number: 25Question...
View ArticleBehera, K. S.."PALM-LEAF MANUSCRIPT ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF KOṆĀRAK...
In recent years four palm-leaf manuscripts on the famous Konärak Temple have been brought to light. The English translations of these manuscripts with introductory notes have been published in the book...
View ArticleAgrawal, Sandeep Kumar."Design review in a post-colonial city: The Delhi...
This study of the Delhi Urban Art Commission – a design review body in the post-colonial city of Delhi – explains its role and responsibilities, its effectiveness, and its impact on the built...
View ArticleChakravarty, Suhash."Architecture and Politics in the Construction of New...
Essential features of the political strategy that prompted the transfer of capital from Calcutta also influenced the style of architecture and town-planning for New Delhi. The re-unification of Bengal...
View ArticleDamodaran, Harish."The Old Merchant Communities." In India's New Capitalists,...
Mandi House in Lutyens’ Delhi is a converging point for dilettante artists, amorous poets, budding musicians, and radical playwrights: understandable, as the area is home to institutions like the...
View ArticleBowe, Patrick.."The genius of an artist : William R Mustoe and the planting...
The creation of New Delhi in India was one of the great architectural, town planning and landscaping projects of the twentieth century. The principal architect of the new capital, Sir Edwin Lutyens,...
View ArticleSengupta, Ranjana."Enshrining an Imperial Tradition."India International...
Delhi's proud claim is that its ancestry dates back some thousand years, linking itself to the cities that rose and fell on this irregular stretch of Jamuna's plain. Its chronical make much of the...
View ArticleRaman, Madhav, Vaibhav Dimri, and Siddhartha Chatterer.Competition Entry for...
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View ArticleMeghe, Datta, and Rao Inderjit Singh.Construction of buildings in foreign...
Session Number: 202Date of Debate: 15-Jul-2004Debate Type: Part 1(Question and Answer)Debate Title Subject: WRITTEN ANSWERS TO UNSTARRED QUESTIONSDebate Title: Construction of buildings in foreign...
View ArticleRaman, Madhav, Vaibhav Dimri, and Siddhartha Chatterer.Competition Entry for...
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View ArticleVajpeyi, Raghavendra."ON THE MEANING OF THE TERM "PRATOLĪ"."Annals of the...
Ancient Indian literature is singularly negativè in evidence about the construction of forts in post-Kautilya India. Works on polity and architecture seem to be more áãstric in character, than being...
View ArticleMani, B.R.."A Linkage Kashmir Neolithic and Early Harappan." In International...
Evidence of settled life of early farming communities has been traced back to circa seventh millennium BC in the plains of Bolan Pass in the Baluchistan and Ganga plains in the northern South Asia...
View ArticleSarkar, Anindya, Arati Deshpande Mukherjee, M. K. Bera, B. Das, Navin Juyal,...
The antiquity and decline of the Bronze Age Harappan civilization in the Indus-Ghaggar-Hakra river valleys is an enigma in archaeology. Weakening of the monsoon after ~5 ka BP (and droughts throughout...
View ArticleKrishna, M.R., and Arif Beg.Contract to Indian companies to construct...
Session Number: 109Date of Debate: 8-May-1979Debate Type: Part 1(Question and Answer)Debate Title Subject: WRITTEN ANSWERS TO UNSTARRED QUESTIONSDebate Title: Contract to Indian companies to construct...
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