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- Title: The Temple Architecture of India (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 180 KB
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The Temple Architecture of India. By ADAM HARDY. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2007. Pp. 256, figs., maps, illus. $90. The aim of this book, in Hardy's words, is to open "a little window into another architectural universe," in order to understand the unfolding of structural forms in a manner that integrates architecture with religion and history. This reviewer found that the book opens a rather large vista into the world of two major Indian temple types. Along the way the reader experiences a delight in grasping plausible rationales to explain the shapes of many soaring monuments built by patrons having terrestrial and spiritual aspirations.