{"product_id":"eloquent-spaces-meaning-and-community-in-early-indian-architecture-9780367225964","title":"Eloquent Spaces: Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEloquent Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It presents a new perspective on the principles and practices of early Indian architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDefining it broadly over a range of space uses, the book argues for architecture as a form of cultural production as well as public consumption. Ten chapters by leading archaeologists, architects, historians and philosophers, examining different architectural sites and landscapes, including Sanchi, Moodabidri, Srinagar, Chidambaram, Patan, Konark, Basgo and Puri, demonstrate the need to look beyond the built form to its spirit, beyond aesthetics to cognition, and thereby to integrating architecture with its myriad living contexts. The volume captures some of the semantic diversity inherent in premodern Indian traditions of civic building, both sacred and secular, which were, however, unified in their insistence on enacting meaning and a transcendent validity over and above utility and beauty of form. The book is a quest for a culturally rooted architecture as an alternative to the growing crisis of disembededness that informs modern praxis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of architecture, ancient Indian history, philosophy, art history and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shonaleeka Kaul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367225964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShonaleeka Kaul\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her previous works include \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini \u003c\/i\u003e(2018), \u003ci\u003eCultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and \u003ci\u003eImagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India \u003c\/i\u003e(2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge India","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44232152678515,"sku":"9.78037E+12","price":96.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_dc2970c6-b727-4d08-ae51-d5056c2bb798.jpg?v=1768656734","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/eloquent-spaces-meaning-and-community-in-early-indian-architecture-9780367225964","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}