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1) Hardcover Book Mechanics of City and Village in Ancient India by Sandeep Prakashan. About the Book :
This book seeks to unravel the nexus between the city and the villages in India, and the mechanics of it, on the basis of the archaeological evidence in the form of excavations, field studies and analyses of the data related to them, in a manner that its own heritage, both traditional and materialistic, is exemplified. Amply diversified by a variety of charts and maps, besides photographic illustrations, an in-depth analysis of the process that has gone into the making of the panorama of Indian countryside is presented in seven and more chapters, bringing out the main thrusts in the argument. The geopolitical, intellectual, economic and other strains of the sociocultural spectrum of India is woven into a plausible fabric which we own ³ with its strength and weakness ³ as our cultural mantle.
About the Author :
K.V. Soundara Rajan (b. 17-2-1925) took his M.A. in Sanskrit (with Epigraphy) from the Allahabad University, studying under Dr. P.K. Acharya. He was drawn into the field cadre of the Archaeological Survey of India by Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1947) and was recruited later as an officer in the survey (1954) . Since then he has held several responsible positions in the zonal offices as well as in Pre-history and Temple Survey branches of the Survey. He is currently a Director at New Delhi. He specialise in Indian architecture and art. He participated in the Pan-Indian Pre-historic expedition under (Late) F.E. Zeuner of the London University (1949-50) and was the Secretary of the Pre-and Proto-history section of the Asian Seminar in Archaeology during the centenary year of Survey (1960-61). He was a visiting Associate Professor in the University of Chicago (1966) and the University of California, Los Angless (1971). He has widely travelled in U.K., U.S.A. Europe and Far East Studying museums and monuments. He has delivered special lectures at the Universities of Baroda, Madras and Dharwar. He is one of the Principal contributors to the Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture Project of the American Studies. Varanasi Centre. More than two hundred research papers and five books stand to his credit, the more recent among which are "The Indian Temple Styles" and Temple Architecture in Kerala" (Whose companion volume on Kerala Temples murals is to be shortly brought out by the Kerala Govt.) He is a lover of art, classical music and the stage.
Contents :
Preface
List of Figures
List of Illustrations
1. Introductory
2. Scope and Terminology
3. Morphology and Matrices
4. Socio-Economics
5. Civic-Motivations
6. Historical Spectrum
7. Environmental Pattern
8. Institutional Panorama
9. General Discussion
Index
Figures (Figures 2 to 10 are arranged between chapter 3 and 4)
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