Design Development of Indian Architecture

The author has delved deep into the history of the Indian architecture to highlight the basic facts and necessity of it. The collection of measured drawing and details presented in this publication represents an endeavour to meet a need which everyone has set out to study the elements in Indian Architecture must have felt. In the histories dealing with the subject, such as the excellent one written by Fergusson, the illustrations must need be small, while the plates contained in the various volumes published by the Archeological Survey Department of Government of India, in the well-known Bijapur portfolio and in the other cognate works, are found to deal each with some particular locality or style, and many of them are, if obtainable at all, beyond the means of average students of architecture. This work describes the works by the Chalukya dynasty, the works in Gujarat and Western India, Bijapur and other Mughal styles. Among the cities in which the specimens are taken are Agra, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Bijapur, Champaner, Delhi, Fatehpur Sikri, Jaipur, and Nasik. Jain Temple architecture is also noticed. The author was an architect of note, who designed the Jinnah house in Bombay. So, this book is immensely good for the students and researchers