Shiva's Waterfront Temples

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Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India

By Subhashini Kaligotla

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Shiva's Waterfront Temples by Subhashini Kaligotla is a richly illustrated exploration of the medieval Deccani temple complexes at Pattadakal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It delves into the cosmopolitan context of Deccan India, examining how architects and builders created these vibrant red sandstone temples. The book highlights the unique fusion of Nagara and Dravida architectural styles and the artisans' attention to ornamentation, courtly values, and aesthetic ingenuity.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, especially those fascinated by Indian history, architecture, and UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including students, historians, and art enthusiasts.

This handsomely illustrated volume explores the medieval Deccani temple complexes at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pattadakal, with careful attention to their makers

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This handsomely illustrated volume explores the medieval Deccani temple complexes at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pattadakal, with careful attention to their makers.

The vibrant red sandstone temples of India’s Deccan Plateau, such as the Pattadakal temple cluster, have attracted visitors since the eighth century or earlier. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and the coronation place of the Chalukya dynasty, Pattadakal and its neighbouring sites are of major historical importance.

In Shiva’s Waterfront Temples, Subhashini Kaligotla situates these buildings in the cosmopolitan milieu of Deccan India and considers how their makers and awestruck visitors would have seen them in their day. Kaligotla reconstructs how architects and builders approached the sites, including their use of ornamentation, responsiveness to courtly values such as pleasure and play, and ingenious juxtaposition of the first millennium’s Nagara and Dravida aesthetics, a blend largely unique to Deccan plateau architecture.

With over 130 colour illustrations, this original book elucidates the Deccan’s special place in the lexicon of medieval South Asian architecture.

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Shiva's Waterfront Temples won the 2024 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award for its erudition and creativity. Experts praise the book for challenging traditional views on Indian architecture and shedding light on the innovation of medieval Deccani architects, making it a significant contribution to South Asian art historical research.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300258943

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 August 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 134 color + 24 b-w illus.

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 300

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Subhashini Kaligotla

About the Author

Subhashini Kaligotla is Barbara Stoler Miller Associate Professor of Indian and South Asian Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.