Category Archives: architecture
Kolkata Indian museum images
Some images from the Indian museum can be found here:
Selected images that i especially liked from museum
Khajuraho temple complex
Delhi visit
Film festival, Humayun tomb complex, Delhi National Museum, and, Gandhi Smriti.
Visit to Ajanta and Ellora
Visit to Karla, Bhaja, and, Bedsa rock cut caves
The art of ancient India
Susan L. Huntingdon text, published by Weatherhill 2006
Part 1 – Fdns of Indic civilization: prehistoric and proto historic (ch 1-3)
Part 2 – Period of early dynasties (ch 4-9)
Part 3 – dynasties of the middle period (ch 10-16)
Part 4 – Later northern schools (ch 17-20)
Part 5 – Later schools of the Deccan and the south (ch 21-25)
- Antecedants
- Indus or Harappa civilization (2300-1750 BCE)
- Vedic and Upanisadic (1500-450 BCE)
- Maruya period (323-185 BCE)
- Sunga (2-1st century BCE)
- Regional developments (late 1st century BCE to 1st century CE)
- Saka and Parthian kingdoms in Indic sphere (1st century BCE to mid 1st century CE)
- Northwest and northern region under Kusanas (late 1st century CE to 3rd century CE)
- Regional developments in Deccan (2nd and 3rd centuries)
- Gupta (4-6th century CE)
- Gupta aftermath
- Buddhist cave arch (5-7th century CE)
- Hindu rock cut architecture of Deccan (Kalacuri and Early Western Calukya period)
- Southern developments under Palavas and Pandyas
- Early western Calukya and related Deccan schools
- Hindu rock cut arch of Western Deccan
- Kasmir and related schools
- Bihar and Bengal under Pala and Sena kings
- Orissa and related regions
- North central and Northwestern India: art of Rajput clans
- Cola and related schools of Tamil south
- Later Deccan schools
- Vijaynagar period (1336-1565 CE)
- Nayak period
- Keral region
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