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Ancient Indian architecture ranges from the Indian Bronze Age to around 800 CE. By this endpoint Buddhism in India had greatly declined, and Hinduism was predominant, and religious and secular building styles had taken on forms, with great regional variation, which they largely retain even after some forceful changes brought about by the arrival of first Islam, and then Europeans.
The Mānasāra, also known as Manasa or Manasara Shilpa Shastra, is an ancient Sanskrit treatise on Indian architecture and design. [4] Organized into 70 adhyayas (chapters) and 10,000 shlokas (verses), [ 5 ] it is one of many Hindu texts on Shilpa Shastra – science of arts and crafts – that once existed in 1st-millennium CE. [ 6 ]
The Indian subcontinent. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient India: . Ancient India is the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times to the start of Medieval India, which is typically dated (when the term is still used) to the end of the Gupta Empire around 500 CE. [1]
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ISBN 978-1-317-67595-2. Goel, S. R. (1991). Hindu Temples – What Happened to Them. Vol. 2. New Delhi: Voice of India. ISBN 81-85990-03-4. Harle, J. C. (1994). The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent (2nd ed.). Yale University Press Pelican History of Art. ISBN 0300062176. Ernest Havell (1972). The Ancient and Medieval Architecture ...
[11] The Week's Meera Suresh wrote, "The book's lustre lies in its exhaustive coverage of ancient Indian history and Dalrymple's true-to-life descriptions. From a historian's point, The Golden Road – How Ancient India Transformed the World is an ode to the forgotten chapters of ancient India and its unparalleled riches." [12]
History of India, vol. 5: The Muhammadan Period as Described by Its Own Historians. Hunter, William Wilson. 1906. History of India, vol. 6: From the first European settlements to the founding of the English East India Company. —— 1906. History of India, vol. 7: The European struggle for Indian supremacy in the seventeenth century. Lyall, A ...
Harappan architecture is the architecture of the Bronze Age [1] Indus Valley civilization, an ancient society of people who lived during c. 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE in the Indus Valley of modern-day Pakistan and India.