Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India

Author: Subhashini Kaligotla

ISBN: 978-0300258943

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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 “Subhashini Kaligotla brings a fresh and forceful voice to this specific field, and to South Asian art history more broadly.”―Adam Hardy, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 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 neighboring 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 color illustrations, this original book elucidates the Deccan’s special place in the lexicon of medieval South Asian architecture. Read more

Browse this title within our Children's Books collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 287 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-0300258943.

About the Author

Subhashini Kaligotla is assistant professor of Indian and South Asian art and architecture at Yale University.

Why Readers Pick This Edition

• You’ll love this book for the way it makes medieval temples feel alive again. Richly illustrated and deeply researched, it takes you beyond stone and sculpture to understand how architects, patrons, and visitors once experienced Pattadakal’s waterfront shrines. As a premium academic reference, it blends architectural insight with cultural history, giving you a nuanced view of Deccan India’s cosmopolitan world and the human imagination behind its sacred monuments.
• Published by Yale Univ Pr.
• Language: English.
• Page count: 287.

Catalog Description

This handsomely illustrated volume explores the medieval Deccani temple complexes at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pattadakal, with careful attention to their makers “Subhashini Kaligotla brings a fresh and forceful voice to this specific field, and to South Asian art history more broadly.”―Adam Hardy, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 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 neighboring sites are of major historical importance. In Shiva’s Waterfront...

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