Author |
Thakur, Priya |
Year |
2019 |
Binding |
Hardback |
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xii+154p, (28) col & b/w pls, gloss, bib, ind, 26 cm |
ISBN10, ISBN13 |
8174792309, 9788174792303 |
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About the Book:
Prominent types of architecture are visible around us: religious, civil and
defense. These cannot be defined in a rigid manner as such their nomenclature
indicates. Most of the fundamentals of building material and purposeful features
are same. Merely the functional utilities of the buildings diverge in their
utilization and purpose.
This book deals with the study of buildings and structures of Historical site
of Vijayanagara Empire of 13th -15th centuries, which can be, categorized as
secular on the basis of their functional utility. The site at Vijayanagara city
provided ample raw material for building, and the huge massifs of rock were
often themselves sculpted to produce a unique architecture that is part organic,
part man-made and often is difficult to distinguish from natural features.
The work is based on analysis of physical remains and corroborating the information
from epigraphical and foreign and vernacular literary sources. The book contains
six chapters dealing with various segments of architectural landscape of the
Vijayanagara site.
About the Author:
Dr. Priya Thakur is Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies
and Research in History and Archaeology, Tumkur University, Tumkur, Karnataka
since 2010. She did her Masters in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology
from DDU Gorakhpur University in 2002 and obtained her PhD from University of
Mysore in 2009. Dr. Thakur has worked as a Research Trainee in Indian Institute
of Astrophysics, Bangalore from 2008-10. She has completed two projects funded
by UGC (MRP: 2013-15) and ICHR (2011-13) and presently working on another project
funded by ICHR (2018-19) New Delhi. She is life member for many national and
international societies such as Indian Art History Congress, Epigraphical Society
of India, Society for South Asian Archaeology and Indian Society for Prehistoric
and Quaternary Studies and many others. Her research interests lie mainly in
archaeo-astronomy, archaeology, epigraphy, onomastics and art and architecture.
She has published more than forty research papers in national and international
edited volumes, journals and proceedings.
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