In India, there is a dearth of books on "Defence Architecture’ – an essential part of the mainstream of Indian Architecture, which as a whole is considered as the matrix of civilisation. This is a book with difference and fascination, comprehensively studied in defence architecture, through ages spanning about one and a half thousands of years, exactly from 200 A.D. to 1800 A.D. in Karnataka. Essentially a deep probe into, indeed. The salient facts of development of forts in relation to their planing and members of architecture, in the face of strong nature, stormy enemies, in the ever growing art of war and techniques of weapons, are herein studied immensely based on ancient Silpa texts and the hundreds of forts seen on the soil of ancient karnataka. The whole book is a panorama of illustrations and figures drawn by the author himself. The information provided herein is authentic and exact and is based mainly on field data collected from the capital forts, for continuously six years or so during the research work of doctoral thesis by the author, under the well known doyen of archaeologists in Prof. Dr. A. Sundara. The scholar has ventured to give here the best and the first hand information. The book objectively aimed at incisiveness, depth and authenticity in defence architecture will be of immense help and use to advanced students, curious scholars and etchers and undoubtedly it would provide guidelines to the trainees in the defence colleges and the sainik schools of this country, even as text book of this country, even as text book or reference book, in informing profusely the ancient marshal spirit of the heroes of bygone age.
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