The Durga Temple at Aihole is one of the most celebrated and intriguing of India's ancient Hindu temples. No survey of Indian architecture would be complete without it, and yet no work has ever before considered it in its entirety or in its context. In this book, Gary Michael Tartakov combines the most thorough study ever made of this magnificent monument with an original investigation of the temple's career in the literature of art history. The first part of the ...
