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 ...