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This book is a fascinating visual record of the faraway western corner of India, obscure Kachchh, which is the last frontier of a fading way of life. Kachchh is a mystery land, not easy to comprehend. Its vast length and breadth cannot easily be covered, and it is greater in area than some states of India. The evocative photographs take the reader to its wide horizons and remote settlements, inhabited by people of diverse races and religions. It is a land that ...
This is a fascinating book on visual images of the Sikhs and their realms of the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Printed together for the first time are the best of such collections remaining in India, many so far unpublished. The mediums illustrated include miniature and ivory paintings, frescoes and murals, lithographs and photographs. The subjects of religious, courtly and everyday life are vividly portrayed and the images effectively capture the ...
Behind high walls the life-space of the Indian courtyard house has so far remained arcane. This is the first work that graphically captures the depths of this archetype in all areas of India where it exists. This splendid form of residential architecture is now fading away and this book is a timely compilation of exquisite images of the finest of such homes. The regional styles portrayed include the haveli in all its incarnations in northern and western India, ...