Temple Architecture of the Western Himalayas: Ravi and Beas Valley

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Western Himalayas have been a fascinating world of nature’s grandeur, artistic heritage and cultural delights for common visitors, nevertheless, paradise for adventure lovers and immense resource for researchers. Most of the major Indian rivers, assumed as lifeline of Indian culture and civilization, stream through the region. This book is a part of the documentation project continuing since 1976, which unfolds a fascinating world of traditional architecture in the two major river systems Ravi and Beas of the Western Himalayas. The valleys of Ravi and Beas are two major constituents of the terrain of Himachal Pradesh including the valley of Sutlej which commanded political powers through the antiquity and immensely contributed the evolution of material culture in the region and left its indelible impressions on peripheral societies in the Trans Himalayan world mainly Tibet and central Asia. The book carries a realistic approach on architectural styles whether modulated Classical North Indian or Indigenous Vernacular style emerged in uncanny space. The well organized with illustrations and drawings, the text deals with two mature styles in juxtaposition registering progression and transformation in other aesthetic expression. The emphasis is laid on the cohesive progression of the art tradition forming in a geographical area which may really be called a melting pot of cross-cultures. Evolution of the style, dealt in the book, shed light on the important components that developed in the background of a more electric, generous but heterogeneous socio-cultural milieu encircling the fertile region adjacent Punjab, ancient Kashmir and Western Tibet with a statement of human genius that was evolving on more liberal and cross-cultural attitude of medieval society in a rugged and complex terrain.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ajay Kumar Singh

Dr. A.K. Singh obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History of Art from the Banaras Hindu University. Since 1976 he has been engaged in carrying out researches on the art of Trans-Himalayan regions with the Bharat Kala Bhavan, the Art and Archaeology Museum of the same university. Dr. Singh has undertaken extremely adventurous and painstaking journeys to explore the historical and archaeological potentialities of the difficult terrains. He was awarded Senior Research Fellowship by the U.G.C. He has many research articles to his credit. He is presently a lecturer in History of Art, in the Faculty of Visual Arts in the Banaras Hindu University.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shuchita Sharma

Dr. Shuchita Sharma, post-graduate in Education and Drawing & Painting from Agra university and Ph D in Fine Arts from Mahatma Gandhi kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, is an enthusiastic fieldworker and art historian. She has extensively traveled in the Western Himalayas and is engagted in preparing digital inventory of antiquities in the Ravi, Beas and Sutlej valleys of Himachal Pradesh. She has been honoured with special mention for Photography on the theme Desert and Desertification in Trans Himalays by the International Mountain Forum-Asia Pacific in 2006. presently, she is teaching in the department of Fine Arts at the NTPC campus-Shaktinagar, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith and engaged in post doctoral research on Buddhist monastic art of Zanskar valley, Ladakh.

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Title
Temple Architecture of the Western Himalayas: Ravi and Beas Valley
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788175741829
Length
xx+152p., Figures; Maps; Plates; Glossary; Bibliography; 29cm.
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#Himalaya