Eloquent Spaces: Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: towards a semantics of architecture 2 Form, space and consciousness: architectural principles in the Vastushastras 3 Breathing life into monuments of death: the stupa and the ‘Buddha body’ in Sanchi’s socio-ecological landscape 4 Spatial and architectural constructs of tantric Buddhist mandalas: a cognitive approach 5 The old temple of Basgo, Ladakh: a hypothesis on the superimposition of ‘celestial assembly’ on sculpture and sangha 6 Temple and territory in the Puri Jagannatha imaginaire 7 Stepwells in western India: Ranki Vav at Patan 8 Outer places, inner spaces: constructing the gaze in Chola Chidambaram 9 Interpreting public space in the Jaina Basadis of Moodabidri 10 On the water’s edge: tracing urban form in old Srinagar Glossary