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Urban form and meaning in South Asia : the shaping of cities from prehistoric to precolonial times

Title
Urban form and meaning in South Asia : the shaping of cities from prehistoric to precolonial times / edited by Howard Spodek and Doris Meth Srinivasan.
Publication
Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Hanover, N.H. : Distributed by the University Press of New England, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Spodek, Howard, 1941-
  • Srinivasan, Doris.
  • Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)
  • American Institute of Indian Studies.
Description
271 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; 31. Symposium papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ; 15
Uniform Title
  • Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 31.
  • Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 15.
Subjects
Note
  • "Proceedings of the symposium, 'Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia: The Shaping of Cities from Prehistoric to Precolonial Times, ' sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and the American Institute of Indian Studies, 3-5 December 1987"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface / Henry A. Millon -- Introduction: Multiple meanings of space and place / Doris Meth Srinivasan -- Urbanization in the pre-Indus and beyond. The early architectural traditions of greater Indus as seen from Mehrgarh, Baluchistan / Jean-François Jarrige ; Mohenjo-daro: type site of the earliest urbanization process in South Asia / Michael R.N. Jansen ; Reurbanization: the Eastern Punjab and beyond / Jim G. Shaffer -- Taxila. The urban position of Taxila and its place in Northwest India-Pakistan / F. Raymond Allchin ; Taxila: the central Asian connection / Gérard Fussman ; Dating the monuments of Taxila / Saifur Rahman Dar -- Sacred spaces. Madurai: the city as goddess / D. Dennis Hudson ; Temples of stone, centers of culture: sacred spaces in early medieval Kaliṅga / Mary F. Linda ; Bhaktapur: sacred patterns of a living urban tradition / Niels Gutschow -- Madras. The urban configuration of Toṇḍaimaṇḍalam: the Kāñcĩpuram Region, c. A.D. 600-1300 / R. Champakalakshmi ; City and state in late precolonial Madras / Burton Stein ; Madras in 1800: perceiving the city / Susan Neild Basu -- Perspectives from the modern era. Urban form and meaning in South Asia: perspectives from the modern era / Narayani Gupta ; Beyond Rorschach tests: Palimpsests and nodes, conflicts and consciousnesses in South Asian urban theory / Howard Spodek.
ISBN
  • 0894681796
  • 9780894681790
OCLC
  • ocm28260927
  • 28260927
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries