Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture: Hindu (Vol.1))

This volume of the book entitled 'Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture' is devoted to the study of Hindu architecture. It has forty-six chapters. The Chapters in this volume deal with the origin of architecture in India, the architecture of Rigvedic period, the architecture in the later Vedas and Brahmanas, the Vastuvidya in Sutra literature, the settlement patterns, urban planning and architecture of Harappans, the residential architecture of Harappans, the architecture in the age of Ramayana, the architecture in the Mahabharata, the architecture in Kautilya's Arthasastra, the earliest writers of the Vastusastra, the development of Vastuvidya from first to sixth century A.D. and onwards, the various orders of Indian architecture, the relation of Manasara with other treatises on Indian architecture, two principles of Vastusastra, the door in Indian architecture, the bricks in the vastusastra, the origins of temples and the assimilation of Aryan and Non-Aryan cultures in the Vastusastras.
The other chapters deal with the origin of stone architecture in India, various phases of Indian architecture, the Mauryan dynasty and the foundations of Indian architecture, Fergusson's classifications of style, the Visnu and Siva shrines, the evolution of the temples, The great temples of Elephanta the Early Chalukyan architecture, the architectural style of Chalukyans, the Dravidian style, its genesis, under the Pallavas, the temples of Cholas, the Dravidian style under the Pandyas, the Architecture of the temples of Deccan, Orissa temples, Khajuraho, Rajputana and central India, temples of Gujarat and West, the Dravidian style under the Vijayanagara dynasty, the kakatiya temples, Lepaksi temple, the architectural style of the temples of Madura, the temples of Gwalior, the town of Brindavan, and the mythological beliefs in city-planning.
In short, the volume is very important for the study of Hindu architecture in India.