Hindu India: From Khajuraho to the Temple City of Madurai

I love the details in this book. If you are interested in architecture and architectural plans, this book will really please you. I love pictures of temples. The ones in this book cannot be considered artistic, but rather more technical. But the beauty and intricacy of these temples is certainly brought home. Either way, it is among the best books on Hindu temples available.

excellent book and pictures. Peace

well, i like the title very much. this book exploring world's great architectural, the great style of indian, hindu architecture. but how the author missed the four famous and great locations.first 'chidambaram' place of cosmic dancing shiva called 'natarajar'. this is the second largest temple in tamil nadu. here the 'karpagraham' is golden roofed. just 125 km from thanjavur. its built in cholas period.second 'gangaikonda cholapuram' this is built by son of 'raja raja cholan'. this is similiar shape to 'thanjavur - prahadeeswarar' temple. actuall its planned to build bigger than that. its basement is bigger than 'thanjavur temple' but gopuram is smaller. just around 70 km from thanjavur. its also cholas period.third 'kumbakonam' here you can fine lot of temples, this city called temple city. only 50 km from thanjavur. its too cholas period.fourth 'dharasuram' in here the temple is not huge but the craftmanship is great. only 5 km from kumbakonam towards thanjavur.i really wondering how this author missed these very interestin and great temples. without these temples this book is not worth to me! but i bought it!!

Haven't yet hit too much of the content, but it's a wonderful publication in it's photography and high-quality publication value... Great pictures, great detail, and from what I see, the discussion of the temple architeture and sculpture looks equally promising. Definitely more of an art and architecture book about temples, than a book about Hinduism it's temples.

At last, a moderately priced book that captures the beauty of one of the world's great archi- tectures. The unique forms and textures of Hindu architecture are an invaluable inspiration to the creative artist, and for that reason alone, I highly recommend this book as an important addition to the artist's library.

I saw this book at a friend's house and wanted my own copy. I travel to India every year and have seen and want to see the structures in this book.

Review awaits