Publisher's Synopsis
Ananda Coomaraswamy's contribution to the history of architecture in India was limited but profound. In particular, his probing analysis of texts and sculpted reliefs in order to reconstruct the extraordinary wooden architecture of early India was an act of great scholarship.;This volume brings together his major essays, along with his analysis of Indian architectural terms. An introductory essay by Michael Meister connects Coomaraswamy's foundational essays with more recent scholarship on the origination of India's vast tradition of temple architecture.
