In The Medieval Indian Context
Vijaya Ramaswamy
LATE TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE OF INDIA- 15TH TO 19TH CENTURIES: CONTINUITIES, REVIVALS, APPROPRIATIONS AND INNOVATIONS by George Michell Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2015, 352 pp., 1395
October 2015, volume 39, No 10

George Michell is a Professorial Fellow at the School of Architecture in Melbourne. He has dedicated the major part of his academic career to look at architecture in the medieval Indian context and more specifically at temple architecture. His prolific writings on temples in the Deccan and on the monumental ruins of the Vijayanagar Empire testify to his long term involvement with this knowledge domain and his command over the academic field of India’s architectural heritage.

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