Category: History - Other
NOTE.--Those woodcuts in the above list marked with an asterisk are borrowed from ‘L’Inde des Rajahs,’ published by Hachette et Cie, Paris, translated and republished in this country by Messrs. Chapman and Hall.
NOTE.--Those woodcuts in the above list marked with an asterisk are borrowed from ‘L’Inde des Rajahs,’ published by Hachette et Cie, Paris, translated and republished in this co...
10. CHAPTER I.It may create a feeling of disappointment in some minds when they are told that there is no stone architecture in India older than two and a half centuries before the Christian...
11. CHAPTER II.It is not clear whether we ought to claim a wooden origin for these, as we can for all the other objects of Buddhist architecture. Certain it is, however, that the lâts of Asoka...
12. CHAPTER III.There are few subjects of like nature that would better reward the labour of some competent student than an investigation into the origin of Relic Worship and its subsequent dif...
13. CHAPTER IV.It is only recently that our rapidly-increasing knowledge has enabled us to appreciate the important part which Rails play in the history of Buddhist architecture. The rail of t...
14. CHAPTER V.Although, if looked at from a merely artistic point of view, it will probably be found that the rails are the most interesting Buddhist remains that have come down to our time,...
15. CHAPTER VI.We are almost more dependent on rock-cut examples for our knowledge of the Viharas or monasteries of the Buddhists than we are for that of their Chaityas or churches: a circumst...
16. CHAPTER VII.Few of the recent discoveries in India promise to be more fruitful of important results for the elucidation of the archæology of India than those obtained from the recent excava...
17. CHAPTER VIII.If the materials existed for writing it in anything like a complete and satisfactory manner, there are few chapters in this history that ought to be so interesting or instructiv...
18. CHAPTER I.There are few of the problems connected with this branch of our subject so obscure and so puzzling as those connected with the early history of the Architecture of the Jains. Wh...
19. CHAPTER II.Before proceeding to describe the arrangements of Jaina or Hindu temples, it may add to the clearness of what follows if we first explain the peculiar modes of constructing arch...
20. CHAPTER III.The grouping together of their temples into what may be called “Cities of Temples” is a peculiarity which the Jains practised to a greater extent than the followers of any other...
21. CHAPTER IV.The two places in northern India where the most modern styles of Jaina architecture can probably be studied to most advantage are Sonaghur, near Dutteah, in Bundelcund, and Mukt...
22. CHAPTER V.A good deal has been done lately in the way of photographing the monuments of the Jains in southern India, but nothing, so far as I am aware, has recently been written that give...
23. CHAPTER I.Although neither so beautiful in itself, nor so interesting either from an artistic or historical point of view as many others, the architecture of the valley of Kashmir has att...
24. CHAPTER II.Any one looking at the map, and the map only, would probably be inclined to fancy that, from their similarity of situation and surroundings, the arts and archæology of Nepal mus...
25. CHAPTER I.The limits within which the Dravidian style of architecture prevailed in India are not difficult to define or understand. Practically they are those of the Madras Presidency, or...
26. CHAPTER II.Although it may not be possible to point out the origin of the Dravidian style, and trace its early history with the same precision as we can that of Buddhist architecture, ther...
27. CHAPTER III.When we turn from these few scattered rock-cut examples to the great structural temples of the style, we find their number is so great, their extent so vast, and their variety s...
28. CHAPTER IV.Although, like all nations of Turanian race, the Dravidians were extensive and enthusiastic builders, it is somewhat singular that till they came in contact with the Mahomedans...
29. CHAPTER I.Of the three styles into which Hindu architecture naturally divides itself, the Chalukyan is neither the least extensive nor the least beautiful, but it certainly is the least k...
30. CHAPTER I.Of the three styles into which Hindu architecture naturally divides itself, the northern is found spread over a far larger portion of the country than either of the other two. I...
31. CHAPTER II.The two provinces of India, where the Indo-Aryan style can be studied with the greatest advantage, are Dharwar on the west, and Orissa on the east coast. The former has the adva...
32. CHAPTER III.If the province of Orissa is interesting from the completeness and uniformity of its style of Indo-Aryan architecture, that of Dharwar, or, more correctly speaking of Maharastra...
33. CHAPTER IV.There are certainly more than one hundred temples in Central and Northern India which are well worthy of being described in detail, and, if described and illustrated, would conv...
34. CHAPTER V.As remarked above, one of the most unexpected peculiarities of the art, as practised by the inhabitants of southern India, is the absence of any attempt at sepulchral magnificen...
35. CHAPTER I.From a very early period in the world’s history a great group of civilized nations existed in Central Asia between the Mediterranean and the Indus. They lived apart, having few...
36. CHAPTER II.Towards the latter part of the 9th century the power of the Khalifs of Bagdad was sinking into that state of rapid decline which is the fate of all Eastern dynasties. During the...
37. CHAPTER III.Shahab ud-dîn Ghori A.D. 1192 Kutub ud-dîn Ibek 1206 Shum ud-dîn Altumsh 1210 Ala ud-dîn Khilji 1295 Tugluck Shah 1321 Nasar ud-dîn last of the Khiljis 1393 Khyer Khan under Tam...
38. CHAPTER IV.It was just two centuries after the conquest of India by the Moslems that Khoja Jehan, the Soubahdar or governor of the province in which Jaunpore is situated, assumed independe...
39. CHAPTER V.Muzaffar Shah, a Rajput, appointed Viceroy A.D. 1391 Ahmed Shah, his grandson, founds Ahmedabad 1411 Mohammed Shah the Merciful 1443 Kutub Shah; war with Rana Khumbo 1454 Mahmúd...
40. CHAPTER VI.Sultan Dilawar Ghori A.D. 1401 Sultan Hoshang Ghori 1405 Ghazni Khan 1432 Mahmúd Khan, cotemp. Rana Khumbo of Chittore 1435 Sultan Ghias ud-dîn 1469 Sultan Mahmúd II 1512 Malwa...
41. CHAPTER VII.It is not very easy to understand why the architects of Malwa should have adopted a style so essentially arcuate as that which we find in the capital, while their brethren, on e...
42. CHAPTER VIII.Ala ud-dîn Bahmani, a servant in Mahamud Tugluck’s court A.D. 1347 Muhammad Shah. Ghazi 1358 Mujahid Shah 1375 Mahmúd Shah 1378 Feroze Shah married daughter of Vijayanagar raja...
43. CHAPTER IX.Yusaf Khan Adil Shah A.D. 1501 Ismail Adil Shah 1511 Mullu Adil Shah 1534 Ibrahim Adil Shah I. 1535 Ali Adil Shah 1557 Ibrahim Adil Shah II. 1579 Muhammad 1626 Ali Adil Shah II....
44. CHAPTER X.Till very recently, a description of the style introduced by the Mogul emperors would have been considered a complete history of Mahomedan architecture in India. It is the style...
45. CHAPTER XI.Turning for the nonce from this quasi-wooden style--which is only an indication of decadence and decrepitude--it would be pleasing if we could finish our narrative with the desc...
46. CHAPTER I.The styles of architecture described in the preceding chapters of this volume practically exhaust the enumeration of all those which were practised in India Proper, with its adj...
47. CHAPTER II.Although the architecture of Siam is very much less important than that of Burmah on the one hand, or Cambodia on the other, it is still sufficiently so to prevent its being pas...
48. CHAPTER III.There is no chapter in the whole history of Eastern art so full of apparent anomalies, or which so completely upsets our preconceived ideas of things as they ought to be, as tha...
49. book I have had access to, no drawing, and no photograph gives a hint ofthe existence of even one pillar in the island. When we think of the thousands that were employed by the Dravidians in the south of India, and the Jains in the north-west, it is...
50. CHAPTER IV.Since the exhumation of the buried cities of Assyria by Mons. Botta and Mr. Layard nothing has occurred so startling, or which has thrown so much light on Eastern art, as the di...
51. CHAPTER I.Period of Hea B.C. 2100 Woo Wong period of Chow 1100 Confucius died 477 Chy hoang-ty built Great Wall 240 Han dynasty 201 Hoty, seventeenth king; Buddhism introduced A.D. 90 Tsi...
52. CHAPTER II.If we had the requisite knowledge, or if the known examples of Chinese temples were sufficiently numerous, we ought, before describing them, to classify the buildings, apportion...
53. Part II. sect. i., _et passim_.[214] One curious peculiarity of these Gandhara sculptures is that they generally retain the sloping jamb on each side of their openings. In India and in a structural building t...