[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.4″ hover_enabled=”0″]Contributed by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University
Asher, Catherine. India before Europe, Cambridge: CUP, 2006
Coe, Michael D. Angkor and the Khmer Civilization. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003
Duncan, James The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom, Cambridge: CUP 2005
Eck, Diana Benares: City of Light, Princeton: PUP 1983
Fritz, George and George Michell. New Light on Hampi. Delhi: Marg Foundation, 2001
Hudson, Denis Krishnas Mandala, NY: OUP 2009
Kaul, Shonaleeka Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City, Ranikhet: Permanent Black 2010
Michell, George. Temple towns of Tamil Nadu, Delhi: Marg, 1993/2008
Nanda, V.K. and George Michell (eds) Chidambaram: Home of the Nataraja, Delhi: marg, 2004
Perera, Nihal Society and Space: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Postcolonial Identity in Sri Lanka. Westview Press, 1998
Sachdev, Vibhuti and Giles Tillotson. Building Jaipur: The making of an Indian City. Reaktion Books, 2002
Spodek, Howard and Doris Srinivasan (eds) Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia: The Shaping of Cities from Prehistoric to Precolonial Times, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art Sudies in the History of Art 1993
Srinivas, Smriti Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in? India’s High-Tech City, Minneapolis: UMP, 2001
Verghese, Anila. Hampi. NY: OUP, 2002
SEE ALSO:
Schlingloff, Dieter: “Arthas’a-stra-Studien. II. Die Anlage einer Festung (durgavidha-na)”. In: Wiener Zeitschrift fr die Kunde Sdasiens 11 (1967), pp. 4485.
Schlingloff, Dieter: Die altindische Stadt, eine vergleichende Untersuchung. Mainz, Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; Wiesbaden : F. Steiner 1969 (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse / Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. 1969, 5.)
ALSO:
The seminal work on Nepalese cities (in the Kathmandu Valley), carried by a team of architects and Indologists since the late Sixties, is:
Niels Gutschow and my late friend Bernhard Koelver on Bhaktapur and other cities in Nepal, see the seminal small book:
B. Klver – N. Gutschow, Ordered Space. Concepts and Functions in a town of Nepal, Wiesbaden-Kathmandu 1975
And in their wake:
Gutschow, Niels. Ritual as mediator of space in Kathmandu/ Nepal, Journal of the Nepal Research Centre, Vol. 1, (Wiesbaden/Kathmandu) 1977
Ritual Space in India. Studies in Architectural Anthropology, ed. J. Piepert, (Art and Archeology research papers) London 1980
Gutschow, Niels. 1982, Stadtraum und Ritual der newarischen Stdte im Kathmandu-Tal : eine architekturanthropologische Untersuchung. Stuttgart : W. Kohlhammer.
Levy, Robert. How the Navadurga Protect Bhaktapur. The effective meanings of a symbolic enactment. Nepalica, hg. B. Koelver u. S. Lienhard, 4/8, [Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley.Proceedings of an International Conference in Lbeck, June 1985; ed. by N. Gutschow and A. Michaels] St. Augustin 1987, pp. 105-134
and sections of his great, underused book MESOCOSM (about the town of Bhaktapur):
Levy, R. I. With the collaboration of Kedar Raj Rajopadhyaya. Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal. Berkeley: University of California Press 1990
Herdick, Renee: Kirtipur : Stadtgestalt, Prinzipien der Raumordnung und gesellschaftliche Funktionen einer Newar-Stadt / Reinhard Herdick ; [Vorwort, Eduard F. Sekler] Kln : Weltforum Verlag, c1988.
cf.
Kirtipur : an urban community in Nepal : its people, town planning, architecture and arts / editors: Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie H. Shokoohy ; contributors: Marc Barani … [et al.]. Published : London : Araxus, 1994.
Various books and articles by Axel Michaels on the Pasupati area and on Benares:
Michaels, Axel. Die Reisen der Gtter : der nepalische Paśupatinātha-Tempel und sein rituelles Umfeld / Axel Michaels ; mit einem Beiheft Paśupitakṣetra – maps of Deopatan / by Axel Michaels and Govinda Tandan ; with drawings by Harald Fritzenktter.
Bonn : VGH Wissenschaftsverlag, 1994.
cf. also sections of his great book: Hinduism : past and present / Axel Michaels ; translated by Barbara Harshav.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.
Toffin, Grard. Panauti, une ville au Npal, Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1981.
ALSO:
Three important studies of Banaras:
Jonathan Parry, _Death in Banaras_
Sandria Freitag, ed., _Culture and Power in Banaras_
Lawrence Cohen, “Holi in Banaras and the _Mahaland_ of Modernity”
I should also add that some of the most interesting work being produced in connection with my own particular interest, the religious production or organization of urban space in contemporary India, takes up Muslim and Buddhist examples. As companion pieces to Smriti Srinivas’s terrific book on Bangalore I would recommend Nicolas Jaoul and Gary Tartakov on Ambedkar parks and statues in urban North India and Mrinalini Rajagopalan on Islamic architecture in Delhi.
See also Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context, Bradley R. Hertel and Cynthia Ann Humes (Albany: SUNY Press), 1993.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]