History of Indian and Eastern Architecture: Volume 2 by James... - 9781108061452

History of Indian and Eastern Architecture: Volume 2Author(s): James Fergusson, James Burgess, Richard Phen Spiers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108061452, 978-1108061452\nSynopsis\nBorn in Scotland, James Fergusson [tel] spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Although he had no formal training, he became one of the most respected researchers in the field and an expert on India's cave temples. His History of Indian and Eastern Architecture was first published in 1876 and became a standard work. It was revised in this two-volume edition of 1910 by James Burgess [tel], former Director of the Archaeological Survey of India, and Richard Spiers [tel], a noted architect and historian of architecture. Volume 2 covers Jain and Indo-Aryan architecture, Islamic architecture in India, and the buildings of Burma, Cambodia, Thai.