Bibliography on Hinduism (and Buddhism) and CitiesContributed 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 Krishna’s 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 für die Kunde Südasiens 11 (1967), pp. 44–85. 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: 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.
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