Crispin Branfoot
"An ambitious and engaging book that encourages readers to consider how this geographically challenging and stunningly beautiful region gradually emerged as a sacred landscape with some of South Asia’s most important Hindu pilgrimage sites located in its farthest reaches."
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"A very contemporary view of sacredness as something constructed, changing, and developing over time. Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains gives a compelling picture of the infusion of Sanskritic culture into the Central Himalayas and the growing mythological importance of the Himalayas in far-flung parts of India."—Adam Hardy, author of Theory and Practice of Temple Architecture in Medieval India
"An ambitious and engaging book that encourages readers to consider how this geographically challenging and stunningly beautiful region gradually emerged as a sacred landscape with some of South Asia's most important Hindu pilgrimage sites located in its farthest reaches."—Crispin Branfoot, Reader in the History of South Asian art and archaeology, SOAS University of London
"Arguing for parallels in temple architecture and evolving places of pilgrimage in both the Central Himalaya and more distant places such as Gujarat, Nachiket Chanchani introduces hitherto less explored aspects of potential connections to enrich studies of early medieval India. A fine example of the dialogue between history and art history."—Romila Thapar, author of Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
Romila Thapar
"Arguing for parallels in temple architecture and evolving places of pilgrimage in both the Central Himalaya and more distant places such as Gujarat, Nachiket Chanchani introduces hitherto less explored aspects of potential connections to enrich studies of early medieval India. A fine example of the dialogue between history and art history."
Adam Hardy
"A very contemporary view of sacredness as something constructed, changing, and developing over time. Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains gives a compelling picture of the infusion of Sanskritic culture into the Central Himalayas and the growing mythological importance of the Himalayas in far-flung parts of India."
