INDIA COMPOSITE HERITAGE (HB)

Today children and adults
alike find themselves in a world saturated with images. Educators are
increasingly recognizing that
visual literacy is a core twenty-first-century skill along with basic
literacy, scientific and numerical literacy, and cross-disciplinary
skills.

What makes the Great Stupa at Sanchi significant? How were the caves at
Ellora carved? Why is the Rudreshwara Temple in
Palampet considered innovative? How old are the Khajuraho temples? Why are
the Great Living Chola Temples named thus? Who built the many churches and
convents of Goa? What makes the Taj Mahal one of the wonders of the
world?

Follow along as art historian Nachiket Chanchani takes a trip across the
country to answer many questions like these about India?s innumerable works
of art and architecture. Discover thirty-two monumental architectural
complexes scattered in distant corners of the country, which serve as
milestones in the history of India, from prehistory to the present, and learn
how to interpret, recognize, appreciate, and understand history as real
historians do through fun and easy activities. Start your journey by
analyzing cave art in the Bhimbetka rock shelters from 8000 BCE, then use a
sundial in the thirteenth-century Konark Sun Temple to tell the time, before
finally building the Open Hand Monument in Le Corbusier?s post-Independence
Capitol Complex.

This innovative and richly illustrated book strives to inculcate visual
literacy among readers of all ages by teaching them how to
interpret, recognize, appreciate, and understand information presented
through ensembles of buildings, objects, and symbols
crafted in India over the ages.