Rothfarb, Ed.

The architecture of Raja Bir Singh Dev of Orchha (r. 1605-1627) : continuity, adaptation and invention / by Edward Leland Rothfarb.

2009.

xxviii, 708 p. ; 22 cm.

"This study focuses on the Govind Mandir palace in Datia (Madhya Pradesh) as a case study in the development of architecture and painted decoration consolidated under one of early seventeenth-century Hindustan's greatest patrons of building, Raja Bir Singh Dev Bundela of Orchha (r. 1605-1627). Its premise is that the Orchha kingdom's expanded political ken and subsequent wealth during Bir Singh Dev's reign fostered an ambitious new style drawing on local and regional traditions blended with elements of Mughal visual culture. Orchha, a Raj put kingdom in central India founded in 1531, attained an especially close relationship with the Mughal Empire under Bir Singh Dev that was unprecedented in the kingdom's history. That new political/cultural engagement is reflected in building and decoration during Bir Singh Dev's reign, which arguably reached its apex in the Govind Mandir's ambitious, innovative design. This dissertation asks the following questions. What was the historic and cultural milieu that provided the background for building in the Orchha ruler's reign? On which local, regional and Pan-Hindustani sources did such building and decoration draw? Flow can we 'unpack' the hybridity of form and decoration, the dialogue between the vernacular and cosmopolitan evinced by this corpus of building? What was appropriated from imperial sources and how was it adapted for Bundela use at the Govind Mandir? What distinguishes this palace from Bundela dynastic architecture prior to the reign of Bir Singh Dev? And finally, what relationships can we discern between building and decoration in Orchha under Bir Singh Dev and that of other contemporary early seventeenth-century Rajput courts similarly engaged with Mughal visual culture?"--P. xxvii-xxviii.

Bir Singh Dev, Raja of Orchha, fl. 1605-1627 Art patronage.
Hindu architecture India Orchcha (Princely State)
Architecture India 17th century.
Architecture Inde 17e siècle.
Antiquities.
Architecture.
Art patronage.
Hindu architecture.
Kings and rulers Art patronage.
India Kings and rulers Art patronage.
Orchcha (Princely State) Antiquities.
India.
India Orchcha (Princely State)
Hindu architecture (object genre) India Orchcha (Princely State) 1600-1630.
Architecture (object genre) India Orchcha (Princely State) 1600-1630.

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Location: Library main 276436
Call No.: BIB 211042
Status: Available