From the first half of the nineteenth century, the architectural history of medieval India has been the subject of diverse books, essays and miscellaneous writings. The present book pulls together the most significant of these writings, revealing the impressive array of historical ideas about India’s past that has emerged through the study of its monuments. Monica Juneja makes this anthology a major historiographical intervention which traces the colonial emergence and nationalist development of, as well as contemporary advances in, the discipline of architectural history, both within India and in relation to art history in the West.

Monica Juneja, Professor of History, Delhi University. She specialises in art and architectural history and is coeditor of The Medieval History Journal.