Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c28.3

c28.3

AT this stage a regression becomes necessary, back to the early mediaeval period, in order to take up the beginning of the other great style of Indian architecture which it has been found convenient to designate the Northern or Indo-Aryan. Unlike the Dravidian style just described, this Indo-Aryan development was not confined to a relatively restricted area such as the southern extremity of the peninsula, but was practised in one form or another over at least three quarters of the northern portion of the subcontinent. And also unlike the southern mode, on account of the examples being more widely distributed, it is not possible to treat its various phases dynastically, but they will be dealt with geographically, so that each will be described according to the region in which it flourished.