Early Indian Architecture: I. Cities and City-Gates, etc.; II. Bodhi-gharas c7.2

c7.2

Coomaraswamy took interest in the traditional practices of building in South Asia in his two early studies on *Mediæval Sinhalese Art* (1908) and *The Indian Craftsman* (1909). He gave these an excellent general frame in his handbook on *The Arts and Crafts of India and Ceylon* in 1913 and some further elaboration in his *History of Indian and Indonesian Art* in 1927.