Early Indian Architecture: I. Cities and City-Gates, etc.; II. Bodhi-gharas c8: Acknowledgments
Early Indian Architecture: I. Cities and City-Gates, etc.; II. Bodhi-gharas c8
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Acknowledgments
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I should like first to thank Dr. Rama Coomaraswamy for his continuing cooperation and encouragement in carrying this project through; Kapila Vatsyayan for her vision, energy and determination in forming the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and in defining its wide range of activity; and Francesco Pellizzi, for his gift of guidance.
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Rama Coomaraswamy graciously lent original offprints from *Eastern Art* and the *Journal of the American Oriental Society*, from which this edition of "Early Indian Architecture, I-III" and "Indian Architectural Terms" has been made. He also gave me permission to use his father's unpublished manuscript of "Early Indian Architecture, IV: Huts and Related Temple Types" in Princeton's library to prepare the edited version I first published in *Res* 15 (1988). Staff members at Princeton's library were consistently helpful, at the right time and in the right ways.
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Francesco Pellizzi, as editor of *Res*,— his "Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics"— has shown great imagination in his support of a variety of academic and artistic endeavors. The "Conversation" with Joseph Rykwert that acts as an afterward to "Huts and Related Temple Types" owes much to a model established for the journal by him. I thank Joseph as well, who has been a fine colleague at the University of Pennsylvania and who participated in this endeavor with good humor and a deep respect for the range of Coomaraswamy's scholarship.
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The fine drawings included in my Introductory essay, as well as the original watercolors, were made by a young architect, Robert DeJager, with whom it was both a pleasure and an intellectual stimulation to work.
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I must thank Francesco Pellizzi, the editor of *Res*; its publisher, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University; and the President and Fellows of Harvard College for permission to reprint "Huts and Related Temple Types" and "Adam's House and Hermits' Huts" as they appeared in *Res* 15.
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Lalit M. Gujral, Consultant at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, has worked long hours and with dedication to see arrangements for this series through. Arun Mehta and Katey Cooper at Vakil and Sons, Bombay, took up the project, both as printers and friends, and have carried it forward as an act of bookmaking as much as business. Because of their great efforts, a sense of the high quality of the original printing comes through in this edition.
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I had known for many years that Coomaraswamy's contributions to the understanding of India's earliest architecture were of a caliber to require their eventual reprinting as a unified volume. That a part of this work had never been printed in his lifetime made such a task even more important. John Rosenfield once took me when I was a young graduate student to Doña Louisa Coomaraswamy's apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was working on Coomaraswamy's extensive annotated notes. To her, to John, and to all the many others who have given me help and inspiration in making this volume possible, may these pages return my thanks.
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MICHAEL W. MEISTER San Diego, California, May 1991