Early Indian Architecture: I. Cities and City-Gates, etc.; II. Bodhi-gharas c8.7

c8.7

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.