Landscapes in India : Forms & Meanings

Landscape in India is a vast, diverse, complex, and evolving topic that holds great potential for scholars in landscape studies.

However, it is also a topic that has received relatively little attention in the West.

Amita Sinha's wide-ranging book represents a major step toward bridging this gap.

Now available in paperback, "Landscapes in India" shows that landscapes can be read like languages, as arrangements of symbols that reveal cultural values.

Sinha introduces readers to significant sacred and secular landscapes in South Asia, identifying archetypal forms that have evolved over millennia in both the built environment and in open spaces.