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Bring out the regional variations in the early South Indian temples’ architectural styles.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Regional States during Gupta Era

Early South Indian temple architecture between roughly the sixth and ninth centuries was never a single, settled "Dravida style" handed down whole — it was worked out simultaneously and differently by rival courts, each experimenting with material, plan, and roof-form before any regional idiom hardened into convention. The clearest way to bring out these variations…

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  • Pallava Architecture: Three Phases, Three Technologies
  • The Chalukyas of Badami: Experimentation Without a Settled Style
  • Comparing the Variations: Material, Plan, and Sculptural Idiom

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