Lecture Series by former students and faculty members of the Department of History
Revisit means to come back to or visit again. Revisits are often made in various disciplines to consider again a perspective through systematic methods of criticism and analysis. Revisit programme of the department of history is conceived with the aim of learning from their former students and faculty members, the perspective departures that they have made through their studies and other academic activities after leaving this institution. The revisitor engages in a three dimensional act here through revisiting the institution, revealing the results of several revisits to one’s discipline and making it possible for us to do such revisits.
We are initiating the programme on 14 June, 2016 from 3.30 to 5 pm at the department of history.
All are cordially invited.
Dr. Sebastian Joseph 13/6/2016
HOD, Dept of History
Revisit- Lecture 1
Kerala Temple Architecture- Locating the Context
Dr. Remya V.P
Visva Bharati University
Santhiniketan
West Bengal
Religious architecture has been a major source of information and area of study in ancient Indian history. This subject has been approached from various perspectives, attempts of classification and regional identity of architecture has been a major trend among them. The broader classification of Nagara of north India and Dravida of south India encompass within it many diverse styles and forms of architecture. The present paper elaborates what is the style of Kerala temple architecture, as the title indicates, tries to locate it within the larger spectrum of Indian temple architecture. I argue here that Kerala temples are essentially Dravida in style, but also have features varying from Dravida, thus creating a regional variation of Dravida architecture. What these features are, what are the formative factors and a comparison between Dravida temple of Tamil nadu and Kerala are presented here.
