Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār

Decoding the Historical Architectural Treatise

Neena Singh Zutshi

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Routledge India
25 August 2025

Architecture; Museums & museology; Regional studies; Civil engineering, surveying & building

The Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār compiled around the 11th century by Rājā Bhoj is a significant treatise on architecture from pre-colonial India. The book presents and interpretive architectural analysis of select content of the Samrāṅgṇasūtradhār,explores the design process to generate temples, palaces, and dwelling units, and discusses its correlation with contemporary architectural paradigms. Also, the book looks at contemporary issues of identity and culture, as well as critical issues int he historiography of architecture in the postcolonial Indian subcontinent while unveiling layers of the traditional knowledge systems informing the popular idiom of the Vāstū Shastra. Strongly rooted in archival resources, this book will be indispensable for scholars of history of Indian architecture, heritage studies, South Asian history, conversation, architectural design processes, computational architecture, and postcolonial studies.

By: Neena Singh Zutshi
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9781032222752
ISBN 10: 1032222751
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 25 August 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Scholarship 3. Samarangana Sutradhara 3.1 Context 3.2 Content 4. Architecture 4.1 Theoretical concerns 4.2 Practical implications 5. Analytical ruminations 6. Associative discussion

Neena Singh Zutshi is an architect with a keen interest in the intersections of theory, practice, and history.