LEADER 03578 am 2200553 n 450 001 9910418024603321 005 20190704 010 $a979-1-03-654984-7 024 7 $a10.4000/books.ifp.3975 035 $a(CKB)4100000010959077 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-ifp-3975 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/60197 035 $a(PPN)244247641 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010959077 100 $a20200414j|||||||| ||| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auu||||||m|||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStudies on fortification in India /$fJean Deloche 210 $aPondichéry $cInstitut Français de Pondichéry$d2019 215 $a1 online resource (267 p.) 311 $a81-8470-151-9 330 $aThis book brings together essays on some prominent defensive works which have been constructed over many centuries across the Indian subcontinent, particularly South India. The first chapter, on the Harappan period and Early Historic Indian sites, is based mainly on archaeological reports; all the other chapters, covering South India from the 3rd to the 18th century A.D., draw on the available historical material, both documentary and epigraphic, as well as on intense field work and personal investigations carried out by the author over the past twenty years in numerous hill forts and fortified towns in India. Much of the information has been already published piecemeal in a range of articles written in French. Here, the findings of this body of work are freshly presented with an attempt at synthesis. For each period a selection has been made of outstanding examples of fortification in order to analyse the building techniques, considering the evolution of military technology, particularly the development of artillery, to establish the typology of the structures and to bring into focus a reliable method for identifying and dating defensive works in India. This analysis, which draws attention to the considerable skills and ingenuities of Indian fort builders, has something to engage the interest of all those concerned with India military monuments, be they engineers, archaeologists or historians. Ce livre, fondé principalement sur des enquêtes de terrain menées pendant une vingtaine d?années, présente quelques-unes des fortifications les plus significatives construites à travers les siècles dans le sous-continent indien, notamment dans le Sud de la péninsule. L?auteur, pour chaque période, analyse les procédés de construction en tenant compte de l?évolution des techniques, en particulier, de l?adaptation des structures aux progrès de l?artillerie, afin d?établir la typologie des ouvrages et de mettre au point une méthodologie pour identifier et dater les? 606 $aArchaeology 606 $aarchéologie 606 $afortification 606 $aconstruction militaire 606 $adefensive work 606 $aarcheology 606 $amilitary monument 610 $aarcheology 610 $adefensive work 610 $afortification 610 $amilitary monument 615 4$aArchaeology 615 4$aarchéologie 615 4$afortification 615 4$aconstruction militaire 615 4$adefensive work 615 4$aarcheology 615 4$amilitary monument 700 $aDeloche$b Jean$0641090 801 0$bFR-FrMaCLE 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910418024603321 996 $aStudies on fortification in India$93032734 997 $aUNINA