Project (choose one)

Project (choose one) . Find out more about any one of the major cities which flourished in the subcontinent during c. fourteenth-seventeenth centuries. Describe the architecture of the city. Are there any features to suggest that these were political centres? Are there buildings that were ritually significant? Is there an area for commercial activities? What are the features that distinguish the urban layout from that of surrounding areas? . Visit a religious building in your neighbourhood. Describe, with sketches, its roof, pillars and arches if any, corridors, passages, halls, entrance, water supply, etc. Compare these features with those of the Virupaksha temple. Describe what each part of the building is used for. Find out about its history. Vasundhara Filliozat. (rpt). Vijayanagara. National Book Trust, New Delhi. George Michell. . Architecture and Art of Southern India. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. K.A. Nilakanta Sastri. . A History of South India. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. Burton Stein. . Vijayanagara (The New Cambridge History of India Vol. , Part ). Foundation Books, New Delhi.