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Monumental India
By Amit Pasricha

Takhat Vilas
Takhat Vilas, the private apartment of Maharaja Takhat Singh in Jodhpur's Mehrangrih. Within the extraordinarily beautiful interiors, doors are decorated with colored glass while murals depict dancing girls and scenes from the Krishna-Lila legend and the ballad Dhola Maru.
 

Monumental India presents a collection of breathtaking panoramic views of North India’s most renowned sites and landmarks, as well as little-known architectural gems.

Produced in a landscape format with exquisite multipage gatefolds, the book documents the region's rich and complex heritage, exploring a variety of styles and periods, including sprawling Hindu and Jain temples, imposing Islamic tombs and mosques, serene Buddhist monasteries and stupas, lavish colonial and royal palaces, and majestic forts.

Amit Pasricha’s camera enters magnificent darbar halls where maharajas once held court, and explores their opulent private apartments, with mirrored decorations, chandeliers, and luxurious brocades. Enlisting the elements—sun, snow, mist, and clouds—to give the photographs cosmic drama, Pasricha’s images underscore the majesty of nature and the glory of manmade structures. He is one of India's leading photographers, and his work has been exhibited in India, London and New York.

Aman Nath’s insightful text completes this beautiful collection of photographs, making Monumental India a limited edition to be preserved and treasured. Nath is a renowened heritage expert and art historian, and the author of several books. He has been involved in the restoration of several historic buildings in India.

Monumental India
A morning view of the Taj Mahal overlooking the Yamuna. Monumental India by Amit Pasricha, foreword by William Dalrymple, text by Aman Nath, (Vendome Press, 2008, $175).
 
Royal Cenotaphs
Royal Cenotaphs, a veritable forest of chhatris, the Rajput memorials that mark the sites where particular kings or noblemen were cremated.
 
Photos: Excerpted from Monumental India by Amit Pasricha, (Vendome Press, 2008).
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