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 Chaukhandi Tombs
Product Details:
Author: Salome Zajadacz-Hastenrath | ISBN: 0-19-579771-X | Format: Hardcover | Pages: 182 | Weight: 1.58 lbs | Pub. Date: 2003 | Publisher: Oxford University Press
DESCRIPTION
Originally published in German in 1978, this work contains the first systematic, typological study and analysis of above-ground funerary structures in the subcontinent, comprising some fifty cemeteries of varying size, with a total of approximately 2000 monuments.
The Chaukhandi tombs render an original and independent contribution to Islamic sepulchral architecture and ornamental sculpture. Found in numerous rural cemeteries of southern Pakistan in the Sind and Baluchistan regions, the Chaukhandi tombs are unique in the whole Islamic world.
"...an excellent study of art history…[She has shown] clearly that these artistic funerary structures cannot be traced back to foreign influences, but have developed from local forms of art of Gujarat, Kathiawar and the Lower Sindh." - Georg Buddruss, Der Islam, 1979, Mainz
"The example given shows the careful working methods of the author...Demonstration material is amply provided by plates showing decorative patterns and by the photographic illustrations..." - Karl-Heinz Goizio, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, 1980, University of Bonn
"In contrast to what was often believed in the past, the author is able to prove that the whole tradition goes back to local origins in Lower Sind, Kathiawar and Gujarat...Thanks to Dr Zajadacz’s painstaking study the Chaukhandi tombs have at last received the attention which these interesting monuments so fully deserve." - J.E van Lohuizen-de Leeuw, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1981, University of Amsterdam
"This volume is...as regards historical-artistic aspects, a welcome addition to our knowledge, based as it is on epigraphic evidence and the painstaking study of a wealth of data scrupulously collected and covering above all a period of time stretching from the 15th to the 18th century." - Maurizio Taddei, East and West, 1980, Rome
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