Unidentified building with remains of ruined temple, Aska, Ganjam District. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
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Genre: Architectural Photography Caption in Bloch's list is given as 'Ruined temple in river', but this appears to refer to the ghat and foreground area rather than the building, which appears of a secular nature. Caddy mentions the site in a report of his activities, written in camp at the end...
Five-storeyed gopura of the Pattabhirama Temple, Vijayanagara. Photographer: Cole, Henry Hardy
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Genre: Architectural Photography Head-on view of the gopura, in ruinous condition. Identified as the east gopura of the Vitthala Temple in Bloch's list, but this is certainly the same structure as the restored gopura in Gollings, Fritz and Michell, 'City of Victory' (Aperture, New York, 1991), ...
General view of the Pancha Rathas, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from the south-west corner looking north. In the right foreground is the Dharmaraja Ratha, with the Bhima Ratha beyond. The Nakula Sahadeva Ratha is at the extreme left, with the nearby stone elephant largely concealed by a palm tree. Subjects = Indian ar...
View of the Olakkanatha Temple, a structural shrine above the Mahishamardini Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography Described in James Burgess, 'The cave temples of India' (London, 1880), p. 147: 'Immediately above this cave is the fragment of a structural temple, which forms one of the most conspicuous objects in the landscape from whichever side it is seen. It is not, howe...