CONTENTS:-
1. Introduction and Building Activities of the Early Period.
2. Stupa Architecture (Origin, Antiquity of the practice, peculiar features, Stupas-Madhya Pradesh, South India, Gandhar, Singh, Uttar Pradesh).
3. Rock-Cut Architecture (Early rock-cut chambers. Buddhist Chaitya halls and monasteries-Hinayana, Mahayana-Ajanta, Nasik, Karle, Kanheri, Pitalkhora etc., structural monasteries, Hindu rock-cut temples-diferent types-Udayagiri, Badami, Ellora, Elephanta, Mahabalipuram, Monolithic-Ellora, Mahabalipuram, etc., Jain cave architecture-Ellora, Badami, Udayagiri and Khandagiri).
4. Hindu Temple Architecture (Temples of the early phase-Maurya-Satavahana period, Middle phase-Gupta and Chalukya period and Developed phase-two main styles, Dakshina Bharatiya temple style, peculiar features, Varieties-Chalukya-Pattadakal, Pallava-Mahabalipuram, Kanchi, Chola-Tanjore, etc.).
5. Resume: Survey of the different styles of architecture developed in ancient India.
