The beauty of Indian Architecure

India has produced a few of the most beautiful architectural wonders.India has a magnificent architectural legacy.One blog entry or a few pages will not be enough to describe Indian architecture.Here's and introduction to one of the most beautiful forms of architecture-Indian architecture.If you've noticed there are not many books on Indian architecture,the reason being most of the authors are western historian.It is difficult for the western historians to interpret Indian architecture.Indian architecture is consider somewhat "exotic".Basically Indian architecture goes all the way back to 2500 B.C.The first real civilization was the Indus valley civilization.The Indus valley civilization provides us with the first surviving evidence of towns or cities existing then.

It was a long time before traces of the Indus valley civilization were discovered.When digging to make railway lines in the foot of the Himalaya's the construction workers came upon a small hill of fire baked bricks.This lead to one of the best discoveries during which the archaeologists unearthed the remains of one of the oldest civilizations.And this was the beginning of the discovery of the greatest architectural beauty ever.The Indus valley people achieved to build cities and organize their buildings much before the Romans.Mohenjo-daro and harrapa are two cities from which all the other cities were replicated.Basically these cities were a mile square with protective walls all around the cities border,thus protecting it from sand storm,enemy's and the likes.The roads was constructed in such a way that made us understand that even at those times the people had the understanding of the basic traffic principles.The turnings were rounded so as to make the turning of carts a smoother process.The streets divided the city into 12 blocks.Except for the west-central block,the basic unit of the city planning was individual houses .

This is basically how Indian architecture started and is just an introduction.There is much more to Indian architecture .