Elephant Kingdom
Sculpture from Indian Architecture
Vikramjit Ram
Elephant Kingdom traces the myriad stories and symbolisms behind India?s much-loved animal, through its depictions in architectural sculpture. At the heart of the study is a collection of over 60 colour photographs from a diversity of antique settings- many of them in remote parts of the subcontinent. At centuries-old temples, monasteries, forts and palaces, elephants flank ceremonial entrances, enrich columns and capitals, from balustrades to stairways or stand as enigmatic sentinels of vast courtyards. Some are legendary characters in tales dreams and salvation; others enact scenes from a faithfully observed natural history. Some transport kings and heroes into battle and the hunt; others are celestial messengers of the rail, fertility and good fortune.

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