The traditional Kerala manor: architecture of a South Indian Catuhsala house

Schildt, Henri

This work describes the feudal late mediaeval high-caste Kerala house. It lays particular emphasis upon the so-called 'four-house' mansion, called catuhsala in Sanskrit and naluke??u in Malayalam, the vernacular of Kerala. This palatial kind of mansion is regarded as ritually `complete' and, as such, appropriate - according to local Sanskrit treatises on architecture - to the feudal clergy, roy...

Series: Collection Indologie; 117

Publisher: Institut Francais de Pondicherry

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