Talk:Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture

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Vocabulary?

What is a harem windows and what is a Bangala roof? Without definitions this page is more a nuisance than otherwise, since googling redirects back to wikimirrors of this page ro to this page...Undead Herle King (talk) 19:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Origin

Apparently, the Indo-Saracenic style was pioneered in Madras and by Robert Chisholm. I am unable to find sources for the data though. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 155.69.165.89 (talk) 06:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC).

Can anybody answer?

Why this

is called Neo-Classicism

and this

200px

is Indo-Saracenic? --Dojarca 17:41, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Because this page is poorly researched and contains no sources.

British colonial architecture in Calcutta is, as you correctly point out, largely Neoclassical. The Indo-Saracenic style, which combines elements of Mughal architecture with the fashionable Gothic Revival, is more usually found in Bombay, Madras and, to a lesser extent, Delhi. 64.236.80.62 (talk) 12:49, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi, well, yes I do admit its poorly researched due to the total lack of interest by Indians for thier culture and history (all credit to Bollywood) there isn't much information around on the internet (my primary source) of the Indo-Sarencenic style. In regards to the difference between Capitol Hill and the Victoria memorial is firstly you can clearly see the Indian features you wouldn't find in Prague or Edinburgh; the onion domes are the main example. I agree that it dones't really look like it was built with the Gothic style in mind, but the interchangable terms Indo-Gothic and Indo-Sarancenic kind of mean a generic mixture of native Indian (whether Hindu or Islamic) architecture mixed in with general European architecture, so in that sense one probably wouldn't be wrong in calling it Indo-Neoclassicism (although I'd be more inclined to calling it Indo-Renaissance, as you rightly say, architecture in Calcutta is mostly neoclassical such as the Government House and Marble palace, however with my rudimentary knowledge of architecture I'd say that the Victoria memorial is more Renaissance) but yes, my point is the interchangable terms Indo-Gothic and Indo-Sarancenic PROBABLY (I'm not entirely sure; in fact as i've mentioned Im rather ignorant) mean any mix of native Indian and European architecture. Aarandir (talk) 15:08, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

• Answering your question. The enormous arched entrance echoes the Jama Masjid of Delhi and the outsized central arches of other notable Islamic buildings. it would not be found on a classical building. The nineteenth century revival styles sometimes entailed a reversion to the form and even construction technique of the historical style they emulated, but just as often they consisted merely in pasting on a detail Think of America's many small, clapboard, wood-framed churches but, this is the key, with pointed arch windows. If the windows were squared we would call these churches Georgian. The pointed arches make these little churches Gothic. Just as the enormous arch marks this as an Indo-Saracenic building.AMuseo (talk) 13:09, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Merge

Hindoo style should be folded into this page.AMuseo (talk) 19:45, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

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