The Islamic Architectural Heritage of Pakistan, Funerary Memorial Architecture . By Shaikh Khurshid Hasan. pp. 209. Royal Book Company, Karachi, 2001.

Each one of the twenty ®ve temples at the site is brie ̄y and clearly explained, highlighting its salient features. The penultimate chapter is devoted to the three museums in Khajuraho: the Archaeological Museum, the Jain Museum and the State Museum of Tribal and Folk Arts. The last chapter contains an interesting list of sites which can be easily reached from Khajuraho, or which can be visited either on the way to or from there. Two Appendices: Chronology of the temples and Genealogy of the Chandella Royal family complete this interesting and extremely useful guidebook. A leading specialist in Vijayanagara studies, Verghese has spent some seventeen years working at Hampi. Adopting the suggested form, her work is divided into ®ve parts beginning with a brief introduction, followed by a history of the site, its architecture and art, a thorough description of the main monuments and ending with an absorbing history of the discovery of Hampi by the archaeologists. It is clearly a labour of love, and one senses the intense involvement of Verghese with her topic. The description of the monuments begins from Matanga Hill, from whose top one can enjoy a breath-taking view of the village of Hampi and the ruins surrounding it. From there the traveller is introduced to the monuments on and around Hemakuta Hill, Hampi bazaar, followed by the spectacular walk along the Tungabhadra river ending with the most ornate Vitthala temple complex. Special attention is devoted to a part of the city which is not on the standard tourist route: the so-called Muslim quarters, the Raghunatha temple on Malyavanta hill and ®nally one of the earliest monuments of the city, the Ganigitti Jaina temple. Special sections are devoted to the royal monuments, and to those in the suburbs. An appendix with the chronology of the kings who ruled from Vijayanagara completes the volume. Michell’s long-standing involvement with Chalukyan architecture, the ®rst of his great research projects, resulted in numerous books and essays in learned journals, and now in this extremely useful guide on Pattadakal. Divided into two parts, it comprises an extensive introduction dealing with the political and architectural history of the Chalukyas, followed by a thorough description of each monument. Particularly helpful and enlightening are the numerous plans, sections and elevations which accompany the description of each temple. The latest of the series to be produced is Pereira’s Churches of Goa, perhaps the most ambitious of the books hitherto published. Dealing with the totality of the Goa State rather than with a single site, the author, a theologian and art historian specializing in this subject, had to organize his material in a completely different way. Beginning with a short introduction, the book is divided into seven chapters dealing in detail with nine churches and convents, which typify the diverse orders of architecture obtaining in the whole Goan territory. Each of them is discussed in detail, taking into account the ideological and theological background, architectural antecedents and ®nally describing the representative monument. Here again numerous line drawings assist the reader. While the three ®rst books are of invaluable help to those who are not familiar with the sites, Churches of Goa is written for visitors already acquainted with Goa, and wanting to study speci®c sacred buildings. A. L. Dallapiccola