Snapshots From a Bygone Era a Century of Images

The coffee-table book has approximately a hundred photographs taken by Sri M. K. Rangaswami Aiyangar. The photos are mostly of temples in South India, of the time of the Pallavas, Cholas and Vijaynagara rulers. A few are of temple in the north like the famous jagannath temple in Puri, Orissa, Spectacular views of the Jama Masjid , Delhi and the Taj Mahal have been taken by this remarkable amateur photographer.  Photographs of Temple tanks bronze images, landscape and places are also part of this collection. Comments on these photos have been penned by illustrious photographer Iqbal Mohamed while the note about these monuments have been written by historian Dr. Chithra madhavan completed her M.A. and M.Phil from the Department of Indian History.