The two parts of the book are comprehensively written and compiled with interesting nuggets of information contributed by scholars like PV Narasimha Rao, PV Parabrahma Sastry, Prof M Pandu Ranga Rao
The two parts of the book — Cultural Heritage of The Kakatiyas and Engineering and Technological Achievements during the Kakatiya Period — are comprehensively written and compiled with interesting nuggets of information on a myriad of aspects contributed by stalwarts, experts and scholars like PV Narasimha Rao, PV Parabrahma Sastry, Prof M Pandu Ranga Rao, Koluru Suryanarayana, S Prabakar, BP Acharya and others.
Sri S Nagabhusham has put it succinctly about the book in his introduction: “A portrayal of the age of the Kakatiyas in the following pages unfolds to us the multifaceted progress and prosperity. The irrigation tanks, small and large, brought about economic well-being to all. The numbers of temples that sprang up in this region were the centres of diverse material and spiritual pursuits and they are the standing examples of religious liberalism. The Kakatiya polity is a fine model of democratic institutions. If history is to offer any lessons to the present and the future, the history of the Kakatiyas is worthy of emulation.”
PV Narasimha Rao knew the region closely and had a profound understanding of the historic places and more particularly the local temples, which, according to his observation, are underrepresented. “To describe the temple of Ramappa is to demonstrate the inadequacy of the written word. Historians and pundits of architecture have attempted what may be termed a technical exposition of this remarkable structure. But they have failed to conjure up even a faint picture of the temple and its wealth of artistry and breathtaking beauty. What the eye sees, nothing else can fully convey,” he writes.
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