Group items tagged

DK-222996- ISBN 9788180902604: Pura-Jagat is a massive collection of about a hundred scholarly papers reflecting a broad spectrum of the very recent research studies, together with the latest research trends in Indian archaeology, history and culture. the retired Director General of the ASI, whom Pura-Jagat seeks to commemorate, was a highly distinguished archaeologist, versatile scholar, tireless researcher, prolific writer, efficient administrator, excellent conversationalist, and a warm-hearted man

Buddhist antiquities of Nubra Valley- ISBN 9788188934898, DK-224205: Surveying all the Nubra Valley's monasteries, palaces and stupas: both surviving and in ruins, Professor Agrawal offers a meticulously detailed study of the Buddhist antiquities in this remote, hitherto archaeologically unexplored region of the Indian subcontinent.

ISBN 9788180902994, DK-226317- Islamic architecture of Delhi edited by G.S. Khwaja; foreward by B.R. Mani. 1st ed. Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2012. Dr G.S. Khwaja (b. 1956): currently serving the Archaeological Survey of India, Nagpur Branch, as Director (Epigraphy), Incharge of Arabic and Persian Inscriptions, is a scholar of Arabic and Persian Epigraphy, Medieval Numismatics, Islamic Calligraphy and Architecture

The present treatise generally incorporates the matter about Indian Gods and Goddesses of Indian Art and Literature. The Iconographical representation of the Indian Gods & Goddesses, as glimpsed from the Archaeological findings and temple architecture is one aspect and the literary evidences found in our vast Indian literature of Vedic, Epic and Puranic period is the other aspect of the book. [Indian Books] Both these aspects delineated in this book give us perfect picture and historical development of Indian Mythology of Gods and Goddesses.

The volume is a study of the excavations (1971-1981) by the Archaeological Survey of India at Antichak which brought to light the largest excavated monastery complex in India comprising a series of about 208 monastic cells and a few basement chambers. It begins with an overall view of the site in Bhagalpur district, Bihar and its environment in detail Indian Books.

Indian Books offers a comprehensive archaeo-historical study of Vidarbha - a vastly sprawling region in the eastern extremity of the present-day Maharashtra State. From the archaeological point of view, the region is distinctly positioned having already thrown up enough evidence of proto-historic human settlements, dating back to the Chalcolithic period,Indian Books around first millennium BCE.

DK-222411 (ISBN 9788177022810)- From the 6th to 11th centuries, there appeared, on Orissa's sacred landscape, a large number of temples. Which exercised a powerful influence on the cultural life in this eastern Indian region. Earlier approaches to the study of temples tend to perpetuate an over-determined reading of art. They either objectify the temple aesthetically as a 'non-living, static monument' with architectural complexities; or institutionalize it as a symbol of royal legitimacy.

English Books in India- As a curator of South Asians Coins in the Department of Coins and Medals in the British Museum, and lately the Keeper of this department, Joe has had a 'hand' in a variety of numismatic activities |Indian Books|