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DK-206221 ISBN 9789380569031- The book explores the European influences on Srirangapatna paintings, in terms of their thematic content and stylistic features. Beginning with the evolution of historical paintings in India, the book comes to explore this genre of painting in the 18th-century Karnataka - which was then the scene of several battles for supremacy and power

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.

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|

Indian Books Delhi| Hampi A Story In Stone| By Indian Books The ruins of Vijayanagara, the City of Victory, know better today as Hampi, on the right bank of the Tungabhadra river in northern Karnataka, constitute one of the most extensive and spectacular historical sites to be found anywhere in India.

A Cyclopedia of Indian Ivory Art, ISBN 9789381209066, DK-226651- The art of ivory is considered one of the aesthetic productions in India. This is a comprehensive treatise containing historical narratives on the development of the art of ivory. It contains many copious illustrations of the carvings produced. It discusses the growth of the art in India and outside, especially in China, Japan, Thailand in the East and South-east of Asia, centres in the Middle East and the West particularly France and the USA.

Indian art is hailed as young, vibrant and relevant even today. The panorama of Indian art is wide, complex and meaningful as well as fascinating as it has been a product of diverse historical and cultural contexts and internal and external influences. Most notable about Indian art is its inseparability from its culture and its expression of the self; it has always been changing with space and time yet remains continuously same and alive. It embodies continuity in change.

ISBN 9781935677222, DK-225423 Historically, India-Southeast Asia cultural linkages are too well known. Even today, there are seen thousands of temples which built in the different parts of Southeast Asia, before the 14th century unambiguously bear out this cultural relationship centered in the architectural and planning experiences, as coded in the Indian Silpasastra texts.

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.

Christian Themes in Indian Art is a well-crafted, painstakingly researched work, illustrated with about 1,100 fascinating colour photographs. It is bound to interest the scholars/connoisseurs of art, and students and researchers of religion, history, art history, and intercultural studies. Historically, they can be traced back to the 16th century, when the European Christian prints had an unexpected encounter with the Indian miniatures.