India

	Arts of India by Joseph M. Dye - 1588860639 From the austere dignity of a Jain Thirthankara sculpture to the rich colors of Rajput paintings, the Indian collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts represents the scope of Indian art at its most expressive. Widely regarded as one of the finest in the United States, this collection was established in 1968 when funds provided by Paul Mellon enabled the Museum to purchase more than a hundred paintings, sculptures, textiles and decorative objects from New York art dealer Nasli Heeramaneck... $80.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Buddhist Reliquaries from Ancient India - 0714114928 The reliquaries that are the subject of this book were collected at Sanchi and neighboring sites in central India by Sir Alexander Cunningham and F.C. Maisey in the mid-nineteenth century. They are now in the collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. This book is the first detailed catalogue of this material. Relics played a key role in early Buddhism. As Buddhism spread across Asia, so did the cult of relics and practice of building shrines to contain the... $69.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Gandharan Art: I The Buddha's Life Story II The World of the Buddha - 4544023203 The long-awaited Bible of Gandharan art is now reissued. Highly praised by Ghandharan researchers and collectors around the world, the revised and enlarged edition of Gandharan Art I & II is finally ready. Revised and enlarged edition, adding 175 new all-color photographs from recent excavations, introducing a total of 1,700 of selected Gandharan sculpture from Peshawar, Taxila, Swat in Pakistan, and from Hadda in Afghanistan. Treasure-filled pages with over 700 photographs in Volume I, and ... $505.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Indian Dance: The Ultimate Metaphor - 187852965X This volume touches all aspects of Indian dance spanning from the traditional to futuristic. It blends analysis and interpretation and offers a bracing perspective on how classical dance has taken shape through the ages, enriched our culture and maintained our store of wisdom, sanity and humanity, even as it prepares for the enormous challenges it faces in the new millennium. It celebrates the brilliant flowering of Indian dance throughout the world. Hundreds of young Dutch, Surinamese and ot... $59.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Nautch Girls of India - Dancers . Singers . Playmates - 8190068806 The Nautch girl as entertainer of men belonged to a unique class of courtesans who played a significant role in social and cultural life of India in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This book traces her emergence in the Mughal era when she reached the zenith of her glory, her popularity among the English Sahibs and the Indian aristocracy during the Raj and finally her decline and demise at the hands of misguided zealtos. Sumptuously illustrated with fine paintings and drawings from collectio... $50.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Sacred Landscapes of the Himalayas - 3700131097 Where the mountains can be gods it seems obvious to talk about the sacredness of landscape: The proceedings of an international seminar at Heidelberg in May 1998 present nine case studies covering the entire range of the Himalaya, from Ladakh and Garhwal in India, to Humla and Mustang in Nepal as well as Bhutan. The focus is on space-related architectural and/or anthropological analysis of the built environment and its location in landscape - a term that denotes the uniqueness and singularity... $72.25     View Details Add To Cart