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The art and architecture of the Indian subcontinent

J. C. Harle
This volume is now reissued with colour illustrations, textual revisions, and an updated bibliography.
Print Book, English, 1994
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1994
601 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 21 cm
9780300062175, 0300062176
182639683
Part 1 Early Indian Art: Early monuments and Sculpture; Early Rock-Cut Architecture; Mathura; The Art of Gandhara. Part 2 The Gupta Period: Introduction; Mathura; Sarnath, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar; Temples and Sculpture; The Later or Mahayana Caves at Ajanta. Part 3 The Post-Gupta Period: Later Rock-Cut Temples; Western India and Madhya Pradesh; Orisssa; The Deccan, Meeting-Place of North and South; Kashmir; Eastern India and Bangladesh. Part 4 The Later Hindu Period: Western India, Malwa, and Madhya Pradesh; Orissa; The Deccan. Part 5 South India: The Pallavas; The Early Cola Period; The Later Cola Period; Vijayanagara; Kerala. Part 6 Painting: Mural Painting and the Beginnings of Miniature Painting; Mughal Painting; Painting in Rajasthan, Malwa, and Central India; Deccani Painting; Pahari Painting. Part 7 Indo-Islamic Architecture: The Delhi Sultanate; The Provincial Styles; The Deccan; The Mughal Period. Part 8 Sri Lanka: Buddhism Preserved. Part 9 Nepal: A National Syncretism.
" ... Text remains unaltered, apart from a few corrections. Many of the illustrations are now in colour ..."--Page 10