History & Criticism

Prizewinning author Harr embarks on a spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as "The Taking of Ch... More

Made for Maharajas: A Design Diary of Princely India explores the fascination among Indian royalty for western luxury goods. This taste reached its peak during the British Raj, when Indian rulers began travelling to Europe and remodelled their lives along western lines. Commissioning architects to d... More

Masterpieces of Indian Art encompasses the vast gamut of art high-lighting the many tributaries that make up the perennial river of art through choice pictures of masterpieces produced in each age and category. Lavishly illustrated and replete with historical information.... More

Even those uninitiated to Tagore will identify, or perhaps even view as synonymous, Tagore and Gitanjali - Tagore's Nobel Prize-winning work. Most of us are not aware of the fact that the contents of the English Gitanjali (song offerings) are not identical with the Bengali book of poems bearing the ... More

This book presents a treasury of Art Deco buildings comprising residential, commercial and public architecture created during the glamorous and optimistic era of the mid 1930s and 1940s. New Book... More

This reader assembles some of the most important works from feminists and environmentalists critical of the headlong rush into what is likely to prove a technological minefield. A distinguished cast of contributors presents much-needed frameworks for understanding and contextualising the debates on ... More

Editorial Review The rich heritage of Indian Miniature Paintings has long been the delight of collectors, art historians and Indophiles. This book introduces the generally interested, but diffident, reader to the world of Indian miniatures. It journeys into the evolution, development and decline of... More

Pahmina, synonymous with the famous Kasmir shawls, their weaving techniques and a look at the intricate designs...important collections in museums.... More

Monuments, Objects, Histories surveys the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. It looks at processes by which ‘lost pasts’ came to be produced in India. Such lost pasts, the author shows, came to be imagined around a corpus of monuments, ... More

A Visual Tour Through the Rich Art History of the Indian Subcontinent.Through the medium of art,the history of India is presented with accuracy and emotion.Encyclopedia Britannica's Art of India:Prehistory to the Present is a unique,visually arresting artistic timeline,written and compiled by world-... More

His wife lay sleeping, their son by her side. For a moment, he hesitated: should he wake her up? He decided otherwise, fearing that their parting would be made harder. He called for his charioteer, asked for his horse and left palace life behind forever. He was the Buddha.... More

Ajanta & Ellora enclose grand, mysterious and awe-inspiring cave temples, located in a horseshoe-shaped hillside in the state of Maharastra in India. Some of the world's most beautiful frescos and sculptures encompassing Buddhist, Hindu and Jain beliefs have been found here. Beautiful photographs ca... More

This is a richly illustrated book that reproduces some of the finest examples of Indian sculpture, with an extensive commentary on the importance of the art of carving, modelling and casting in the Indian civilization for over 4000 years. ... More

Sacred Buddhist Painting is a lucid and readable account of thangka painting - a form of scroll painting integral to Tibetan Buddhist worship. Tibetans were often advised by their religious preceptors to commission a painting for the 'removal' of physical or mental obstacles, or to create the prereq... More

Picturing the Nation presents a visual history of modern India and explores visual representations of India from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume have illustrations, which have all been reproduced in full colour on art paper. The illustrated pages have a... More

Sagaarmatha-Chomolungma or Everest is the cynosure of a vast network of mountains, natural resources,culture and languages. These are mountains in which humanity has sought for voicesin the wilderness and gods made in its image. For the people of Everest, the Sherpas, the mountain is a part of life,... More