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The present book is an unorthodox approach to the study of early Buddhist architecture in India, and the author has marshaled the archaeological evidence to prove his two-fold thesis. Firstly, how and why the Buddhist adopted different types of building-plans, e.g. elliptical, circular and apsidal in the different period of their history. Secondly, how the Buddhist architecture was influenced and conditioned by the doctrines adopted by the Buddhist sects and sub ...
This book is devoted mainly to the problems of the protection of India's cultural property through a broad-based museum movement and by means of legislative measures. It deals with the history of India's museum movement, its achievement and shortcomings and also suggests measures to steer it on an even keel. Also, the legislative measures in the country have been examined in the light of similar laws in various developed and developing countries and against the ...
Indian inscriptions have been studied for their text and have provided a wealth of information of great historical value and importance. Symbols occurring in inscriptions as well as graphic representations have somehow not received as much attention, except for a few symbols, in contrast to the study of symbols in coins, art, mythology, etc. Symbols and Graphic Representations in Indian Inscriptions is a study of these renderings in inscriptional text, considered ...