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Art and Life: Bengal Art Through Ages presents a chronological picture of development of Bengal art, various stages of its evolution and its decline in the medieval period. Never ever the successive phases of its development have been studied so comprehensively. The evolution of various cults in particular and its impact on art discussed in the present work is in fact one of its unique features. No less remarkable is another chapter on the market of ancient ...
Rarely has so much effort been packed into one macro level study of Indian iconography. Travelling extensively throughout the length and breath of six eastern Indian States of Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Assam and Tripura over a period of five years, defying extreme climates ignoring extremist threats and braving the inhospitable right outs on unknown roads historians Malaysankar Bhattacharyya and Susanta Kumar Biswas have managed to put together some of ...
A noted exponent of ancient and early medieval Indian art Dr. M.S. Bhattacharya obtained his Ph.d. degree from the North Bengal University in 1987. He worked as the curator of the Malda Museum of Archaeology till the early eighties and catalogued the antiquities in the museum. His Art in Stone : A Catalogue of Sculptures in Malda Museum (1982) is widely accepted as one of the most important catalogues of sculptures published in the post war period. For more than ...
In Glimpses of Buddhist Bengal, Dr. Malaysankar Bhattacharya considers the reasons behind the growth of Buddhism in Eastern India, its decline and marginalization and its traces that survived through centuries despite inhospitable socio-political milieu. A Directory of the major Buddhist sites in Bengal and its adjoining districts presented in this work is virtually a compendium of art and culture that flourished in the region during the heyday of Buddhism. The ...