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This important book is a comprehensive and analytical account of women’s development programmes since India’s independence. Replete with comparisons from around the world, it discusses the status of Indian women based on regional, religious, caste and class divides. This pioneering book is written from the perspective of a development administrator who has taken an active part in many of these processes—in the role of a policy maker, planner and actual ...
The book is divided into five chapters. In the first chapter, an attempt has been made to put the paintings in their setting. The way geography influenced the pattern of early settlements and helped to evolve a very sturdy and hardworking character of the people of this region has been discussed at the outset. The historical perspective which has determined the cultural mores of Rajasthan, beginning with the birth of the Rajput dynasties, their dominance, contact ...
There are many volumes on the study of Indian classical arts including different schools of miniature painting and some texts on regional and provincial wall paintings. The study of Indian wall paintings as a cohesive tradition is being attempted here for the first time. The author, Mira Seth, discusses the various texts that lay down the canons that govern wall painting – the preparation of colors and brushes, and the proper depiction of the myriad deities in ...