The monograph surveys the origin, growth and development of the art of letter writing in India from the sixth century B.C. to the eighteenth century A.D. based mainly on literature, canonical texts, epigraphic records, sculptures and paintings which breaks a new ground in the field of Indological studies, being a pioneering work on the subject. A well-written, throughly documented and judiciously balanced work epistolary art, the book contains the love letters of ...