The Power of Art: Patronage in Indian Culture

Barbara Stoler Miller was professor of Oriental Studies at Barnard College Columbia University. She was a student of the late Professor W. Norman Brown. She had travelled widely throughout the Indian subcontinent and lived here to study Sanskrit and Indian music and art Dr. Miller's other published works include The Hermit and the Love-Thief: Sanskrit Poems of Bharatrihari and Bilhana and Theater of Memory: The plays of Kalidasa. She had also edited Exploring India's Sacred Art: Selected Writings of Stella Karmrisch published by Motilal Banarsidass.