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Confident of its future but proud of its past, this new India is a markedly different place from the country that gained freedom that August midnight in 1947. How this came to be is a fascinating study that this volume records through words and visuals. Essays by finest minds analyze various aslpects of the nation's progress while paintings by India's best and brightest reveal starling yet enthralling ways of seeing these changes.
The book traces the evolution of the indigenous Indian costume in the ancient and medieval times (from the seventh century BC to the early sixteenth century). With numerous illustrations of varieties of costumes worn by people of various classes at different times, the work emphasises on ancient Indian costumes as depicted in ancient sculptures, the frescoes of Ajanta and Bagh, Jain manuscripts and other illustrated manuscripts. Considerable attention is given to ...