The Present monograph cobtains the available archaeological and literary data on the 'Lost Wax Process' as well as the field survey on the Dhokra artisans of Bikna (dist. Bankura, West Bengal) and Daripur (dist. Burdwan, West Bengal). In this work an attempt has been made to read the data from all possible angles and to give the Dhokra Art from a distinct place in the world of metal art. It is hard to determine the actual antiquity of this living art tradition in ...
Religion and Culture in India: Historical Perspective: 45th Annual Conference Held at Tirupati, 2008
Assam was constituted into a province by the British rulers of India to meet the colonial needs of a viable province in the northeastern part of their Indian empire. It was accomplished in stages by subjugating the erstwhile Ahom Kingdom or Assam proper and its neighbouring hitherto independent hill tribal areas in several installments and annexing those to the Bengal presidency and thereafter by separating the Assam division from Bengal (1874) and transferring ...
The Changing Face of Folk Culture: Prof. K.K. Gupta Commemoration Volume
It gives us immense satisfaction for being able to publish the proceedings of a seminar held in memory of late Prof. Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta on 26 May, 2003. Some invited articles were added to the proceedings to make it a handsome volume.
