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Bhattacharyya, Haridas (Ed) - Cultural heritage of India. Vol. I: The early phases (prehistoric, vedic and upanisadic,
Jaina, and Buddhist)

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ILLUSTRATIONS
ABBREVIATIONS
HINTS ON PRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING
THE SPIRIT OF INDIA. Rabindranath Tagore
INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
EDITORS’ PREFACE
I. Suniti Kumar Chatterji
II. A. D. Pusalker
III. Nalinaksha Dutt
PART I : THE BACKGROUND OF INDIAN CULTURE
1. THE GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND OF INDIAN CULTURE. Nirmal Kumar Bose
2. RACE AND RACE MOVEMENTS IN INDIA. Sasanka Sekhar Sarkar
3. REGIONAL STRUCTURE OF INDIA IN RELATION TO LANGUAGEAND HISTORY. Jay Chandra
Narang
4. LINGUISTIC SURVEY OF INDIA: LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS. Suniti Kumar Chatterji
5. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DIFFERENT LANGUAGE-CULTURE GROUPS. Suniti Kumar Chatterji
PART II : PREHISTORIC INDIA
6. THE STONE AGE IN INDIA
I. Nirmal Kumar Bose
II. Dharani Sen
7. INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION. Madho Sarup Vats
8. THE ORIGIN OF THE INDO-ARYANS. Bata Krishna Ghosh
9. CULTURAL INTERRELATION BETWEEN INDIA AND THE OUTSIDEWORLD BEFORE ASOKA. A.
D. Pusalker
PART III: VEDIC CIVILIZATION
10. THE RELIGIO-PHILOSOPHIC CULTURE OF INDIA. T. M. P. Mahadevan
11. THE VEDAS AND THEIR RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS. Swami Sharvananda
12. VEDIC CULTURE. C. Kunhan Raja
13. VEDIC SOCIETY. A. S. Altekar
14. VEDIC RITUALS. V. M. Apte
15. THE VEDANGAS. V. M. Apte
 16. YASKA AND PANINI. Vasudeva Sharana Agrawala
17. VEDIC EXEGESIS. Shrimat Anirvan
18. THE DAWN OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHYSwarai Ghanananda
19. A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE UPANISADS. Swami Madhavananda
20. MYSTICAL APPROACH IN THE UPANISADSMahendranath Sircar
21. UPANISADIC MEDITATIONSwami Gambhirananda
PART IV: JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
22. SRAMA1SJA OR NON-BRAHMANICAL SECTS
23. JAINISM: ITS HISTORY PRINCIPLES AND PRECEPTS. Hiralal Jain
24. JAINISM: ITS PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS. Appaswami Chakravarti
25. SOME FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF JAINISM. Pandit Sukhalal Sanghvi
26. SOME ASPECTS OF EARLY BUDDHISM. Beni Madhab Barua
27. SCHOOLS AND SECTS OF BUDDHISM
I. P. V. Bapat
II-IV. Nalinaksha Dutt
28. EMERGENCE OF MAHAY ANA BUDDHISM. Nalinaksha Dutt
29. MAHAYANIC PANTHEON. Benoytosh Bhattacharyya
30. KARMA. Bimala Chum Law
31. NIRVANA. Bimala Chum Law
32. BUDDHISM IN RELATION TO VEDANTA. Vidhushekhara Bhattacharya
33. BUDDHISM IN INDIAN LIFE AND THOUGHT. Satkari Mookerjee
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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HINTS ON PRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING OF SANSKRIT AND VERNACULAR WORDS
ABBREVIATONS
INTRODUCTION
PART I: THE TWO GREAT EPICS
1. CLASSICAL SANKSRIT AS A VEHICLE OF INDIAN CULTURE. K.K. Handique
2. THE RAMA YANA: ITS HISTORY AND CHARACTER. A.D. Pusalker
3. THE CULTURE OF RAMA YANA. Swami Nihsreyasananda
4. THE MAHABHARATA: ITS HISTORY AND CHARACTER
I. P.L. Vaidya
II. A.D. Pulsalker
5. THE MAHABHARATA: SOME ASPECTS OF ITS CULTURE. Hemchandra Ratchaudhuri
6. RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE EPICS. A.P. Karamarkar
7. THE INFLUENCE OF THE EPICS ON INDIAN LIFE AN LITERATURE. Nilmadhav Sen
8. THE RAMA YANA AND THE MAHABHARATA IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
PART II: THE GITA LITERATURE
9. THE BHAGAVADGITA; A GENERAL REVIEW OF ITS HISTORY AND CHARACTER. S.K. Belvalkar
10. THE TEACHINGS OF THE BHAGAVAD-GITA. Swami Suddhananda
11. THE RELIGION OF THE BHAGAVAD-GITA. Swami Tapasyananda
12. THE BHAGAVAD-GITA; ITS SYNTHETIC CHARACTER. Swami Vireswarananda
13. THE BHAGAVAD-GITA: ITS EARLY COMMENTARIES. MahendraNath Sarkar
14. IMITATIONS OF THE BHAGAVA-GITA AND LATER GITA LITERATURE. Parameswara Aiyar
PART III: THE PURANAS
15. INDIAN MYTHOOGY. R.N. Dandekar
16. THE PURANAS. Rajendra Chandra Hazra
17. THE UPAPURANAS. Rajemdra Chandra Hazra
PART IV: THE DHARMA-SASTRAS
19. DHARMA-SUTRA AND THE DHARMA-SASTRAS. V.A. Ramswami Sastri
20. THE SMRITIS: THEIR OUTLOOK AND CHARCTER
21. THE MANU SAMHITA. V. Raghavan
22. THE NIBANDHAS. Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya
23. PENACES AND VOWS. Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya
24. THE HINDU SCARAMENTS (SAMSKARAS)
25. THE HISTORICAL BACKGOUND AND THEORETIC BASIS OF HINDU LAW. P.B. Gajendragadhar
26. THE HINDU JUDICAL SYSTEM. P.B. Mukharji
PART V. ARTHA-SASTRA NITI-SASTRA; AND OHTER SOURCES OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL
ORANIZATION
27. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE OF ARTHA-SASTRA AND NITI SASTRA. (1) U.N.
Ghoshal (2) V. Radhagovinda Basak
28. PPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION: THE MONARCHICAL STATES. U.N. Ghoshal
29. POLITICAL ORGANIZATION; REPUBLICS AND MIXED CONSTITUIONS. U.N. Ghoshal
30. THE STATE IN REALTION TO RELIGION IN ANCIENT INDIA. K.A. Nilakanta Sastri
31. SOME ASPECTS OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EVOLUTION IN INDIA. C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar
32. SOME BASIC IDEAS OF POLITICAL THINKING IN ANCIENT INDIA. Benoy Kumar Sircar
33. THE TIRU K KURAL. C. Rajagopalachari
34. THE INDIAN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STURY. Iravati Karve
35. SOME ASPECTS OF SOCIAL LIFE IN ANCIENT INDIA. H. C. Chaklladar
36. MONASTICISM IN INDIA. Skumar D
37. SOME ASPECTS OF THE POSITON OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT INDIA. D.C. Ganguly
38. SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE IDEALS OF INDIAN WOMANHOOD. D.C. Ganguly
39. FORGEIGN ELEMENTS IN INDIAN POPULATION. Debala Mita
40. SOME EXPERIMENTS IN SOCIAL REFORM IN MEDIAEVAL INDIA. P.N. Chopra
41. ANCIENT INDIAN EDUCATIONS
I. Radha Kumud Mookerji
 II. U.N. Ghoshal
42. ECONOMIC IDEAS OF THE HINDUS. A.D. Pulsalker
43. GUILDS AND OTHER CORPORATE BODIES. U.N. Ghoshal
BIBLIPGRAPHY
INDEX
Bhattacharyya, Haridas (Ed) - Culture Heritage of India. Vol. Ill [Philosophies]
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Contents
Illustration
Preface
1. INTRODUCTION. Surendranath Dasgupta
PART I : THE PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS
2. RISE OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLST. R.V. Murti
3. THE SAMKHYA. M.Hiriyanna
4. YOGA PSYCHOLOGY. Haridas Bhattacharyya
5.NYAYA- VAISESIKA. Satkari Mookeijee
6. NAVYA NYAYA. Janaki Vallabha Bhattacharyya
7. PURVA MIMAMSA. Pramathanath Tarkabhushan
8. MATERIALISTS SCEPTICS
PART II : THE VEDANDA
9. BRAHMA-MIMAMSA. Ahantakrishna Sastri
10. ESSENTIALS OF VEDANTA. V. Subrahmanya Iyer
11. PHILOSOPHY OF THE ADVAITA. K. A. Krishnaswami Iyer
12. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SANKARA. Surendranath Bhattacharya
13. THE ADVAITA AND ITS SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE. Krishnachandra Bhattachaiyya
14. POST SANKARA ADVAITA. Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya
15. PHILOSOPHY OF THE BHAGAVATA Swami Tyagisananda
16. THE VISIT ADVAITA OF RAMANUJA. S.M. Srinivasa Chan
17. MADHVA’S BRAHMA MIMAMSA. H.N. Raghavendracha
18. THE NIMBARKA SCHOOL OF VEDANTA. Roma Chaudhuri
19. THE SCHOOL OF VALLABHA. Govindlal Hargovind Bhatt
20. BHEDABHEDA SCHOOL OF VEDANTA. P.N. Srinvasachari
21. THE ACINTYA BHEDABHEDA SCHOOL Radha Govinda Nath
PART I II : THE RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES
22. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SAIVISM. S. S. Suiyanarayana Sastri
23. THE PATH OF YOGA IN THE GITA. D. S. Sarnia
24. PHILOSOPHY OF THE YOGAVASISTHA Bhikkan Lai Atreya
25. PHILOSOPHY OF THE TANTRAS Swami Pratyagatmananda
26. THE PHILOSOPHY OF MYSTICISM Radhakamal Mukerjee
27. PHILOSOPHY IN POPULAR LITERATURE. Atindranath Bose
PART IV : THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY
28. RELIGION OF THE NYAYA AND VAISESIKA. Ganganath Jha
29. NATURE OF THE SOUL. Anukul Chandra Mukerji
30. NATURE OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD. Umesh Mishra
31. NATURE OF MIND AND ITS ACTIVITIES. P. T. Raju
32. EXTRA SENSORY AND SUPERCONSCIOUS EXPERIENCESSwami Akhilananda
PART V : THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES
33. INDIAN THEISM Swami Hiranmayananda
34. INDIAN EPISTEMOLOGY. Dhirendra Mohan Datta
35. THE ART OF PHILOSOPHICAL DISPUTATION. Yogendranath Bagchi
36. INDIAN PSYCHOLOGY P. T. Raju
37. TYPES OF HUMAN NATURE Hari Mohan Bhattacharyya
38. INDIAN ETHICS Handas Bhattachaiyya
39. PHILOSOPHY OF VALUES. M. Hinyanna
Bibliography
Index
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Unbenannt
ILLUSTRATIONS
TRIMORTI (Sadasiva)
SRI RAMAKRISHNA
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
ABBREVIATIONS
Preface
1. INTRODUCTION. Bharataratna Bhagavan Das
PART I : RELIGIOUS SECTS AND CULTS
2. EVOLUTION OF RELIGIO PHILOSOPHIC CULTURE IN INDIA. R. C. Majumdar
3. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SAIVISM. K. A. Nilakania Sastri
4. KASHMIR SAIVISM. Arabinda Basu
5. VIRASAIVISM. Shree Kumaraswamij
6. EARLY HISTORY OF VAISNAVISM. Dines Chandra Sircar
7. BHAGAVATA RELIGION: THE CULT OF BHAKTI. Jadunath Sinha
8. THE VAIKHANASAS. K. R. Venkataraman
9. HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF SRI VAISNAVISM IN SOUTH INDIA. V. Rangacharya
10. A SURVEY OF THE CAITANYA MOVEMENT. Radha Govinda Nath
11. SANKARA DEVA AND THE VAISNAVA MOVEMENT IN ASSAM. Raj Mohon Nath
12. EVOLUTION OF THE TANTRAS. P. C Bagchi
13. TANTRA AS A WAV OF REALIZATION. Swami Pratyagaimanuanda
14. TH E SPIRIT AND CULTURE OF THE TANTRAS. Atal Ischari Ghosh
15. SAKTI CULT IN SOUTH INDIA. K. R. Venkataraman
16. TANTRIKA CULTURE AMONG THE BUDDHISTS Benoytosh Bhattacharyya
17. THE CULT OF THE BUDDHI5T SIDDHACARYAS. P. C Bagchi
18. THE NATHA CULT. Sukumar Sen
19. SOME LATER YOGIC SCHOOLS. Shastri Bhusuan Das Gupta
20. THE DOCTRINAL CULTURE AND TRADITION OF THE SIDDHAS. V. V. Ramana Sastri
21. SKANDA CULT IN SOUTH INDIA. K. R. Venkataraman
22. THE RELIGION OF THE SIKH GURUS. Teja Singh
23. CULTPSYCRETISM. JitendraNath Banerjea
PART II : THE SAINTS AND THEIR TEACHINGS
24. THE SAVA SAINTS OF SOUTH INDIAS. Satchidanandam Pillai
25. THE VAISNAVA SAINTS OF KARNATAKA. B. N. K. Sharma
26. THE MAHARASTRA SAINTS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. K V. Gajendragadkar
27. THE MEDIAEVAL MYSTICS OF NORTH INDIA. Kishitimohan Sen
28. TULASIDASA AND HIS TEACHINGS. Srimati Chandra Kumari Handoo
29. SAKTI -W ORSHIP AND THE SAKTA SAINTS. Chintaharan Chakravarti
PART I II : RELIGION IN PRACTICE
30. RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF THE INDIAN TRIBES. Tarak Chandra Das
31. A GLIMPSE INTO HINDU RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM. Swami Yatiswarananda
32. RITUALS OF WORSHIP. L.A. Ravi Vanua
33. INDIAN HYMNOLOGY Sivaprasa Bhattacharyya
34. FESTIVALS AND SACRED DAYS. Batuknath Bhattachaiya
35. PILGRIMAGE AND FAIRS: THEIR BEARING ON INDIAN LIFE. Swami Pavitranada
36. METHODS OF POLPULAR RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN SOUTH INDIA. V. Raghavan
37. DIFFUSION OF SOCIO-RELIGIOUS CULTURE IN NORTH INDIA.
I. Khagendranath Mitra
II. Asutosh Bhattacharyya
PART IV : RELIGONS FROM BEYOND THE BORDERS
38. ZOROASTRIANISM Irach J. S. Taraporewal
39. THE RISE AND GROWTH Of CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA. Rev. C. E. Abraham
40. ISLAMIC CULTURE. M.T. Akbar
 41. ISLAM IN INDIA. Huntayun Kabir
42. SUFISM
I. Hira Lall Chopra
II.N.B. Butaul
PART V : SOME MODERN REFORM MOVEMENTS
43. THE BRAHMO SAMAJ. KalidasNag
44. THE ARYA SAMAJ. Pandit Chamupati
45. WHAT THEOSOPHISTS BELIEVE. C. Jinarajadasa
PART VI : SRI RAMAKRISHNA AND SPIRITUAL RENAISSANCE
46. 5RI RAMAKRISHNA AND SPIRITUAL RENALSSANCE. Swami Nirvedananda
BIBLIGRAPHY
INDEX
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Literature]
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Hints on Pronunciation and Spelling
Abbreviations
Preface
1. INTRODUCTION. K. M. Munshi
PART I : RELIGIOUS LITERATURE OF ANCIENT INDIA
2. LITERATURE OF BRAHMANISM IN SANSKRITR. N. Dandekar
3. THE GREAT EPICS. S. C. Banerji
4. THE PURANAS. Diwan Bahadur K.S. Ramaswami Sastri
5. DHARMA-SASTRAS. G. Goswami
6. SAIVA LITERATURE. Rao Sahib N. Murugesa Mudaliar
7. VAISNAVA LITERATURE.
I. Gopikamohan Bhattacharya
II. PremaNandakumar
8. SAKTA LITERTURE. Govinda Gopal Mukheijee
9. GANAPATYA
10. LITERATURE OF JAINISM. Hiralal Jain
11. PRAKRIT LANGUAGE AND LITERATUREA. N. Upadhye
12. BUDDHIST LITERATURE Armkul Chandra Baneijee
PART II: SANSKRIT AND SANSKRITIC LITERATURE
13. SANSKRIT KAVYA LITERATURE. A GENERAL SURVEY. V. Raghavan
14 SANSKRIT DRAMA: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS. S.K.De
15. SANSKRIT PROSE. Bishnupada Bhattacharya
16. SANSKRIT AND SANSKRITIC FABLES.Ramaranjan Mukherji
17. SANSKRIT HISTORIES AND CHRONICLES. A.D. Pusalker
18. SANSKRIT POETICS. Gaurinath Sastri
19. SANSKRIT METRES THEIR EVOLUTION AND PRINCIPLES OF DIVISION. H.D.Velankar
20. SANSKRIT GRAMMAR. Satya Vrat
21. THE SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK OF SANSKRIT GRAMMAR. Prabhat Chandra Chakravarti
22. SANSKRIT LEXICOGRAPHY. M.M. Patkar
23. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC LITERATURE IN SANSKRITS. K. Mitra
24. SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE IN SANSKRIT. K.K.Dutta
25. PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE
I-IV. Kalidas Bhattacharyya
V-VII. Amiya Kumar Majumdar
26. INSCRIPTIONS- THEIR LITERARY VALUE
I. Radhagovinda Basak
II. Kamaleswar Bhattacharya
PART I II : MAJOR LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES OF MODERN INDIA
27. ASSAMESE. Maheswar Neog
28. BENGALI. Sukumar Sen
29. ENGLISH. K. R. Srinivasa Iyenger
30. GUJARATI. Diwan Bahadur K. M. Jhaveri
31. HINDI. Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
32. KANNADA. Prabhu Shankara
33. KASHMIRI. Suniti Kumar Chatterji
34. MALAYALAM. K. M. George
35. MARATHI. Prabhakar Machwe
36. ORIYAK. C. Mishra
37. PUNJABIS. S. Kolhi
38. SINDHI. L. M. Khubchandani
39. TAMILP. N. Venkatachari
40. TELUGUG. N. Reddy
 41. URDU. Mohammad Hasan
PART IV : ADIVASI AND FOLK LITERATUES OF INDIA
42. ADIVASI LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES OF INDIA. Suniti Kumar Chatterji
43. FOLK-LITERATURE OF INDIA. Asutosh Bhattacharyya
PART V : INDIAN LITERATURE ABROAD
44. NEPAL. Paras Mani Pradhan
45. CENTRAL ASIA (INCLUDING NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN) Bratindra Nath Mukherjee
46. TIBET
a) Tibet
b) Mongolia
c) Siberia
47. CHINA
I. CHINA
(A) K. Venkata Ramanan
(B) Biswadev Mukherjee
II. KOREA AND JAPAN. H. B. Sarkar
48. Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and South-East Asia
49. WESTERN COUNTRIES. N. N. Bhattacharyya
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Technology]
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Illustrations
i-xv, p.216ff
I Sanchi: Stupa
II Amaravati
III Ellora
IV Sanchi
V Roda
VI Mahabalipuram
VII Tiruvannamalai
VIII Bhubaneswar
IX Khajuraho
X Mahabalipuram
XI Delhi
XII Ahmedabad
XIII Bijapur
XIV Fatehpur Sikri
XV Agra
XVI Agra
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xvii
xviii
xvix-xxv, p. 386ff
xix, xx
xxi, xxii
xxiii, xiv
xxv
Maps and Diagrams
Hints on Pronunciation and Spelling of Sanskrit Words
Preface
1. INTRODUCTION. Raja Ramanna
PART I : SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ANCIENTAND MEDIEVAL INDIA
2. GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA. Sashibhusan Chaudhuri
3. VEDIC MATHEMATICS. Bibhutibhusan Datta
4. POST-VEDIC MATHEMATICS. SamareudraNath Sen; A.K. Bag
5. ASTRONOMY IN ANCIENT INDIA. P.C. Sen Gupta
6. ASTRONOMY IN MEDIEVAL INDIA. Samarendra Nath Sen
7. PHYSICS AND MECHANICS IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA. S.D. Chatterjee
8. BOTANY IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA. Girija Prasanna Majunidar
9. ZOOLOGY IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA. Priyadaranjan Ray
10. CHEMISTRY IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA. Priyadaranjan Ray
11. AYURVEDA. Mira Roy
12. AGRICULTURE IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA. Satyaprasad Raychaudhuri
13. MINING IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA. Dilip K. Ghakrabarti
14. SHIPBUILDING IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA. Mamata Chaudhuri
15. ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA. R. Sengupta
16. INDIA AND THE ANCIENT WORLD: TRANSMISSION OFSCIENTIFIC IDEAS. Samarendra Nath Sen
PART II : SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN MODERN INDIA
17. MATHEMATICS. Ram Behari
18. ASTRONOMY. M. K. V. Bappu
19. PHYSICS. B.D. Nag Chaudhuri
20. CHEMISTRYT. R. Seshadri
21. BOTANYS. C. Datta
 22. ZOOLOGY. A. K. Ghosh
23. MEDICAL SCIENCES. Rudrendra Kumar Pal
24. GEOLOGY AND MINING. C. Karunakaran
25. GEOPHYSICS. Hari Narain; G. H. Rao
26. METEOROLOGY. P.K. Das
27. AGRICULTURE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRYS. K. Mukherjee
28. FOOD TECHNOLOGY. A.N. Bose
29. ATOMIC ENERGY IN INDIA: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. K.R. Rao
30. NUCLEAR ENERGY IN INDIA: GROWTH AND PROSPECTS. M.K. Pal
31. SPACE RESEARCH. M.K. Mukherjee
32. DEFENCE RESEARCH.bB. D. Nag Chaudhuri
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Preface xxi
1. INTRODUCTION. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy 3
ARCHITECTURE
2. THE STUPA. Amita Ray 37
3. ROCK-CUT CAVES (Buddhist, Jaina and Brahmanical). Asok K. Bhattacharya 74
4. REFLECTIONS ON SCHOOLS AND STYLES OF INDIAN TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE. Nirmal K. Bose 87

5. INDIAN TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE (Early Phase up to 750 A. D.). Michael W. Meister 103
6. NAGARA TEMPLES. Nirmal K. Bose 115
7. DRAVIDA AND CALUKYA TEMPLES. K. R. Srinivasan 142
8. JAINA ARCHITECTURAL TRADITIONS AND CANONS. Gopilal Amar 211
9. SOME ARCHITECTURAL CONVENTIONS OF KERALA. K. R. Pisharoti 248
10. THE SPIRIT OF TIBETAN ARCHITECTURE. Lama Anagarika Govinda
11. INDO-ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE (1192-1803 A. D.). R. Nath
SCULPTURE
12. INDIAN SCULPTURE: ESSENCE AND FORM. O. C. Ganguly
13. HARAPPAN ART. Jagat Pati Joshi
14. ANCIENT INDIAN TERRACOTTAS. C.C. Dasgupta
15. MAURYA AND SUNGA SCULPTURE .Nihar Ranjan Ray
16. KUSANA SCULPTURE. R. C. Sharma
17. GUPTA SCULTURE. Stella Kramrisch
18. PALA AND SENA SCULPTURE. Stella Kramrisch
19. MEDIEVAL SCULPTURE. (DECCAN AND THE SOUTH). C.Sivaraniamurti
20. EARLY JAINA SCULPTURE (300 B.C.-300 A.D.): EAST INDIA. Debala Mitra
21. EARLY JAINA SCULPTURE (300 B.C.-300 A.D.): WEST INDIA. U.P. Shah 520
22. HINDU ICONOGRAPHY. N.P. Joshi 528
23. BUDDHIST ICONOGRAPHY. J.N. Banerjea 554
24. DIAGRAMS AND SYMBOLS OF JAINA ICONOGRAPHY. U.P. Shah 573
25. JINA IMAGE IN AGAMIC AND HYMNIC TRADITION. M.A. Dhaky 604
26. JAINA ICONOGRAPHY. Juthika Maitra 631
27. LATE JAINA WOOD-CARVINGS. V.P. Dwivedi 657
28. TEMPLE TERRACOTTAS OF BENGAL. Ashok K. Bhattacharyya 669
EPIGRAPHY AND NUMISMATICS
29. INDIAN EPIGRAPHY. D.C. Sircar 685
30. EPIGRAPHIC BEARING ON EARLY INDIAN ART. B.N. Mukherjee 708
31. ART IN THE COINS OF EARLY AND MEDIEVAL INDIA. B.N. Mukherjee 719
32. ART AND INDIAN EPIGRAPHY. Z.A. Desai 755
33. CALLIGRAPHIC ART IN PERSO-ARABIC EPIGRAPHS. Ashok K. Bhattacharyya 785
INDIAN ART AND THE EAST
34. SOOUTH-EAST ASIAN ART. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy 801
35. INDIA AND CENTRAL ASIA. R.C. Majumdar 874
36. INDIA AND CHINA : THE BEYOND AND THE WITHIN. Lokesh Chandra 883
37. INTERFLOW OF ART BETWEEN INDIA AND JAPAN. Lokesh Chandra 907
38. INDONESIAN ART: INDIAN ECHOES. K.K. Ganguly 931
39. PAGAN: THE INDIAN CONNECTION. K.K. Ganguly 939
40. ART OF NEPAL. Amita Ray 945
41. ART OF SRI LANKA. H.T. Basnayake 997
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