Contents: Vol. I: I. Prehistory and Rock Art: 1. Excavating in a cave/A.K. Sharma. 2. Functional interpretation of microlithic points/Gayatri Chaturvedi. 3. Couple and multiple couple burials of the mesolithic in the Ganga valley/Radha Kant Varma. 4. An archaeological evidence for tribal tradition in central India: a case study of microliths/Vidula Jayaswal. 5. More painted rock shelters from Madhya Pradesh/C.B. Trivedi. 6. A methodological approach to documentation of rock art of central India/Madhuri Sharma & D.P. Sharma. 7. Prehistoricity of rock-art of central India : a retrospect/S.S. Gupta. II. Protohistory: 8. Archaeology of South Asia : a perspective in interrelationship/B.K. Thapar. 9. A short note on Chirand excavations/B.S. Verma. 10. The date of the Surkotada Cemetery : a reassessment in light of recent archaeological work in Gujarat/Gregory L. Possehl. 11. Kunal--the earliest pre-Harappan settlement/J.S. Khatri & M. Acharya. 12. An inscribed Indus seal from Bahrain/K.M. Srivastava. 13. Some unique antiquities and pottery from Kalibangan/Madhu Bala. 14. Dholavira excavations : 1990-94/R.S. Bisht. 15. The extension of the Harappan culture in the Deccan/S.A. Sali. 16. The origins of the Indus-Saraswati civilization/S.P. Gupta. 17. The formative elements in the Harappan culture : current hypothesis and evidence/Malati J. Shendge. 18. Views of the Harappans--the transitional years/Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. 19. Decline! degeneration! or cultural transformation? A historiographical enquiry into the process of Harappan decay/Vijay Kumar Thakur. 20. Harappan ecology in the Rgveda/Bhagwan Singh. 21. The Luni as Vedic Saraswati/Bharat Jhunjhunwala. 22. Original home of the Aryans/Vidyanand Saraswati. 23. Reading the mind of the Harappans/K.K. Raman. 24. Copper hoard from Temani, Madhya Pradesh/Chandrashekhar Gupta. 25. Haswa--a new copper hoard site in the lower Ganga-Yamuna Doab/Krishna Kumar. 26. Gungeria copper hoard/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta. 27. Copper anthropomorphic figures of Bankot in Kumaon (U.P.)--analysis and conservation/S.K. Dubey and Manju Pant. 28. Copper in Indian chalcolithic with special reference to Bihar/B.P. Sinha. 29. Bronze tools and technology in proto-historic Afghanistan : a review/V.C. Srivastava. 30. Further evidence from the mid-first millennium B.C. in Swat/G. Stacul. 31. The painted grey ware culture : a fresh appraisal/J.S. Nigam. 32. Black-and-red ware in Rajasthan : an appraisal/Baldev Singh Negi.
Vol. II. III. Historical Archaeology: 33. The Chalukyas of central India/Ahmed Ali. 34. Recalled from Oblivion/B.K. Sinha. 35. New light on Erich, district Jhansi (U.P.)/H.N. Singh. 36. Artificial water systems in ancient and medieval India/I.K. Sarma. 37. Contribution of Kalinga to Indian culture/K.D. Bajpai. 38. The date of the Bhattotpala--a re-examination/Lallanji Gopal. 39. The rise of urbanism in the upper Ganga-Yamuna Doab/R.C. Gaur. 40. Stupas and monasteries : a recent discovery from Satdhara, Madhya Pradesh/R.C. Agarwal. 41. Excavations at Sanghol, district Ludhiana, Punjab : 1985-90--a note on the settlement pattern and cultural sequence/C. Margabandhu. IV. Art & Architecture: 42. Phoo Gompa--a winter seat of Lamas of Tabo monastery/A. Jha & C. Dorjes. 43. Bannikoppa : the hiding place of the Pandavas' astras and its sculptures/A. Sundara. 44. Later Gupta temple and rock-cut caves at Ramgarh, district Vidisha (M.P.)/B.L. Nagarch. 45. The Jaina art of Bihar (up to pre-Pala period)/Binoy Kumar Sahay. 46. Art of Siva and Parvati icons in north-Bihar/Birendra Kumar Sinha. 47. The Panchatantra sculptures in the Tripurantakesvara temple at Balligave, Karnataka/Channabassapa S. Patil. 48. A rare image of Dharanendra/Devendra Handa. 49. Concepts behind the origin of the Dharmachakra Stupa at Sanghol/G.S. Gaur. 50. Anga-sikhara in the decorative scheme of Orissa Rekha Deul/Gyanendra Nath Srivastava. 51. Khar palace at Leh, Ladakh/H.L. Raina. 52. Dhyani Buddhas on the Stele of Budha/Jitendra Nath. 53. The Pearl Mosque in Delhi/Jose Pereira. 54. A Harihara sculpture from Khajuraho/K.M. Suresh. 55. An interesting inscribed Makara Torana/K.P. Poonacha, M.V. Visweswara and T.M. Kesava. 56. Social setting of the medieval temples/Krishna Deva. 57. Brahmanical deities in Jaina pantheon and religious art: their mutuality/Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari. 58. Siva temple, Panaheda, Rajasthan/P.K. Trivedi. 59. Religious syncretism in the Pala-Sena art/Pranabananda Jash. 60. Some observations on the images of Kubera/Prithvi Kumar Agrawala. 61. Notes on two ornamental motifs/R. Morton Smith. 62. Fresh light on Tanjore temple/R. Nagaswamy. 63. Twin Varahi panel in Indian Art Museum at Berlin/R.C. Agrawala. 64. Iconographic gleanings of Govindadeva temple/R.C. Sharma. 65. Zanskar : the hidden treasure/R.S. Fonia. 66. Development of early terrocotta art in the mid-Ganga plain--a case study/S.C. Saran. 67. A Gandharan relief in the National Museum collection/Shashi Asthana. 68. Vaishnava images in Khairagarh Museum--a critical study/Shiva Kant Dwivedi. 69. Some reflections on art history and art criticism/Susmita Pandey. 70. Manasa in literature and art/Umesh Chandra Dwivedi. 71. A rare Lajja Gauri Plaque from Tarsang (Gujarat)/V.H. Sonawane. 72. Mother-Goddess of Curdi-Goa and some parallels/V.R. Mitragotri. 73. Khass-Mahall--a building or builder/Z.A. Desai. V. Beyond Indian Frontiers: 74. Sea voyages of Buddhist monks/Aniruddh Singh Gaur. 75. Close religio-cultural bond between Bodh-Gaya and Sri Lanka/Debala Mitra. 76. Early contacts between India and Indonesia/Kalyan Kumar Sarkar. 77. Nrtta-Ganapati in India and beyond its frontiers/Sudha Malaiya. 78. Contribution of Indian Buddhist monks to Chinese painting/Upendra Thakur. 79. Indian archaeological expeditions abroad/Jagat Pati Joshi.
Vol. III. VI. Epigraphy & Numismatics: 80. Naresar inscriptions/A.K. Singh. 81. Sambhal-Amroha copperplate inscription of Nagabhata II of the year 885 (828 A.D.)/B.R. Mani. 82. New fragment of the Panchavimsatisahasrikaprajnaramitasutra from Aurel Stein collection/G.M. Bongard-Levin. 83. A Pandya record from Kargudi/M.D. Sampath. 84. Orogadam inscription of Rajendra Chola I/S. Swaminathan. 85. Yaudheya coins : contemporary counterfeits/Ajay Mitra Shastri. 86. Numismatics and historical reconstruction : some Random thoughts/Arun Kesarwani. 87. The chronology of the silver punch-marked coins : a reconsideration/Nisar Ahmed. VII. Heritage Conservation: 88. Problems of conservation of excavated remains in India/B.M. Pande. 89. Conservation and preservation of monuments and artefacts--past and present/B.N. Tandon. 90. Conservation of Ardhanarisvara temple, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh/C. Dorje. 91. Stopping water leakage from the Dome of the Taj/Jagat Pati Joshi & S.S. Biswas. 92. Uses of epoxy resin for conservation of cultural heritage in central India/N.L. Batra. 93. Preserving the Portugese churches at Goa/R. Sengupta. VIII. Religion and Philosophy: 94. On Samgha's schism and Dhamma's origin/Abhay Kumar Singh. 95. The notion of tree worship in pre-Vedic India/Bansi Lal Malla. 96. Madhyama Vani and inner speech/Hem Chandra Pande. 97. Socio-cultural integration in the cult of Jagannatha/K.P. Padhy. 98. Role of the Lotus Sutra in the twenty-first century/Lokesh Chandra. 99. Impact of Brahmanism on the philosophical foundation of Vijnanavada/O.P. Jaiswal. 100. Succession problem in the Valmikiya Ramayana/S.R. Goyal.
IX. Museology: 101. Visual aids in museum display/D.K. Sinha. 102. The Central Armed Forces Museum, Luanda, Angola/Monira Khatun. X. Underwater Archaeology: 103. Submarine archaeology in search of unknown past of Lakshadweep Islands/Alok Tripathi. 104. Some aspects of navigation in ancient India/Sumita Chakravarty. XI. Ethno-Archaeology, Archaeo-Botany & Archaeo-Zoology: 105. Study of animal bones and bone tools from excavations: an ethno-archaeological approach/Bhupendra Pal Singh. 106. Social studies in western India during the nineteenth century/H.A. Phadke. 107. The Nagas of Madhya Pradesh/Vijaya K. Sinha. 108. Faunal remains from Mathura/A.K. Sharma. 109. Evaluating subsistence and ecological strategies from palaeo-ethnobotanical data of Kashmir/Farooq A. Lone, Maqsood Khan and G.M. Buth. 110. Botanical evidence of fire-sacrificial ritual in Kushana period at ancient Sanghol, Punjab (ca. 100-300 A.D.)/K.S. Saraswat & Anil K.S. Pokharia.
XII. Allied Aspects: 111. Gold micro bead making/Ashwani Asthana. 112. Immunuel Velikovsky/C.S. Mahadevan. 113. Archaeology and computer/C.S. Vasudevan. 114. Retrieval of Indian antiquities smuggled abroad/D.K. Sinha. 115. A philosophy of archaeology/D.P. Agrawal. 116. Parentage and nativity of Dhruvadevi--Chief Queen of Chandragupta-II/Kiran Kumar Thaplyal. 117. Hydrolic technology at Fatehpur Sikri: a reappraisal/M.S. Mate. 118. Barefooted archaeologists of India/N.C. Ghosh. 119. Oral traditions and archaeology/R.N. Mehta. 120. Cultural succession in the Gwalior region, central India/R.P. Pandey. 121. Dancing girls in the Chauhan temples of Nadol/Ram Vallabh Somani. 122. Identification of early settlers of Kashmir and their cultural impact/S.L. Shali. 123. Rise of medievalism in Indian history/Shankar Goyal. 124. Trade routes and communication pattern of ancient Orissa/Sila Tripathi and Sunil Kumar Patnaik. 125. Household system--the strategem for existence in the high Himalayan environment/Tobdan.
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