The Ananda-Vana of Indian Art : Dr. Anand Krishna Felicitation Volume

Contents: Introduction/Milo Beach. I. BCE to eleventh century: 1. Ashokan PIllars : medium, chiseling and composition/Vidula Jayaswal. 2. Further studies towards of definition of the style of early historic terracotta from the Indo-gangetic divide/Naman Ahuja. 3. Genesis of Buddhist art at Mathura/R.C. Sharma. 4. Sultanganj's early document/Wladimir Zwalf. 5. A new Vakataka chronology/Walter M. Spink. 6. Discoveries on the Indus/Michael W. Meister. 7. Landmarks of Jaina iconography/Maruti Nandan P. Tiwari. 8. Tapasvini Parvati in the National Museum Collection/Shashi Kant Pathak. 9. An unusual Pala Devi image in the Norton Simon Museum/Pratapaditya Pal. 10. Some Daoist deities and their Indian prototypes/Terese Tse Bartholomew. 11. A tenth-century wooden door from Rajasthan/Darielle Mason. 12. Unexplored textual glimpses of Hariti/D.C. Bhattacharya. 13. Identification of five unique paintings from Central Asia preserved in the National Museum, New Delhi/Binoy Sahai. 14. Materials and technique of painting in the Tivanka Image House, Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka/O.P. Agrawal and N. Wickramsinghe. 15. Some observations on the philosophy painting as found in early medieval Vastu text/P.K. Agrawal. 16. Samavasarana in Jaina art/Kamal Giri. II. Eleventh to Nineteenth century: 17. A philosopher's taxonomy of Shiva Parvati images/Harsha H. Dehejia. 18. The newly excavated Bijamandala (Vaidyanatha) temple at Khajuraho/Devangana Desai. 19. Thoughts on Jaina paintings in San Francisco Bay area collections/Robert Del Bonta. 20. Shringara, Viraha and the Rasikapriya/Vishakha N. Desai. 21. Two rare paintings on Birch Bark in the Chaurpanchashika style/Lalit Kumar. 22. Indian cotton textiles- a radical re-dating: India, Southeast Asia and the textile trade/John Guy. 23. A seventeenth century calligraphic masterpiece/Ziyauddin A. Desai. 24. Portraits of ordinary men from the sixteenth century Mughal school/Som Prakash Verma. 25. Identification of portraits of Birbal : Akbar's 'Spiritual companion'/Amita V. Sarin. 26. Remarks on the portraits of Holy men in Mughal painting/Amina Okada. 27. Notes on Malwa painting/Pramod Chandra. 28. Loka Purusha : Jaina paintings of the three worlds/Shridhar Andhare. 29. Indra Sarovar Dam : in service of the royal family deity and the people/Bhanwar Lal Bhadani. 30. A Vijnaptipatra dated 1666 from Diu/Amit Ambalal. 31. A dispersed Ragamala from the deccan/Andrew Topsfield. 32. Illustrations on a Jamadhar in Jodhpur Fort in the earliest phase of the Marwar painting style?/Naval Krishna. 33. Mughal regional centers in Eastern India/Catherine B. Asher. 34. Portraits, gift giving and the Rajput alliance of 1708/Molly Emma Aitken. 35. A theological statement by Krishnadeva Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya/Monika Horstmann. 36. Interpreting a Pahari painting: Rasamanjari or Rasikapriya inverting a metaphor/Ratan Parimoo. 37. An unusual cloth painting from the Pahari region in the collection of the Asian Civilization Museum, Singapore/Gauri Parimoo Krishnan. 38. A new masterwork by Mir Kalan Khan/Stephen A. Markel. 39. The painter, the queen and the mole: notes on a newly-discovered painting about an oft-told tale/B.N. Goswamy and Eberhard Fischer. 40. Copper Alloy water jars and the pilgrimage sites of Banaras/Hiram H. Woodward Jr. 41. Sangeet Prakash of Udaipur Riyasat/D.B. Kshirsagar. 42. A Golconda artist at Basohli?/S.C. Welch. 43. Some rare ivory miniatures from the National Museum Collection, New Delhi/Anamika Pathak. III. Twentieth century and modern age: 44. Medals of the Indian princely states/Kenneth X. Robbins. 45. Abanindranath, Sailendranath and Rai Krishnadasa: reference Meghaduta paintings/T.K. Biswas. 46. Ustad Mulchand as a Litho artist/Anjan Chakraverty. 47. An architect of Makrana/Frederick M. Asher. 48. The Goddess and modernity/Alka Patel. 49. Sonabai: an innovative artistic legacy/Stephen P. Huyler. 50. From ritual to retail/Mary C. Lanius. 51. Craft as activity or activity as craft : the case of Minicoy/Lotika Varadarajan. 52. City of desires : performance and interactive art in Mumbai/Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker. 53. Ignoring the Icon : ritual in a Modern Sun Temple/Joan Cummins. 54. The Goddess in the tree: reflections on Nim-Tree shrines in Varanasi/David Gordon White. 55. Reconsidering A.K. Coomaraswamy's interpretations of some of the verses of the Alekhyakarma of the Abhilashitarthachintamani : some of the verses of the Alekhyakarma of the Abhilashitarthachintamani/Deen Bandhu Pandey. 56. Do real men cry? Love, gender and seasonality in songs from India/Neeta Kumar.

"This unique volume is a compilation of articles contributed by these colleagues, friends and students--all Indian art specialists from the length and breadth of the world. They have come together by contributing interesting finds of their fields to form this book-offering which constitutes a landmark in this Ananda-Vana of Indian Art, that is 'The forest of Bliss of Indian Art'.

Covering a time span from centuries prior to the beginning of Christian era to the modern times, i.e. almost 2000 years, this book embraces almost every facet of Indian art, such as architecture, sculpture, textile, decorative arts, folk and modern art, sociology and culture.

Enriched with over 500 spectacular colour and black and white relevant illustrations, this scholarly book, unprecedented in style, will not only be a source of information both textually and visually for the academics, but will also be of great interest to every person fascinated by the general or specialized study of Indian art."