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Paintings of Abanindranath Tagore/R. Siva Kumar. Kolkata, Pratikshan, 2008, 384 p., 360 paintings., ISBN 81-89323-091.  Details No. 57706

Rajput Painting : Romantic, Divine and Courtly Art from India/Roda Ahluwalia. Ahmedabad, Mapin, 2008, 176 p., 130 colour Ills., ISBN 81-89995-16-4. Details No. 57204

Abanindranath Tagore 1871-1951 : Portfolio Paintings 24. Calcutta, A.N. Tagore Birth Centenary Committee, 1972, 28 p., Details No. 57428

Abstraction in Indian Painting : Post Independence Era/Badar Jahan. New Delhi, Kaveri Books, 2008, xviii, 154 p., figs., plates, $80. ISBN 81-7479-081-1.   Details No. 53889

Adi Granth Paintings : Raga-Ragamala & Barah-Maha/Ranjit Singh Gill. New Delhi, Aravali Books, 2002, 196p., plates,  $66. ISBN 81-86880-83-6. Details No. 27736

An Aesthetic Voyage of Indo Tibetan Painting : Alchi and Tabo/A.K. Singh. Varanasi, Kala Prakashan, 2006, 128 p., figs., $80. ISBN 81-87566-18-3.  Details No. 55018

After the Great Mughals : Painting in Delhi and the Regional Courts in the 18 and 19 Centuries/edited by Barbara Schmitz. Mumbai, Marg Pub., 2002, 168 p., plates, $88. ISBN 81-85026-56-4. Details No. 28405

Ajanta Frescoes/Lady Herringham. Reprint. First published in London in 1915. 1998, 57 plates (15 coloured plates, $92. Details No. 12743

Ajanta Murals : An Album of Eighty-Five Reproductions in Colour/Illustrated text by Ingrid Aall, A. Ghosh, M.N. Deshpande and B.B. Lal/edited by A. Ghosh. Reprint. First published in 1967. 1987, x, 71 p., 85 colour plates, 20 figures, $55.  Details No. 9382

Ajanta Paintings : Their Composition, Technique Deterioration and Preservation/B.B. Lal. Edited by S.P. Singh. New Delhi, Islamic Wonders Bureau, 2007, x,154 p., tables, figs., $60. ISBN 81-87763-40-X.  Details No. 49840

Ajit Keshary Ray : Portrait of a Painter/edited by Dinanath Pathy. New Delhi, Harman, 2004, xv, 137 p., photos, $17. Details No. 37360   

Amrita Sher Gil : A Painted Life/Geeta Doctor. New Delhi, Rupa & Co., 2002, 91 p., plates, $11. ISBN 81-7167-688-X. Details No. 26620

Amrita Sher-Gil : A Life/Yashodhara Dalmia. New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2006, xvii, 230 p., illus., $40. ISBN 0-6700-58734.  Details No. 44901

Anita Roy Chowdhury/Shanti Nath. Translated by Mira Mukherjee. Kolkata, Raktakarabee, 2007, 144 p., illus., $28. ISBN 81-905134-8-7.  Details No. 52919

Anjolie Ela Menon : Portfolio Print\edited by Usha Bhatia. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 2006, 10 plates, $30. ISBN 81-87507-18-7. Details No. 46978

Art and Culture : Painting and Perspective : Vol. II/edited by Ahsan Jan Qaisar and Som Prakash Verma. New Delhi, Abhinav Pub., 2002, 171 p., 119 plates, $77 (Vol. II). ISBN 81-7017-405-8.  Details No. 28439

The Art of Ajanta and Sopocani : A Comparative Study (An Enquiry in Prana Aesthetics)/Om D. Upadhya. 1994, xxiv, 316 p., 166 plates, $53. Details No. 9588

The Art of Arpana Caur/Suneet Chopra. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2001, 16 p., $11. ISBN 81-7436-178-2.  Details No. 25664 

The Art of Gulammohammed Sheikh/Gayatri Sinha. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2002, 16 p., pictures, $11. ISBN 81-7436-181-2. Details No. 25635   

The Art of Jatin Das/Shobita Punja. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2003, 64 p., paintings, $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-7436-202-9.  Details No. 31661

The Art of Vivan Sundaram. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2002, 16 p., $11. ISBN 81-7436-198-7. Details No. 25634   

Banaras : Painting the Sacred City/Manu Parekh. New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2005, 144 p., photographs, $120. ISBN 067005824-6.  Details No. 40994

Banaras in the Early 19 Century : Riverfront Panorama : Panorama of Banaras Viewed from Across the Ganges by 'A Native Artist'/text by Rai Anand Krishna and Manu Krishna. New Delhi, Indica Books, 2003, 36 p., photographs, $42. ISBN 81-86569-29-4.  Details No. 43316

Benares Illustrated in a Series of Drawings/James Prinsep. Reprint. First published in 1833. 1997, plates,  $53. Details No. 12238

The Bhagavata Paintings from Mankot. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1978, ills., $11.  Details No. 45538

A Book of Paintings on Themes from the Hills of Northeast India/Sujata Miri. New Delhi, Mittal, 2005, viii, 61 p., $35. ISBN 81-7099-869-7.  Details No. 42550

Bundelkhand Paintings : Orchha, Chhatarpur and Gwalior/Madhu Saxena. Delhi, Sharada Publishing House, 2004, x, 230 p., 153 plates, Illus., $105. ISBN 81-85616-72-8.  Details No. 34986

Bundi : The City of Painted Walls/R.A. Agarawala. 1996, xv, 112 p., 97 plates, $59.  Details No. 11982

Bundi Paintings. Reprint. New Delhi, Lalit Akademi, 2003, ills., $15. ISBN 81-87507-12-8.  Details No. 45541

Charming Krishna : Madhurastakam/Sri Vallabhacarya. Paintings dreamed by Rozalia Radhika Priya. 1995, 48 colour plates, $66. Details No. 9635

Chitrakar : the Artist Benodebehari Mukherjee/translated by K. G. Subramanyan. Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2006, xviii, 196 p., $31. ISBN 81-7046-282-7. Details No. 45630

The Clear Mirror Depicting the Pearl Roseries of Thanka Painting of the Tsang-pa Tradition of Tibet : Thangka Painting/Phuntsok Sangpo. Darjeeling, Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre, 2000, 272 p., vi, 72 Colour plates, $138. Details No. 25545 

Close to Events : Works of Bikash Bhattacharjee/Manasij Majumder. New Delhi, Niyogi Offset, 2007, 250 p., plates, $95. ISBN 81-89738-24-2.  Details No. 50447

Conservation of Indian Miniatures and Illustrated Manuscripts/A.S. Bisht. New Delhi, Om Pub., 2008, 124 p., illus., $85. ISBN 81-86867-96-1.   Details No. 55299

Court Painting in Rajasthan/edited by Andrew Topsfield. Mumbai, Marg, 2000, 152 p., col. photographs, $77. ISBN 81-85026-47-5. Details No. 17937   

The Dancer on the Horse : Reflections on the Art of Iranna GR/Ranjit Hoskote. Ahmedabad, Mapin Pub., 2007, 128 p., 180 illus., $70. ISBN 81-88204-92-2. [Contemporary Indian Artists Series].  Details No. 54203

Digressing Domains/Sushma Bahl. New Delhi, Nitanjali Art Gallery, 2006, 104 p., ills., $85. Details No. 50968

Dinanath Pathy : Beyond the Canvas : Critical Vision of an Indian Painter/edited by Soubhagya Pathy. New Delhi, Harman Publishing House, 2003, xv, 189 p., $26. ISBN 81-86622-62-4.  Details No. 32195

Deogarh Painting : Lalit Kala Series Portfolio No. 42/edited by Usha Bhatia. Reprint. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1997,  $22. Details No. 28352

Dogra Legends of Art & Culture/Ashok Jerath. 1998, 271 p., 44 illus., $27. Details No. 13505

Dramatic Elements in Modern Art/Ravi Chaturvedi. Jaipur, Publication Scheme, 2002, xvi, 152 p., plates,  $83. ISBN 81-86782-76-1.   Details No. 32125

Drawings of Rajasthan/Chitralekha Singh. 1993, xvii, 116 p., 133 plates, bibliography, $46. [Drawings of India Series-I.] Details No. 7528

Early Indian Miniature Paintings (c. 1000 - 1550 AD)/Rashmi Kala Agrawal. Delhi, Sundeep Prakashan, 2006, xiv,142 p., figs., $85. ISBN 81-7574-169-4.  Details No. 49343

Early Indian Paintings in Sanskrit Literature/Jyotsna Saxena. 1998, xiii, 127 p., 38 plates, $63. Details No. 13006

Early Wall Painting of Garhwal/B.P. Kamboj. New Delhi, Indus, 2003, 160 p., 70 col. Photographs, $83. ISBN 81-7387-139-6. Details No. 30477

The Echoing Grove : Poems and Paintings/Sangeeta Gupta. Translated by Keshav Malik. New Delhi, National Publishing House, 2005, viii, 76 p., $25. ISBN 81-214-0148-8.  Details No. 52392

The Eight Nayikas/Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Reprint. 2000, 46 p., 16 plates of miniature paintings, $19. ISBN 81-215-0479-1. Details No. 15062

An Enchanted Space : The Private World of Ganesh Pyne/Sovon Som.  Kolkata, Centre of International Modern Art Gallery, 2006, 84 p., ills., $120. ISBN 81-87977-05-1. Details No. 50218

Encyclopaedia of Indian Paintings/Rakesh Kumar. New Delhi, Anmol Pub., 2007, viii, 248 p., $90. ISBN 81-261-3122-5.  Details No. 51754

Essays on Buddhist Hindu Jain Iconography & Epigraphy/Gouriswar Bhattacharya. Edited by Enamul Haque. Dhaka, The International Centre for Study of Bengal Art, 2000, 654 p., plates, maps, ISBN 984-31-0854-X. $110. [Studies in Bengal Art Series : No. 1.] Details No. 20748

Essays on Indian Painting/edited by Prem Shanker Dwivedi. 1990 [i.e. 1991], 142 p., ill., $17. Details No. 7038

Essence of Orissan Paintings/Dinanath Pathy. New Delhi, Harman, 2001, 120 p., plates, $44. ISBN 81-86622-35-7. Details No. 21639

Examination and Conservation of Wall Paintings : A Manual/O.P. Agrawal and Rashmi Pathak. New Delhi, Sundeep Prakashan, 2001, viii, 245 p., $66. ISBN 81-7574-097-3. Details No. 22281

The Exile in the Forest/Vishwa Chander Ohri. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1983, 42 p., figs., ills., $15. Details No. 45540

The Eye’s Delight: The Great 18 Century Pahari Painter, Nainsukh : Lalit Kala Series Portfolio No. 41/edited by Usha Bhatia. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1997, $22. Details No. 28354

The Flute and the Lotus : Romantic Moments in Indian Poetry & Painting/Harsha Dehejia. Ahmedabad, Mapin Publishing, 2002, 228 p., 130 colour illustrations, $88. ISBN 81-85822-89-1.  Details No. 31211

Fire and Other Images/Paritosh Sen. New Delhi, Tulika, 2004, xii, 184 p., ills, $21. ISBN 81-85229-82-1. Details No. 47507

Folk Paintings of Bengal/Sarojit Datta. 1993, 167 p., 39 plates (some col.), $53. Details No. 8516

Ganesh Pyne : A Pilgrim in the Dominion of Shadows. Mumbai, Galerie 88, 2005, 126 p., ills., $95.  Details No. 48797

Geet Govinda : Paintings in Kanheri Style/Narmada Prasad Upadhyaya. Ahmedabad, Mapin Pub., 2006, 90 p., plates, $50 (pbk). ISBN 81-88204-18-8.  Details No. 48052

Glass Paintings : An Ephemeral Art in India/Samita Gupta. 1997, 33 p., 27 Col. Plates, $63. Details No. 12240

Gods & Godesses : Portfolio Paintings: 1. Lord Buddha. 2. Veer Hanuman. 3. Shri Ganapate Namah. 4. Goddess Durga.  $53. Details No. 13305

Guide to the Ajanta Paintings : Narrative Wall Paintings/Dieter Schlingloff. Vol. 1, 1999, 58 p., figs., $20. ISBN 81-215-0922-X. Details No. 14985

Guide to the Ajanta Paintings, Vol. 2. Devotional and Ornamental Paintings/Monika Zin. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 2003, iv, 40 p., $23 (pbk). ISBN 81-215-1084-8.  Details No. 31435

Handbook of Indian Art : A Chronicle of Paintings and Sculptures/Sunil Khosa. 1998, xxxv, 409 p., 40 plates, $59. Details No. 13001

The Himalayas in Indian Art/E.B. Havell. Reprint. First published in 1924. xvi, 94 p., 24 plates, $18. Details No. 8461

A History of Indian Painting, Vol. 5 : The Modern Period/Krishna Chaitanya. 1994, 336 p., 54 colour illustrations, 160 Halftone illustrations, Bibliography, $79. [Earlier volumes of this series which are available are : Vol. 2: Manuscript, Moghul and Deccani Traditions ; Vol. 3: Pahari Traditions ; Vol. 4: Rajasthani Traditions ] Details No. 9377

The Illustrated Salim Ali : The Fall of a Sparrow. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007, viii, 128 p., figs., $15 (pbk). ISBN 0-19-568747-7.  Details No. 50327

Image and Identity : Fifty Years of Painting and Sculpture in Pakistan/Akbar Naqvi. 1998, xl, 870 p., 364 illustrations, $105. ISBN 0-19-577803-0. Details No. 14603

Immortal Miniatures : From the Collection of National Museum, New Delhi/Daljeet. New Delhi, Aravali Books, 2002, 112 p., colour plates, $72. ISBN 81-86880-02-X.  Details No. 25435 

In Conversation With Husain Paintings/Rashda Siddiqui. New Delhi, Books Today, 2001, 286 p., photographs, $215. ISBN 81-87478-22-5. Details No. 25443 

Incredible India : Arrested Movement Sculpture and Painting/Kapila Vatsyayan. Edited by Manju Gupta. New Delhi, Wisdom Tree, 2007, 108 p., ills., $39. ISBN 81-8328-066-8.  Details No. 49906

Indian Art Treasures : Suresh Neotia Collection/edited by R.C. Sharma, Kamal Giri and Anjan Chakraverty. New Delhi, Mosaic Books, 2006, 264 p., ills, $140. ISBN 81-902776-3-4.  Details No. 47167

Indian Miniature Painting/Anjan Chakraverty. New Delhi, Roli, 2005, 143 p., ills., $33. ISBN 81-7436-334-3. Details No. 41578

Indian Miniature Painting : Manifestation of a Creative Mind/Daljeet and P.C. Jain. New Delhi, Brijbasi Art Press, 2006, 288 p., ills., $90. ISBN 81-8385-227-0. Details No. 50050

Indian Painting : The Great Mural Tradition/Mira Seth. Ahmedabad, Mapin Publishing, 2006, 464 p., ills, $130. ISBN 81-88204-74-9. Details No. 45765

Indian Paintings in the British Library/J.P. Losty. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1986, 42 p., figs., $15.  Details No. 45537

Indian Paintings and Drawings/O.P. Sharma. New Delhi, Rasaja Foundation, 2006, xviii, 90 p., ills., $70. ISBN 81-8182-031-2.  Details No. 49998

Jahangir : A Connoisseur of Mughal Art/Sanjeev P. Srivastava. New Delhi, Abhinav, 2001, 155 p., ills., plates, $77. ISBN 81-7017-386-8. Details No. 21925

Jain Kashthapat Chitra : The Mural Paintings in the Jain Temples of South Gujarat a Survey, Research and Documentation/Vasudeo Smart. Surat, Acharyashri Omkarsuri Aradhna Bhavan, 2002, xiv, 140 p., photographs, $66. Details No. 37717

Jaina Paintings/Kiran Kumar Thaplyal. 1995, xii, 84 p., 18 plates, $50. Details No. 9765

Jammu Ragamala Paintings/Sukhdev Singh Charak. 1998, 80 p., 63 colour plates, $53. Details No. 13336

Jogen Chowdhury : His Life and Times. Kolkata, CIMA, 2006, 106 p., plates, $160. ISBN 81-87977-06-X.  Details No. 46093

Kalamkari and Traditional Design Heritage of India/Shakuntala Ramani. New Delhi, Wisdom Tree Pub., 2007, 118 p., plates, $55. ISBN 81-8328-082-X. Details No. 50431

Kalighat Painting Images from a Changing World/Jyotindra Jain. 1999, 232 p., map, 181 illustrations, $99. ISBN 81-85822-64-6. Details No. 15152

Kangra Paintings of the Bihari Sat Sai/M.S. Randhawa. Reprint. New Delhi, National Museum, 1982, 87 p., 20 figs., 19 plates,  $44. Details No. 38625

Kangra Paintings of the Gita Govinda/M.S. Randhawa. Reprint. New Delhi, National Museum, 1982, 132 p., 28 figs., 20 plates, $55.  Details No. 38626

Kangra Paintings on Love/M.S. Randhawa. Reprint. First published in 1962. 1994, xv, 168 p., 26 colour plates, 89 monochrome plates,  $26. Details No. 9379

Kashmiri Painting : Assimilation and Diffusion--Production and Patronage/ Karuna Goswamy. 1998, xviii, 180 p., 90 col. plates, $79. ISBN 81-7305-160-7. Details No. 13955

Kishangarh Painting : Lalit Kala Series Portfolio No. 43/edited by Usha Bhatia. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1998,  $22. Details No. 28355

Krishna/Shanta Rameshwar Rao. Paintings by Bulbul Sharma. New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2005, 160 p., illus., $45. ISBN 81-250-2696-7.  Details No. 43422

Krishna--The Living God of Braj/D. Anand. 1992, 220 p., 191 Col. illus., 4 maps, size: 8.5" x 10.5", bibliography, $86. Details No. 7319

K.G. Subramanyan : Sketches Scribbles Drawings. Calcutta, Seagull Books, 1999, xxvi, 288 p., plates, $105. ISBN 81-7046-1502. Details No. 34696

Lahore : Illustrated Views of the Nineteenth Century/F.S. Aijazuddin. Reprint. Ahmedabad, Mapin, 2004,176 p., ills., $72. ISBN 81-85822-37-9.  Details No. 36588

A Life in Art : S.H. Raza/edited by Ashok Vajpeyi. New Delhi, Art Alive Gallery, 2007, 364 p., ills., $200. ISBN 81-901844-4-1.  Details No. 50328

The Magic of Indian Miniatures (Arpana Fine Arts : Miniature Museum). New Delhi, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, 2007, 204 p., ills., $70. ISBN 81-88043-51-6.  Details No. 50469

Manifestations II : Indian Art in the Twentieth Century : Hundred Artists from the DAG Collection/Roobina Karode. New Delhi, Delhi Art Gallery, 2004, 283 p., photographs, $110. ISBN 81-902104-0-8.  Details No. 40620

Manifestations III : Hundred Artists from the Delhi Art Gallery Collection/Roobina Karode. New Delhi, Delhi Art Gallery, 2005, 302 p., photographs, $100. ISBN 81-902104-1-6.  Details No. 40621

Manindra Bhusan Gupta : A Legacy of Bengal School, 1898-1968/Ruchira Gupta. Kolkata, Ruchira Gupta, 2007, xxii, 93 p., ills., $70 (pbk). Details No. 55930

Marvels of Indian Painting : Rise and Demise of Company School/Pran Nevile. Gurgaon, Nevile Books, 2007, 176 p., plates, $95. ISBN 81-901166-2-2.  Details No. 50323

Marvels of Kishangarh Paintings from the Collection of the National Museum, New Delhi/Vijay Kumar Mathur. Delhi, 2000, 124 p., 56 colour plates, $105. ISBN 81-86050-43-4 Details No. 15302

Master of Atmospherics : Satish Chandra/Meenakshi Chandra. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2006, 276 p., plates, $150. ISBN 81-7436-437-4.  Details No. 48381

Materials and Techniques of Ancient Wall Paintings of Sri Lanka/O.P. Agrawal and Nanda Amara Wickramasinghe. New Delhi, Sundeep Prakashan, 2002, viii, 175 p., figs., tables, $77. ISBN 81-7574-128-7.   Details No. 29300

Miniature Paintings and Sculptures on Krsna : With Particular Reference to Bhagavata Purana and Other Texts/Shantilal Nagar. Delhi, B.R. Pub., 2003, xxvi, 278 p., plates, $132. ISBN 81-7646-337-X.  Details No. 31316

Miniature Paintings on the Holy Ramayana/Shantilal Nagar. Delhi, B.R., 2001, xv, 252 p., $105. ISBN 81-7646-222-5. Details No. 20880

Mirth of Jaipur Wall Paintings/Mamta Chaturvedi. Jaipur, Publications Scheme, 2000, 122 p., 68 Colour illustrations, 55 black and white plates, maps, $121. ISBN 81-86782-45-1.Details  No. 17310

Modern Indian Painting/P.R. Ramachandra Rao. Hyderabad, Akshara, 2002, x, 184 p., plates, $80.  Details No. 49654

Moving Focus Essays on Indian Art/K. G. Subramanyan. Reprint. Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2006, xii, 150 p., $25.  Details No. 45631

Mughal and Persian Paintings and Illustrated Manuscripts in the Raza Library, Rampur/Barbara Schmitz and Ziyaud-Din A. Desai. New Delhi, Aryan Books International, 2006, xxxii, 242 p., plates, $160. ISBN 81-7305-278-6.  Details No. 43190

Mughal Painter of Flora and Fauna Ustad Mansur/Som Prakash Verma. 1999, 164 p., 20 colour plates, 24 black and white plates,  $79. ISBN 81-7017-365-5. Details No. 14797

Murals for Goddesses and Gods: The Tradition of Osakothi Ritual Painting in Orissa, India/Eberhard Fischer and Dinanath Pathy. 1996, 224 p., 298 illustrations, $106. Details No. 11577 

Musical Instruments of North India : Eighteenth Century Portraits by Baltazard Solvyns/Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. and Stephen M. Slawek. 1997, vii, 153 p., plates, $31. Details No. 12876

My Brush with Art : An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Art/Lakshmi Lal. New Delhi, Rupa Co., 2004, x, 164 p., plates,  $28. ISBN 81-291-0412-1.  Details No. 37558

Orchha Paintings/Aruna. Delhi, Sharada, 2002, xiii, 119 p., plates, figs., maps, $88. ISBN 81-85616-69-8. Details No. 23917

Origin of Jagannath Deity/Jitamitra Prasad Singh Deo. Reprint. New Delhi, Gyan Pub., 2003, 227 p., maps, figs., $25. ISBN 81-212-0351-X. Details No. 32974

Pahari Paintings of the Gita Govinda : Lalit Kala Series Portfolio No. 46/edited by Usha Bhatia. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 2001, $22. ISBN 8187507055.  Details No. 28353

Painted Abode of Gods : Mural Traditions of Kerala/A. Ramachandran. New Delhi, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2005, 512 p., figs., maps, $140. ISBN 81-7737-07-7.  Details No. 50515

Painted Visions : The Goenka Collection of Indian Paintings/B.N. Goswamy and Usha Bhatia. 1999, 297 p., colour plates, $165. ISBN 81-87507-00-4. Details No. 14859

Painters at the Sikh Court : A Study Based on Twenty Documents/B.N. Goswamy. 1999, 116 p., 8 colour plates, 24 black and white plates, $52. ISBN 81-7305-164-X.Details No. 14960

Paintings From Royal Albums : Lalit Kala Series Portfolio No. 44/edited by Usha Bhatia. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1999, $22. ISBN 81-87507-02-0.  Details No. 28356

Paintings of the Great Mughals : Lalit Kala Series Portfolio No. 47/edited by Usha Bhatia. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 2001, $22. ISBN 8187507063.  Details No. 28350

Paintings of the Razmnama : The Book of War/Asok Kumar Das. Introduction by Stuart Cary Welch. New Delhi, Mapin, 2005, 192 p., ills., $85. ISBN 1-890206-78-4.  Details No. 42509

Painting the Mughal Experience/Som Prakash Verma. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2005, xii, 185 p., plates, $85. ISBN 0-19-566756-5.  Details No. 42327

Pahari Styles of Indian Murals/S.D.S. Charak and Anita K. Billawaria. 1998, xii, 276 p., 24 colour illustrations, 265 black and white illustrations, bibliography, $79. ISBN 81-7017-356-6. Details No. 14080

Painters' 80 25 Years : A Collection of Paintings. Kolkata, Saptarshi, 2006, 68 p., plates, $15.  Details No. 47726

Paresh Maity : Drawings Paintings Sculptures Photographs: 28 Nov. -28 Dec. 2007/text by Ella Datta. New Delhi, Paresh Maity for CIMA Gallery, 2007, 170 p., ills, $160. Details No. 54382

Peerless Images : Persian Painting and Its Sources/Eleanor Sims, Boris I. Marshak and Ernst J. Grube. Ahmedabad, Mapin Pub., 2002, xiv, 350 p., map, plates, $132. ISBN 81-88204-12-9.   Details No. 30337

Popular Indian Art : Raja Ravi Varma and the Printed Gods of India/Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2003, viii, 175 p., plates, $99. ISBN 019-565872-8.   Details No. 32739

A Portrait of the Hindus : Balthazar Solvyns and the European Image of India 1760-1824/Robert L. Hardgrave. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2004, 568 p., plates, $176. ISBN 0-19-522041-2. Details No. 35658

Portrayal of the Woman : In the Art and Literature of the Ancient Deccan/G.B. Deglurkar. Jaipur, Publication Scheme, 2004, xxix, 208 p., figs., photos, $88. ISBN 81-8182-002-9.  Details No. 36564

Prokash Karmakar : His Life and Drawing/Shanti Nath. Translated by Soumya Sarkar. Kolkata, Rakta Karabee, 2008, 136 p., $40. Details No. 55765

Prokash Karmakar : Paintings and Life/Shanti Nath. Kolkata, Raktakarabee, 2008, 32 p., 96 colour ills., $55. Details No. 55766

Punjab Painting/R.P. Srivastava. New Delhi, Abhinav, 112 p., illus., $22. ISBN  81-7017-174-1.  Details No. 36279

Ragamala Painting : A Journey From Music to Art/Ranjit Singh Gill. New Delhi, Aravali Books International, 2006, 172 p., ills., $60. ISBN 81-8150-016-4.  Details No. 48225

Raja Ravi Varma : The Most Celebrated Painter of India : 1848 - 1906, Classic Collection I. Bangalore, Parsram Mangharam, 2005, 12 p., $40 (pbk). ISBN 81-901576-1-2.  Details No. 40515

Raja Ravi Varma : The Most Celebrated Painter of India : 1848 - 1906, Classic Collection II. Bangalore, Parsram Mangharam, 2005, 12 p., $40 (pbk). ISBN 81-901576-2-0.  Details No. 40516

Raja Ravi Varma : The Most Celebrated Painter of India (1848-1906)/Parsram Mangharam. Bangalore, Parsram Mangharam, 2007, 208 p., ills., $70. ISBN 81-901576-3-9.  Details No. 50651

Raja Ravi Varma : Portrait of an Artist : The Diary of C. Raja Raja Varma/edited by Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2005, xvi, 340 p., plates, $100. ISBN 0-19-565971-6.  Details No. 40904

A. Ramachandran : Portfolio Prints/edited by Amit Mukhopadhyay. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 2002, 10 prints, $22. ISBN 81-87507-07-1. Details No. 33877

Raza : An Introduction to his Painting/Michel Imbert. Delhi, Rainbow, 2003, 144 p., $36. ISBN 81-86962-53-0.  Details No. 31460

Restoration of Indian Miniature Paintings/K. K. Gupta. New Delhi, Northern Book Centre, 2006, xiv, 146 p., plates, $85. ISBN 81-7211-185-1. Details No. 45764

Ritual Art of the Kingdom of Mithila : Traditional Paintings by Janakpur Women in Nepal/Alessandra Campoli. Kathmandu, Vajra Pub., 2008, 158 p., 14 black and white photos, 42 colour photos, $22 (pbk). ISBN 9937-506-09-0.  Details No. 56394

Russian Artists in India/Ekaterina Zozulya. Kolkata, The Asiatic Society, 2004, viii, 56 p., $40. ISBN 81-7236-153-X.  Details No. 36478

Sacred Buddhist Painting/Anjan Chakraverty. 1998, 94 p., plates, $39. Details No. 13214

Satish Gujral : An Artography/text by Gayatri Sinha, Santo Datta and Gautam Bhatia. New Delhi, Roli, 2006, 276 p., plates, $140. ISBN 81-7436-428-5. Details No. 45150

Satish Gujral : Drawings and Collages/Gayatri Sinha. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2001, $11. ISBN 81-7436-183-9. Details No. 22788

Satish Gujral : Paintings/Uma Vasudev. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2001, $11. ISBN 81-7436-184-7. Details No. 22789

Satish Gujaral : Portfolio Print/edited by Usha Bhatia. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 2006, 10 Plates, $30. ISBN 81-87507-18-7. Details No. 46977

Satyen Ghosal/Shanti Nath. Translated by Ayanangsu Chatterjee. Kolkata, Raktakarabee, 2006, 158 p., illus., $40.  Details No. 48413

Shakuntala/Daljeet and P.C. Jain. 1998, 158 p., plates,  $129. [A profusely illustrated book on Indian paintings.] Details No. 13223

Sketches in Scinde/William Edward. New Delhi, Aryan International, 2004, 10 plates, $110. Details No. 41127

Sojourns of a Painter : Shyamal Dutta Ray and His Times/Mrinal Ghosh. Ahmedabad, Mapin, 2001, 108 p., $55. ISBN 81-85822.86-7. [Contemporary Indian Artists Series]. Details No. 22440 

Song of the Rainbow : A Work on Depiction of Music through the Medium of Paintings in the Indian Tradition/Richa Jain. New Delhi, Kanishka, 2002, xvi, 180 p., plates, tables, $28. ISBN 81-7391-496-6. Details No. 27007

South Indian Paintings/C. Sivaramamurti. Reprint. First published in 1968. 1994, 147 p., 53 colour plates, 35 monochrome plates, 20 line drawings, $23. Details No. 9378

The Splendour of the Royal Ateliers : Lalit Kala Series Portfolio No. 45/edited by Usha Bhatia. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1999, $22. ISBN 81-87507-03-9.  Details No. 28357

A Study of Bundi School of Painting (From the Collection of the National Museum, New Delhi/Jiwan Sodhi. 1999, 392 p., 64 colour plates, 47 black & white plates, map, $99. ISBN 81-7017-347-7. Details No. 14798

A Study of the Representation of Krisna Theme in the Visual Arts of Rajasthan/Vandana Khanna. 1999, 224 p., plates, $106. ISBN 81-86782-32-X. Details No. 14197

A Survey of Painting in the Deccan/Stella Kramrisch. 1983, 248 p., ills., $33.  Details No. 30203

Tales of Love in Rajasthani Paintings/Ramanuj Pancholi. Jaipur, Publication Scheme, 2005, xvi, 148 p., ills, map, $80. ISBN 81-8182-026-6.  Details No. 42896

The Technique of Pahari Painting : An Inquiry into Aspects of Materials, Methods and History : (Based Upon Observation and Field –Work)/Vishwa Chander Ohri. New Delhi, Aryan, 2001, xx, 148 p., $79. ISBN: 81-7305-211-5. Details No. 21810

Thirst of a Minstrel : The Life and Times of Ganesh Pyne/Shiladitya Sarkar. New Delhi, Rupa and Co., 2005, vii, 88 p., illus., $20. ISBN 81-291-0525-X.  Details No. 40615

Traditional Paintings of Manipur/Mutua Bahadur. Imphal, Mutua Museum, 2003, 57 p., ills., $15 (pbk).  Details No. 42325

Vishvarupa : Paintings on the Cosmic Form of Krishna-Vasudeva/Neena Ranjan. New Delhi, Aryan Books International, 2008, xviii, 166 p., illus., $95. ISBN 81-7305-333-7.  Details No. 53881

Wall Paintings from Central India/R.A. Agarwala. 1987, 142 p., ills., $50. Details No. 32695

The Wall Paintings of Kerala : Mattancherry, Padmanabhapuram and Krishnapuram Palaces : Portfolio Print. New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 2006, 12 plates, $35. ISBN 81-87507-24-1.  Details No. 46979

Wall Paintings of Rajasthan (Amber and Jaipur)/Rosa Maria Cimino. Delhi, Aryan Books International, 2001, 260 p., plates & figs, $143. ISBN: 81-7305-201-8. Details No.19750

Wall Paintings of Rajasthan/Mira Seth. New Delhi, National Museum, 2003,  447 p., ills., $182. ISBN 81-85832-20-X.  Details No. 37262

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