Madhu: Recent Researches in Indian Archaeology and Art History

Contents: I. Prehistory and Protohistory. 1. In quest of man: anthropological bias in archaeology/K V Soundararajan. 2. Arsenical coppers in the Indian Bronze age/D.P. Agrawal, R V Krishnamurthy and Sheela Kusumgar. 3. Varsus: Latest Harappan post in Dhule district, Maharashtra/S N Raghunath. 4. Pre-Neolithic and neolithic cultures in Tamil Nadu/B. Narasimhiah. 5. The Daimabad Bronzes/H D Sankalia. 6. Earliest Iron using people in India and the megaliths/M S Nagaraja Rao. 7. Some aspects of Megalithic technology/S B Deo. 8. Some observations on Harappan and early historical seals/K K Thaplyal. 9. The Neolithic pattern of North Eastern India/T C Sharma. 10. The Chalcolithic settlements in Bihar/L A Narain. 11. A Potter’s Kiln of Jorwe culture from Daimabad/S A Sali. 12. The problem of the black-and-red ware (with reference to Malwa)/H V. Trivedi. 13. Evidences of new cultural elements in the Lesser Himalayan region of Garhwal: an appraisal/K P Nautiyal. 14. One more copper hoard from the Ganga basin and a reassessment of the problem/R C Gaur. 15. Fresh light on Ochre coloured pottery from Rajasthan/R C Agrawala. 16. Antiquity of gold mining in the Gadag region - Karnataka/F R Allchin. II. Historical Archaeology. 17. A two thousand year old town and its architecture in Vadgaon-Madhavapur (Belgaum) in Karnataka/A Sundara. 18. Early historic terracottas from Gujarat - a study/C Margabandhu. 19. Ujjayini and Kalidasa: Analysis of the archaeological data/N R. Banerjee. 20. Champaner: an experiment in mediaeval archaeology/R N Mehta. III. Architecture. 21. The beginnings of Mahayana architecture at Ajanta/M K Dhavalikar. 22. The recovery of a lost architectural style: Some roof forms from the Ajanta murals and related material/Senake Bandaranayake. 23. Cave 3 at Nasik: a restudy/S. Nagaraju. 24. Sub-Urban planning and rock-cut architecture in India/Michael W. Meister. 25. The Rock-cut cave-temples of Arvalem, Goa/Gritli V. Mitterwallner. 26. A Royal memorial to Chalukya Vikramaditya II/M.S. Nagaraja Rao and K V Ramesh. 27 Reassembling an early Calukya Viasnava Temple at Badami/Gary Michael Tartakov. 28. An early western Chalukyan Durga temple at Bachinagudda/B V Shetti. 29. The big Sukanasa of Udayesvara temple at Udayapur, Madhya Pradesh/Eliki Lascarides-Zannas. 30. Late Pratihara temples from Bundelkhand/C B Trivedi. 31. Masilamanesvarar temple-Tirumullavayil: an architectural and sculptural study/K V. Raman. 32. Relevance of tantrism to erotic temple sculpture/Devangana Desai. IV. Sculpture and Art. 33. Gajendramoksa/C. Sivaramamurti. 34. A Chaturmukha Linga from Amaravati and the spread of Lakulisa Pasupatism/I K Sarma. 35. Three fragments from Bharhut Stupa/V P Dwivedi. 36. A newly discovered Buddha image from Aurangabad caves/K N. Dikshit. 37. A Jain bronze dated in Siddha-Hema-Kumara Samvat, from Satrunjaya (Saurashtra)/Umakant P Shah. 38. Two bronzes from Karnataka/Karl J Khandalavala. 39. Siva-Gangadhara on a Terracotta from Rang Mahal/Kirit L. Mankodi. 40. A Harihara image recovered from Jogeswari and the problem of dating Ghara-puri (Elephanta)/Sadashiv V. Gorakshkar. 41. Vaisravana in North-West India/Deborah Klimburg-Salter. 42. Harihara in Cambodian inscriptions and hieratic art/M A Dhaky. 43. Ravananugramurti: A unique Bronze in the National Museum, New Delhi/B N Sharma. 44. Simhakundalas: An appraisal/Aravinda P. Jamkhedkar. 45. Siva temple at Rajamau and the historical paintings of 1857 Revolt/M C Joshi. 46. The illustrated manuscripts of the Gita-Govinda from Orissa/Kapila Vatsyayan. 47. New trend in art: music through mosaic/S V Vadnerkar. V. Numismatics. 48. A new coin type of Vasisthipura/Mahaksatrapa from Junnar/Suresh Vasant. 49. A unique coin of Mahaksatrapa Isvaradatta S 154/Shobhana Gokhale. 50. Recent numismatic discoveries in the valleys of Betwa, Narmada and Godavari/K D. Bajpai. VI. Conservation. 51. Scientific preservation of cultural property: India’s contributions/Grace McCann Morley. 52. Conservation of cultural objects in the tropics/OP Agrawal. 53. Preservation of inscriptions/K V Ramesh. 54. Conservation of Kantalingesvara (Kandalisvara)-A Chola temple at Tenneri, District Chingleput/L K Srinivasan. VII. General. 55. Perhaps the earliest Jaina Terracottas so far excavated in India/B B Lal and S K Srivastava. 56. A miniature reproduction of the Mahabodhi Temple from Jaipurgarh/Debala Mitra. 57. Roman sites in Tamil Nad: Recent discoveries/R. Nagaswamy.