Books on Art and Music

The art of ivory is one of those branches of aesthetic productions in India that not only charms the elite and the erudite but also the common folk of the...

A Historical Study of Indian Music covers a wide range from the earliest historical traces of our music to the present day. At a time most historical studies degenerated into...

A Survey of Indian Sculpture, divided into seven chapters, deals with the story of the plastic art of the subcontinent as long as it remained vital and active. The book...

"India is a civilization of many images, a culture of many visual feasts, a tradition where the visible and the palpable are as important as the oral and the occurrent,...

Aksayanivi: Essays presented to Dr. Debala Mitra in admiration of her scholarly contributions (Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica) Details of Book Author - G.Bhattacharya Publisher - Shri Satguru Publications Language - English ISBN -...

This book has been prepared with the intention of making available to a wider readership two earlier exhibition and book reviews in a revised and enlarged form with many more...

Tun-Huang is the dream child of the Avatamsaka tradition of contemplation as it unfolded in Bamiyan. This richly illustrated book examines the Tun-Huang Buddhist cave paintings at the National Museum...

With growing interest in North Indian classical music, both in India and abroad, and inspite of several books on specific topics which have appeared in recent times, there was a...

The book Facets of South Indian Art and Architecture is a stimulative and perceptive survey of different aspects of South Indian art, architecture, history and culture. It provides unparalleled source...

After independence there was spurt in research work on Indian Classical music. Nevertheless, there was also a great need for compilation of research work done in the various fields of...

India is a land of several goddess cults. The present book attempts to study the cult of Devi Bagalamukhi from a socio- cultural stand point. Devi Bagalamukhi is one of...

The present book attempts to study the cult of Devi Lalitambika as an individual Goddess like those of Siva, Visnu, Laksmi and others, installed independently with a long tradition and...

The book is a kind of encyclopaedia on Indian Mythology, since it has covered almost all the aspects of it. A number of illustrations/figures of Indian Mythological images presented in...

North Indian or Hindustani art music has a wealth of vocal genres and instrumental styles, some of them rooted in the past and others of a more recent origin. Although...

"Hindustani Music: A tradition in transition" is a wide-ranging survey of the North Indian tradition of classical music during the post-independence period. Explicitly, this book addresses music lovers of above...

Hindustani Raga-S Index Will Prove Quite Useful To All Musicians, Scholars And Students Of Music Who Need To Consult The Main Contemporary Devanagari Texts On Raga-S Descriptions, Compositions And Vistara-S....

Hindustani (Indian) music has become one of the most sought-after musical systems of the world. The interest exhibited for this music is continuously on the rise. With its basic foundation...

In the Hindu pantheon of gods, Vinayaka is the only deity who was born with a normal head, but beheaded by Lord Siva (his father) and again fixed with an...

In the Hindu pantheon of gods Skanda Karttikeya the son of Siva, is the only god who is endowed with six faces and twelve hands and named as Sanmukha. God...

This book presents insightful reflections on different aspects of Indian music - its roots, philosophy, growth, history, guru-shishya parampara, gharanas, contemporary scene and a glimpse of the coming decades. Analysing...

Puppetry originated in India and travelled across the seven seas to the Eastern and Western world as vouched by many scholars, Puppets dated back to a period well before Bharata’s...

The remains of Bodhgaya date from as early as the Maurya and Shunga eras, as well as from later Gupta and Pala periods. Marking the spot of Buddha's enlightenment, Bodhgaya...

Although many collections of ragadhari vocal compositions have been published over the years, there is a dearth of instrumental compositions. Hence, it has been the author's long felt desire to...

What is modal music? Why did the ancients consider music the key of sciences, related to metaphysics? Are there many "musics", as there are many languages? Is there a relation...

Mireille Benisti had made the study of stylistics of early Khmer and Indian art her life work. The present volume contains translations of Benisti's major publications dealing with Khmer art....

This book attempts to explain how geometry (Indian) was employed as a method for mensuration and composition before the appearance of our present numerical decimal system in 6th century AD....

The Indian perspective has always been holistic and all-inclusive: thought and activity in different fields, at different level, have been interlinked to produce what has been timeless. Indian arts is...

This Felicitation Volume honouring one of the best known names in Indian Art, covers a time span from centuries prior to the beginning of Christian Era to the modern times,...