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Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century

by Naman P. Ahujua
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781910807170
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
  • Publisher Imprint: Ashmolean Museum
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 360
  • Original Price: GBP 40.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 2132 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, History / Ancient & Classical, and Asian / Indian & South Asian

  • This book covers all early Indian objects (pre-600 AD) held by the Department of Eastern Art in the Ashmolean Museum
  • Contains previously unpublished material
  • New photography for all objects
The Ashmolean Museum is fortunate in having the most comprehensive British collection of the art of the Indian subcontinent outside London. Especially strong in sculpture, this rich representation of Indian art from prehistory to the twentieth century has come about through the generosity of our benefactors over more than three centuries. The Museum's first major Indian sculpture acquisition, a stone Pala-style Vishnu image of the eleventh century, was given in 1686 by Sir William Hedges, a governor of the East India Company in Bengal. From the late nineteenth century, a substantial core of the present collection was assembled at the University's former Indian Institute Museum (1897-1962), precursor of the Department of Eastern Art, which opened within the Ashmolean in 1963. Since that date many more Indian objects of all periods have been acquired by gift, bequest or purchase.

Contents: Introduction; Prehistoric South Asia; The Northwest; North & Central India; Eastern India and Deccan; Miscellanea; Bibliography.

Naman P. Ahuja is Professor of Indian Art and Architecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His University of London doctoral thesis (2001) was on early Indian terracotta sculptures. He has since published widely on Indian art of many periods, and he curated the major exhibition 'The Body in Indian Art and Thought' (2013), held at Brussels and New Delhi.

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