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The jungle of India is awesome where beauty and mortal danger walk hand in hand. Mystery and wonder abound. Every creature knows its place and jung...

Museums of Rajasthan is a compendium of 18 government-managed museums in Rajasthan. Using wonderful colour photographs in combination with succinct...

Rajshree Sarabhai sees things around us in a way that makes us look at the world through her eyes. She captures details in what are common plants m...

About the Book On 22nd February 2015, Syed Haider Raza turns 93. Widely acknowledged as a master of modern Indian art, for nearly six decades his w...

Built around mariners’ journals of their pioneering voyages, Yankee India charts the early development of commercial and cultural relations between...

About the Book - Presents many of Ellias's poems which respond to classic and contemporary works of art - All proceeds from this book will be donat...

A billion lives depend on the waters of the Himalayas; sixty million live in this mountain range, while the rest live in its foothills, on the plai...

This book is a tribute to Abid Milan Lal Mian Syed-The man and his work. His exceptional technical skill and artistic eye, in a career spanning 70 ...

The Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur, Rajasthan, is one of the finest museums of the 19th century with a repository of 19,000 objects. It was envisione...

Traces of India investigates the roles played by photographs of Indian architecture from the late eighteenth century. The inquiry stretches from th...

Timeless Visions Contemporary Art of India--From the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection [Paperback] NA

This volume presents, for the first time, the work and career of photographic pioneer James Waterhouse (1842–1922). From his early career in Centra...

About the Book: Relationship between Science and Art Science and art are both manifestations of beauty andcreativity. Both are related to nature an...

One would think that as a man grows older, he gets wiser, but not old Raaheeji. Ignoring his wife’s warnings, old Raaheeji wanders deep into the wo...

Sudhakar Rao spends hours reading under a suragi tree in his father’s home in a small village in Karnataka. As he grows, he moves away from this id...

This book is about the Royal Rolls-Royce of Udaipur, Rajasthan - the 1924 Rolls-Royce Tourer 20 HP (bearing chassis no. GLK 21). She was purchased ...

Nikhil Biswas is now considered to be one of the major figures of contemporary Indian art of the post-Independence period. He died in 1966 at the y...

On the ceiling of the Devasiraya Mandapam in the third prakara of the Tyagarajasvami Temple in Tiruvarur, an unfinished set of around 50 painted pa...

Drawing on the photographic albums in the personal collection of Sir John Marshall, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 190...

The Kidnapping of Amir Hamza is an exciting tale from the Hamzanama, a Persian epic. It was a favourite of the great Mughal Emperor Akbar. In this ...

The Kailas at Ellora: A New View of a Misunderstood Masterwork

A rich record of a complex past, this book is a wonderful combination of striking images and succinct text that explores the development of the gen...

The mural painted on the huge dome in the lobby of ITC Maurya Sheraton in New Delhi is a larger-than-life representation of our times one that cove...

This is a book about romantic moments, heart-throbbing moments, soul-stirring moments and enchanted moments that have inspired poets, enlivened cou...

The Eyes of the Thar brings the desert in western Rajasthan alive through the sensitive eyes of the multi-talented artist Satish Gupta. His poetry ...

Urdu poetry is a universe of lustrous pictures that presents in words of varying hue, a delicacy of thought, and depth of meaning. Every word, ever...

Iranna G.R.’s art is thought to be a stylistic challenge to postmodernism, using instead the representative, idealistic and modernist language of c...

K.M. Adimoolam’s art resists easy categorization. He brings to his work a genuine spirit of enquiry, and a continually rejuvenating wonder at the g...

Shivdatt Sharma (born 1931) is one of the most prolific of the Indian modernist architects. His architecture is a distinct blend of the core princi...

The Adventures of Rama are incidents derived from the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu tale that was transmitted orally for centuries, captured into mag...

Temple Potters of Puri

For the Tamils in modern-day South India and Sri Lanka, a concept of physical and spiritual heat as female energy (sakti) influences their diet, th...

For millennia, the sages of the East have claimed that the world is maya or ‘illusion’. Drawing on theories of sensory perception from physics, psy...

Spoonful of Grey is about ordinary people and the places they inhabit. It’s about most lives subject to regularity and filled with little more than...

Sonabai Rajawar was one of the few self-taught artists of India, whose story expresses the capacity of human beings everywhere to meet their challe...

The imagery in Ray’s paintings come from his personal experiences. It is this visual world and its impact that are revealed in his work, with his c...

Snehal Shah Architect by Haig Beck, 818999591X, 9788189995911, MapinPub

For nearly three centuries, the Urdu ghazal has been beloved of connoisseur and layman alike. Its hypnotic rhythmic qualities, its exquisite interw...

Royal Tombs of India, the first book of its kind on the Islamic royal tombs of India, focuses on the Tughluq and Lodi Tombs, Qutb Shahi Tombs and M...

The pictorial world of Rini Dhumal is an amalgam of myth and realism, where nostalgia and sombre tones meet to create powerful protagonists that ex...

Reverie with Raza on the Occasion of Nirantar:the Aesthetic Continuum

In this beautiful, inspiring treasure of a book, Sudeep Sen reflects on rain its passion and politics, its beauty and fury, its ability to “douse a...

Qutb Minar: Head in the Clouds

Thirteen stories that are vignettes of life: of men and women who love, dream, and more importantly, who move with the natural ebb of life. Can som...

About the Book -For the first time in book form, the popular images of devotion and worship, commissioned by ordinary devotees of Pushti Marg, have...

About the Book Photo Peshawar delves into the largely unexplored culture of photography in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar from the 1940s t...

In this book, the author brings to the reader the Goddess Parvati, the Female Principle, consort of the God Shiva, lover, mother, provider, embodim...