Prof.[Rtd.] Dr. Rai Anand Krishna needs no introduction to the world of Indian Art and Culture. On this father Rai Krishnadasa's rich foundation, he structured his own creativity, experience of study, research and publication in this field. His creativity goes back to 1944 [a long span of six decades]; his tradition continues even to the next generation. His accessible and kind personality makes him a standing humanist dear to a whole generation of Indian art students [who consider him his guru] as well as his scholar friends.

These students and friends now an intimate part of the 'Krishna Family' have in course of time carved for themselves a niche in their respectives fields and are today among the outstanding scholars of Indian Art around the world.

This unique volume is a compliation of articles contributed by these colleagues, friends and students- all Indian art specialists from the length and breadth of the world. They have come together by contributing interesting finds of their fields to form this book-offering which constitutes a landmark in this Ananda-Vana of Indian Art, that is ' The Forest of Bliss of Indian Art'.

Covering a time span from centuries prior to the beginning of Christian Era to the modern times,i.e. almost 2000 years, this book embraces almost every facet of Indian Art, such as architecture, scupture, textile, decorative arts, folk and modern art, sociology and culture.

Enriched with over 500 Spectacular colour and black and white relevant illustrations, this scholarly book, unprecedented in style will not only be a source of information both textually and visually for the academics, but will also be of great interest to every person fascinated by the general or specialized study of Indian Art.

	Editors Preface		7
	Funding acknowledgements		9
	Introduction: Milo Beach	Rai Anand Krishna: A Brief Biography	13
	Map		33
I	BCE To 11th CENTURY
1	Vidula Jayaswal	Ashokan Pillars: Medium, Chiseling and Composition	35
2	Naman Ahuja	Further Studies Towards a Definition of the Style of Early Historic Terracottas from the Indo-Gangetic Divide	47
3	R.C. Sharma	Genesis of Buddhist Art at Mathura	59
4	Wladimir Zwalf	Sultanganj's Early Document	71
5	Walter M. Spink	A New Vakataka Chronology	83
6	Michael W. Meister	Discoveries on the Indus	95
7	Maruti Nandan P. Tiwari	Landmarks of Jaina Iconography	103
8	Shashi Kant Pathak	Tapasvini Parvati in the National Museum Collection	115
9	Pratapaditya Pal	An Unusual Pala Devi Image in the Nortan Simon Museum	123
10	Terese Tse Bartholomew	Some Daoist Deities and their Indian Prototypes	131
11	Darielle Mason	A Tenth- Century Wooden Door From Rajasthan	139
12	D.C. Bhattacharya	Unexplored Textual Glimpse of Hariti	147
13	Binoy Sahai	Identifiacation of Five Unique Painting from Central Asia Preserved in the National Museum, New Delhi	155
14	O.P. Aggarwal & N. Wickramsinghe	Materials and Techinque of Painting in the Tivanka Image House, Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka	163.
15	P.K. Agrawala	Some Observations on the Phislosophy of Painting as Found in an Early Medieval Vastu Text 171
16	Kamal Giri	Samavasarana in Jaina Art	183
II	11th to 19th CENTURY
17	Harsha H. Dehejia	A Philosopher's Taxnomy of Shiva Parvati Images	191
18	Devangana Desai	The Newly Excavated Bijamandala Temple at Khajuraho	199
19	Robert Del Bonta	Thoughts on Jaina Paintings in San Francisco Bay Area Collections	211
20	Vishakha N. Desai	Shringara, Viraha and the Rasikapriya	219
21	Lalit Kumar	Two Rare Paintings on Birch Bark in the Churpanchashika Style	227
22	John Guy	Indian Cotton Textile- A Radical Re-Dating: India, Southeast Asia And The Textile Trade	235
23	Ziyauddin A. Desai	A Seventeenth Century Calligraphic Masterpiece	247
24	Som Prakash Verma	Portraits of OrdinaryMen from the 16th Century Mughal School	255
25	Amita V. Sarin	Identification of Portraits of Birbal: Akbar's 'Spiritual companion'	263
26	Amina Okada	Remarks on the Portraits of Holy men in Mughal Painting	275
27	Pramod Chandra	Notes on Malwa Painting	283
28	Shridhar Andhare	LokaPurusha: Jaina Paintings of the three Workds	291
29	Bhanwar Lal Bhandani	Indra Sarovar Dam: In service of the Royal Faimly Deity and the People	299
30	Amit Ambalal	A Vijnaptipatra Dated 1666 from Diu	311
31	v Andrew Topsfield	A Dispersed Ragamalafrom the Deccan	319
32	Naval Krishna	Illustrations on a Janadhar in Jodhpur fort in the Earliest Phase of the Marwar Painting Style?	331
33	Catherine B. Asher	Mughal Regional Centres in Eastern India	343
34	Molly Emma Aitken	Portraits, Gifts Giving and the Rajput Alliance of 1708	355
35	Monika Horstmann	A Theological Statement by Krishnadeva Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya	367
36	Rattan Parimoo	Interpreting a Pahari Painting: Rasamanjari or Rasikapriya Inverting a Metaphor	375
37	Gauri Parimoo Krishnan	An Unusual Cloth Painting from the Pahari Region in the collection of the Asian Civilization Museum, Singapore	387
38	Stephen A. Markel	A New Masterwork by Mir Kalan Khan	399
39	B.N. Goswamy & Eberhard Fischer	The Painter, the Queen and the Mole: Notes on a Newly-Discovered Painting about an Oft-told Tale	411
40	Hiram H. Woodward jr.	Copper alloy water jars and the Pilgrimage sites of Banaras	419
41	D.B. Kshirsagar	Sangeet Prakash of Udaipur Riyasat	431
42	S.C. Welch	A Golconda Artist at Basohli	439
43	Anamika Pathak	Some Rare Ivory Miniatures from the National Museum Collection, New Delhi	447
III	20th CENTURY and Moderns Age
44	Kenneth X. Robbins	Medals of the Indian Princely States	455
45	T.K. Biswas	Abanindranath, Sailendranath and Rai Krishnadasa: reference Meghaduta Painting	471
46	Anjan Chakraverty	Ustad Mulchand as a Litho Artist	483
47	Frederick M. Asher	An Architect of Makrana	495
48	Alka patel	The Goddess and Modernity	503
49	Stephen P. Huyler	Sonabai: An Innovative Artistic Legacy	515
50	Mary C. Lanius	From Ritual to Retail	527
51	Lotika Varadarajan	Craft as Activity or Activity as Craft: The Case of Minicoy	535
52	Mary-ann Milford-Lutzker	City of Desires: Performance and Interactive Art in Mumbai	547
53	Joan Cummins	Ignoring the Icon: Ritual in a Modern Sun Temple	563
54	David Gordon White	The Goddess in the Tree: Reflections on Nim-Tree Shrines in Varanasi 575
55	Deen Bandhu Pandey	Reconsidering A.K. Coomaraswamy's Interpretations of some of the Verses of the Alekhyakarma of the Abhilashitarthachintamani	587
56	Neeta Kumar	Do Real Men Cry? Love, Gender and Seasonality in Songs from India	595

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