We are very glad that our colleague, the well-known Indian Indological quarterly, Indian Studies: Past & Present is publishing as a seperate monograph, some papers and reports prepared by the Soviet scholars for the UNESCO Inter-national Conference on archaeology and culture of Central Asia in the Kushan period (Dushanbe, October 1965).
The Conference in Dushanbe, which was attended by scholars from 18 countries, was an important step towards the implementation of the new UNESCO Project on the study of civilisations of Central Asia and an important contribution to the investigation of one of the most interesting and important stages in the history of world civilisation the Kushan period.
The Kushan kingdom built up by those coming from Central Asia extended from the shores of the Arab Sea to the Indian Ocean and Eastern Turkestan, and ranked with the great powers of that time-Rome, Parthiaz and China under the Hans. The unification, in the frame-work of one kingdom, of diverse areas brought various cultures and peoples into close proximity. The Kushan period is an integral part of the history of peoples of India, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
Recent archaeological discoveries have shown that many artistic schools, -which combined in them the best achievements of ancient culture with the elements of local artistic traditions, flourished in Kushan period.
Lately, the Soviet scholars have unearthed remarkable masterpieces of art of the local schools of Central Asia, which came into being or flourished in the Kushan period.
Our notions about Kushan history and culture are, at present, based on the remarkable masterpieces of artistic schools of India as well as those discovered in the Soviet Republics of Central Asia (Airtam, Khalchayan, Dal'verzin-tepe, Kara-tepe, etc.) and Afghanistan.
The traditions of Kushan culture long ontlived the Kushan period and greatly influenced the development of the peoples of India, Central Asia, Afghanis-tan, Pakistan and of other countries.
The details of works of Soviet scholars on Kushan Studies can be found in the bibliography published for the UNESCO conference in Dushanbe: "Soviet Asian Archaeology and the Kushan Problem: An Annotated Bibliography," by D Ya. Stavisky, B. I. Vainberg, N. G. Gorbunova, E. A. Novgorodova, vols. i-ii, Moscow, 1968.
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