ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index
Volume Three – South Asia
Biographical note
Sita Pieris, M.A.(1989), University of Colombo, has been a lecturer in US and Sri Lankan History at tertiary level, co-editor-in-chief of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee volumes, coordinating editor of ICOMOS scientific journals and national volumes. She has been a general editor for Asian publications of the ABIA project (2002-2009).
Ellen M. Raven, Ph.D. (1991), University of Leiden, teaches South Asian arts at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies of the University of Leiden. She is an Indologist who publishes on Indian numismatics. She is also the general editor for western publications of the ABIA Project, stationed in Leiden.
Ellen M. Raven, Ph.D. (1991), University of Leiden, teaches South Asian arts at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies of the University of Leiden. She is an Indologist who publishes on Indian numismatics. She is also the general editor for western publications of the ABIA Project, stationed in Leiden.
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Academic libraries, museum libraries, academics (Indologists), curators, students; relevant subjects: arts, archaeology, material culture, ancient history, inscriptions and coins of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Tibet
€146.00$203.00
The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences is a stylistic study of the corpus of stone sculpture, mostly fragmentary, in the Sri Pratap Singh Museum in Srinagar, and elsewhere in Kashmir, in comparison with other examples in collections both in India and abroad.
€110.00$151.00
This handbook provides an indispensable reference guide to most aspects of the history of India’s railways. The secondary literature is surveyed, primary sources identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed, and a massive bibliography made available.
€113.00$146.00
In this publication devotional songs of the South Indian composers Tyāgarāja, Muttusvāmi Dīkṣitar and Śyāma Śāstri are presented in a detailed Western music notation. The introductory chapters contain general cultural information, biographical details as well as the original song texts with an ...
€102.00$132.00
This book highlights the specificities of Indian portraiture in sculpted and painted images, its relationship with divine images and aims, with the help of textual and epigraphical references, to understand the development of Indian imagery. It questions also the social and religious ...
€123.00$159.00
This book deals with the confrontation of Buddhism and Brahmanism in India. Both depended on support from the royal court, but Buddhism had less to offer in return than Brahmanism. Buddhism developed in a manner to make up for this.
€249.00$346.00
Volume IV of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism: History, Biographies, Relations, Issues presents a historical overview of Hinduism, covering significant periods from the Indus Civilization to contemporary India. This volume will cover the sections Historical Perspectives; Poets, Teachers, and ...
€256.00$332.00
Volume II of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism builds upon the first volume by examining the sacred languages of Hinduism and its major religious texts, literary genres, and scholarly traditions as well as the vernaculars. It further explores the ritual traditions, including domestic rituals, ...
€256.00$332.00
Religions, Pilgrimage, Deities has two main focal points. First, it presents the regional traditions of Hinduism with articles on the Indian states and main regions of India and on regions outside India that are significant in the history of Hinduism. In addition, it has entries on sacred space ...
€186.00$241.00
This magnificently illustrated study of a vast amount of South Asian animal stone sculptures provides an art history covering almost four and a half thousand years, analyzing the art historical, archeological and cultural context of animals in society.
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