About the Book
Academic appraisals of Indian art and architecture in the Western world have suffered from many of the same biases and prejudices that have infected analyses of Indian Philosophy and culture. In the colonially constructed model, India was to be pigeon-holed as a land seeped in incomprehensible mysticism- where religion dominated all aspects of social life, but unlike the 'noble' piousness of the Western world, Indias religious practices were often seen as bizarre and grotesque. Although the subcontinent has enjoyed a virtually uninterrupted history of developments in the realm f art and architecture, India has been either studiously ignored in compilations of 'world' art - or it has been represented by a very small and limited number of examples.

1.Indian art
2.Architecture of India
3.Crafts of India
4.Dance in India
5.Classical Music of India
6.Indian Folk Music
7.Indian Painting
8.Indian Literature