The Art of Ancient India

Huntington, Susan L.

The Art of Ancient India : Buddhist, Hindu, Jain / Susan L Huntington; John C Huntington - New York : Weatherhill, 1985. - xxix, 786 pages, ; 27 cm

Ill. on lining papers.
Includes indexes.

Geographical considerations --
The problem of dating --
Art and culture --
Foundations of Indic civilization: The prehistoric and protohistoric periods --
Antecendents of Indic civilization --
The Indus (or Harappa) civilization (ca. 2300 to 1750 B.C.) --
The Vedic and Upanisadic periods (ca. 1500 to 450 B.C.) --
Period of the early dynastics --
The Maurya period (ca. 323 to 185 B.C.) --
The Sunga period and related developments (ca. second century to first century B.C.) --
Regional developments (ca. Late irst century B.C. through frist century A.D.) --
The Saka and Parthian kingdoms in the Indic sphere (ca. frist century B.C. to mid-first century A.D.) --
The Northwest and Northern regions under the Kusansas (ca. Late first century to thrid century A.D.) --
Dynastics of the middle period --
The Gupta period (fourth to sixth centuries) --
The Gupta aftermath --
Buddhist cave architecture (fifth through seventh centuries) --
Hindu rock-cut architecture of the decan (Kalacuri and early Western Calukya phases) --
Southern developments under the Pallavas and the Pandyas --
The early Western Calukya and related schools of Deccan --
Hindu rock-cut architecture of the Western Deccan --
Later Northern schools --
Kasmir and related schools --
Bihar and Bengal under the Pala and Sena kings --
Orissa and related regions --
North-Central and Northwestern India: The art of the Rajput clans --
Later schools of the Deccan and the South --
The Cola and related schools of the Tamil South (mid-ninth to thirteenth centuries) --
Later Deccan schools --
The Vijayanagar period --
The Nayak period --
The Kerala region.

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Arts
Arts and recreation
History, geographic treatment, biography
Architecture -- India.
Inde -- Civilisation -- Jusqu'à 1200.
Inde -- Civilisation -- 1200-1765.
Architecture.
Art antique -- Inde -- Histoire.

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