Art and History

Visual Representations as Historical Source in Ancient and Early Medieval India: An Introduction
-R. Mahalakshmi

I. Visualising Power: Sacred and Temporal

1. Power of Image and Image of Power in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands: Case Studies of Bactrian Greeks and the Indo-Greeks -Suchandra Ghosh
2. The Abhiraka Coin: Search for a New Identity -Dev Kumar Jhanjh
3. Emblems of Faith, Monuments of Authority: Brahmanical Iconography in the Temples of the Calukyas of Badami-Niharika K. Sankrityayan
4. Controlling the Waters: Divine Imagery and Royal Enterprise in Early Medieval Tamil Nadu -R. Mahalakshmi

II. Conceptualising the Divine Feminine: Forms, Meanings and Symbols

5. Giving Akara to the Goddess: Kali in Textual and Visual Traditions-Sneha Ganguly
6. Prajñaparamita: The Making of the First Buddhist Goddess-Megha Yadav
7. Representation of Sixteen Mahavidya in the Dilwara Jaina Temple -Virendra Singh Bithoo

III. Religious Traditions, Visual Representations and Regional Contexts

8. Icons and Patterns of Worship from the Fringes of South India: The Religious Landscape of Northern Tamil Nadu -V. Selvakumar
9. From Viraja Tirtha to 'Allegorical' Nabhi Gaya: Exploring the Changing Religious Landscape of Jajpur (Sixth to Fourteenth Centuries CE) -Umakanta Mishra
10. Donors of Kurkihar Images: An Investigation into Their Socioeconomic Background -Sayantani Pal

IV. Social Imaginaries and the Ocular

11. The Marriage Rite of S¿iva-Parvati: Specimens of Early Medieval Indian Temple Art -Neha Singh
12. Imagery of Love Making: Representation of the Erotic Body in the Temples of Early Medieval Odisha
-Sujata Rakshit
13. Of Men, Stones and Stories: Revisiting the Virakals of South India -Malavika Binny

V. Prescriptions and Representations

14. The Ga?a Who Consumed Himself: Kirtimukha in North Indian Literature and Art, 400 CE -900 CE
-Anisha Saxena 291
15. Buddhist Theory of Representation-Y.S. Alone

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