Rock Art in India: In Felicitation of Prof. V.H. Sonawane (2 Vols-Set)
Contents: Foreword. Vol. I: 1. Rock art in Andhra Pradesh/N. Chandramouli. 2. The rock art in Bihar/A K Prasad. 3. Rock art in Bhimbetka/Dibishada B. Garnayak. 4. Rock art in Central India/Giriraj Kumar. 5. Rock art in the Satpuras: recent discoveries in the Gawilgarh Hills of Betul District, Madhya Pradesh/Nandini Bhattacharya-Sahu and Prabash Sahu. 6. Rock art in Goa/M. Nambirajan. 7. Rock art in Gujarat/P. Ajithprasad. 8. Rock art in Jammu and Kashmir/B.L. Malla. 9. Rock art in Jharkhand/Somnath Chakraverty. 10. Rock art in Karnataka/A. Sundara. 11. Pleistocene and Holocene rock art of Southern Deccan: characteristics, chronology and significance/R. Korisettar, P. Tacon, D. Robinson, N. Boivin, M. Petraglia, P.C. Venkatasubbaiah. Plates. Vol. II: 12. Rock art in Kerala/Jenee Peter. 13. Rock art in Maharashtra/Kantikumar A. Pawar. 14. Rock art in Odisha/Sadasiba Pradhan. 15. Rock art in Rajasthan/Riza Abbas. 16. Rock art in Tamil Nadu/K. Rajan. 17. Rock art in Uttar Pradesh/Rakesh Tewari. 18. Rock art in Uttar Pradesh and adjoining area of the Vindhyas/J N Pal. 19. Cognitive content of Indian Rock art/Urmi Ghosh. 20. Ships and boats in rock art in India//Alok Tripathi. 21. Early rock art of Ladakh vis-a-vis Indian tradition/B.R. Mani. 22. Rock art of Uattarakhand and Himachal Pradesh: A semiotic study of petroglyphs and pictographs/Maheshwar P. Joshi, Hari Chauhan, Vijay Bahuguna, D N. Dimri and K C Nauriyal. Plates.
This is a unique volume in view of the fact that for the first time, it presents a comprehensive account of rock art heritage of India from the Himalayas to the Southern coast and from the Gujarat coast to the Odisha coast through collection of twenty two research based articles contributed by rock art specialists of the various regions of the subcontinent. Running over to 508 pages of text supplemented by 81 figures and 193 colour plates the volume would be a useful source material for students, researchers and public at large for understanding the Rock Art Heritage of India. The volume presents a spectacular account of rock art scenario of India; in which while North India and South India are pronounced largely by petroglyphs (engravings) with few specimen of Pictographs (Paintings) Central India comprising the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan that account for the largest concentration of rock pictures in the country (more than two-thirds) are featured by pictographs with few instances of petroglyphs. (jacket)
