Essence of Art and Culture (In Memory of Prof. Kalyan Kumar Ganguli)

Contents: Preface. I. History and archaeology: 1. Iron technology and social change in Mauryan India/Vijay Kumar Thakur. 2. The Brahmaputra – analysis of the imageries/Chitrarekha Gupta. 3. Identification and location of ancient Tamralipta/Asok Dutta. 4. Vikrama Devi - a new ‘Mother’ for the Pala king Devapala!/Gouriswar Bhattacharya. 5. India as viewed by three European women artists in the first half of the nineteenth century/Adyanath Mukhopadhyay. II. Art and architecture: 6. Narrative structure and the significance of the snake Jatakas in Buddhist art/Ratan Parimoo. 7. Early Buddhist remains in the Indian Museum, Calcutta/R.C. Sharma. 8. Sanghol: a poem carved in stone/G.N. Pant. 9. Gandhara wall painting of the Kushana period/Jayanta Chakrabarti. 10. Early Terracottas of West Bengal/Samir Kumar Mukherjee. 11. Early Buddha images from lower Gangetic West Bengal study & evaluation/Santoshkumar Bose. 12. Terracotta – relief depicting Anantasayi Vishnu - from Bhitargaon: a new interpretation/M.C. Joshi. 13. An appraisal of Ramayana in the light of a new discovery from Allahabad in the collection of Indian Museum/Rita Dutta Mandal. 14. Bone as a medium of art in ancient Vanga/B.N. Mukherjee. 15. Studies in the early art of Assam: trends and prospects/Gautam Sengupta. 16. A note on the Buddhist Monasteries in ancient Bengal/S.C. Mukherjee. 17. Rupabhedah in early Murals/Sujit Narayan Sen. 18. Cast metal Icons of Nepal – a note on Indian Museum collection/Amita Ray. 19. Representation of women in Murshidabad paintings/Ratnabali Chatterjee. 20. Portrayal of women in the Mughal miniatures/Sipra Chakravarti. 21. Sakuntala : Echoes and images in Indian art/Shyamalkanti Chakravarti. 22. Floral motifs in traditional Indian painted textiles/Archana Roy. 23. Glimpses of British architecture in Calcutta/Somnath Mukhopadhayay. 24. A study of neo-classical sculpture; Victoria Memorial collection/J. Kedareswari. 25. Splendor of Terracotta: Vishnupur temples/Pranab Roy. 26. An ethno-aesthetic study of Bengal Terracotta toys/Asok K. Bhattacharya. 27. Bengal Pat and Patuas: indigenous colour preparation style and technique/Atul Chandra Bhowmick. 28. Evaluation of Bengal paintings/Samar N. Bhowmik. 29. Art of Tagore/Jananranjan Haldar. 30. Tribal art & culture of North-East India/A.K. Chatterjee. 31. Early art forms - viewed from anthropological perspective/Ashok K. Ghosh, Dilip Kumar Chakraborty and Subhra Bhattacharyya. III. Religion and iconography: 32. A note on an unusual Mahaparinirvana sculpture/Chhanda Mukherje. 33. A Valokitessvara a popular Bodhisattva/Pushpa Niyogi. 34. Two images of Akshobhya/Mallar Mitra. 35. The so called Vairocana in Uttarabodhimudra/D.C. Bhattacharyya. 36. Siva and Parvati on Kailash a rare relief from Orissa/Pratapaditya Pal. 37. A rare Panchamukha Sivalinga from Bengal/Kalyan Kumar Dasggupta. 38. Jainism in early medieval Rajasthan: an appraisal/M.M. Mukhopadhya. IV. Numismatics: 39. Seated doddess on coins of Northern India & herattributes (from 1 century A.D. to 13 Century)/Dolly Mukherjee. 40. Reattribution of the square Copper Vemaka coin/Devendra Handa. 41. A note on the Stein collection of Central Asian objects in the Indian Museum/Anasua Sengupta (Das). 42. Barabudur and its historians/T.K. Biswas. 43. Mara in Thai Buddhism/Bachchan Kumar. 44. Early Indian religions: their impact on Chinese art and architecture/I.K. Sharma. V. General: 45. Identification of data elements for museum documentation: optional & Mandatory/A.K. Das. 46. Role of site museums in museological studies/Bimal Bandyepadhyay. 47. Festivals of Tripuris/Bijay Kumar Dev Burman. 48. A visit to Bankura and Vishnupur/Masatoshi A. Konishi.