Historiography of Indian Art : Proceedings of National Seminar

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Inaugural address/Pramod Chandra. 3. Historiography of Indian art/B.P. Sinha. 4. Historiography of Indian art/K.D. Bajpai. 5. Historiography of Indian architecture/Krishna Deva. 6. History writing on Indian painting (In the light of Rai Krishnadasa\'s contributions)/Anand Krishna. 7. Early approach to Indian art/N.R. Banerjee. 8. The myth of Gupta classicism and the concept of regional genres/Ratan Parimoo. 10. Periodization of Indian art/R.N. Mishra. 11. Historians of Indian art/P.K. Agrawala. 12. Rudiments of Indian art: historiography as reflected in the writings of Mountstuart Elphinstone/H.A. Phadke. 13. Historians of Barabudur/T.K. Biswas. 14. Resemblance as a source of Mughal architecture/R. Nath. 15. Vaisnava iconography of early medieval South India: an analysis on statistical basis/Raju Kalidos. 16. Is Vesara Mule?/Ajay Sinha. 17. Historiography of Indian art: the beginning phase/Balram Srivastava. Contributors. (Article is in Hindi).

"The Historiography of Indian Art is  more or less a sort of re-examination of writings of Indian art history done during preceding recent centuries. It is a kind of scientific enquiry into the grants of historical perceptive an a corrective measure in relation to the study of art done in the past. By this the aim of historiographical writings is to detect misgivings spread in the people about our art development. As a corrective measure, this branch of study has worked and influenced the study of Indian art with better understanding and in a progressive prospects.

A long stride has been taken in the field of Indian art history after Anand Coomarswamy. Now this is a time when we collectively evaluate the progress in the field of art studies and researches.

With this aim in view, the Deptt. of History of art, Banaras Hindu University invited scholars of the field history of art to discuss the various aspect of studies so far made at one platform.

This work is an outcome of the proceeding of the aforesaid seminar which is first to this kind in the history of seminars on a art historiography in India." (jacket)