ART AND CULTURE : ENDEAVOURS IN INTERPRETATION BY AHSANJAN QAISAR AND SOM PRAKASH VERMA (HARDCOVER) OLD BOOK

This is the first volume of the Annual Series of Arth and Culture. The raison d’etre for this undertaking is the absence of any regular publication in India encompassing matters related to some specific aspects of society in one volume. The contents of the volumes under this scheme will not be restricted to any particular period or geographical area. Moreover, the purpose is to encourage scholars to think and write in terms of social mores and values far as possible. In fact, interpretation is the key – word. To begin with, however, the themes will be confined to a) Cultural set – up and Values; b) Art and Architecture, and c) Science and Technology.

This volume is dedicated to Professor Mohammad Habib (b. 1895; d. 1971).

The names of the contributors along with their contributions are given below: Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, ‘The process of Acculturation in regional Historiography: The case of Delhi sultanate’; Satya Prakash Singh, ‘Erotic Elements in Temple Art’; Madhu Trivedi, ‘Encounter and Transition – European impact in Avadh (1765-1856)’; Som Prakash Verma, ‘Some Problems of the Mughal school of art: Ascriptions, duplicate versions and modern attributions’; Mridula Ramanna, ‘Indian response to western Medicine, Vaccination in the city of Bombay in the Nineteenth Century’; Ahsan Jan Qaisar, ‘Muhammad Zaman: A seventeenth century controversial artist’; Mahesh Sharma, ‘Popular religion: Local Tradition in the hills of Himachal Pradesh’; J.V. Naik, ‘Perception of British Rule in Maharashtra, A selective study Ahsan Jan Qaisar and Rana Firdaus, ‘The craft of bookbinding in Mughal India’; Neelima Vashishtha, ‘The Cbbatri (Cenotaph) of Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur’; Hassan Imam, ‘SIGNALS FROM Behind the Purdab: Muslim Women during the first half of the 20th century’; Som Prakash Verma, ‘Classical (Ajanta) Survivals in medieval schools of painting; A. Padma, ‘Women and the temple in medieval India: A note’; Kamlesh Mohan, ‘Colonialism and Ethnic Identities in India (19th to early 20th century)’; Abdul Matin, ‘In quest of Indigenous Approach to women studies in India’; and S. Liyaqat H. Moini, ‘The Hindus and the Dargah of Ajmer A.D. 1937-1857’.