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The book Nataraja Images of Bengal was first conceived by the late Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta, Rani Bagiswari Chair Professor, Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta. He could not complete the book due to his sudden demise in 1996. The present book brings to fruition Professor Dasgupta's unfinished project through a collection of essays by Professor Dasgupta and other scholars-dealing with the iconography of Siva-Nataraja images that have been found from different parts of undivided Bengal, i.e. West Bengal and Bangladesh. Bengal produced a special type of Siva-Nataraja image that is very different from the Siva-Nataraja images abundantly seen in South India. The book begins with an 'Introduction' on the subject followed by a chapter offering an exhaustive typological analysis of the Nataraja images of the Bengal School. The next three chapters - 'Some Nataraja Images from Orissa and Assam: A Trail of Bengal Style', 'Inscribed Nataraja Images of Bengal', and `Nataraja Images from Tripura, Bihar, Nepal, and Vietnam' - offers various perspectives on the subject. The fifth and final chapter titled, 'Dancing Deities on Stone Medallions: Controversy over Identity' deals with an issue that has long been the subject of debate among art historians. The book contains a good number of illustrations.