Ganga-Brahmaputra and Beyond: Exploring Art and Iconography of Eastern and North-Eastern India, Primus Books, 9789356877658

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Ganga-Brahmaputra and Beyond: Exploring Art and Iconography of Eastern and North-Eastern India

Gautam Sengupta (Author)

Synopsis

Like the heterogeneity of the idyllic landscape of the Ganga Brahmaputra valleys, the art historical traditions of the region manifest elements of bewildering diversity and multiplicity in form and media. Based on empirical researches over four decades across eastern and north-eastern India, Ganga Brahmaputra and Beyond: Exploring Art and Iconography of Eastern and North-Eastern India explores these diverse creative traditions, visualized and successfully strategized by premodern silpins or craftsmen. Spanning a chronological period from the second and first centuries bce to the early twentieth century ce, the chapters in this volume, grouped under three themes Eastern India: A Journey across Time ; Revisiting North-East India ; and Interrogating Artists Choice investigate newly discovered data and interrogate existing material through new questions.

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About the author

Gautam Sengupta

Gautam Sengupta is currently the Director of Archaeology and Museums, Government of West Bengal and the Secretary. Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training, Kolkata. He completed his Phd from the University of Calcutta and taught at Visva Bhaarati, Santiniketan, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong between 1979-90. He was a Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow of the Ancient India and Iran Trust at Cambridge in 1995, a Visiting Scholar, Maisson Science de Lâ€™homme Paris, as well as President, Archaeology Section of the Indian History Congress, Calcutta Session (1995). His main area of research relates to historical archaeology and art history of Eastern and North-eastern India.

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