The Art of Ancient India V.S. Ramanan At the age of 18

At the age of 18

A book on the model suggested by Fergusson has indeed been a great desideratum

Its origins can be traced to my initial year as a graduate student at Harvard (1974-75) when I first discovered the pleasures of an in-depth investigation of a Mahayana sutra while writing a paper on the Astasahasrika-prajnaparamita under the direction of Professor Masatoshi Nagatomi

Rabindranath Tagore

The Art of Ancient India V.S. Ramanan At the age of 18To scholars in the field, the need for an up to date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of Indias centuries of splendor has been lacking. The Art of Ancient India is the result of the authors aim to provide such a synthesis. Noted expert Sherman E. Lee has commented: Not since Coomaraswamys History of