Art and Arcchaeology of India

by B. S. Harishankar

Table of Contents:

• Preface/S.P. Gupta
• I
  • Introduction
  • The early fossil hominds and related apes of siwalik foothills of the Himalayas (stages of pre-human evolution)/A.P. Khatri
  • Hominid fossils (stages of human evolution)/V.N. Misra
  • The pleistocene mammalian fossils of the Narmada River Valley and their horizons/A.P. Khatri
  • Looking at Indian art history/A.Model and S.P Gupta
• II
  • Palaeolithic period or old stone age
  • Neolithic period or new stone age
  • The Indus-Saraswati civilization
  • Chalcolithic period
  • Early historical period
  • Medieval art and Persian documents
  • Late medieval art
  • Painted manuscript
  • European art
  • Contemporary art
  • Decorative art
• Handlist of select antiquities in the Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology
• Bibliography.