Early Buddhist Metal Images of South Asia

This book "EARLY BUDDHIST METAL IMAGES OF SOUTH ASIA" with Special Reference to Gupta-Vakataka Period is a Joint work of Mrs. Madhuri Sharma and Sharma, both Art Historians, Archaeologists and Museologists. This includes a chapters on origin of Metal images of South Asia, different stages of Gupta period Art and Catalogue data of rare metal images of Gupta-Vakataka period. The large number of Gupta period metal images are on display in the Museums of U.S.A, U.K, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries and there are only a few (around 10) in collections of India. The author has documented all these images in this publication.

Madhuri Sharma did her M.A. in Ancient History. She passed Post-graduate diploma in Museology. She did some research work on Application of Statistics in Prehistoric Archaeology in Deccan College, Poona. She participate in excavations at Pangoraria, Chopani Mando and Bhardwaj-Ashram. She also participated in an International Seminar at Hong Kong University and she has pub lished two books and sixty Research papers. Her important publication is MUSEUM AND MUSEOLOGY. At present she is engaged in a research project on early metal Images of South Asia. She has done a project on docu mentation of Early Metal Images in Museums of U.P.

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