Ganga-Brahmaputra and Beyond

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 śilpins 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.