ABSTRACT

Volume 6, 1990 - CONTENTS

  • O. Starza- Majewski: A Kusana Mathra Head of a Man in the National Museum at New Delhi.
  • Stephen Markel: The Imagery and Iconographic Develoment of the Indian Planetary Dieties Rahu and Ketu.
  • John Irwin: The ‘Tree-of-Life’ in Indian Sculpture.
  • Gouriswar Bhattacharya: A Puzzling Report on a British Museum Buddhist Pedestal Inscription.
  • Mary Shepherd Slusser: An India-Import Devi Mahisasura-Mardini Scroll from Nepal.
  • Joachim Bautze: The Ajmer Darbar of 1832 and Kota Painting.
  • Robert A. Hefner III: A Note on the Rock Art of Lake Namtso, Tibet.
  • Phillip Denwood: Uses of Indian Technical Literature in Tibetan Architecture.
  • Warwick Ball: Some Notes on the Masjid-I-Sangi at Larwand in Central Afghanistan.
  • Gregory L. Possehl: An Archaeological Adventure in Afghanistan: Charles Masson.
  • K. Paddayya: On the Earliest Use of Photography as a Documentation Procedure in Indian Ethnology.
  • G.H.R. Tillotson: Murder in the Naga Hills.
  • Susan Stronge: Indian Jewellery and the West: Stylistic Exchanges 1750-1930.
  • Claudine Bautze-Picron: The Goblet D’Alviella Tomb at Court-Saint-Etienne (Belgium).
  • F.R. Allchin: Patterns of City Formation in Early Historic South Asia.
  • M. Rafique Mughal: Further Evidence of the Early Harrapan Culture in the Greater Indus Valley: 1971 - 1990.
  • Kenneth A.R. Kennedy: Skeletons in the Closet: Recent Recovery of Lost Human Remains from Iron Age Raigir, Andhra Pradesh.

Reports on work carried out with the aid of grants from the Society for South Asian Studies:

  1. W. Ball, A.W. McNicoll, G.K. Rao: The Minar-I Chakari: Report on the society’s Preservation Work.
  2. Farid Khan, J.R. Knox and K.D. Thomas: The Bannu Archaeological Project: Investigations at Sheri Khan Tarakai 1987 - 1989.
  3. R.W. Dennell: Report of the 1989 Field Season of the British Archaeological Mission to Pakistan.
  4. John D. Smith: Report on Visit to India, July-September; 1989.