This book is an invaluable asset for students, scholars and art historians.
Dr. Vijay Kumar Mathur, art historian, is M.A.; Ph.D. in History. He has been working in National Museum, New Delhi. Dr. Mathur has widely travelled in India and abroad and has visited several important museums in Russia, Belgium, France, Poland and Thailand. In 1992, Indian Council for Cultural Relations deputed him to Pakistan for the selection of art objects for the classical art exhibition held in the National Museum, New Delhi, on the occasion of the First South Asian Festival of SAARC countries. He is the author of 'Indian Art'; 'Art and Culture under the Sungas', and 'Marvels of Kishangarh Paintings.'
I have long felt that our usual method of writing history in separate educational sections-economy, history, political history, religious history, the history of philosophy. the history of literature, the history of science, the history of music, the history of art-does injustice to the unity of sections that history should be written collaterally; as well as lineally. critically as well as analytically; and that the ideal Historiography should be portray in each period the total complex of the nation's culture, adventures and ways. But the accumulation of knowledge has included history, like science, into a thousand isolated specialties; and pruport such that I have refrained from attempting any view of the whole-to conceive material universe, or of the living past of our race. For the probability of error increases with the scope of the undertaking, and any man who sells his soul to synthesis will be a tragic target for a myriad merry was of specialist critique. "Consider", said Path-hotep five thousand years ago show thou mayest be opposed by an expert in council. It is foolish to speak on every kind of work. A history of civilization from the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprises: it efforts the marvelous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy it is a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity: all of us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits in the fatal depths.
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Hindu (875)
Agriculture (85)
Ancient (994)
Archaeology (567)
Architecture (526)
Art & Culture (848)
Biography (586)
Buddhist (540)
Cookery (160)
Emperor & Queen (489)
Islam (234)
Jainism (271)
Literary (866)
Mahatma Gandhi (377)
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