About the Book: Early Sculptural Art in the Indian Coastland
Scholars of early Indian art traditions have mostly viewed thecoastlands as
being marginal to the cultural efflorescences thathappened in the interiors of
the subcontinent. The classicalschools of Indian sculptural art which blossomed
at Mathura,Gandhara and Sarnath in the first half of the first millennium
ce,have become axioms in the study of early Indian sculptural art. Nodiscussion
on early sculptural art can be complete without allusionto one or other of the
schools. This work attempts to show that thecoastlands, while influenced by the
great schools of art, werenevertheless cultural melting pots in their own right,
oftentranscending the art