The Development of Hindu Iconography c3.3

c3.3

The first edition of the book contained only ten plates, six being reproductions of line blocks, the rest being of half-tone ones. The addition of the chapters on cult icons in the present edition has made many more illustrations necessary, and I have been at pains to make them as full as possible under the circumstances. Sri A. Ghosh, the Director-General of Archaeology in India, Sri C. Sivaramamurti, the former Superintendent of the Archaeological Section, Indian Museum, and Sri S. K. Saraswati, once a student and now a distinguished colleague of mine in the University, rendered a great deal of assistance to me in the acquisition of a large number of photographs of images from various Museums and other collections of India, from which a fairly representative selection was made. I am grateful to all of them for this help. I am also indebted to Sri D. P. Ghosh, the Curator of the Asutosh Museum, for the loan of five blocks from the collection of the same. My cordial thanks are also due to the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (Bombay) and to the Indian Society of Oriental Art (Calcutta) for lending me nine and eight good blocks from their respective collections for reproduction in this edition. To the old line blocks have been added a few new ones which are being reproduced in Plates VII and VIII. These as well as the new half-tone blocks were prepared by Messrs. Bharat Phototype Studio.