A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s1.1

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In Chapter IV our attention was confined to the prolific Hellenistic school of sculpture which flourished during the first three centuries of the Christian era in the regions of the north-western frontier constituting the home provinces of the Kushān empire, and known by the name of Gandhāra.¹ In this chapter we propose to study certain schools of sculpture, partially contemporary with the Gandhāra school, and to some extent related to it, but distinct in style, and located in interior India.