Mapin Catalogue

2024 Mapin

front cover: Monks II, 36 x 48”, Oil and acrylic on canvas (from Unmasked, see p. 1)

back cover: Jala loom, tantee; Balthazar Solvyns; Engraving; Bengal; 1807; Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India (from Textiles from Bengal, see p. 7 ) For preview on

NANDITA CHAUDHURI UNMASKED

Reflections in Brush & Ink

modern & contemporary art

300 pages, 175 illustrations 10 x 10” (254 x 254 mm), hc-plc

ISBN: 978-93-94501-43-0

4950 | $75 | £55 April 2024 |

Nandita Chaudhuri’s works take a deep dive into peeling away the onion layers of human behaviour in a stark and vivid manner. The poems and paintings rely on graphic metaphors to convey a common thread. Introspection, coupled with profound, thought-provoking stories, explores and re-engages with deep impressions and stored images snatched from life. The two mediums, when juxtaposed, delve into emotions that would not have been possible alone, creating cross currents as they dissolve into each other. Like yin and yang, at times, they display the connectivity between the human soul and the universe at large and, at others, depict the paucity and dissociation between them. An interplay of narratives throughout the book enables a storyline that depicts the object and the crevices within. Together, they create a unique multilayered sensory experience, conveying deep introspection with incredible synergy.

Nandita Chaudhuri is a globally recognized British artist of Indian origin. She studied at The Slade School of Fine Art, going on to do an M.A. in Fine Arts from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London (UAL), and a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Arts (UAL). She also has an M.A. in Marketing from Westminster Business School, London. A multidisciplinary artist, she works across canvas, digital film, installation and print, blurring boundaries between media. She has participated in the Florence Biennale (2009), the Kochi Muziris Biennale (2014), and Pre-biennale, Venice (May 2011). Her works have been shown at the British Museum; The Royal Academy, London; Saatchi Gallery, London; the China Art Museum, Shanghai; The Czech Baroque Museum Foundation, Prague; Frieze Art Fair; Elephant Parades in Singapore, Hong Kong and London, besides finding place in the permanent collections of various museums, global hotel chains and private collectors. Nandita works out of her studios in London, Dubai and Mumbai..

“Nandita Chaudhuri writes deeply insightful poems as companions or extensions of her artwork. As an artist, she seems to confront, challenge and collapse conventional borderlines. When the paintings and the poetry are seen side by side, or over each other, they create a potent sensory experience.

The poems are about relationships, the human predicament and the nuances of everyday life. They peel away layers of the outer world to offer glimpses of the inner self. Interestingly, the paintings feed off the poems, the brush draws the word into its space. I have enjoyed the dynamics of colour and the poetry which together create the artist’s world.”

—Javed Akhtar, Screenwriter, lyricist and poet

NANDITA CHAUDHURI

Reflections in Brush & Ink

RAZA

modern & contemporary art

128 pages, 103 illustrations and 5 photographs

10 x 11” (254 x 279 mm), hc

ISBN: 978-93-94501-88-1

1950 | $40 | £26 April 2024 |

Published in association with Progressive Art Gallery, New Delhi, and The Raza Foundation, New Delhi

Raza

The Other Modern

Dr Geeti Sen, Yashodhara Dalmia, Gayatri Sinha Foreword by Ashok Vajpeyi

With his Indian vision and French sens de la plastique coalescing to create a unique modernism, S. H. Raza has been a master of colours, concepts and creativity. From his early expressionist works to the mesmerizing abstraction of his later years, Raza’s artistic evolution is a testimony to his relentless pursuit of truth through colour and form.

As an artist, Raza moved through many dualities, namely home and exile, colour and concept, imagination and thought, modernity and memory, creativity and invention, locale and universality, passion and meditation, anxiety and silence, time and eternity; and also, in a way, between River Narmada of his childhood and the Parisian river Seine from his adulthood. His journey is a testament to the power of artistic vision and cultural amalgamation.

Raza: The Other Modern celebrates the artist’s outstanding body of work and invites the viewer to explore the depth of his artistic genius. One of the most significant exhibitions of Raza’s work to be held in Dubai, it is a quest through the evolving phases of Raza’s life and artistic endeavours.

Ashok Vajpeyi is a New Delhi-based Hindi poet-critic who has written poetry and criticism of literature, music and visual arts in many publications. He is the recipient of many national and international awards, including the “Officier De L’Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres,” from the Government of France.

Dr Geeti Sen is a cultural historian, professor, art critic and editor, trained at the Universities of Chicago and Calcutta. A new and revised edition of her seminal work Bindu: Space and Time in Raza’s Vision has been recently published by Mapin Publishing and the Raza Foundation. Yashodhara Dalmia is an independent art historian and curator based in New Delhi. Among her publications are Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life, The Making of Modern Indian Art and the recently published Raza: The Journey of An Iconic Artist (2021).

Gayatri Sinha is a critic, editor and curator. She has curated many important shows and written extensively about modern and contemporary Indian art. Since 2011, she has directly supported knowledge in the arts through her initiative Critical Collective, which is the first such art archive and news magazine on Indian art.

whose

ramayana is it anyway?

art & culture

144 pages, 90 colour illustrations

8 x 10.25" (203 x 260 mm), sc with gatefold

ISBN: 978-93-85360-54-1

1500 | $25 | £20 2024 |

Whose Ramayana Is It Anyway?

Natasha Sarkar

If there is one grand tale that has impacted Asia, it has to be the Ramayana, the great Indian epic. In this sumptuously illustrated volume, the author highlights the various South and Southeast Asian traditions and variations of the tale with nearly a hundred superb watercolour paintings.

That this ancient narrative has adapted itself to multiple art forms is not surprising, given the diversity of its retellings in both literary and non-literary forms—oral narratives, dance dramas, plays, and more. From India, the Rama tale is presumed to have travelled along three routes: by land, the northern route took the story from Punjab and Kashmir into China, Tibet, and East Turkestan; by sea, the southern route carried the story from Gujarat and South India into Java, Sumatra, and Malaya; and again by land, the eastern route delivered the story from Bengal into Burma, Thailand, Laos, and to some extent, Cambodia and Vietnam. In Indonesia and Malaysia, the epic has been incorporated into the Islamic tradition; Theravada Buddhism in Thailand and Cambodia adopted Hindu divinities from the Rama story into its fold.

With stunning original art, this volume celebrates this all-inclusive tradition of the epic, foregrounding it as a cultural phenomenon across time and space.

Natasha Sarkar is a commissioning editor, artist, and an independent researcher, having earned her PhD in History from the National University of Singapore. A recipient of The People’s Choice Award at Brisbane Art Prize 2017 and a finalist for The Social Art Award 2017 instituted by the Institute for Art and Innovation e.V., Berlin, her works have been exhibited at events both nationally and internationally. Sarkar had a solo show, ‘Ram Katha Unlimited’, at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, in December 2016.

Crafts of India Handmade in India

Aditi Ranjan and M. P. Ranjan

crafts

576 pages, 3500 colour photographs & 140 maps

9.5 x 13.5” (241 x 343 mm), hc

ISBN: 978-81-88204-57-1

4500 | $85 | £65

Third reprint Aug. 2024 |

Published in association with COHANDS and National Institute of Design

Handmade in India is a unique compendium that probes into all aspects of handicrafts—historical, social and cultural influences on crafts, design and craft processes, traditional and new markets, products and tools— unravelling a wealth of knowledge. Based on extensive field work and research, Handmade in India maps out the regional craft clusters identified across the country on the basis of prevailing craft-work patterns. Some of the crafts are unique to a place, like the pinjrakari and khatumb and wood work of Kashmir, blue pottery of Jaipur, chikankari embroidery of Lucknow, the kannadi or metal mirrors from Aranmula, chappal s or footwear from Kolhapur, and the bamboo craft of Assam. Other, lesser known, crafts like the paabu or stitched boots from Ladakh, jadupatua paintings from Jharkhand, the making of Kathakali and Theyyam headgear, khadi or tinsel printing in Ahmedabad have also been described in striking detail.

The first-of-its-kind ever attempted, this volume with stunning photographs has proven to be tremendous resource for product and textile designers, artists, architects, interior designers, collectors, development professionals and connoisseurs alike.

Aditi Ranjan is an Indian textile designer, educator and researcher in the field of Indian crafts. She taught at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, from 1974 to 2012. M.P. Ranjan was an independent academic and industrial designer. He taught at the National Institute of Design for several years.

“... takes on the monumental task of examining the eye-popping variety of handicrafts made across India’s vast landscape... The thousands of objects pictured here, and accompanied by detailed notes, include terra-cotta jewelry, leather puppets, wood carvings, bamboo baskets and silver ornaments. ... visually stunning display.”

The Wall Street Journal

“This is a magnificent work, a fabulous reference book, a virtual encyclopaedia of Indian handicrafts... As an encyclopaedia of Indian crafts, Handmade in India is pioneering and comprehensive. Nothing of this kind has ever been published before.”

—Jyotindra Jain in Biblio: A Review of Books

“An important book... craft values are important for a sustainable future... an astounding 516 types of specific regional crafts are covered... All readers will be impressed.”

—Library Journal

Gold Medal in Crafts category at ForeWord Book of the Year Award

crafts, design & fashion

264 pages, 331 images

9.9 x 13.5” (252 x 343 mm), hc

ISBN: 978-93-85360-88-6

4500 | $75 | £55 Sept. 2024 |

Published in association with Amrapali Museum, Jaipur

the amrapali collection

Silver and Gold Visions of Arcadia

Usha R. Balakrishnan

For as long as Indians have adorned themselves, they have sought to wear jewels that conveyed beauty, power and status. Jewels are believed to provide protection, hope, luck and well-being. More than 40 years ago, two friends, united by a passion for the decorative arts, embarked on an exploration of these unique jewels of India. They were motivated by the everyday jewels of the people in the villages—to discover the sources of their inspiration and to unravel the complex ritual of adornment that resulted in ornaments being fabricated for every part of the body, from the top of the head to the toes. What resulted were visions of Arcadia, leading to the creation of the Amrapali Collection of Indian Jewellery, one of the largest collections of pastoral silver jewellery in the world.

The manifold communities that this collection represents come from different religions, with linguistic differences and diverse cultural sensibilities, but the land that the jewels encompass is geographically contiguous. Beyond adornment, the Amrapali collection presents a vision of harmony with nature, with forms and motifs that draw upon nature and the cosmos, and materials such as shells, grass and bone. They exhibit the amazing technical expertise of simple gold- and silversmiths. This volume presents the jewels in all their glory, not as museum objects or as relics of the past but as a visual language communicating design, aesthetics, tradition and, above all, the artistic expression of adorning the body.

Dr. Usha R. Balakrishnan is the Chief Curator of the World Diamond Museum and a pre-eminent historian of Indian jewellery. She is the author of several publications, including Alamkara: The Beauty of Ornament, and has co-authored most recently Treasures of the Deccan: Jewels of the Nizams, one of the two-volume publication devoted to the fabulous jewels and seminal collection of paintings inherited by the Nizams of Hyderabad. Her curatorial projects include ‘India: Jewels that Enchanted the World’ at the Moscow Kremlin Museum, ‘Enduring Splendor: The Jewelry of India’s Thar Desert’ at the Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, and ‘Shringara: Adornment’ at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) Museum, Mumbai.

Visions of Arcadia

Silver and Gold

Usha R. Balakrishnan

AMRAPALI COLLECTION

Unmyth

Works and Worlds of Mithu Sen

Edited by Irina Aristarkhova

modern & contemporary art

380 pages, 180 photographs

8.25 x 10.25” (209.5 x 254 mm), hc-plc

ISBN: 978-93-94501-87-4

3500 | $70 | £49 Sept. 2024 |

Published in association with Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai

This artist monograph presents a first comprehensive study of the artwork of Mithu Sen, a major contemporary artist and poet based in New Delhi, India. Sen’s work spans over two decades of making and hundreds of exhibitions, projects, performances, and word art, unveiling an unparalleled history of experiments with materials and concepts. The book’s title ‘UNMYTH’ speaks to Sen’s impactful and impacting work in all its multiplicity and complexity.

Sen’s art imagines new worlds for us, including to escape to and from. Some elements are familiar, others are alien. As with myths, they are lulling and disturbing at the same time. These worlds are built around the key concepts in Sen’s work: ‘mything’, ‘unmything’ and ‘postmything’; radical hospitality; ‘untaboo’ sexuality; lingual anarchy; critiquing institutions and countering capitalism; ‘unmonolith’ identity; byproducts and contract. These and other concepts are engaged with systematically in wide-ranging essays, written by eminent scholars, curators, and critics who have followed Sen’s work for many years. The artist herself contributes conceptual captions, dispersed citations, and the experimental ‘Fictional Interview’.

With contributions by Nancy Adajania , Irina Aristarkhova , Sushmita Chatterjee, Max Delany, Mithu Sen, and Karin Zitzewitz

Nancy Adajania is a cultural theorist and curator based in Bombay who has curated a number of pathbreaking exhibitions. Irina Aristarkhova is Professor at Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. Dr. Sushmita Chatterjee is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic and Gender Studies at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Max Delany is Artistic Director at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Karin Zitzewitz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland.

MITHU SEN uNmyth

crafts

360 pages, 175 illustrations

10 x 11" (254 x 279 mm), hc

ISBN: 978-93-94501-26-3

3950 | $65 | £49 Dec. 2024 |

Published in association with Weavers Studio Resource Centre, Kolkata

Textiles from Bengal A Shared Legacy

Edited by Tirthankar Roy, Sonia Ashmore and Niaz Zaman

Foreword by Rosemary Crill

The famed Bengal textiles which once ‘clothed the world’ have been neglected, with little scholarly attention, for the last few decades. With the systemic destruction of Bengal’s textile industry, prompted by the Industrial Revolution in Europe, the muslins and baluchari s of Bengal were lost in obscurity. The scholarship too has been a victim of the partition of the Indian subcontinent and the consequent different cultural and societal identities of present-day India and Bangladesh. This volume revives the lost textile traditions of Undivided Bengal from the 16th to the 20th century and traces its impact on the historical and cultural processes of Bengal, and vice-versa.

This is an aesthetic compilation of research and is conceived as a dialogue between historians, anthropologists, art historians, textile practitioners and textile scholars who bring their diverse perspectives and expertise on the fundamental catalysts of change in the textile tradition of Undivided Bengal. This book serves as a public history, with engaging chapters on specific topics presenting a unique perspective of the Bengal textiles supported by stunning illustrations of textiles, maps and trade documents from the past, most of which have never been published before. This volume will inspire the reader, reorient scholarly attention and provoke them to rethink what Bengal textiles really were and what it has now become.

With contributions by Hameeda Hossain, Giorgio Riello, Ghulam Nadri, Barbara Karl, Ritu Sethi, Paola Manfredi, Susan Bean, Rosie LlewellynJones, et.al.

Tirthankar Roy is Professor at Department of Economic History, London School of Economics. His research interests include the history and development of South Asia, global history, empires, and environmental history. Sonia Ashmore is a design historian, with particular interest in cultural exchange. As a fellow in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Research Department, she published extensively on the museum’s South Asian textiles and other collections and has lectured widely. Niaz Zaman is Advisor, Department of English, Independent University, Bangladesh. She has extensively worked on textiles and embroidery, particularly kantha and has also published on tribal textiles.

Textiles from Bengal A Shared Legacy

Edited by Tirthankar Roy, Sonia Ashmore and Niaz Zaman

ELLORA

archaeology

240 pages, 200 illustrations

9.5 x 11.5” (241 x 292 mm), hc

ISBN: 978-93-85360-80-0

3500 | $65 | £45 2024 |

Ellora

Cross-Fertilization of Style in Buddhist, Hindu and Jain Cave Temples

Edited by Deepanjana Klein • Photographs by Arno Klein

Ellora attempts the first systematic overview of the Ellora cave temples, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, excavated between 600–1000 CE and the only cave temple site that houses Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain caves.

This volume looks at each of these three groups of rock-cut temples and the stylistic influences they drew from each other and from surrounding regions.

Essays and analyses by scholars bring a comprehensive understanding of the chronology and stylistic development of the 34 main caves and lesser caves of the site. Ellora also includes extensive photographic documentation, ground plans, and rarely seen early 19th-century etchings of the most significant caves.

With contributions by Stanislaw J. Czuma, Nicolas Morrissey, Lisa N. Owen, Vidya Dehejia, Pia Brancaccio and Arno Klein

Deepanjana Klein is the Director of Acquisitions and Development at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. Stanislaw J. Czuma was the George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art for over 30 years. Nicolas Morrissey is an Assistant Professor of Asian Art and Religion at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Lisa N. Owen is an Associate Professor at the University of North Texas. Vidya Dehejia is the Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University. Pia Brancaccio is an Associate Professor of Art History at Drexel University. Arno Klein is a scientist at the Child Mind Institute in New York City.

Deepanjana Klein & Arno Klein

Alchemy

Contemporary Indian Painting and Miniature Traditions

Dr Geeti Sen

art

148 pages, 91 illustrations

8.25 x 10.25” (210 x 260 mm), sc with gatefold

ISBN: 978-93-94501-63-8

1500 | $25 | £20

2025 |

A miniature painting holds wondrous powers, beyond its defined space. A single image can summon up a world of adventures, enclosed chambers, gardens, rivers, lakes, forests, flowers, and an infinite variety of trees in bloom. Miniatures were conceived as sets of narrative illustrations based on classic texts such as the Gita Govinda , the Ramayana , the Bhagavata Purana , the Ragamala and the Rasamanjari. The representation of the nayaka and the nayika —the hero and heroine—is perhaps the most popular theme, focusing on dramatic enactment and the impermanence of emotions. Miniatures continue to hold their appeal well into the 21st century. Contemporary artists of importance have imbibed influences from miniature traditions, in technique, theme and colouration. This book explores a relationship between Indian contemporary painting and inspiration from medieval miniatures.

The author has selected to study the art of five significant artists—Abanindranath Tagore, Manjit Bawa, Waswo X. Waswo, Rakesh Vijayvargiya, and Nilima Sheikh—who have resourced and reinvented iconic traditions, with different perspectives and using different techniques. Accompanied with splendid illustrations, the essays bring to attention the Indian art of today, with the magical transformation of older concepts and techniques in miniature painting into contemporary practice.

Dr Geeti Sen is a cultural historian, professor, art critic and editor, trained at the Universities of Chicago and Calcutta. A new and revised edition of her seminal work Bindu: Space and Time in Raza’s Vision has been recently published by Mapin Publishing and the Raza Foundation.

RETHINKING CONSERVATION SERIES

Stone Craftsmanship

Conservation & Possibilities

Compiled by Aga Khan Trust for Culture

crafts, conservation & heritage

128 pages, 65 photographs and 18 drawings

8.27 x 11.69” (210 x 297 mm), sc with gatefold

ISBN: 978-81-89995-98-0

1295 | $25 | £20

2024 |

Published in association with Aga Khan Trust for Culture, New Delhi

Over a hundred stone craftsmen have worked for over three years on the Humayun’s Tomb conservation project. They have used the same tools and techniques that would have been used by craftsmen who built the Tomb in the 16th century. Though sandstone craft skills survive in India, the building craft sector has not received the attention that has been paid to the handicraft sector though more people can find employment in the building sector industry.

Conservation of Mughal heritage in India can only be carried out if skills survive, yet the conservation effort is not yet of a quantum to keep thousands employed. This documentary-publication aims at allowing architects, sculptors, artists, and engineers the systems, tools, techniques, process and benefits handcrafting stone elements brings. Cost, quality, ageing comparisons with machine-cut stone show how handcrafted stonework can have favourable cost benefit.

Founded and guided by His Highness the Aga Khan, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture projects promote the conservation and re-use of buildings and public spaces in historic cities in ways that can spur social, economic and cultural development.

learning from india series

Learning from Ahmedabad

Practising Architecture in Urban India

Gert-Jan Scholte, Pelle Poiesz and Sanne Vanderkaaij Gandhi

architecture

212 pages, 60 photographs, 2 drawings and 7 maps

6.5 x 9.5” (165 x 241 mm), sc with gatefold

ISBN: 978-93-85360-96-1

1750 | $35 | £25

Spring 2024 |

After the success of Learning from Mumbai and Learning from Delhi (Mapin 2013, 2016), the authors of the Learning from India series continue to unravel the lessons that can be learned from practising architecture and urban planning in India’s first World Heritage City—Ahmedabad.

With several essays and maps, Learning from Ahmedabad lays the ground for a series of interviews with architects, planners, educators and artists who live and work in the city. Locating these explorations within a local framework are perspectives from scholars such as pre-eminent architect B.V. Doshi and danseuse Mallika Sarabhai. These narratives are balanced by the take of historians such as Esther David and veteran social worker Elaben Bhatt. A special place is reserved in this volume for the photo essays of Bas Losekoot.

Learning from Ahmedabad will be of significance to both students and practitioners of architecture and planning, as well as people interested in Ahmedabad and its built environment.

Dutch architects Pelle Poiesz and Gert-Jan Scholte studied architecture at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and at Sir J.J. College of Architecture in Mumbai. Sanne Vanderkaaij Gandhi is a researcher and writer based in Mumbai.

Learning from Patna Riverfront

Nishant Lall

architecture

128 pages, 108 photographs, 36 drawings and 18 maps

7.16 x 9.25” (182 x 235 mm), sc with gategold

ISBN: 978-93-85360-97-8

995 | $25 | £20

Fall 2024 |

Learning from Patna Riverfront chronicles a unique revitalization programme at the River Ganges in Patna. For a city with its back to the river, with isolated ghat s, this project proposes a comprehensive development solution addressing vital concerns such as public space and civic amenities, along with environmental awareness and ecological restoration. The project connects existing fragmented open spaces to provide a continuous public space along the river, aiding in religious festivities and recreation. Engaging a long stretch along the river, the proposed development includes 6.5 kilometres of promenades, community, education and recreational buildings, as well as food kiosks, ecological landscaping and other public amenities. The project received funding from the World Bank and was supported by Ministry of Water Resources (Ministry of Jal Shakti).

Designed as a multi-purpose space, the project also aims to develop ghat prototypes that could create a typology for the river’s edge, integrating heritage buildings and being sensitive to the local context. As a holistic development, the proposal promotes a walkable city, creating larger usable open spaces and attracting people of all ages.

Nishant Lall, an urban designer and architect from UCLA (University of California Los Angeles), is currently an expert on urban design with the Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Group at World Bank India.

Tree & Serpent

Early Buddhist Art in India

John Guy

art

344 pages, 322 illustrations and 3 maps

9 x 12.25” (228 x 311 mm), hc

ISBN: 978-93-94501-16-4

3950 | $65  2023 |

Published in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A pioneering study of the emergence of Buddhist art in southern India, featuring vibrant photography of rare works, many published here for the first time. Named for two primary motifs in Buddhist art, the sacred bodhi tree and the protective snake, Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India is the first publication to foreground devotional works produced in the Deccan from 200 BCE to 400 CE.

Unlike traditional narratives, which focus on northern India (where the Buddha was born, taught, and died), this ground-breaking book presents Buddhist art from monastic sites in the south. Long neglected, this is among the earliest surviving bodies of Buddhist art, and among the most sublimely beautiful. An international team of researchers contributes new scholarship on the sculptural and devotional art associated with Buddhism, and masterpieces from recently excavated Buddhist sites are published here for the first time—including Kanaganahalli and Phanigiri, the most important new discoveries in a generation.

With its exploration of Buddhism’s emergence in southern India, as well as of India’s deep commercial and cultural engagement with the Hellenized and Roman worlds, this definitive study expands our understanding of the origins of Buddhist art itself.

John Guy is Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of the Arts of South and Southeast Asia in the Department of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Jali

Lattice of Divine Light in Mughal Architecture

Navina Najat Haidar

architecture

268 pages, 246 colour photographs

9.5 x 11.6” (241 x 295 mm), hc

ISBN: 978-93-85360-74-9

2950 | $65 | £49

Fall 2023 |

A jali is a perforated stone or latticed screen, with ornamental patterns that draw on the compositional rhythms of geometry and calligraphy. In the parts of India, western Asia and the Mediterranean where solar rays are strongest and brightest is where ustad s, or master artisans, were able to evolve an aesthetic language of light, giving it form and shape through lattices of stone and other materials.

This book explores the delicate beauty of more than 200 jali s across India, from the temple-inspired designs of the Gujarat Sultanate to imperial symbolism and Sufi allusions in Mughal jalis, the innovations and adaptations of jali s across Rajasthan and central India and, further south, calligraphy in pierced stone in the Deccan.

With contributions by art historian Mitchell Abdul Karim Crites, George Michell, an authority on South Asian architecture, Ebba Koch, art and architectural historian, and Afterword by film director James Ivory, this lavishly illustrated publication reveals the poetry etched in these stone screens.

Navina Najat Haidar is Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Curator-in-Charge of the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“The book moves effortlessly...makes one wonder of the draftsmanship of artisans...Nothing by half measures here!! ”

—Zeyba Rahman, Director, Building Bridges Program, Doris Duke Foundation

Lattice of Divine Light in Mughal Architecture

Navina Najat Haidar

josef wirsching archive

Bombay Talkies

An Unseen History of Indian Cinema

Edited by Debashree Mukherjee Foreword by Georg Wirsching

cinema

192 pages, 165 photographs

9.65 x 11.5” (245 x 292 mm), hc

ISBN: 978-93-85360-78-7

3950 | $75 | £55  2023 |

Published in association with The Alkazi Collection of Photography, New Delhi

“a rare, treasured volume... offers cinephiles a glimpse of filmmaking through the gaze of a cinematographer”

Suhani Singh , India Today

“a stunning collection of photographs and film stills from the Josef Wirsching Archive and the Alkazi Collection of Photography along with insightful essays—presents a glimpse into the art of filmmaking in the early days of Indian cinema.”

—ON Stage

Celestial

A Love Poem

Abhay K.

CELESTIAL

The Planetary King Humayun Padshah, Inventor and Visionary on the Mughal Throne

Ebba Koch

THE PLANETARY KING

poetry & art

160 pages, 46 illustrations

6.75 x 8.75” (171.5 x 222 mm), hc-plc

ISBN: 978-93-94501-15-7

1199 | $25 | £ 20  2023 |

art & history

384 pages, 273 images

9.75 x 11.75” (247.6 x 298 mm), hc

ISBN: 978-93-85360-98-5

3950 | $70 | £49 Nov. 2022 |

Co-published with Aga Khan Trust for Culture

“Here is the perfect companion to any stargazing app—Abhay K’s delightful poem Celestial distills the poetic wisdom of the ages in splendid rhyming couplets.”

Christopher Merrill, poet, Director, International Writing Program, The University of Iowa

“These starry-eyed poems are born of a sorcery of voice and discovery, and strike a delicate balance between solitude and waywardness.”

Jayanta

Mahapatra, poet, translator

“In this sumptuous book, studded with fine paintings and incisive commentary, Ebba Koch, the foremost historian of medieval Indian architecture, has unpacked Humayun’s complex personality...”

Shahid Amin , India Today

“...combining visual appeal with engrossing text to provide a wholesome reading experience.”

—The Week

Edited by Debashree Mukherjee

Abhay K.

Ebba Koch

Humayun Padshah Inventor and Visionary on Throne

Balkrishna Doshi Paths Uncharted

architecture

440 pages, 182 illustrations, 5.8 x 8.27” (148 x 210 mm), sc with gatefold

ISBN: 978-93-85360-62-6

1695 | $34 | £29 Reprint 2023 |

Dr. Balkrishna Doshi (1927–2023) was foremost among the modern Indian architects. An urban planner and educator for over 70 years, Doshi has to his credit outstanding projects ranging from dozens of townships and several educational campuses. Apart from his international fame as an architect, Doshi was equally known as an educator and institution builder. He received several international and national awards and honours, and in 2018 Doshi was selected as the Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, internationally known as architecture’s highest honour.

Put together, for the first time, from the lifelong diaries and notes maintained by him, Paths Uncharted is a personal recounting of this remarkable journey unfolding over more than 80 years and across all the continents.

Courtyard Houses of India

Yatin Pandya

Courtyard Houses of India

Wooden Architecture of Kerala

Miki Desai

architecture

468 pages, 352 photographs, 333 drawings and 18 maps

10 x 10” (254 x 254 mm), hc

ISBN: 978-93-85360-09-1

4500 | $75 | £55  2022 |

“The concepts link[ed] to Indian courtyards...have been very interestingly compiled in this book with examples...a survey of very scholarly expedition, carefully documenting the unearth[ed] treasures in series of drawings that together constitute a piece of art by themselves....the book is certainly a valuable contribution in understanding courtyard houses of India...”

Manguesh R. Prabhugaonker, Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects

architecture

280 pages, 211 photographs, 53 drawings, 18 illustrations and 2 maps

10 x 10” (254 x 254 mm), hc

ISBN: 978-93-85360-22-0

2950 | $65 | £50  2018 |

Published in association with DC School of Architecture and Design, Vagamon

“…a refreshingly appropriate contribution to a scant landscape of architectural design writing in the country.”

Isaac Mathew, Medium.com

Yatin Pandya

BACKLIST

“A captivating volume…” Sunday Herald (Deccan Herald)

“What makes the collection of portraits remarkable is that it introduces the viewer to an entire universe of different aspects and moods of worship without diluting its impact. ”

Shringara of Shrinathji

From the Collection of the Late Gokal Lal Mehta

ISBN: 978-93-85360-86-2, hc 9500 | $295 | £215 • 2021 •

Art and Independence

Geeta Doctor, OPEN

“

…a majestic visual anthology” —The Print

“Dr. John Guy... makes an important contribution for the recognition of Srimati’s contribution to Modern Indian Art. The catalogue... is exemplary...”

The New Indian Express

Y. G. Srimati and the Indian Style

ISBN: 978-93-85360-40-4, hc 1750 | $40 | £32 • 2019 •

Paper Jewels

Postcards from the Raj

ISBN: 978-81-89995-85-0, hc

3500 | $65 | £45 • 2018 •

“Omar Khan’s Paper Jewels is a refreshing account of the Raj, brought to life through a delightful collection of postcards… More than a must-read, it is a must-have volume!”

Shashi

Tharoor, author and Member of Parliament

Portraits of Devotion

Popular Manorath Paintings from Nathdwara in the Collection of Anil Relia

ISBN: 978-93-85360-67-1, sc 1500 | $35 | £25 • 2019 •

“The [book] stands as a noteworthy text for documenting the sacred rituals and practices of the Vallabha community... the vibrant visuality allows even a lay reader to interact with the Pushtimarg tradition.”

Sama Haq, Critical Collective

In the Service of Krishna Illustrating the Lives of Eighty-Four Vaishnavas from a 1702 Manuscript

ISBN: 978-93-85360-55-8, hc 2950 | $65 | £50 • 2019 •

Jangarh Singh Shyam

A Conjuror’s Archive

ISBN: 978-93-85360-63-3, hc 1950 | $35 | £25 • 2019 •

“There are innumerable books published on Jangarh but Jangarh Singh Shyam: A Conjuror’s Archive seems like the definitive account on an extraordinarily talented artist, written poignantly by an art historian who was fortunate enough to witness firsthand Jangarh’s meteoric rise.”

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, Deccan Chronicle

SHRINGARA of SHRINATHJI

Jashn-e-Khusrau 2013

“[P]ublications like this... [present] the multi-facets of Khusrau’s genius in new lights and with such comprehensive, grand and colourful ways that have never been experienced before.”

Celebrating the Genius of Amir Khusrau

ISBN: 978-81-89995-87-4, hc

2500 | $65 | £40 • 2014 •

Vishnu Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior

ISBN: 978-81-89995-48-5, hc

3500 | $75 | £48 • 2011 •

Ravindra Singh, IAS (Former Secretary, Ministry of Culture), in the Foreword

“…does justice to the vast topic and the illustrations are superb and with many of them probably never displayed, are well worth admiring in this tastefully designed tome.”

The Hindu

Celebrating Rahim Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan

ISBN: 978-93-85360-27-5, hc

2950 | $60 | £40 • 2017 •

“Rahim, worthy of becoming a national icon, gives a roadmap for India’s future.”

Syeda Hameed, The Indian Express

The Mucukunda Murals in the Tyagarajasvami Temple, Tiruvarur

ISBN: 978-81-89995-63-8, hc

1800 | $50 | £28 • 2011 •

The Body Adorned

Dissolving Boundaries between Sacred and Profane in India’s Art

ISBN: 978-81-89995-04-1, hc

1850 | $45 | £29 • 2009 •

South Indian Paintings

A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection

ISBN: 978-81-89995-39-3, hc

3200 | $75 | £50 • 2010 •

The Flute and The Lotus Romantic Moments in Indian Poetry and Painting

ISBN: 978-81-85822-89-1, hc

1950 | $49.50 | £33 • 2002 •

Living Traditions in Indian Art Museum of Sacred Art

ISBN: 978-81-89995-41-6, hc

2500 | $65 | £45 • 2010 •

Paintings of the Razmnama The Book of War

“…a catalogue that compresses the essence of the museum exhibits and communicates the spirit of popular and contemporary Indian spiritual art to the West.”

The Hindu

Wonder of the Age Master Painters of India 1100–1900

ISBN: 978-81-89995-60-7, hc

2100 | $45 | £30 • 2011 •

“The most important Indian painting exhibition for decades, ‘Wonder of the Age’ has much to engage, delight and educate specialists and is as inspiring an introduction as a neophyte could hope to find. If you cannot go in person to New York, be sure to buy the catalogue. It is an education and a treat.”

The Economist

Geet Govinda Paintings in Kanheri Style

“[The text] moves smoothly and is informative for those not acquainted with previous scholarship on the poem.”

Kapila Vatsyayan in Marg

ISBN: 978-81-88204-50-2, hc

2000 | $65 | £42 • 2005 •

Feminine Fables Imaging the Indian Woman in Painting, Photography and Cinema

ISBN: 978-81-85822-88-4, hc

2000 | $45 | £34 • 2002 •

ISBN: 978-81-88204-18-2, sc 995 | $35 | £25 • 2006 •

Parvati Goddess of Love

ISBN: 978-81-85822-59-4, hc

750 | $19.95 | £13.50 • 1999 •

“This book is a celebration of Goddess Parvati in which the author brings to the reader the various aspects and manifestations of the goddess. A wellillustrated book. ”

—Swagat

One Continuous Line

Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash

ISBN: 978-81-89995-68-3, hc

3950 | $65 | £50 • 2020 •

Gandhi Bhawan

Documenting and Conserving Modern Heritage of India

ISBN: 978-93-85360-53-4, sc 1250 | $29.50 | £20 • 2019 •

Brinda Somaya Works and Continuities

“More than just a biography, this book is a critical assessment of Aditya Prakash’s oeuvre as a designer, painter and philosopher, and above all as a man positioned in the complex webbing of modernity, post-colonialism and nation building.”

Mark M. Jarzombek, Professor of History, Theory and Criticism, MIT

This book is enhanced with augmented reality videos, audios and slideshows, available through the ® mobile app.

“[This is] a handsomely produced book that details the results of a thorough research and conservation project for Panjab University’s Gandhi Bhawan.”

Antoine Wilmering, The Getty Foundation, in the Foreword

Blueprint

ISBN: 978-93-85360-33-6, sc 2500 | $45 | £35 • 2019 •

Resurgent Modernism

The Architecture of Namita Singh

ISBN: 978-93-94501-01-0, hc

₹1500 | $45 | £35 • 2023 •

“Blueprint is a… heavily illustrated biography through buildings that Bhatia has designed across his career and plans that were built and not built. At the same time, it is a meditation on what separates architecture from mere design and building, on the life of buildings, on the graph from conception to realisation to eventual, inevitable ruin—the full life-cycle of the process of architectural conception.”

Ruchir Joshi, India Today

auroville architects monograph series

Piero and Gloria Cicionesi

The Architecture of Hasmukh C. Patel

Selected Projects 1963-2003

ISBN: 978-93-85360-23-7, hc-plc

3950 | $70 | £55 • 2018 •

ISBN: 978-93-85360-41-1, hc

2750 | $50 | £37 • 2018 •

ISBN: 978-93-85360-07-7, hc

4500 | $70 | £55 • 2016 •

7augmented r ytilae soediv

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Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian Architecture

ISBN: 978-81-89995-75-1, sc

1395 | $35 | £25

The strength of the book is its sumptuous illustrations. The diagrams that accompany the illustrations help convey the analysis.

”

The Hindu

Elements of Spacemaking

ISBN: 978-81-89995-74-4, sc 1195 | $26 | £19

Learning from Delhi Practising Architecture in Urban India

ISBN: 978-93-85360-12-1, sc

1500 | $35 | £23 • 2016 •

Designing for Modern India INI Design Studio

ISBN: 978-93-85360-16-9, hc

A Walking Tour: Ahmedabad Sketches of the City’s Architectural Treasures

ISBN: 978-93-85360-17-6, sc

Rukminee Guha Thakurta, Outlook Traveller

595 | $25 | £20 • 2017 • “[This book will lead you to] treasures... by some of the greatest Modernists simultaneously with gems dating as far back as the Solanki period.”

“Making the volume a musthave is this plethora of images that captures the city’s character from numerous angles. The volume puts together snippets on the subject of Bombay... All this and more, makes the volume a ready reckon on the city...”

Learning from Mumbai Practising Architecture in Urban India

ISBN: 978-81-89995-81-2, sc 1195 | $35 | £23 • 2013 •

3950 | $75 | £58 • 2016 • urban transport india series Innovations in Design Ahmedabad Bus Rapid Transit System

ISBN: 978-81-89995-93-5, sc 1200 | $35 | £22 • 2014

—Subhra Mazumdar, travelanddeal.com

Architecture of Shivdatt Sharma

ISBN: 978-81-89995-67-6, hc 1500 | $45 | £29 • 2012 •

Monsoon Mosques Arrival of Islam and the Development of a Mosque Vernacular

ISBN: 978-93-85360-70-1, sc 1750 | $35 | £25 • 2021 •

Royal Tombs of India 13th to 18th Century

ISBN: 978-81-89995-10-2, hc 1850 | $65 | £42 • 2009 •

Mosques of Cochin

ISBN: 978-81-89995-24-9, sc 595 | $20 | £12.95 • 2011 •

Elephant Kingdom Sculptures from Indian Architecture

ISBN: 978-81-88204-68-7, sc 995 | $35 | £25 • 2007 •

HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION

Humayun’s Tomb Conservation

ISBN: 978-81-89995-96-6, sc 1295 | $35 | £27 • 2017 •

The Kailas at Ellora A New View of a Misunderstood Masterwork

ISBN: 978-81-89995-86-7, hc 2250 | $49.50 | £29 • 2015 •

Bhuj Art, Architecture, History

ISBN: 978-81-88204-53-3, sc 2000 | $65 | £40 • 2006 •

Living Heritage of Mewar Architecture of the City Palace, Udaipur

ISBN: 978-93-85360-18-3, hc 2950 | $65 | £50 • 2017 •

Jamali-Kamali A Tale of Passion in Mughal India

ISBN: 978-81-89995-12-6, hc

450 | $25 | £16 • 2011 • art/ poetry

Celebrating Public Spaces of India

ISBN: 978-93-85360-08-4, sc 1800 | $39.50 | £30 • 2016 •

Indian Crafts Interiors

ISBN: 978-93-85360-94-7, hc

2950 | $60 | £49.90 • 2023 •

“The ingenious of indigenous—an inspirational lookbook of Indian materials

and traditional

craftsmanship brought to life”

Tanvee

Abhyankar, ELLE DECOR

Handloom and Handicrafts of Gujarat

ISBN: 978-81-89995-71-3, hc

2500 | $55 | £35 • 2012 •

“…this edition remains a valuable and irreplaceable piece of documentation.”

TimeOut Bengaluru

Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition 1883, Volume 1 FACSIMILE EDITION

ISBN: 978-81-89995-54-6, hc

7500 | $175 | £125 • 2011 •

Mutable

Ceramic and Clay Art in India Since 1947

ISBN: 978-93-85360-56-5, sc

1950 | $45 | £35 • 2021 •

Gifts of Earth

Terracottas and Clay Sculptures of India

ISBN: 978-81-85822-09-9, hc

2250 | $75 | £48 • 1996 •

Temple Potters of Puri

ISBN: 978-81-89995-09-6, hc

3500 | $65 | £42 • 2013 •

Nominated for RL Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award 2015, Textile Society of America

Kalamkari Temple Hangings

ISBN: 978-93-85360-04-6, hc

2950 | $65 | £35 • 2015 • textiles

Gift of Conquerors Hand Papermaking in India

ISBN: 978-81-85822-07-5, hc

5000 | $125 | £85 • 1999 •

“...glossy coffee table production and scholarly treatises... combined in one wonderful package.”

—

Laila Tyabji

Sonabai

Another Way of Seeing

ISBN: 978-81-89995-28-7, sc

1200 | $29.50 | £19.95 • 2009 •

terracotta

Karkhana A Studio in Rajasthan

ISBN: 978-93-85360-99-2, hc ₹2950 | $60 | £45 • 2022 •

“...his [Waswo’s] new book Karkhana: A Studio in Rajasthan captures the multiplicity of his life and work here.

At times it’s a photo book that recounts his oeuvre; sometimes it’s a travelogue that whisks us off to Udaipur where he is based; then it transitions into an autobiography, as Waswo reflects on the spirit of collaboration that has fuelled his decades-long practice.”

—Ritupriya Basu Architectural Digest

Modern Indian Painting

Jane & Kito de Boer Collection

ISBN: 978-93-85360-58-9, hc

3500 | $65 | £50 • 2019 •

“… [an] enormous compendium… What unravel are layers of deliberations and ponderings, like the opening petals of a blooming lotus.”

Akrita Reyar, Times Now

Jitish Kallat

“The monograph, a marvellously produced tome, attempts to chronicle [Kallat’s artistic] shifts over time… it is a meditative … rumination on the artist’s journey.”

Anindita Ghose, LiveMint

ISBN: 978-93-85360-28-2, hc with 3-edge printing

3950 | $49.95 | £39.99 • 2018 •

Bindu Space and Time in Raza’s Vision

ISBN: 978-93-85360-81-7, sc 1950 | $39 | £31 2021

Lightning by M.F. Husain

ISBN: 978-93-85360-68-8, hc-plc 2950 | $65 | £50 • 2019 •

Ebrahim Alkazi: Directing Art The Making of a Modern Indian Art World

ISBN: 978-93-85360-10-7, hc

5500 | $85 | £55 • 2016 •

“…a valuable document in an area of scant research.”

The Hindu

Songs of the Soil: Modernist Melody The Art of Manoj Dutta

ISBN: 978-93-85360-76-3, hc-plc

4500 | $75 | £55 • 2020 •

Meera Mukherjee Purity of Vision

ISBN: 978-93-85360-03-9, sc

2950 | $55 | £45 • 2018 •

Carte Blanche à Manish Pushkale

To Whom the Bird Should Speak?

ISBN: 978-93-94501-42-3, sc 1950 | $39.50 | £26 • 2023 •

Manish Pushkale

The Painter of Light

ISBN: 978-93-85360-30-5, sc 1950 | $39.50 | £26 • 2016 •

Sense and Sensation Ganesh Haloi 2021

ISBN: 978-93-85360-93-0, sc 995 | $30 | £22 • 2021 •

Ganesh Haloi Form & Play

ISBN: 978-93-85360-69-5, sc 1500 | $37.50 | £23 • 2019 •

Reverie with Raza

On the Occasion of Nirantar: An Aesthetic Continuum

ISBN: 978-93-85360-15-2, hc

1500 | $37.50 | £23 • 2016 •

Gandhi in Raza

ISBN: 978-93-85360-32-9, sc 1500 | $37.50 | £23 • 2017 •

Mapping with Figures The Evolving Art of KS Radhakrishnan

ISBN: 978-93-85360-14-5, hc 1950 | $39.50 | £26 • 2016 •

Jayashree Chakravarty

A wired ecology • feeling the pulse

ISBN: 978-93-94501-08-9, sc 1950 | $39.50 | £26 • 2023 •

Ganesh Haloi The Feeling Eye

ISBN: 978-93-85360-26-8, sc 1950 | $39.50 | £26 • 2017 •

Continuing Traditions

ISBN: 978-93-85360-02-2, sc

1200 | $35 | £25 • 2015 •

Ganesh Haloi

A Rhythm Surfaces in the Mind

ISBN: 978-93-85360-85-5, hc

2500 | $65 | £50 • 2022 •

“...foster[s] a better understanding of Haloi and his magnetic abstractions... studded with several watercolours and sketches...providing a glimpse into Haloi’s artistic development.”

Shaikh Ayaz, OPEN

Sayed Haider Raza

Sayed Haider Raza

Sayed Haider Raza

ISBN: 978-93-85360-87-9 (English)

3500 | $60 | £49

ISBN: 978-93-85360-91-6 (French)

$60 | €45 hc-plc • 2023 •

Modern Indian Works on Paper from the Gaur Collection

ISBN: 978-93-94501-07-2, hc

“...rare piece of scholarly writing about works on paper from postIndependence India.”

Avantika

Bhuyan, Mint Lounge

“...powerfully depicts the complexities of Indian modernity and the way they play out in rural and urban realities.”

The Week Paper Trails

2500 | $45 | £35 • 2022 •

Rooted Landscapes

The Art of Rini Dhumal

ISBN: 978-81-89995-45-4, hc

2500 | $65 | £55 • 2010 •

“The large body of work that she [Rini Dhumal] has produced in the last few years seems to be diverse iconic representations, or avatars, of a personal identity she is giving chase to.”

Prof. K. G. Subramanyan in his Foreword

Crossing Boundaries

The Art of Lee Waisler

ISBN: 978-81-85822-94-8, hc

1500 | $50 | £30 • 2002 •

Parallel Wings

The Art of Rini Dhumal

ISBN: 978-93-85360-29-9, hc

2500 | $65 | £40 • 2017 •

“...the writing around the work is both informative and illuminating, any owner of the book will spend long and happy hours flicking between the 100 paintings fully reproduced here, as well as the illustrated timeline with which the book concludes.”

Ruchir Joshi, India Today

Francis Newton Souza Bridging Western and Indian Modern Art

ISBN: 978-81-88204-63-2, hc

3500 | $65 | £40 • 2006 •

Drawn to Life Sketchbooks of Rini Dhumal

ISBN: 978-81-89995-53-9, hc

2500 | $65 | £40 • 2014 •

Mohan Samant Paintings and Erotic Sketchbooks

ISBN: 978-81-89995-80-5 (Boxed Set)

6500 | $125 | £80 • 2013 •

Krishen Khanna Images in My Time

ISBN: 978-81-88204-95-3, hc

2000 | $60 | £38 • 2007 •

Alternate Lyricism Jehangir Jani

ISBN: 978-81-88204-65-6, hc

1500 | $50 | £32 • 2006 •

The Dancer on the Horse Reflections on the Art of Iranna G.R.

ISBN: 978-81-88204-92-2, hc

1500 | $60 | £39 • 2007 •

Manu Parekh Banaras: Eternity Watches Time

ISBN: 978-81-88204-93-9, hc

2000 | $70 | £35 • 2007 •

Krishen Khanna The Embrace of Love

ISBN: 978-81-88204-62-5, hc

1500 | $45 | £29 • 2005 •

Lines from an Artistic Life The Drawings of Adimoolam

ISBN: 978-81-88204-94-6, hc

1200 | $55 | £36 • 2007 •

chola migrations Krishen Khanna

ISBN: 978-81-88204-98-4, hc

1500 | $60 | £39 • 2007 •

The Art of Adimoolam

ISBN: 978-81-88204-55-7, hc

1500 | $45 | £29 • 2005 •

New Narratives

Contemporary Art from India

ISBN: 978-81-88204-82-3, hc

1850 | $50 | £30 • 2007 •

Museums of Rajasthan

ISBN: 978-81-89995-22-5, hc

3000 | $65 | £42 • 2009 •

ISBN: 978-81-89995-23-2, sc

1500 | $30 | £19 • 2009 •

Feet & Footwear in Indian Culture

ISBN: 978-81-85822-69-3, hc

2000 | $60 | £39.50 • 2000 •

Krishna’s Cosmos

The Creativity of an Artist, Sculptor and Teacher

ISBN: 978-81-88204-16-8, hc

1750 | $45 | £30 • 2003 •

Treasures of the Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur

ISBN: 978-81-89995-26-3, hc

1295 | $35 | £23 • 2009 •

Jewels on the Crescent Masterpieces of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

ISBN: 978-81-88204-00-7, hc

2500 | $65 | £42 • 2002 •

The Eyes of the Thar

ISBN: 978-81-85822-80-8, hc

7500 | $195 | £135 • 2000 •

An Unreasoned Act of Being Sculptures by Himmat Shah

ISBN: 978-81-88204-91-5, hc

1500 | $60 | £30 • 2007 •

Timeless Visions

Contemporary Art of India

ISBN: 978-0-883891-13-1, sc

595 | $19.95 | £15 • 2002 •

“…incredible… Kumartuli, the home of master artists who craft the idols of the Devi, comes alive in the book.”

Nirmal Jovial, The Week

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“There are picture books, and there are books to read. This book, however, is that rare offering which has both, eye-catching visuals and a very informative text.”

Rekha Dixit, The Week

Moulding the Void Mother in the Making

ISBN: 978-93-85360-42-8, hc

3500 | $65 | £52 • 2019 • Life and Culture in Northeast India

ISBN: 978-93-85360-25-1, hc

2950 | $55 | £50 • 2020 •

The Uprising of 1857

ISBN: 978-93-85360-11-4, hc

3500 | $70 | £55 • 2017 •

The Marshall Albums Photography and Archaeology

ISBN: 978-81-89995-32-4, hc

3500 | $75 | £45 • 2010 •

Early Bombay Photography

ISBN: 978-81-89995-92-8, sc 1950 | $39.50 | £26 • 2014 •

ISBN: 978-93-85360-46-6, hc-plc

1250 | $35 | £25 • 2018

The Waterhouse Albums Central Indian Provinces

ISBN: 978-81-89995-30-0, hc

3250 | $70 | £45 • 2009 •

Moving Pictures

The Rickshaw Art of Bangladesh

ISBN: 978-81-88204-70-0, hc-plc

450 | $15 | £10 • 2010 •

Photo Peshawar

Water Treasures of the Himalayas

ISBN: 978-81-89995-89-8, hc

2950 | $65 | £50 • 2017 •

Mastering the Lens Before and After Cartier–Bresson in Pondicherry

ISBN: 978-81-89995-73-7, sc

1200 | $35 | £25 • 2012 •

Zen of Seeing

ISBN: 978-81-88204-54-0, hc

975 | $35 | £25 • 2007 •

“[The] book is a collectible... Each of the segments comprises a fascinating assemblage of photographs... with a supportive narrative encompassing ecological, political, and socio-cultural dimensions that define this landscape.”

Divya Chopra, Journal of Landscape Architecture

Gauri Dancers

“...the only Englishlanguage book on the style...There is an element of the fantastical in the book Gauri Dancers by artist Waswo X. Waswo.”

Avantika Bhuyan, livemint

ISBN: 978-93-85360-72-5, hc-plc

1800 | $50 | £35 • 2019 •

Vijayanagara Splendour in Ruins

ISBN: 978-81-89995-03-4, hc

2850 | $70 | £45 • 2008 •

A Vision of Splendour Indian Heritage in the Photographs of Jean Philippe Vogel, 1901–1913

ISBN: 978-81-89995-02-7, hc

2000 | $65 | £42 • 2008 •

Himalayan Vignettes

The Garhwal and Sikkim Treks

ISBN: 978-81-88204-23-6, hc

2000 | $60 | £40 • 2003 •

Vision from the Inner Eye

The Photographic Art of A.L. Syed

ISBN: 978-81-85822-81-5, sc

1000 | $30 | £20 • 2001 •

Traces of India

Photography, Architecture and the Politics of Representation 1850–1900

ISBN: 978-81-88204-14-4, hc

1950 | $50 | £32 • 2003 •

Gifts of Solitude

ISBN: 978-81-85822-34-1, hc 395 | $19.50 | £13 • 1990 •

Magnifying the Miniature

ISBN: 978-93-85360-45-9, sc

295 | $9.50 | £5.95 • 2020 •

My Sweet Home Childhood Stories from a Corner of the City

ISBN: 978-93-85360-19-0, sc

595 | $25 | £20 • 2017 •

How The Firefly Got Its Light

The Adventurous Tale of Jugnu Rani

ISBN: 978-81-89995-34-8, sc

295 | $9.5 | £5.95 • 2012 •

Rajah King of the Jungle

ISBN: 978-81-89995-56-0, hc

ISBN: 978-81-89995-05-8, sc

395 (hc) / 295 (pb) | $16.95 | £11.95 2010 •

Art of India

A wanderINDIA drawing and colouring book

ISBN: 978-93-85360-20-6, sc

295 | $11.95 | £9.50 • 2017 •

In the Indian Night Sky

ISBN: 978-81-88204-86-1, hc-plc

₹395 | $17.50 | £9.95 • 2007

Rights available for Indian languages

The Kidnapping of Amir Hamza From the Hamzanama

ISBN: 978-81-88204-84-7, hc-plc

395 (hc) / 295 (plc) | $16.95 | £11.95

2007 •

The Adventures of Rama With illustrations from a 16th-century Mughal manuscript

ISBN: 978-81-89995-33-1, hc-plc

495 | $16.95 | £11.95 • 2010 •

Monkey Tales

ISBN: 978-81-89995-20-1, sc

195 | $9.50 | £6 • 2008 •

The Traveller, the Tiger, and the Very Clever Jackal

ISBN: 978-81-88204-85-4, hc-plc

295 | $17.50 | £9.95 • 2007

Rights available for Indian languages

Captured in Miniature Mughal Lives through Mughal Art

ISBN: 978-81-88204-83-0, hc-plc

395 (hc) / 295 (plc) | $16.95 | £11.95

2007 •

Children’s

Books

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES OF INDIA SERIES

Series Editor: Narayani Gupta

“…beautifully written... Launching this series is a good attempt at making information about historical sites accessible to children..” Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

Qutb Minar

Head in the Clouds

Story by Narayani Gupta

Illustrations by Shashi Shetye

ISBN: 978-93-85360-50-3

Mahabalipuram

The Ganga Comes to Tamilnadu

Story by Nanditha Krishna

Illustrations by Y. Venkatesh

ISBN: 978-93-85360-49-7

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

Travelling through Time

Story by Subuhi Jiwani

Illustrations by Kishan Dev

ISBN: 978-93-85360-51-0

Keoladeo Bird Sanctuary

The Kingdom of Birds

Story by Dr. Erach Bharucha

Illustrations by Maya Ramaswamy

ISBN: 978-93-85360-48-0

Sanchi

Where Tigers Fly and Lions Have Horns

Story by Sohail Hashmi

Illustrations by Pervez Rajan

ISBN: 978-93-85360-52-7

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EACH TITLE IN THIS SERIES IS:

32 pages with illustrations, 11.69 x 8.26" (297 x 210 mm) Landscape, sc

Series ISBN: 978-93-85360-47-3

Available in Tamil, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati lauguages.

195 | $9.50 | £5.99 (Each)

895 | $35 | £19.50 (Set of 5 books)

Fall 2018 •

The Roshni World Heritage Sites of India series aims to introduce India’s young readers to the richness of our natural and cultural heritage through UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sites. Produced in association with Tata Trusts and with the blessings of UNESCO, these books offer children five exciting stories, authored by renowned historians and conservationists and beautifully illustrated by accomplished artists.

India’s Film Poster Heritage

ISBN: 978-93-85360-39-8, hc-plc ₹1500 | $39 | £29

2021

The Hegemony of Heritage Ritual and the Record in Stone

ISBN: 978-93-85360-61-9, hc-plc 1499 • 2019

&

Yankee India

American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail 1784-1860

ISBN: 978-81-85822-83-9, hc

1800 | $40 | £25 • 2001

and

The Two Faces of Beauty: Science and Art

ISBN: 978-81-89995-69-0, hc

1500 | $35 | £22

2014

Khunti Korai Bangladeshi Cuisine

ISBN: 978-81-89995-25-6, hc

750|$25|£15•2008•

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