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Like the heterogeneity of the idyllic landscape of the Ganga-Brahmaputra valleys, the art historical traditions of the region manifest elements of bewildering diversity and multiplicity in form and media. Based on empirical researches over four decades across eastern and north-eastern India, Ganga-Brahmaputra and Beyond: Exploring Art and Iconography of Eastern and North-Eastern India explores these diverse creative traditions, visualized and successfully strategized by premodern śilpins or craftsmen. Spanning a chronological period from the second and first centuries bce to the early twentieth century ce, the chapters in this volume, grouped under three themes-'Eastern India: A Journey across Time'; 'Revisiting North-East India'; and 'Interrogating Artists' Choice'-investigate newly discovered data and interrogate existing material through new questions.

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Gautam Sengupta is former Professor, Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. He was previously Director General, Archeological Survey of India (2010-13) and served the Government of West Bengal as Director, Directorate of Archaeology and Museums for two decades. He also taught history at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, for five years and was Guest Faculty in the Departments of Museology and Archaeology at the University of Calcutta. Professor Sengupta has edited a number of volumes on South Asian archaeology and co-authored two volumes: Eloquent Earth: Early Terracottas in the State Archaeological Museum, West Bengal and Vibrant Rock: A Catalogue of Stone Sculptures in the State Archeological Museum, Kolkata.

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