Smithsonian Freer Gallery Sackler Gallery National Museum of Asian Art Gallery Guide to the Understanding South Asian Art
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Suggested Reading
Beach, Milo C. Mughal and Rajput Painting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Beach, Milo C. and Ebba Koch. King of the World: The Padshahnama: An Imperial Mughal manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1997.

C.A. Bayley (ed.). The Raj: India and the British 1600–1947 (ex. cat. National Portrait Gallery, London, 1991).

Dehejia, Vidya. Devi: The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1999.

Dehejia, Vidya. Indian Art. London: Phaidon Press, 1997.

Eck, Diana L. Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in India. Chambersburg, P.A.: Anima Books, 1981.

Kapur, Geeta. When was Modernism?: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India. New Delhi: Tulika, 2000.

Huntington, Susan. The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain. New York: Weatherhill, 1985.

Lawton, Thomas and Thomas Lentz. Beyond the Legacy: Anniversary Acquisitions for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1998.

Mitchell, George. The Hindu Temple: An Introduction to its Meaning and Forms. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.


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