The Splendour that was ʾInd: A Survey of Indian Culture and Civilisation (from the Earliest Times to the Death of Emperor Aurangzeb)D. B. Taraporevala, 1930 - 236 pages |
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... early Mesopotamian remains ; the use of brick for building , the interments of contracted bodies in brick cist graves , the shell inlays , the mace - heads and pestles all have the most exact analogues in early Sumerian levels in the ...
... early Mesopotamian remains ; the use of brick for building , the interments of contracted bodies in brick cist graves , the shell inlays , the mace - heads and pestles all have the most exact analogues in early Sumerian levels in the ...
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... earliest , among the Muhammadan musicians of India , is that of Amir Khusru , poet and courtier of the early fourteenth century , who invented the now popular Kavali style of singing , and the three stringed Sihtar which is no less ...
... earliest , among the Muhammadan musicians of India , is that of Amir Khusru , poet and courtier of the early fourteenth century , who invented the now popular Kavali style of singing , and the three stringed Sihtar which is no less ...
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... early Aryan Art may well be called ' Decorative , ' or more accurately , " Abstract and Symbolical . " The ornamented sacrificial vessel was probably the direct ancestor of the mural painting , consisting at first of floral design ...
... early Aryan Art may well be called ' Decorative , ' or more accurately , " Abstract and Symbolical . " The ornamented sacrificial vessel was probably the direct ancestor of the mural painting , consisting at first of floral design ...
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