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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Year 1982. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> I believe to have an acquaintance with their history and their religious and social background. Dr. Das Gupta is attuned to this viewpoint and accordingly this monograph on Assam is not merely an account of its architecture sculpture painting and other arts but also provides the essential coverage of the land and its people. Assam has a long past and was known to the Mahabharata and Ramayana and to the Chinese pilgrim Yuan Chang. Situated as it is it inevitably formed a link cultural and social between India and South East Asia a factor of considerable importance in understanding its artistic heritage and achievements. Strangely Buddhism made no effective inroads into this area and the dominant faith was Hinduism tempered at times with the usual beliefs common to many races in spirits good and bad powerful demons and a variety of godlings. (SP)