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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Year 1964. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> With the kind encouragement of Dr. F. H. Gravely the then Superintendent of the Government Museum Madras I was able in 1937-38 to visit Hemavati the ancient capital of the Nolambas where I expected to get a good number of sculptures for the Government Museum to represent a school almost completely unknown. Fortune favoured the attempt as though the place was almost inaccessible the help of the Collector of the district and other revenue officials prevailed over even the inhospitable play of the elements and even a great downpour and a threatened overflow of the large local irrigation tank did not deter the bringing of the sculptures from this impossible spot to the Madras Museum. The publication of my study of the sculptures of the Nolamba school was long delayed owing to my other pre-occupations first in the Government Museum Madras then in the Indian Museum at Calcutta and finally in the National Museum at New Delhi. I am now happy that I have been able to finish this booklet composed of my thoughts on the subject. I recall with affection and gratitude the encouragement that I received from Dr. Gravely not only in acquiring the sculptures but also in studying them. To Dr. A. Aiyappan and Dr. S. T. Satyamurti I owe my most sincere thanks for all the help they rendered in my study of this material long after I had left the Madras Museum. I cannot adequately thank Dr. (Mrs) Grace Morley for her very warm encouragement in my work of research and publication which has made possible the appearance of this and other books. (SP)