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This is the first comprehensive volume to appear on the Art and Architecture of Himachal Pradesh, and it includes sections on Hindu and Buddhist Architecture in the Western Himalaya, sculpture, bronzes, woodcarving, Pahari painting and Chamba rumals. It contains also an extensive and invaluable bibliography and an equally invaluable list of temples, the most complete so far undertaken, the author having obtained the name, location and style of each shrine from the relevant district officers stationed throughout the state. This is an achievement which no single person could realize in a lifetime, owing to the slowness and uncertainty of travel in these vast mountains, and the fact that many of the temples are still inaccessible by jeep, and to reach them entails a walk of a day or more from the nearest bus stop.
The author, Dewan Goverdhan Singh, must surely be among the most competent and inspiring librarians not only in India, but in the world. I once went to the Secretariat library (the first of many times) to read "An Account of Koonawar", by the Brothers Gerard, and said casually that if there were any other books written in English on this district I would like to have a look at them. Within ten minutes of my sitting down, a large table was laden with twenty to thirty books comprising everything that had ever been written in English on Koonawar (now called Kinnaur).
It is a well established fact that whenever the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, or a lesser official, has to go to a remote village to make a speech, his Secretary rings up the librarian to ask for information. In due course the Minister arrives at the library and there he finds a number of books on a table all open at the relevant pages so that he can get both background material and local colour for his speech.
By such a dedicated person as Dewan Goverdhan Singh, tied to his exacting labours at the great Secretariat library, field work cannot often be undertaken. But the value of the present book lies in the fact that he has gathered together most of the information at present available on the Art and Archaeology of Himachal Pradesh, collated it, and presented it in a readable form to students of the cultural traditions of this, the most remote and bewitching of Indian States.
Condition of the book: Usable; but the pages and cover look old
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