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The Unfinished: Indian Stone Carvers at Work, Delhi: Roli Books, 2015. With Peter Rockwell as an NEH-funded collaborative project. |
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The Body Adorned: Dissolving Boundaries between Sacred and Profane in India’s Art, Columbia University Press, New York & Mapin Publications, India, 2009. |
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Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, Mapin Publications, India, 2008. |
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Chola. Sacred Bronzes of Southern India. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2006. Catalogue essay “Beauty and the Body of God,” and all Catalogue entries. |
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The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India, New York: The American Federation of Arts, 2002. |
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India through the Lens: Photography 1840 – 1911, Washington D.C., Ahmedabad, Cologne: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Mapin Publishing, Prestel Verlag, 2000. |
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Devi, The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art, Washington D.C., Ahmedabad, Cologne: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Mapin Publishing, Prestel Verlag, 1999. |
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Indian Art. Art and Ideas. London: Phaidon, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002. Japanese and Greek editions issued; French and German editions forthcoming. |
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Ed. Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1997. |
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Discourse in Early Buddhist Art: Visual Narratives of India. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1997. |
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Ed. Unseen Presence: The Buddha and Sanchi, Bombay: Marg Publications, 1996. |
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Ed. The Legend of Rama: Artistic Visions, Bombay: Marg Publications, 1994 |
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Art of the Imperial Cholas. (The Polsky lectures for 1987). New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. |
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Antal and her Path of Love: Poems of a Woman Saint from South India. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990. |
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Slaves of the Lord: The Path of the Tamil Saints. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1988. |
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Ed. Royal Patrons and Great Temple Art. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1988. |
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“Impossible Picturesqueness.” Edward Lear’s Indian Watercolors. 1873–1875. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. |
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Yogini Cult and Temples. A Tantric Tradition. New Delhi: The National Museum, 1986. |
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With Pratapaditya Pal. From Merchants to Emperors: British Artists and India 1757–1930. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1986. |
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Early Stone Temples of Orissa. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 1979. |
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Looking Again at Indian Art. New Delhi: Publications Division, Government of India, 1978. |
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Things of Beauty. New Delhi: Publications Division, Government of India, 1979. [A book on Indian art for children, to mark the International Year of the Child.] |
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Living and Dying: An Enquiry into the Enigma of Life after Death. New Delhi: Vikas Publishers, 1979. |
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Early Buddhist Rock Temples. London: Thames & Hudson, London, 1972. |
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Namakkal Caves. Madras: Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology, 1968. |
