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Introduction - mountains, rivers, people; experiencing art - theviewer, the art, the artist; bricks, seals and stone - into writtenhistory; stories in stone - popular appeal of early Buddhist art; afterAlexander - Indo-Greek art and the Buddha image; into the mountainside- cave monasteries and cave temples; fierce deities and cosmic couples- esoteric Buddhist imagery; "seeing" the divine - image and temple;sacred and "profane" - the Nagara Temple; a riddle in stone - PallavaMamallapuram; holy ground - Dravida Chola temples; God in the image ofman - expanded temples and festival bronzes; linear abstractions - artand the sultans of India; cosmopolitan splendour - city of victory;visions of paradise - the luxury of Mughal art; palaces and pavilions -chivalry of Rajput Mewar; Rome of the tropics - churches of PortugueseGoa; jewel in the crown - arts of the British Raj; epilogue - art in asecular democracy.