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General resources on the art of South Asia:

Chandra, Pramod, The Sculpture of India 3000 B.C.- 1300 A.D. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., History of Indian and Indonesian Art. New York: Dover Publications, 1927 (1965).

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., Yaksas. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1971.

Foucher, A., The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central Asian Archaeology. L.A. Thomas and F.W. thomas, transl. Varanasi: Indological Bookhouse, 1914 (1972).

Fisher, Robert E., Buddhist Art and Architecture. London and New York: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1993.

Harle, J.C., The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1987.

Huntington, Susan and John, The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain. New York, Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1985.

Khandalavala, Karl, "Rock-cut Temples." Marg. Volume on Maharastra. Bombay: J. J. Bhabha for Marg Publications, 1985.

Kramrisch, Stella, Indian Sculpture. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1981 (reprint of Oxford edition, 1933).

Smith, Vincent, A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon. Third Edition, Karl Khandalavala, ed. Bombay: D.B. Taraporevala Sons and Co. Privete LTD. , 1962.

Art of the Guptas and the Vakatakas (Third-fifth century):

Gupta, Parmeshwari Lal, "The Rulers of the Gupta Dynasty." The Golden Age: Gupta Art - Empire, Province and Influence. Karl Khandalavala, ed. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1991.

Harle, J.C., Gupta sculpture: Indian Sculpture of the Fourth to the Sixth Centuries A.D. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.

Harle, J.C., "Towards Understanding Gupta Sculpture." The Golden Age: Gupta Art - empire, Province and Influence. Karl Khandalavala, ed. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1991.

Jamkhedar, A.P., "The Vakataka Area and Gupta Sculpture." The Golden Age: Gupta Art - empire, Province and Influence. Karl Khandalavala, ed. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1991.

Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu, ed., Inscriptions of the Vakatakas. Archaeological Survey of India, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum. Vol. 5. Ootacamund: Government Epigraphist for India, 1963.

Rosenfield, John, "On the Dated Carvings of Sarnath." Artibus Asiae. v. XXVI n 1. Ascona: Artibus Asiae, 1963.

Spink, Walter, "The Vakataka's Flowering and Fall." The Art of Ajanta: New Perspectives. R. Parimoo et al, eds. New Delhi: Books and Books, 1991.

Williams, Joanna Gottfried, The Art of Gupta India: Empire and Province. Princetone, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Ajanta:

Deshpande, Brahanand, "Dating of Ajintha Caves in the Context of Vakataka Decline." Pathik, vol. 3, no. 3. Maharashtra: MTDC, 1992.

Dhavalikar, M.K., "New Inscriptions from Ajanta." Ars Orientalis. v. VII. Ann Arbor: Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1968.

Jamkhedar, A. P., "Some reflections on Professor Spink's Chronology at Ajanta." Pathik, vol 2., no. 3. Maharashtra: MTDC, 1991.

Khandalavala, Karl, "Bagh and Ajanta." The Golden Age: Gupta Art - empire, Province and Influence. Karl Khandalavala, ed. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1991.

Khandalavala, Karl, "The History and Dating of the Mahayana Caves of Ajanta." Pathik, 1991. Maharashtra: MTDC, 1991.

Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation, ltd. (MTDC, ltd.), In and Around Ajanta and Ellora. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1993.

Plaeschke, Herbert and Ingeborg, Indiche Felsentempel und Höhlenklöster: Ajanta und Elura. Wien: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf, 1983, c.1982.

Schlingloff, Dieter, Studies in Ajanta Paintings: Identifications and Interpretations. Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1987.

Spink, Walter, "Ajanta's Chronology: The Crucial Cave." Ars Orientalis. v. X. Ann Arbor: Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1975.

Spink, Walter, "Ajanta's Chronology: The Problem of Cave Eleven." Ars Orientalis. v. VII. Ann Arbor: Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1968.

Spink, Walter, "Ajanta: A Brief History." Aspects of Indian Art. Pratapaditya Pal, ed. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972.

Spink, Walter, "Ajanta's Chronology: Cave 1's Patronage and Related Problems." Chhavi 2, Rai Krishnadasa Felicitation Volume. Banaras: Bharat Kala Bhavan, 1981.

Spink, Walter, "Ajanta's Chronology: Politics and Patronage." Kaladarsana: American Studies in the Art of India. Joanna Williams, ed. New Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta: Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. in collaboration with American Institute of Indian Studies, 1981.

Spink, Walter, "Ajanta in a Historical and Political Context." Pathik, vol. 2, no. 1. Maharashtra: MTDC, 1990.

Spink, Walter, "The Archaeology of Ajanta." Ars Orientalis, vol XXI. Washington DC and Ann Arbor: University of Michigan and the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1991.

Spink, Walter, "The Vakataka's Flowering and Fall." The Art of Ajanta: New Perspectives. R. Parimoo et al, eds. New Delhi: Books and Books, 1991.

Stern, Phillippe, Colonnes Indiennes d'Ajanta et d'Ellora: Evolution et Repercussions. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France and Musee Guimet, 1972.

Weiner, Sheila, Ajanta: Its Place in Buddhist Art. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1977.

Yazdani, Ghulam, Ajanta. London: Oxford University Press, 1930 (1955).

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