It is a collection of thirty essays on various aspects of Hindu and Buddhist Art and Iconography contributed by Indian and foreign scholars. These represent deep insight and new interpretation based on sound scholarship and accounts. While intended to commemorate the loving memory of Professor Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta, the book is a fitting tribute to the great savant. Professor P.K. Mishra and publisher M/s Abhinav Publications have spared no pains to make it an outstanding publication of the year.

Editor Professor P.K. Mishra (b. 1937) served as Professor of History, Sambalpur University, Orissa during 1978 to 1997. He has to this credit several publications, viz. Political History of Orissa (New Delhi, 1979), Madhusudan Das, the Legislator, His Speeches (Ranchi, 1980), Evolution of Orissa and Her Culture (Calcutta, 1983), Archaeology of Mayurbhanj (New Delhi, 1997) and Comprehensive History and Culture of Orissa (New Delhi, 1997). He has edited felicitation volumes like Heritage of India, Past and Present (New Delhi, 1994, two volumes) and Aspects of Indian History and Historiography (New Delhi, 1996). Two commemoration volumes published by him are Modern World, A New Perspective (New Delhi, 1989) and Culture, Tribal History and Freedom Movements (New Delhi, 1989). He was President of the Orissa History Congress twice in 1986 and 1995. He is working as a Seniro Fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research on the project 'Historians and Historiography in Orissa'.