The Religious Heritage of India

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These is an endless diversity in India starting from its physical features to ecologic structure, fauna and flora, demographic structure, arts and crafts, customs and traditions. There was a continuous evolution of drama, music, dance, painting and folk art forms under the different political rules in Indian that ultimately led to the development of definite 'India' element in each of these forms. Indian is famous for its rich cultural heritage and diverse customs and rituals of different religions. India art and culture is an ocean condensed into a luminous pearl.

The book walks into an elaborative description about the religious heritage of India since its very inception.

Dr. Krishna Kumari, B.A. (Hons.) History, M.A. (History) from Magadh University and Ph.D. is at present Assistt. Professor under Delhi University's Collegiate, is a reputed name and possesses command over the subject. She has written several articles and attended a number of seminars.

India is known for its rich cultural heritage and diverse customs and rituals of different religions. Each religion has its own traditions be it Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Parsi or Christian everybody has their own wedding customs. Indian wedding is mainly associated with the Hindu marriage ceremony, which is quite an elaborate celebration lasting for several days. And every region has its own unique way of celebrating their wedding functions. Most of the weddings rituals are based on their regional traditions but the common tie among the weddings of all the religions is the fun and excitement part. It involves a large gathering of friends and relatives.

Indian Art and culture is an ocean condensed into a luminous pearl. A basic work, it traverses the historic panorama of Indian art, from its Indo-Sumerian and Vedic-Mound beginnings to the various peaks reached during the Maurya, Sunga, Andhra, Kusana and Gupta periods and beyond the seas to further India. Although the subcontinent has enjoyed a virtually uninterrupted history of developments in the realm of art and culture, India has been either studiously ignored in compilations of "world" art-or it has been represented by a very small and limited number of examples. When volumes on Indian art and architecture have been produced, it has not been unusual for the commentaries to begin with generalizations like "all Indian architecture has been religious" and very quickly through the text, one runs into comparative statements suggesting that Indian art and architecture was never quite able to reach the grand heights achieved by Western art and architecture.