Head And Heart Valour And Selfsacrifice In The Art Of India
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780415812467
Description: An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.