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Written by
C.M. Naim
Associate Professor of Urdu, University of Chicago. Editor, Annual of Urdu Studies.
C.M. Naim,
Calambur Sivaramamurti
Director, National Museum of India, New Delhi, 1966–69, 1971–75; Hony Adviser on Museums, Government of India, 1969–70. Author of Indian Sculpture and others.
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South Asian arts, the literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Despite a history of ethnic, linguistic, and political fragmentation, the people of the Indian subcontinent are unified by a common cultural and ethical outlook; a wealth of ancient textual literature in Sanskrit, Prākrit, and regional languages is a major unifying factor. Music and dance, ritual customs, modes of worship, and literary ideals are similar throughout the subcontinent, even though the region has been divided into kaleidoscopic political patterns through the centuries. The close interrelationship of the various peoples of South Asia may be traced ...(100 of 82044 words)

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