TO THE MEMORY OF HER HIGHNESS NAWAB SULTAN JEHAN BEGUM SAHIBA LATE RULER OF BHOPAL
TITLE: Monuments of Sanchi
VOLUME: 1
AUTHOR: Sir John Marshall and Alfred Foucher
PUBLISHER: Superintendent of Government Printing
PLACE: Calcutta.br.
YEAR: c.1930
BINDING: Half leather-bound with gilled text at spine and gilted logo on the front cover
NO.OF PAGES: xxi + 396 + xxxii
SIZE:
Height: 52 cm
Width: 42 cm
Depth: 5.5 cm
TITLE: Monuments of Sanchi
VOLUME:2
AUTHOR: Sir John Marshall and Alfred Foucher
PUBLISHER: Superintendent of Government Printing
PLACE: Calcutta
YEAR: c.1930
BINDING: Half leather-bound with gilled text at spine and gilted logo on the front cover
NO.OF PAGES: Plate I to LXX including 8 plans and illustrations, 24 double / multiple photographs and 38 photographs
SIZE:
Height: 52 cm
Width: 42 cm
Depth: 4.5 cm
TITLE: Monuments of Sanchi
VOLUME: 3
AUTHOR: Sir John Marshall and Alfred Foucher
PUBLISHER: Superintendent of Government Printing
PLACE: Calcutta
YEAR: c.1930
BINDING: Half leather-bound with gilled text at spine and gilted logo on the front cover
NO.OF PAGES: Plate LXXI to CXLI including 11 plans and illustrations, 52 double photographs and 7 photographs
SIZE:
Height: 52 cm
Width: 42 cm
Depth: 5 cm
The Monuments of Sanchi, the magnum opus of Marshall and Foucher, is the result of painstaking exposition of the monuments, their assessment and description which is a signal service rendered to Indian culture in general and Buddhist art and architecture in particular. This monumental work by Marshall and Foucher is in three volumes.
Sir John Marshall was probably the most significant archaeologist to have worked in India. Marshall was the longest-serving director general of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) - founded by Alexander Cunningham in 1861. Appointed by the Indian viceroy Lord Curzon in 1902 at the age of 26, Marshall remained in post until 1928, and continued to work for the ASI until 1934. Between 1902 and 1928, he oversaw seminal excavations at 49 sites across the subcontinent, from Taxila in today's Pakistan to Sanchi and Sarnath in India, and Pagan in Burma (but little in south India and nothing in Ceylon). He is best known for his revelation of India's earliest civilization at Mohenjodaro in the Indus valley.
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