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Asitayana i honour of Late Prof. C. Mani containing seventy papers encompassed in three volumes and envisioned in five sections canvases a vast spectrum of Asian History and Indic Studies besides reminiscences form some of his close friends, admireres and assoiates who always held Prof. Mani in high esteem. The first volume on archaeology deals with Harappa Culture in India and its border lands in north-west to Iron Age Communities in peninsular India including urbanization and its ramifications in early Punjab. The second manifests the pan Indian art and architectural traditions and their interpretations beginning with Protohistoric art to the Colonial times reflecting Shaivism, Vaishnavism. Buddhism and Jainism themes as well as Islamic heritage. The third volumes discourses epigraphy and paleography, numismatics, religion, philosophy, literature, heritage management and tourism, museyms and conservation etc. These volumes are useful to the Archaeologists, Indologists, Art Historians and Epigraphists.