A vision of India's earliest knowns past as reflected in fur creative endeavor of the Home twelve thousand years ago on the walls of the nomad's rock shelter, his first home as also the ever first to breed in him, a feeling of belonging to the Indian Art and Architecture, the first of the series, covers in its thirteen chapters thirteen major styles ut Indian art and architecture. It incorporates the material well researched by eminent scholars over the past fifty years The book begins with the study of rock shelter drawings mainly those discovered from the forevers of Bhimbetka near Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, now a world heritage site. India has thousands of rock shelter drawings but rare in splendor Bhimbetka is not only the largest complex of rock shelters and the largest concentration of pre-historic art but also presents the widest. range of themes that rock-shelter drawings have anywhere in India or rather In the world. Hence, the book focuses mainly on Bhimbetka. The second chapter focuses on the art and architecture of Indus valley a city culture with -a structured habitation and well-planned towns, diagonally opposite the nomad's rock shelters. Chapter three presents a vision of the Mauryan era's sculptural art that combined art with architecture. Chapter four dwells on the study of Shunga art, a period when sculpture and architecture witnessed a new efflorescence. Chapter five deals with Carly Andhra's art sculptural precision, 4 perfections, and refinement attaining their all-time height. The rock-cut architecture of early Buddhism is the main theme of Chapter six, and the Kushana art is that of the seven. Chapter eight is devoted to the study of Gandhara art. Chapter nine studies the history of later Andhra art Chapter ten throws light on the Gupta arta Chapter eleven is an effort to throw some light on the Nalanda stupas, and Chapter twelve presents a study of the Bodh Gaya temple, and the Pala and Sena art is the subject-matter of the last chapter. The book has been enriched and embellished with several plans and illustrations, both in color and black and white.