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A.S. Bhalla

A.S. Bhalla (MA Cantab; Ph.D. Manchester) is a former Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK and former Special Adviser to the President of International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada. Dr Bhalla has held academic positions at Cambridge, Oxford, Yale and Manchester. His other historical books are Royal Tombs of India (Mapin, 2009), Buddhist Art in Asia (Austin Macauley, 2014); Glimpses of Medieval Switzerland (Austin Macauley, 2015); and Monuments, Power and Poverty in India: From Ashoka to the Raj (I.B. Tauris, 2015: first South Asian Paperback Edition, 2016). He hRead More...


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Switzerland Then and Now
Books by A.S. Bhalla

The book is a sequel to author’s earlier book on Switzerland, Glimpses of Medieval Switzerland. It breaks new ground by examining how medieval Switzerland has changed into today’s tolerant country in accepting tourists from different cultures despite growing anti-immigrant attitudes, welcoming Indian mystics as well as film producers and directors (even honouring them!) and adopting such practices as Indian Ayurvedic treatments and promoting Japan

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Buddhist Art in Asia
Books by A.S. Bhalla

Buddhism, which originated in India in the sixth century BC, faded into oblivion by the thirteenth century. However, it spread to other countries in Asia, and along with it, Buddhist art. The book investigates how representations of Buddhism and Buddhist art evolved between regions and between epochs. From India to Thailand and Burma (Myanmar) and eventually to China, the religion grew in influence only to die and thrive again in different forms. With it grew d

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Imperial India
Books by A.S. Bhalla

Magnificent palaces, forts and fortresses, victory towers and memorials among others are the living symbols of imperial lavishness in India. The book describes and illustrates royal edifices from Agra, Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi, Fatehpur Sikri, Hydrebad, Lahore, Madras, Poona, Rawalpindi, Quetta and Simla. The physical history of the above architecture is juxtaposed with social history of the time; for example, segregation of the British rulers from their subjec

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