Pratapaditya Pal

Biographic Data

ID3778123
NAMEPratapaditya Pal
GIVEN NAMESPratapaditya
FAMILY NAMEPal
SIGNATUREPAL P
AFFILIATIONSFormer curator, Boston Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Great leaps from unstable ground

    Open AccessMaxwell Votey, Pratapaditya PalARTICLEInternational Journal of Cultural…2025References: 1

    Alisha Sijapati and Erin Thompson’s article “Making a market for ‘The Art of Nepal’: Tracing the flow of Nepali cultural property into the United States” makes a series of unsubstantiated claims about the nature and scope of the Nepali antiquities market in the 1950s and 1960s based on the authors’ research of a single 1964 exhibition of Nepali antiquities in the United States. This critical response will contest these claims by examining the bro…

  • A ‘Mahabharata’ of a History of Ancient India

    Open AccessPratapaditya PalARTICLEIndian Historical Review2016

  • Himalayas

    Melissa R Kerin, Pratapaditya Pal et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2004

    This sweeping survey of the artistic achievements of Himalayan culture is the first major exhibition to include objects from all the major religions of the region. Created to accompany the landmark art exhibition that will include almost two hundred of the finest works of art created between the sixth and nineteenth centuries in India, Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan, this book explores the particular beauty that evolved from the spiritual traditions un…

  • The Holy Cow and Other Animals

    Stephanie W Jamison, Pratapaditya Pal et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2003

  • Much Ado About A Little Clay Pot

    Pratapaditya PalARTICLESouth Asian Studies1989References: 1

  • A Buddhist Paradise

    Mary J Morehart, Pratapaditya Pal et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1989

  • A Forgotten Monastery of Ancient Bihar

    Pratapaditya PalARTICLESouth Asian Studies1988Cited by: 1References: 1

  • A Sacrificial Horse and a Mysterious Script

    Pratapaditya PalARTICLESouth Asian Studies1987

    (1987). A Sacrificial Horse and a Mysterious Script. South Asian Studies: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 47-52

  • The Sensual Immortals

    K G Subramanyan, Pratapaditya PalARTICLELeonardo1980

  • Nepal

    Open AccessPhilip Goldman, Pratapaditya PalARTICLERAIN1976

  • A New Document of Indian Painting

    Open AccessPratapaditya PalARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1965

    The Cambridge University Library has in its collection a well preserved manuscript of the Buddhist Tantric text Kālacakratantra whose painted covers are of considerable significance to the history of Indian painting. According to the colophon the manuscript was written in Bihar in the 15th century, a period from which we have no documentary evidence of such painting in Eastern India