Andrew Topsfield

Biographic Data

ID701216
NAMEAndrew Topsfield
GIVEN NAMESAndrew
FAMILY NAMETopsfield
SIGNATURETOPSFIELD A
AFFILIATIONSMuseum of the History of Science
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX0

  • A Note on Sufi Snakes and Ladders

    Open AccessAndrew TopsfieldARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…2021

    This article discusses a number of nineteenth century playing boards for the Sufi form of the traditional Indian board game of gyān caupar̩ (the Chaupar of Gnosis), from which modern Snakes and Ladders derives. Usually comprising 100 squares inscribed in Persian, the playing area conducts the players hazardously upward from lower spiritual states to the final goal of heaven, according to the throw of dice and sudden demotions or promotions throug…

  • Asok Kumar Das, Wonders of Nature

    Andrew TopsfieldARTICLESouth Asian Studies2013

    This well produced volume is the first book-length monograph devoted to the Mughal artist Mansur, best known for his exceptional skills as a painter of birds, animals and flowers. First active in t

  • Snakes and Ladders in India

    Andrew TopsfieldARTICLEArtibus Asiae2006

    Etude du jeu de plateau traditionnel indien gyān chausar, connu en occident comme « serpents and ladders » (serpents et echelles). Metaphore de la progression spirituelle, ce jeu existe en plusieurs versions, hindoue visnuite, sufi ou jaine, qui sont comparees ici

  • Indian subcontinent

    Joachim K Bautze, Joachim Bautze et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Treasures of Tibetan Art

    Andrew TopsfieldARTICLEJournal of the History of…1998

    Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art Barbara Lipton and Nima Dorjee Ragnubs . New York , Jacques Marchais Museum and Oxford University Press , 1996 . ISBN 0-19-509714-9 (paperback); 0-509713-0 (hard-back). 295 pp., 81 col. illus., 109 b. & w. illus. £26.50 (paperback), £53.00(hardback). Andrew Topsfield Andrew Topsfield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal …

  • Eugene Impey in Rajasthan

    Andrew TopsfieldARTICLEHistory of Photography1996

  • The City Palace Museum, Udaipur

    Milo Cleveland Beach, Andrew TopsfieldARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1994

  • Eugene Impey at Mount Abu and Jodhpur

    Andrew TopsfieldARTICLEHistory of Photography1990

    Eugene Impey (figure 1) was one of a number of British soldier photographers active in India around the 1860s, among whom Captain Linnaeus Tripe is probably the bestknown nowadays. Only a single volume of Impey's work, entided Delhi, Agra and Rajpootana, illustrated by Eighty Photographs,1 was published in his lifetime, and he has received no more than a passing mention in surveys of British Indian photography.2 An account of Impey's career which…

  • The Indian Game of Snakes and Ladders

    Andrew TopsfieldARTICLEArtibus Asiae1985

  • Kalādarśana

    Open AccessAndrew TopsfieldARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1984

    Kalādarśana: American Studies in the Art of India. Edited by Joanna G. Williams. (Studies in South Asian Culture, Vol. IX.) pp. [i], xvi, 183, 138 pl. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1981. Guilders 120. - Volume 116 Issue 1