T I M E L I N E S

== Very helpful timelines from the Metropolitan Museum, with maps: *North* and *South*

I M A G E S

== A tribute to the erotic: Khajuraho, the magnificent temple complex in Madhya Pradesh, c.11-12th century: sets of images from the *Berger Collection* and the *AIIS* and *DSAL*

== Illustrations of the Gita-govinda (12th c.): *Black Peacock*

T E X T S

== Kalidasa's play Shakuntala (4th c. CE?), in the first English translation ever made, that of Sir William Jones (1789): *Columbia Univ.*; there is also a study guide for the play: *by Prof. Paul Brians*

== The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, in the classic translation by Richard Burton (1883): *sacred-texts*

== Another, later Sanskrit erotic classic, the 16th-century Ananga Ranga by Kalyana Malla, in Burton's translation (1885): *sacred-texts*

== Joseph S. Alter, The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India (1992): *Univ. of California Press*