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Ananda Coomaraswamy to Talk in Fogg Museum on Indian Culture

A course of ten lectures on "Indian Art and Culture" will be given in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum during the remainder of the fall term. These have been arranged under the auspices of the Division of Fine Arts, and will be given by Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Keeper of the Section of Indian Art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The lectures, which are open to the public, will commence at 4.30 o'clock on November 19, and will run every Wednesday and Friday afternoons until December 19.

The dates and titles of the separate lectures are as follows:

November 19, Rig Veda, Uponishads, Vedanta, Yoga; November 21, Buddhism, Jainism; November 26, Vaishnava, Saiva and Sakta Theology; November 23, Epics, Drama, Music and Dancing; December 3, Theory of Art Silpa Sastras, Caste Status of Craftsmen; December 5, Buddhist Sculpture; December 10, Brahmanical Sculpture; December 12, Buddhist and Jaina Painting; December 17, Rajput and Mughal Painting; December 19, Architecture.

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