The Journal of Indian Art and Industry Indian Jewellery Part II

In the wilder and more hilly parts of the country moreover the aboriginal tribes suciNs the Bhils brought the dwellers in the plains into contact with the more barbarous traditions and springs of action of a remote past. [...] Readers of history especially of the Mahrattas and of the struggles for empire from the time of Aurangzeb down to the political settlement which followed the wars at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century will appreciate the truth of these remarks. [...] In the first number of anew journal The Throne " published on June 23rd of the present year 1906 there is an account with a coloured illustration of a spinel ruby the property of the Lady Carew which somewhat incorrectly perhaps is reckoned the most valuable object of its kind in existence because of the inscriptions upon it and as is alleged in the paper the belief that it " is the on [...] In looking over the series of portraits of the heads of the great Rajput families in my book on the rulers of the province during the past three hundred years most of which are reproductions of contemporary miniatures some interesting conclusions as to the jewellery worn at different periods by men of high rank living in different districts can be drawn. [...] An illustration of it from a paper of mine on the Bhils in Meywar or Udaipur in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal of 1874 will be reproduced in the next part of the Journal of Indian Art.