ABSTRACT
Generalization is inappropriate for a country such as India, with its staggering multiplicity of races, religions, levels of society, and artistic forms and styles. Attempts to classify any aspect of Indian culture can be partial, as categories overlap, forming different configurations. Although political freedom arrived in 1947, numerous fetters of the immediate past persisted, and vast areas of human endeavor remained that did not receive the attention of national or regional governmental policy. In 1947, the central government administered and financed few institutions. In addition to the central Department of Archaeology, there are state departments of archaeology that look after other monuments and sites of antiquity. Independent India, especially educated Indians who had been brought up on English or on the written classical literature, gradually became sensitive to the depth and richness of the oral poetry. A refreshing trend is the attempt to reestablish or reveal the intrinsic interrelationship of the arts, poetry, architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and dance.
