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Professor Sheo Bahadur Singh is an erudite scholar and a prolific writer. Among his numerous publications including sixty research papers in prestigious Indian and Foreign Journals like East and West, Arts of Asia, Lalita Kala and Roopa Lekha etc., he is also a co-author of The Archaeology of the Lucknow Region which earned handsome acclaim from Professor A.L. Basham. He is also the author of Brahmanical Icons in Northern India, acclaimed by Dr. C. Sivaramamurti as an excellent valuable contribution to Hindu Iconography, Archaeology of Panchala Region, Letters of Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence and Epigraphy and Art. The present monograph, a University Grants Commission Project, is based on the survey of sculptural art of the Northern India. The author has retired as Professor from the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra in 1992. At present he is busy in completing an Indian Council of Historical Research Project-Minor and Folk Deities in the Uttaranchal Region based on the sculptural study.