SACRED TREE AND INDIAN LIFE

Susanne Hawkes is a freelance photographer. As an old friend of India, she has travelled and photographed extensively in the country, and continues to return here, drawn by ?the intensity?, as she says, ?with which this ancient land opens itself to me and captures all my senses?. She lives, with her husband, in Heidelberg, Germany. Karuna Goswamy is a historian, and was, till recently, Professor of History at the Panjab University, Chandigarh. She has written extensively, with her interest centered chiefly upon the social and cultural history of India. Among her principal publications are: Vaishnavism in the Punjab Hills, and Pahari Painting (doctoral dissertation, Chandigarh, 1968); The Glory of the Great Goddess: An Illustrated Manuscript from Kashmir in the Alice Boner Collection (Zurich, 1989); and Kashmiri Paintings: Assimilation and Diffusion; Production and Patronage (Shimla, 1998).