The book portrays the profile of Gems and Jewellery in the Indian Histrical perspective. It dabbles in sources and geographical distribution of gems, physical and chemical properties theirof and their working, occult and religious association and treatment of Jewels for Jewellery. It is a bid, a venture to trace the career of gems from their matrix to Jewellery-forms and to retrieve them from dim recesses of time, distant interiors and dark corridors of centuries. The present work also broaches the nature and extent of their

viability in relation to social environment, ethos and values of civilizational entities. It is a corollary to the author's monograph entitled, 'A history of Gem Industry in Ancient and Medieval India, (Part I, South

India), published earlier