Why statue of famous personalities are important sources for the study of ancient Indian history
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They work alongside historical sources and mutually inform each other. They may well serve as evidence to support or contradict, they are useful for understanding context (sometimes), but generally speaking history is about written sources.
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Partly because the climate of the Indian subcontinent makes the long-term survival of organic materials difficult, the great majority of survivals of older Indian art, from before the last few centuries, are sculpture in stone, metal or terracotta.
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