A concise introduction to the MFA Bostons celebrated collection of South Asian artThe Museum of Fine Arts Boston is home to an important collection of artworks from South Asia that spans a large geographical areacomprising India and the countries that surround itand more than four millennia. Among these objects are expressive figures in bronze and stone dazzlingly intricate miniature paintings luxury textiles and exquisite metalwork.Arranged thematically around dualities of art and craft sacred and secular Hindu and Muslim real and ideal male and female and local and foreignreflecting and challenging the dualistic thinking often applied to South Asian artthe works gathered in this volume reveal the richness and depth of South Asian art and culture.