The book portrays the profile of Gems and Jewellery in the Indian Historical 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 dimrecesses 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.

Content - Preface, Chapter I : Introductory, Chapter II : Sources And Geographical Distribution of Gems, Chapter III : Physical And Chemical Properties of Gems And Their Working, Chapter IV : Occult And Religious Association of Gems, Chapter V  :    Resume - Panorama of Gems and Their Orientation into Jewellery, Select Biblography, List of Plates, Plates