The catalogue consists of images of musical instruments depicted in ancient Indian sculptures and paintings. These images are culled from the massive repertoire of the Center for Art and Archaeology’s Photo-archives which houses meticulously documented photographs of monuments and related sculptures, paintings and coins. While the collection includes a wide variety of musical instruments, it is majorly classified in three broad categories namely-Wind, Percussion and Stringed instruments. It not only represents multiple instrument types, it also gives an insight into regional variations as the collection covers examples from all regions of the Indian subcontinent including some from South Asian countries also such as Indonesia and Sri Lanka.