Ananda K Coomaraswamy

August 27, 1977 Ananda K Coomaraswamy V Subramaniam IN this centenary year of the birth of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, it- would be useful to evaluate the im- pact the great man had at a popular and at a sophisticated level on Westerners as well as Indians. In a visible way, the impact has been dramatic. Around the turn of the century very few outside South India had seen a bronze icon of the dancing Shiva