The number of unfinished stone monuments in India is staggering. more than half of the 1100 rock-cut monuments are at various stages of unfinish - from famous sites like Ellora, Ajanta, and Mamallapuram, to temple structures like Hoysala temples. Celebrated for the intricacy of their sculpted decoration, the book explores reasons for such unfinish. Meticulously researched, this richly illustrated book focuses on specific issues of consequence in the context of unfinished work, as they gain an added weight and significance through discovery of their repetitive occurrence at site after site.