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New horizons of knowledge

New horizons of knowledge

Mishra, Abhiraja Rajendra

ISBN: 9789389386233, 9389386233

India in 21st Century,

India in 21st Century,


ISBN: 9789359997582, 9359997587

This book is a collection of research papers and articles of arts, humanities, social science, and science.

A cultural poetics of Bhasha literatures: in theory and practice,

A cultural poetics of Bhasha literatures: in theory and practice,


ISBN: 9789354429873, 9354429874

This volume explores the inter-relations between languages, literatures and cultures in the context of South Asia in general and India in particular. The essays examine the cultural practices of authors, critics, commentators and translators in relation to their multiple vernacular traditions with their disparate histories, to bring out the defining features of a cultural poetics of bhasha lite...

Waiting for Shiva: unearthing the truth of Kashi's Gyan Vapi

Waiting for Shiva: unearthing the truth of Kashi's Gyan Vapi

Sampath, Vikram

ISBN: 9788196737597, 8196737599

This book recreates the history, antiquity and sanctity of Kashi as the abode of Bhagwan Shiva in the form of Vishweshwara, or Vishwanath. Shiva himself assured his devotees of salvation if they leave their mortal coils in the city. The book delves into the history of this self-manifested swayambhu jyotirlinga shrine of Vishweshwara, which for centuries has been both a refuge for the devout and...

Tai Phakes: a historical & cultural study

Tai Phakes: a historical & cultural study

Phukan, S.

ISBN: 9789383252534, 9383252537

India rediscovered: re-assessing the legacy of Alexander Cunningham,

India rediscovered: re-assessing the legacy of Alexander Cunningham,


ISBN: 9788173056857, 8173056854

Alexander Cunningham, contributed immensely to the cause of Indian art and archaeology. He was among the first to acknowledge the role of textual scholarship, particularly in understanding the sites of ancient India and paid particular attention to sculptural art and epigraphic records. His efforts to trace Buddhist history through the architectural remains greatly impacted the consolidation of...

Merchants and ports in the Indian ocean world: across sea and land

Merchants and ports in the Indian ocean world: across sea and land

Seshan, Radhika et al.

ISBN: 9781032644486, 1032644486

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Connecting the Indian Ocean World explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world. The book looks at the extensive range of maritime networks that criss-crossed pre-modern Asia and the Indian Ocean region connecting ports, peoples and cultures. It ...

Culture and circulation: literature in motion in early modern India,

Culture and circulation: literature in motion in early modern India,


ISBN: 9789360808839, 9360808830

This book takes an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of literary genres and social milieus, capturing elements that have eluded traditional literary history.

The land, people and history of Ullavur: a locality that reaps the bounty of Palar, foreword by Ram Bahadur Rai in Hindi, text in English

The land, people and history of Ullavur: a locality that reaps the bounty of Palar, foreword by Ram Bahadur Rai in Hindi, text in English

Bajaj, Jatinder et al.

ISBN: 9788119380572, 8119380576

Ullavur, is an intensely agricultural locality of the Chengalpattu Jaghire that the British acquired from the Nawab of Arcot in 1763. Soon after, they carried out an extensive survey of about 2,200 localities of the Jaghire, recording and economy of each of these. This monograph uses the date of the survey, the information recorded in the numerous inscriptions found in the temples of the early ...

Somarasa: spirituous drinks in ancient India

Somarasa: spirituous drinks in ancient India

Thapliyal, Uma Prasad

ISBN: 9788119139309, 8119139305

Indians have been drinking some form of wine for the past four thousand years. In spite of it, a kind of pretence pervades the society against drinking of wine. In the Vedic times, Somarasa and Sura were in use. Interestingly, the ninth book of the Rgveda is devoted to Soma, its preparation and use.

Mathura: a tapestry of art and devotion

Mathura: a tapestry of art and devotion

Bhatnagar, Pradip et al.

ISBN: 9788119626854, 8119626850

Mathura--the birthplace of Krishna, the god with millions of devotees in India and abroad--is the nucleus of Vaishnava Hinduism, one of the worlds most famous religious movements.

The Rig Veda and the history of India (Rig Veda Bharata Itihasa), foreword by N.S. Rajaram

The Rig Veda and the history of India (Rig Veda Bharata Itihasa), foreword by N.S. Rajaram

Frawley, David

ISBN: 9789359662435, 9359662437

The book examines the historical and geographical context of ancient India through extensive references to Vedic literature, including the four Vedas, Brahmanas, Upanishads, and Puranas.

The Tamils: a portrait of a community

The Tamils: a portrait of a community

Lakshman, Nirmala

ISBN: 9788119635078, 8119635078

Nearly 90 million people around the world identify as Tamil, a proud and ancient community with a unique language, history, and culture. The Tamil people have given India and the world some of it most iconic revolutionaries and political leaders, industrialists, philosophers, sportspeople, scientists, and mathematicians (including winners of the Nobel Prize), and celebrated writers, poets, danc...

Violence denied: violence, non-violence and the rationalization of violence in South Asian cultural history,

Violence denied: violence, non-violence and the rationalization of violence in South Asian cultural history,


ISBN: 9789360807528, 9360807524

In this book, historical and cultural aspects of the tensions between violence and its denial and rationalization in South Asia are taken up in the contributions of this volume which deal with topics ranging from the origins of the concept of ahimsa, to the iconography and interpretation of a self-beheading goddess, and violent heroines in Ajneyas Hindi short stories.

Aryan idols: Indo-European mythology as ideology and science,

Aryan idols: Indo-European mythology as ideology and science,

Arvidsson, Stefan

ISBN: 9789368538592, 936853859X

This book critically examining the discourse of Indo-European scholarship over the past two centuries and demonstrates how the concepts of Indo-European and Aryan have been shaped by and utilized for various ideological purposes.

Tayed back, stayed on: short stories by Bengali Muslim writers,

Tayed back, stayed on: short stories by Bengali Muslim writers,


ISBN: 9789354428708, 9354428703

This book is the first ever anthology of short fiction by Bengali Muslim writers in English translation. The nineteen stories in this collection explore the aspirations and anxieties of Muslim lives in rural and urban Bengal, enmeshed in religious sensibilities, class, sexuality, and the tussle between tradition and modernity. Through voices across generations, this book delves into the inner c...

Strange familiarities: tracing epistolary cultures in the subcontinent (1857-1915)

Strange familiarities: tracing epistolary cultures in the subcontinent (1857-1915)

Bhattacharya, Nandini

ISBN: 9789368834304, 936883430X

This book traces epistolary traditions produced within the ethno-linguistic cultures of nineteenth-century Bengal and the North-West Provinces in colonial India. The book provides a close reading of texts and English translations of epistolary literature, selected due to their novelty and radical responses to the postal revolution of the time.

Becoming Bangalore: stories that shaped a hometown

Becoming Bangalore: stories that shaped a hometown

Pai, Roopa

ISBN: 9789357316217, 9357316213

In this collection of evocative essays, she trawls the citys history to tease out bits of the Bangalore jigsaw--a scientists quest for excellence, a maharanis foresight, an entrepreneurs vision, a chief ministers ambition, a writers pride in his language, and more--in an effort to trace the genesis of the liberal soul of the metropolis and its ability to offer inclusive, creative, laid-back spa...

Exploring cultural landscape of India: text and context

Exploring cultural landscape of India: text and context

Kaur, Kamalpreet et al

ISBN: 9789368533634, 9368533636

Versailles meets the Taj Mahal: Francois Bernier, Marguerite de la Sabliere, and enlightening conservations in seventeenth-century France

Versailles meets the Taj Mahal: Francois Bernier, Marguerite de la Sabliere, and enlightening conservations in seventeenth-century France

Beasley, Faith E.

ISBN: 9789395474030, 9395474033

This book identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of Frances Great Century and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de la Sabliere and its encounter with the traveler and philosopher Francois Bernier, this book resurrects the conversations about India inspired by Berniers travels and inscribed in his influentia...

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