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Treasures of India: from antiquity to modernity

Treasures of India: from antiquity to modernity

Mathur, Arushi et al.

ISBN: 9788195565917, 8195565913

This book features more than 150 of the country's most celebrated works of art, artefacts, and architectural gems, from the striking Dancing Girl of Harappa to the magnificent riches of the Sikh Empire, from the imposing Chola bronze of Nataraja to the exquisite structures of Khajuraho and the Taj Mahal.

Cultural heritage of India

Cultural heritage of India

Verma, Awadh Narayan

ISBN: 9789387199903, 9387199908

This book consists of the values of Indian society. Vernashram system depicts the normative pattern of Indian society.

The cultural heritage of Nagaland,

The cultural heritage of Nagaland,


ISBN: 9789391928841, 9391928846

This volume gives an in-depth account of cultural heritage of Nagaland covering important themes like cultural beliefs, traditional knowledge, material culture, and social institutions.

The G N Devy reader: After Amnesia, `Of Many Heroes', The Being of Bhasha and Countering Violence, foreword by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

The G N Devy reader: After Amnesia, `Of Many Heroes', The Being of Bhasha and Countering Violence, foreword by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan


ISBN: 9789354424717, 9354424716

This book offers an incisive analysis of contemporary literary scholarship in Indian languages by demonstrating how modern Indian languages `learnt to forget' that literary criticism had been rejected by them during the post-Sanskrit medieval centuries, and how they have posed before themselves a false choice of intellectual practices rooted in culturally distant Western or Sanskritic traditions.

The Ancient Roman Empire and the British Empire in India: the diffusion of Roman and English law throughout the World; two historical studies

The Ancient Roman Empire and the British Empire in India: the diffusion of Roman and English law throughout the World; two historical studies

Bryce, James

ISBN: 9788119139569, 8119139569

This volume is primarily based on two essays, `Roman and the British Empire' and `Extension of Roman and English Laws throughout the World'. The first essay is a comparative study of the modern British Empire and the classical Roman Empire. This part is deals with the British and Roman attitudes towards race, military character, and strength, despotic systems followed by both empires, taxation,...

Bengali almanac: an uncharted area of Indian mass communication

Bengali almanac: an uncharted area of Indian mass communication

Saha, Nilay Kumar

ISBN: 9788195331222, 819533122X

The author has completed this important study as part of the ICHR 'Senior Academic Fellowship' scheme. This volume comprising 21 chapters covers almost all areas of civil society that were published in different Bengali almanac either in the form of information or in the form of an advertisement. The present work is a unique attempt to explore the glorious role of Bengali almanac in shaping the...

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.

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