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Kannagi through the ages: from the epic to the Dravidian movement

Kannagi through the ages: from the epic to the Dravidian movement

Rani, Prabha

ISBN: 9789354356070, 9354356079

This book tracking the evolution of the Silappatikaram from its possible folk origins and the amalgamation of the cults of various goddesses with the local cult of Kannagi, it goes on to investigate how its multiple iterations over time reflect the preoccupations of the age.

Panditraj Atombapu Sharma: an Agastya in eastern India (Panditraj Atombapu Memorial Lectures on Indic Culture and Civilisation), introd. by Mohan Bhagwat,

Panditraj Atombapu Sharma: an Agastya in eastern India (Panditraj Atombapu Memorial Lectures on Indic Culture and Civilisation), introd. by Mohan Bhagwat,


ISBN: 9789355947635, 9355947631

The volume comprises of lectures on distinctive features of Indian culture and civilisation, delivered by eminent personalities of the country, whose words can almost be regarded as the voice of India.

Silpin and his signature

Silpin and his signature

Singh, Arvind Kuma

ISBN: 9789391685393, 9391685390

Art-activity in India's past involved different sections of society: artisans for raising monuments, patrons for financing the projects, priests for consecrating the monuments, and so on. In fact, silpa (art), silpin (artist) and the sastra (canon) are the three basic elements of Indian traditional art. A highly advanced and technical terminology and the aesthetic formulations as well as the me...

Pallava sculptures: a cultural study

Pallava sculptures: a cultural study

Krishnamurthy, S.

ISBN: 9788196827441, 819682744X

This book is the result of extensive fieldwork and minute analytical research undertaken by the author for his Doctoral Degree Social and Cultural History of the Pallava period as gleaned through the Sculptural Art (from Selective temples) under the guidance of P.D. Balaji, Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Madras.

Cinema through Rasa: a tryst with masterpieces in the light of Rasa Siddhanta

Cinema through Rasa: a tryst with masterpieces in the light of Rasa Siddhanta

Praveer, Prachand

ISBN: 9788124610688, 8124610681

This book discusses the important works of the world cinema in the light of Rasa Siddhanta of the Indian classical aesthetics. Rasa Siddhanta was first mentioned in Bharata Muni's Natyasastra - the ancient treatise on dramaturgy. This book catalogues the major cinematic works in the light of Abhinavabharati - a tenth-century commentary on the Natyasastra by the great Kashmiri Saivite philosophe...

Oriental culture in transition: Hyderabad state (1853-1948)

Oriental culture in transition: Hyderabad state (1853-1948)

Vaikuntham, Y.

ISBN: 9788193560907, 8193560906

Our intellectual heritage: there exists a large body of evidence for the width, depth and accuracy of the ancient Indian knowledge

Our intellectual heritage: there exists a large body of evidence for the width, depth and accuracy of the ancient Indian knowledge

Chitre, Prakash

ISBN: 9789359662428, 9359662429

That we Indians are blessed with ancestors who had extensive knowledge of an ex-tremely wide range of subjects such as mathematics, astronomy, acoustics, metallurgy, metrology, medicine, architecture, civil engineering, town planning, sanitation man-agement, grammar, philosophy etc., is amply evidenced by the several extremely ancient archaeological findings, monuments, ancient universities, ma...

Indian culture: an unending journey, 2 vols in 3 parts

Indian culture: an unending journey, 2 vols in 3 parts

Lama, G.K.

ISBN: 9789391985998, 9391985998

The theme of the book is geographical expansion of Indian culture and its continuity. The book throws light on the expansion of Buddhism in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The Presidential retreats of India, ed. by Gillian Wright, photography by Andre Jeanpierre Fanthome

The Presidential retreats of India, ed. by Gillian Wright, photography by Andre Jeanpierre Fanthome


ISBN: 9788123020754, 8123020759

In this volume, the authors trace the history of grand city residences and rural retreats from the time of Government House, Kolkata (now Raj Bhawan), and the riverside retreat of Barrackpur. This is one of a series of volumes documenting different aspects of the rich cultural, social and historical legacy of Rashtrapati Bhavan as a national institution.

The purveyors of destiny: a cultural biography of the Indian Railways

The purveyors of destiny: a cultural biography of the Indian Railways

Chatterjee, Arup K.

ISBN: 9789386349521, 9386349523

The book is an extraordinary journey of the Indian Railways, from the laying of the very first sleeper to the first post-Independence bogey.

The quest continues: lost heritage: the Sikh legacy in Pakistan, text and photographs by Amardeep Singh

The quest continues: lost heritage: the Sikh legacy in Pakistan, text and photographs by Amardeep Singh


ISBN: 9788170021216, 8170021219

A deep-rooted desire to connect with the land of his ancestors had impelled Amardeep Singh to embark on a journey to Pakistan in 2014. In 2017, he ventured deep into Pakistan administered Kashmir, Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Punjab. His extensive discoveries across 90 additional cities and villages are compellingly documented in this sequel for posterity.

Rajput arms & armour: the Rathores & their armoury at Jodhpur fort, 2 vols. (boxed)

Rajput arms & armour: the Rathores & their armoury at Jodhpur fort, 2 vols. (boxed)

Elgood, Robert

ISBN: 9789385285707, 938528570X

The volumes not only provides advance knowledge of arms & armour, but also reflect on the significance of the Rathores in history, and their 556-year-old fort. For political and more recently commercial reasons the cultural history of the subcontinent has been largely expressed through the Mughal experience of India. Whilst it is true that the Muslim Mughals dominated India the empire they rule...

Jammu Kashmir & Ladakh: through the ages, a visual narrative of continuities & linkages,

Jammu Kashmir & Ladakh: through the ages, a visual narrative of continuities & linkages,


ISBN: 9789357432894, 9357432892

Megasthenese (c. 300 BCE) described India as: ...bounded on the north from Ariana (comparable to modern Afghanistan and territories to its north) to the eastern sea, on the west is the river Indus. Almost 1800 years later Abul Fazals (16th cent. CE) description was virtually the same as Megasthenese: ...to the north is a lofty range of mountains part of which stretches along the uttermost limit...

The Russian factor in Central Asian culture, ed. by Rashmi Doraiswamy

The Russian factor in Central Asian culture, ed. by Rashmi Doraiswamy


ISBN: 9789378314483, 9378314481

This book is a selection of papers presented at the international conference organized in 2012 by the UGC Central Asia Studies Programme at the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi.

Sanskrit on the maritime route, ed. by Shashibala

Sanskrit on the maritime route, ed. by Shashibala


ISBN: 9788172765453, 8172765452

It explores cultural linkages of India with Southeast Asian countries from historical, linguistic, epigraphically, archaeological, literary, political, traditional, philosophical and even legal perspectives.

Sanskrit on the Silk route, ed. by Shashibala

Sanskrit on the Silk route, ed. by Shashibala


ISBN: 9788172765446, 8172765444

The research papers contained in the present volume by scholars from Germany, Japan, China and India focus to define the Sanskrit culture of various ethnic and linguistic communities inhabiting Central Asia in the first millennium. The academicians have sought to reconstruct the forgotten past when Sanskrit sutras inspired the quest for tanscendence which still remains soft power for cultural d...

The continent of Circe: an essay on the peoples of India

The continent of Circe: an essay on the peoples of India

Chaudhuri, Nirad C

ISBN: 9788172240387, 8172240384

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