Art, archaeology and cultural history of India: U.N. Roy felicitation volume, 2 parts, ed. by Ajoy Kumar Sinha et al., chief ed.: C.P. Sinha

ISBN: 9789386223500, 9386223503

Brings together the recent researches and discoveries in the various fields of Indological studies from scholars.

Awadh symphony: notes on a cultural interlude

Mahmud, Aslam

ISBN: 9788129146502, 8129146509

Lucknow, the cultural capital of erstwhile Awadh region, has charmed generations into writing about the city. This book captures all the aspects of Awadhi culture, history and traditions of the region.

The battle for Sanskrit: is Sanskrit political or sacred, oppressive or liberating, dead or alive?

Malhotra, Rajiv

ISBN: 9789351775386, 9351775380

There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing westernization of the discourse about India. The book seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti - Indian civilization - concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and that has started to dominate the discourse on the cultural, social and political aspects of India.

The battle for Sanskrit: is Sanskrit political or sacred, oppressive or liberating, dead or alive?

Malhotra, Rajiv

ISBN: 9789352641819, 9352641817

There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing;westernization of the discourse about India. The book seeks to alert;traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti--Indian civilization--;concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and;that has started to dominate the discourse on the cultural, social and;political aspects of India.

China and India: history, culture, cooperation and competition, ed. by Paramita Mukherjee, et al..

ISBN: 9789385985690, 9385985698

Chinese poems and pictures on Ahimsa by RaghuVira and Vibrations of Ahimsa in China by Lokesh Chandra

ISBN: 9788177421279, 8177421271

This book contains two volumes of Chinese sketches and poems on Ahimsa given to Prof. RaghuVira by Prof. Feng Tzu-Kai in 1941. These have been translated into English by RaghuVira and Lokesh Chandra and published here with original version with sketches.

Chinese sources of South Asian history in translation: data for study of India-China relations through history, Vol.5: Socio-econo-political relations between South Asia and ....

Ray, Haraprasad

ISBN: 9789381574713, 9381574715

.... and China, AD 502-1620: with emphasis on the fifteenth century.

Chinese sources of South Asian history in translation: data for study of India-China relations through history, Vol.6: From religion to commerce: the maritime rendezvous between.

Ray, Haraprasad

ISBN: 9789381574720, 9381574723

..... India and China, tenth to thirteenth century AD

Chinese sources of South Asian history in translation: data for study of India-China relations through history, Vol.7: From nationalism to foreign occupation: the Mongol interlud

Ray, Haraprasad

ISBN: 9789381574737, 9381574731

..... e.

Agrarian poverty in colonial Uttar Pradesh: the Dufferin Inquiry, 1887-1888,

ISBN: 9789356870000, 9356870004

This book brings to the reading public what has practically been a closed book till now. The text of the inquiry conducted in Uttar Pradesh (then known as 'North-Western Provinces and Oudh') is here preceded by a detailed introduction providing a critical analysis about the material conditions and social customs of the poor, labourers, artisans, landlords, moneylenders and women, as well as an ...

The coils of Pakhangba: a cultural history of Meeteis

Parratt, John

ISBN: 9788183248235, 8183248233

The book traces the evolution of that culture, paying special attention to the oral traditions alongside the written manuscripts in the indigenous script, among which the Court Chronicle (Cheitharol Kumbaba) is preeminent.

Concise dictionary of Indian culture

Varadpande, M.L.

ISBN: 9788182904712, 8182904714

Gandhi and Ambedkar: a study in contrast

Roy, Ramashray

ISBN: 9788175418455, 8175418451

The book represents a radical departure from the genre of writings that deal with thought and works of M. K. Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar, either singly or in a comparative framework, in a discursive manner or historically and chronologically. These two extremely important personalities left a deep and indelible imprint on the content and direction of Indian politics. However, these writings rarel...

Indigenous knowledge systems: towards a holistic inclusive conservation

Majumder, Satarupa Dutta

ISBN: 9789388540162, 9388540166

Based on the trajectories of conservation - natural, cultural and museological - down time, and indigenous epistemological premises brought forth from previous research, the treatise proposes the concept of ECM as a paradigm for successful community-based conservation of indigenous knowledge systems or indigenous biocultural heritage in its holistic wholeness.

Cartooning China: punch, power & politics in the Victorian era

Matthewson, Amy

ISBN: 9781032374383, 1032374381

This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. This book in the Global perspectives in comics studies series will be an important resource for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political history and empire, Chinese studies, popular culture, victoriana, ...

Cultural landscapes of Asia: understanding and managing heritage values

Chiba, Moe et al

ISBN: 9788173056000, 8173056005

The articles covered in this book are an overview of Cultural Landscapes typologies in India and beyond. They provide an understanding of the attributes that characterise cultural landscapes in Asia region, their diversity and the cultural, social and economic processes that have shaped these landscapes, their genesis and their associations. The book covers Cultural Landscape attributes and val...

Women and medical profession in colonial Bengal 1883-1947

Mukherjee, Susmita

ISBN: 9789355723222, 9355723229

This book studies the origin of women's entry into medicine in colonial Bengal and thereby unfurls the layers within these thoughts-provoking questions about its legacy, providing some answers and leading to new questions, the effects of which abound and govern our present.

The dance of Siva: fourteen Indian essays

Coomaraswamy, Ananda

ISBN: 9788130717050, 8130717050

Fusion of Indian culture on Asia

Lama, G.K.

ISBN: 9789391952075, 9391952070

The present book deals with India's cultural contacts with South-East Asia.

Devouring Japan: global perspectives on Japanese culinary identity, ed. by Nancy K. Stalker

ISBN: 9780190240417, 0190240415

Written by an illustrious roster of food historians and Japan experts, the book interrogates the global rise spread of Japanese cuisine by offering original insights into Japanese culinary history, practice, and food-related values.