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Buddhist treasures of Russia and Mongolia

Buddhist treasures of Russia and Mongolia

Chandra, Lokesh

ISBN: 9788195096176, 8195096174

This volume narrates the cultural exchanges between India and Russia, beginning with Russian words cognate to Sanskrit called `paternal language' by a Russian linguist. Indian items have been exhumed from the 8-9th century layers of Kiev. Indian colony in Astrakhan on the Volga River, first contact of Russians with Buddhism in 1716, reference to Sanskrit in a novel written in 1784, the volume c...

Essays in Indian philosophy, religion and literature,

Essays in Indian philosophy, religion and literature,


ISBN: 9788120819788, 8120819780

Contents: (i) Vedic studies. (ii) Epics and Puranas. (iii) Bhartrhari: language and truth. (iv) Hindi literature. (v) Kavya. (vi) Artha-sastra. (vii) Philosophy. (viii) Sanskrit manuscripts.;;;The essays presented in this volume are the aftermath of the International Confrence on Sanskrit and related studies to commemorate the centenary of the Birth of Stanislaw Schayen, an eminent polish Sansk...

Ideology and status of Sanskrit: contributions to the history of the Sanskrit language,

Ideology and status of Sanskrit: contributions to the history of the Sanskrit language,


ISBN: 9788120835016, 8120835018

The present volume is the outcome of a seminar on the Ideology and Status of Sanskrit held in Leiden under the auspices of the International Institute for Asian Studies.

The psychosomatic studies on Nama and Rupa in reference of Abhidhamma sangaha, by Brenda Huong Xuan Ly

The psychosomatic studies on Nama and Rupa in reference of Abhidhamma sangaha, by Brenda Huong Xuan Ly


ISBN: 9789391985073, 9391985076

This book has used the languages in both Abhidhamma and contemporary science. In Abhidhamma, the book AbhidhammaSangaha is mainly used for analysis. In the aspect of using the language of modern science, the concepts in biology, neurology, and psychology are integrated into Abhidhamma's teachings to enhance readers' understanding of Abhidhamma and Buddhist teachings.

Meaningful rituals: Persian, Arabic, and Bengali in the Nurnama Tradition of Eastern Bengal

Meaningful rituals: Persian, Arabic, and Bengali in the Nurnama Tradition of Eastern Bengal

d'Hubert, Thibaut

ISBN: 9789355723369, 9355723369

It explores a corpus of texts that centre around the creation of the world by God through his prophet Mu?ammad in his primordial form as a luminous entity. These short accounts, which bear the title Nurnama, played two roles: as conveyers of knowledge regarding basic Islamic beliefs and and as ritual texts. In addition to introductory chapters on Muslim literacy in eastern Bengal and the treatm...

Scripts of power: writing, language practices, and cultural history in western India

Scripts of power: writing, language practices, and cultural history in western India

Deshpande, Prachi

ISBN: 9788178246598, 8178246597

This book is a cultural history of western India from a fascinatingly new perspective: language use, writing practices, and relations of power. Its principal focus is the Modi script, a cursive form widely used for writing the Marathi language from the medieval era until quite recently.

Simplicity and purity: poets, farmers and Parsis of Gandhi's Gujarati and reading Gandhi in two tongues

Simplicity and purity: poets, farmers and Parsis of Gandhi's Gujarati and reading Gandhi in two tongues

Suhrud, Tridip

ISBN: 9789354423604, 9354423604

The book contains two essays by Tridip Suhrud. The first, `Simplicity and Purity', examines Gandhi's relationship with the Gujarati language. The second essay, `Reading Gandhi in Two Tongues' suggests Gandhi was a bilingual thinker and writer, and it is enriching to explore his modes of thoughts through two tongues.

Writings from the Sundarbans

Writings from the Sundarbans

Acharya, Indranil et al.

ISBN: 9789354422713, 9354422713

This anthology aims to document and disseminate in English translation, literary narratives on the Sundarbans composed in Bangla by authors belonging to this great riverine ecosystem. The collection foregrounds the many issues that continue to haunt marginalised communities across the world. An attempt has been made to give voice to the subaltern concerns over agency and participation, inclusio...

Dhola Gamvara Sudra Pasu Nari: Book series to explore real India

Dhola Gamvara Sudra Pasu Nari: Book series to explore real India

Singh, Bal Ram

ISBN: 9781957310008, 1957310006

This book presents a proper meaning of the Ramcharitmanas chaupai, Dhola gamvara sudra pasu nari, ye sab tadana ke adhikari using the actual meaningÿ of the word, tadana, in Avadhi language, and by delving into the deep philosophical references of the Pancabhutas, ether, air, fire, water, and earth of the Samkhya and Vaishesika darshanas, as intended by Goswami Tulsidas.

Subaltern studies: writings on South Asian history and society, 10 vols. (in box)

Subaltern studies: writings on South Asian history and society, 10 vols. (in box)


ISBN: 9780195651256, 0195651251

Subaltern Studies I: The aim of this collection of essays, the first of a series, is to promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies; Subaltern Studies II: In this volume the author writes on `The Prose of counter-Insurgency', Gautam Bhadra on `Frontier Uprisings in Mughal India'...; Subaltern Studies III: It consists of seven essays, six ...

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.

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...

Conflict and coping in North East India: the role of memory,

Conflict and coping in North East India: the role of memory,


ISBN: 9788196085094, 8196085095

Northeast India has experienced several violent political and social conflicts post Indian independence over the issues of contested identity, language, and resource control.

Bridging the gaps: intersections of literature and languages studies,

Bridging the gaps: intersections of literature and languages studies,


ISBN: 9789360952655, 9360952656

The book proceedings of the two-day International Conference on Transformations and Transitions: Emerging Trends in Literature and Language Studies organized on March 11th & 12th 2024 at K L University, Vijayawada campus focused on the emerging trends in Language and literature studies geared towards academics, professionals, research scholars, students, and general audience to publish their bo...

The Tamil poets and poetry from medieval religious to social modern literature

The Tamil poets and poetry from medieval religious to social modern literature

Stephen, S. Jeyaseela

ISBN: 9789386463449, 938646344X

This book examines how the Tamil poets gradually began to turn their attention away from praising kings, chieftains, ruling elites besides on gods and goddesses. It explores how the bards composed ulaa, pillaithamizh, maalai, sathagam, agaval, kalampagam, kovai and toothu poetry in the early modern age.

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...

Treasures of knowledge, 3 vols., the academic transactions in The Asiatic Society upto pre-Independence period, comp. by Sujata Mishra under the guidance of Satyabrata Chakrabarti

Treasures of knowledge, 3 vols., the academic transactions in The Asiatic Society upto pre-Independence period, comp. by Sujata Mishra under the guidance of Satyabrata Chakrabarti


ISBN: 9788197004193, 8197004196

To observe the seventy-five years of Indias Independence in a befitting manner, The Asiatic Society, Kolkata had decided, among many other programmes, to publish a compilation of selected seventy-five articles from the very beginning of its publication from 1788 to 1946 i.e. pre-independence period. This book is actually a tapestry of human thought containing seventy-five selected articles, a l...

Agni: tracing the fire god in art and language of the Indus Valley Civilization

Agni: tracing the fire god in art and language of the Indus Valley Civilization

Dhulipala, Krishna

ISBN: 9788120843844, 8120843843

This book, offers a groundbreaking exploration of the origins and evolution of the Vedic fire god, Agni.

Elamite and Dravidian: a reassessment

Elamite and Dravidian: a reassessment

Pedron, Filippo

ISBN: 9788196007546, 819600754X

The present work attempts to have a reassessment of the existing studies in the studies of McAlpin with regard to Elamite, Brahui and other Dravidian language in particular.

The Ghazal eros: lyric queerness in history

The Ghazal eros: lyric queerness in history

Naved, Shad

ISBN: 9788196580315, 8196580312

This book studies the movement of language and society in the old ghazal, i.e. the poetry of eros in Urdu, Persian and Arabic. The book argues, screens from a lyric corpus that was historically aware, linguistically evolving and suspicious of mystical interpretation.

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