Architecture in medieval India: forms, contexts, histories

Juneja, Monica (ed.)

ISBN: 9788178242286, 8178242281

This book pulls together diverse writings on the subject, revealing an impressive array of ideas about India's past through the study of its monuments.

Architecture of Delhi, (1320 A.D.-1388 A.D.)

Rani, Abha

ISBN: 9789350500811, 9350500817

The period of 1320-1388 AD saw most of the northern and central India being ruled by the three kings of Tughluq dynasty who established the strongest and most creative state in the history of Delhi Sultanate. This volume includes in-depth analysis of the architecture of Delhi under the Tughluqs.

Theistic Vedanta, ed. by R. Balasubramanian

ISBN: 9788187586128, 8187586125

...Civilization, Vol.2, part III;;;This volume on Theistic Vedanta, which is a sequel to the earlier volume on Advaita Vedanta, contains three sections: the first one explains the heritage of Saivism and Vaisnavism, the second one highlights the God-man-world relation through a variety of doctrines and arguments as formulated by the illustrious preceptors of Vaisnava and Saiva traditions, and t...

Architecture of Lucknow: Imambaras and Karbalas, photographs by Anil Mehrotra and Hindi text by Ashutosh Shukla

Das, Neeta (b.1963)

ISBN: 9788176465755, 8176465755

The architecture of Lucknow is an example of 18th and 19th century India. The Nawabs of Awadh who ruled from this city built many splendid structures mainly Kothis (villas), Imambaras (building where Muharram is commemorated), and Karbalas (shrines, burial places). This book elaborates on the history of the city, its various monuments and specially the Imambara complexes. The text has been eluc...

Musicological literature, by Emmie Te Nijenhuis, Series ed. by Jan Gonda

ISBN: 9789388540452, 938854045X

The writer has confined herself to a survey of those Sanskrit works on music and dance that have been published.

The architecture of the Indian Sultanates, ed. by Abha Narain Lambah et al

ISBN: 9788185026756, 8185026750

The period of Sultanates is typically defined as beginning with the Ghurid incursions into the plains of north India in the 1190's, and ending with the coming of Mughals in 1526. Thirty five Sultans ruled from Delhi, and many more in the provinces, effecting the maturation of a style that progressed from an architecture of demolition and recycling to a mature synthesis of East and West, creatin...

Archives of Empire, Volume 1: from the East India Company to the Suez Canal, ed. by Mia Carter with Barbara Harlow

ISBN: 9789386552570, 9386552574

This book provides a powerfully revealing documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal.

Archiving the British Raj: history of the archival policy of the Government of India, with selected documents, 1858-1947

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi

ISBN: 9780199489923, 0199489920

The arctic home in the Vedas

Tilak, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar

Christianity in India: an historical narrative

Kaye, John William

ISBN: 9788121294232, 8121294231

In the book, this approach is the most accurate way to portray the progress of Christianity in India, as it was largely due to the efforts of individual minds and their thoughts that the religion began to take root in the region. However, once the initial obstacles were overcome and the foundation was laid, the role of individual character and exertion became relatively less important. While th...

Ardhakathanaka: half a tale: a study in the interrelationship between autobiography and history, transl., introd. and annotated by Mukund Lath, illustrations by Ganesh Pyne

ISBN: 9788129105660, 8129105667

The Ardhakathanaka is a remarkable work. Written during the heyday of the Mughal rule in 1641 A.D., it is perhaps the only autobiography in the Indian tradition. This story is an invaluable witness to the pervasiveness of the community in the life of an individual.

The future in the past: essays and reflections

Thapar, Romila

ISBN: 9789395853149, 939585314X

This book brings together essays by Romila Thapar on issues and ideas that have preoccupied her throughout her career.

nobel Abbot from Mustang: life and works of Glo-Bo Mkhan-Chen (1456-1532)

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118p., (4)illus.

nomadic shepherds of North-West Himalayas: in the context of Kinnaur: a socio-cultural study (Hindi)

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xxxiv+690p., 23cm.

North Indian temple sculpture

xiii,290p., bibl., ind., 25cm.

The life and work of Auleshi: Sherpa Buddhist artist and adept, with translations by Tib Shelf

Tengye, Ngawang et al.

ISBN: 9789937624350, 9937624355

5 contribution in English and Tibetan text of the life of Auleshi. The snerpa Buddhist monk Ngawang Lekshe (1913-1983), known as Auleshi, occupies a unique place in the history of Buddhism in 20th century Nepal.

Arjuna Pandava: the double hero in epic Mahabharat

McGrath, Kevin

ISBN: 9788125063094, 8125063099

Through his text-based analysis of the mortal-immortal Arjuna's significance, the author explores what characterizes this category of `hero', figures who are neither deities nor simple mortal beings, but who make up a unique group of beings by themselves.

Swami Vivekananda's Vedantic cosmopolitanism

Medhananda, Swami

ISBN: 9780197663752, 0197663753

Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu monk who introduced Vedanta to the West, is undoubtedly one of modern India's most influential philosophers. This is the first, and by far the best, analytical study of the original philosophy of Swami Vivekananda- who was not just a preacher, mystic, and orator, but a critical Kantian Vedantist. He was not only an enormously influential religious...

Armed forces and insurgents in modern Asia

Roy, Kaushik

ISBN: 9781138210431, 1138210439

This volume traces the historical roots and evolution of insurgencies and counter-insurgencies in modern Asia. Focusing on armed rebellions and use of armed forces by both Western powers and indigenous states from the nineteenth century until the present day, the volume unravels the problematic of change--continuity and addresses key questions on the nature of warfare.

Armenians in Asian trade in the early modern era, ed. by Sushil Chaudhury et al.

ISBN: 9788173049934, 8173049939

Study of the Armenians in the long-distance trade in Asia in the 16th-18th cent.