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Life and culture in Northeast India

Life and culture in Northeast India

Verma, Dipti Bhalla et al.

ISBN: 9789385360251, 9385360256

The eight states of India's Northeast make up only 8 per cent of the country's land mass, but they are home to over one hundred tribes, each with its own unique culture. The terrain, predominantly hilly, ranges from snow-capped Himalayan peaks to tropical rainforests, and the national parks and preserves contain exceptional scenery and an abundance of wildlife, from red pandas to snow leopards.

Kashi Chitran: living heritage of Varanasi

Kashi Chitran: living heritage of Varanasi


ISBN: 9788194538714, 8194538718

Varanasi, one of the most ancient cities of the world, is a precious repository of cultural heritage. It is an amalgamation of spiritual and secular influences resulting from continuous historical events and settlements, carrying with it both intangible and tangible properties, social contracts and related norms of knowledge, traditions and customs. Kashi, Banaras or Varanasi assumes a complex ...

1947 - the story of rehabilitation

1947 - the story of rehabilitation

Rao, U. Bhaskar

ISBN: 9789354091841, 9354091849

Banaras: Urban forms and cultural histories,

Banaras: Urban forms and cultural histories,


ISBN: 9781138095953, 1138095958

The various articles contained here examine the diverse and vast urban identities created in Banaras, in and after the British colonial period. They draw upon archaeology, literature, history, and architecture and demonstrate how the city was forged substantially through its colonial experience.

India, Sri Lanka and the SAARC region: history, popular culture and heritage

India, Sri Lanka and the SAARC region: history, popular culture and heritage

Bajpai, Lopamudra Maitra

ISBN: 9781032046082, 1032046082

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.

Asia travels: Pan-Asian cultural discourses and diasporic asian literature/s in English

Asia travels: Pan-Asian cultural discourses and diasporic asian literature/s in English

Lahiri, Himadri

ISBN: 9788195306787, 8195306780

Critical discussion on Pan-Asianism from literary perspectives is markedly absent in the academic field. It also analyses how anthologies can play a positive role in respect of identity politics and politics of ethnic consolidation.

The cursed land of lustful women and the power of storytelling, performance text with notes

The cursed land of lustful women and the power of storytelling, performance text with notes

Gupta, Kanika

ISBN: 9789386463234, 9386463237

This book is devised performance created as part of an art residency. The stories (in the form of a devised text) told in the performance are being published in this book with an artist's note.

Rethinking human-animal relationship: reading stories from Bengali literature

Rethinking human-animal relationship: reading stories from Bengali literature

Roy, Anuradha

ISBN: 9789356878372, 9356878374

Ths book engages with animals, a growing interdisciplinary field that reveals the deep human unreason and moral schizophrenia regarding their animal 'others'.

Bhutan: the unremembered nation, 2 vols.

Bhutan: the unremembered nation, 2 vols.

Ura, Karma

ISBN: 9780198887362, 0198887361

Vol.1: Commmunity and livelihood; Vol.2: Art and ideals. Volume 1 begins with accounts of births and rebirths in a household, building of houses, embedding of individuals in a community. Volume 2 introduces the monumental architecture of dzongs (castles) and the administration of the country from these soaring buildings, and elaborates on the distribution of authority and power, and the ethical...

Cultural astronomy and cosmic order: sacred cities of India, foreword by John McKim Malville, 2nd edn.

Cultural astronomy and cosmic order: sacred cities of India, foreword by John McKim Malville, 2nd edn.

Singh, Rana, P.B.

ISBN: 9788188643981, 818864398X

This book presents an appraisal of cultural astronomy and cosmic order among sacred cities of India, illustrated with Khajuraho, Gaya, Vindhyachal, Varanasi, and Chitrakut. This pioneering book is distinct in its kind and coverage of the field of cultural astronomy. There is great depth to the sacred landscape, which is generated by many levels of meanings, many sources of energy, and many cent...

Relocating the past: aspects of Indian history, culture and archaeology, a felicitation volume in honour of Lakshmi Narayan Raut,

Relocating the past: aspects of Indian history, culture and archaeology, a felicitation volume in honour of Lakshmi Narayan Raut,


ISBN: 9788180904080, 8180904083

This book is a sincere endeavour in which meticulous effort has been made to trace out and relocate various aspects of Indian history, culture and archaeology. The papers compiled in this volume represent several facets of Indian historical tradition, covering a wide spectrum of subjects such as archaeology, urbanization, trade and commerce, maritime activities, art and architecture, cultural e...

Chodaganga: the illustrious Ganga King of Odisha and his times

Chodaganga: the illustrious Ganga King of Odisha and his times

Dash, Kailash Chandra

ISBN: 9789392556265, 9392556268

In this book an attempt has been made to highlight the remarkable political career of Chodaganga and the socio-cultural milieu of his kingdom in Odisha. Chodaganga was probably a singular ruler of Odisha who held the reins of administration for long seventy years--at least fifty years of his active political career were unique in the history of Odisha.

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...

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