Present work discribes the Buddhist monuments discovered by Sir Alexander Cunningham around Bhilsa in Central India, viz, topes at Sanchi, Sonari, Satdhara, Bhojpur and Andheri. It also gives a historical account of the rise, progress and decline of Buddhism, the synods; the life and faith of Sakya; the symbols of Buddha, Dhamma and Samgha.

Bhubaneswar: the city beautiful

Panda, Nalini K et al

Contents:; 1. The setting.; 2. Through the mist of time.; 3. Over the ages.; 4. Religion and culture.; 5. Bhubaneswar today.;

Bhutan: a movement in exile

Dhakal, DNS et al

Contents: (i) A revisionist cultural, historical and political background (ii) The history of the Nepali Bhutanese (iii) The Bhutanese refugees (iv) Bhutan's politics and the origin of the refugee crisis (v) Bhutan in Himalayan politics.;

Bhutan: through the ages, 3 Vols

Ramphel, Norbu (ed.)

ISBN: 9788126102099, 8126102098

Vol.1: Historical foundations and political evolution.;Vol.2: Discovering Bhutan: excursions and explorations.;Vol.3: Bhutan: emergence of a nation-state.

Bias in Indian historiography

Devahuti (ed.)

ISBN: 9789350500507, 9350500507

A collection of 55 papers, earlier presented in a seminar in 1979, coverage the topics ranging from the neglect of oral source materials to biases such as regional, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, imperial and Maxist.

Bombay after Ayodhya: a city in flux

Dixit, Jitendra

ISBN: 9789356294110, 9356294119

This book chronicles how the past three decades have been a period of unexpected flux in Mumbai. In the aftermath of 1992, a split in the Mumbai underworld led to new equations in politics, which altered the demography of the city and led to the rise of new townships.

Bikaner Golden Jubilee, 1887-1937

ISBN: 9789381406052, 9381406057

This book is a reprint of edition which was published to celebrate fifty years of the reign of Maharaja Ganga Singhji of Bikaner in 1937 as Golden Jubilee volume and published by the State of Bikaner.

Emotions and modernity in Colonial India: from balance to fervor

Pernau, Margrit

ISBN: 9780199497775, 019949777X

This book maps the history of emotions in India between the uprising of 1857 and World War I.

Biodiversity and Indian culture

Nasreen, Farhat

ISBN: 9788182901643, 8182901642

The book highlights the relationship between our planet, people, past, and present. ;While tracing ecological conciousness to early Indian culture it argues that we need to draw lessons from history to fortify biodiversity's equiangular spiral.

Biography as history: Indian perspectives

Ramaswamy, Vijaya et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788125035213, 8125035214

The essays in this book examine biographies and autobiographies of people from different social strata and seek to show how personal accounts of individual lives contributes to our understanding of the historical momemt. Other essays attempt to understand the `biographies' of cities, institutions and organisations, while yet others undertake a deconstruction of hagiographical texts.

The black hole of empire: history of a global practice of power

Chatterjee, Partha

ISBN: 9788178243566, 8178243563

This book follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India, from the eighteenth century to the present.

Blood and tears

Suchdeva, Hari Krishan (b.1924)

ISBN: 9788172760717, 817276071X

Memoirs of a retired army officer narrating the gory events of partition of Indian and his personal suffering.;

The Blue Annals, 2 parts, a new rev. edn. which include a place name index and foreword by Lokesh Chandra

Roerich, George N

ISBN: 9788120804715, 8120804716

A landmark publication in the historical literature of Tibet.

The Bodhisattva ideal: essays on the emergence of Mahayana, ed. by Bhikkhu Nyanatusita Himi

ISBN: 9789552403965, 9552403960

This book brings together six essays on the origin and history of the bodhisattva ideal and the emergence of the Mahayana.

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