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A.P. Bhatnagar |
The Oudh Nights: Tales of Nawab Wazirs, Kings and Begums of Lucknow |
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| This book is for those readers who want to know the truth about Oudh and the past of Nawabi Lucknow. In the eyes of eyes of East India Company, the Nawab Wazirs, Kings and Begums of Lucknow were much maligned persons in the history of Oudh. of all the persons the last deposed King Wajid Ali Shah was charged with infamy. Not many Indians are aware that interested parties to dethrone him, spread canards judiciously. Few of the younger generation of India care to remember the heroic effort of... |
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A.P. Singh |
Monuments: A Vision of Harmony |
$96.49 $67.54 |
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| The present books dealing with the monuments a comprehensive and cogent narration of the history and development, defensive architecture planning execution etc. The book is divided into several chapters dealing with the geography and topography of the region viz; North and Central India, East and West India, historical background, a brief history of art and architecture of monuments in India in general and centre.
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A.S. Gaur |
Archaeology of Bet Dwarka Island : An Excavation Report |
$96.49 $67.54 |
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| The book incorporates archaeological findings, both from land and under-water explorations, carried out a Bet Dwarka by the Marine Archaeology Centre of the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa.
Bet Dwaraka is one of the most significant archaeological sites in Okhamandal region of Gujarat as it has preserved the longest cultural sequence, commencing from protohistoric period to modern times. The time bracket of archaeological remains have been well supported by the scientific dates such as... |
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Abu-L-Fazl |
The Akbarnama of Abu-l-Fazl (2 parts in 3 Vols.) |
$80.49 $56.34 |
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| The three volumes of the historical part of the Akbarnama have been translated by Mr. H. Beveridge, I.C.S., with an introduction, explanatory notes and an index at the end. The translation has been made from the Bibliotheca Indica edition of the text in consultation with several manuscripts in the British Museum, the Indian office and the Royal Asiatic Society’s Library. Should we not be grateful to Allamah Abul Fazl for the Akbarnama which he wrote eloquently over so many years... |
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Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
Democratic Values |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| This book is and attempt to bring together speeches, and passages from speeches, which deal with the same general theme, regardless of the date and place of their utterance. The first, section, Government and People, is devoted to the general political principles involved; the second section illustrates Vinoba’s thought on the conditions and opportunities for democracy obtaining after Independence, while the third section analyses some of the disquieting features of our present democratic... |
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Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
Swaraj Sastra |
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| This book indicates briefly that the way to peace, brotherhood, true democracy and human happiness lies in an entirely different direction. Its message is one that comes from the heart of ancient India and represents its true genius, viz. the teaching and practice of non-violence. But it is here applied to indicate in the light of a brief review of modern forms of Government, the lines along which political life should he organized if it were truly animated by the spirit of non-violence. This... |
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Adalbert J. Gail, Gerd J.R. Mevissen and Richard Salomon |
Script and Image |
$40.49 $28.34 |
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| The articles collected in this volume, which were originally presented in the panels on art and epigraphy at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference in Helsinki, Finland, illustrate the depth, diversity and sophistication of recent studies in these subjects by scholars from several countries.
The subjects treated include new archaeological and epigraphic discoveries, the relation between textual and iconographic traditions in both Hindu and Buddhist contexts, the historical and Cultural... |
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Aditya Arya |
History in the Making: The Visual Archives of Kulwant Roy |
$256.49 $179.54 |
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| Press photographer Kulwant Roy’s prints and negatives remained forgotten in boxes for over twenty-five years after his death, until their inheritor Aditya Arya, a photographer himself, began cataloguing them.
In the process, he discovered a rare and valuable visual archive, including many unpublished pictures, of a momentous era in India’s history. Some of the rare visual documentation includes the Muslim League meetings, INA trials, the signing of the Indian Constitution, as well as... |
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Adrian Snodgrass |
The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism (2 Vol) |
$109.95 $76.97 |
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| The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Singon Buddhism surveys and re-interprets the vast work of traditional and modern Japanese scholarship on the twin Mandalas. Adrian Snodgrass of the University of Sydney (Australia) has spent several years of detail the iconography of each and every deity of these two Mandalas as well as to bring out their traditional symbolism that reflects the Tantric thought in its earliest phases. Tantrism or Mantrayana reached China and Japan earlier than it did in... |
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Agrawal |
Bronze and Iron Ages in South Asia |
$162.99 $114.09 |
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| Recent years have witnessed a flurry of archaeological activity in India, Pakistan and other parts of South Asia, producing an enormous wealth of data and consequently making most of the general books on South Asian archaeology out of date. This encouraged the authors to attempt a balanced and holistic synthesis of the new evidences and research material. To do justice to the vast data, the project (Archaeology of South Asia) was planned in two volumes.
The story of humans from the beginning... |
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Agrawal |
In Search of Vedic Harappan Relationship |
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| The search for Vedic-Harappan relationship has received serious attention of the scholars in recent years though the theory was put forward as early as 1920s. With the renewed interest in India's past, a number of works both by Indian and foreign scholars have been published on the subject. Where as a specific group of scholars continues to be sceptic about the idea going to the extent of calling it a fundamentalist attempt, the more scientifically inclined scholars around the world have taken... |
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Ainslie T. Embree |
Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching |
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| The 1980s witnessed the introduction of Asia into the core curriculum at undergraduate institutions throughout the United States, and Asian materials are now at the threshold of general knowledge in literature, history, and the social sciences.
The Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum was inaugurated in 1984 under the sponsorship of Columbia University to support this integration of Asian materials into the general education curriculum. The project, chaired by Wm. Theodore de Bary,... |
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Ajay Khare |
Temple Architecture of Eastern India |
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| This book is a systematic overview of the temple architecture built in eastern India between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. Spanning eight hundred years, it defines the tradition of Temple Architecture of eastern India and examines the traits of continuity and of disruption in the tradition. In the absence of many extant examples of temples in the region during this whole period, the study uses the architectural fragments and votive shrines housed in various archives and museums of the... |
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Ajay Mitra |
Revealing India's Past (2 Volumes) |
$189.95 $132.97 |
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| Late Prof. Ajay Mitra Shastri does not require any introduction. He shone in the world of Indology by his erudition and fame. His valuable contributions to the various branches of Indology covering more than forty years are well known to scholars. His deep knowledge of Sanskrit acquired through traditional education in the gurukulas together with analytical and critical acumen imbibed through modern education enabled him to write on any aspect of Indology with equal ease and felicity and bring... |
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Ajay Mitra Shastri |
Inscriptions of the Sarabhapuriyas Panudvamsins and Somavamsins (2 Pts.) |
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| This work is a product of the Inscriptions of India Programme of the Indian Council of Historical Research undertaken with a view to making inscriptions dating from circa sixth to fourteenth century a.d. available in handy volumes. Part I studies the inscriptions of the Sarabhapuriyas, Panduvamsins and Somavamsins who played a major role in shaping the destinies of the Chhattisgarh region of Madhya Pradesh (Kosala) and the adjoining region of Orissa from about the sixth to the early twelfth... |
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Ajay Mitra Shastri |
The Age of the Satavahanas - 2 Volumes |
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| The Satavahanas (Andhra or Andhrajatiya of the historical sections of the Puranas) occupy a pre-eminent position in early Deccanese history comparable only to that of the Kushanas of North India who were almost contemporaries. However, despite scholarly efforts for over a century and half, numerous basic issues appertaining them including the original seat of their power, total duration of their rule and number of monarchs of the imperial line and chronology, especially the epoch of their rise... |
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Ajay Singh |
Plants in Ancient Indian Civilizations |
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| This book was thus never planned but gradually developed as ideas after ideas entered my mind. In this connection an Urdu couplet comes to my mind, that goes as, "Mein akela hi chala tha janbe manzil magar, log milte gai aur karvan banta gaya", I alone started the journey to my destination, but people went on joining me and the carvan was mad). Soon nevertheless, it dawned upon me that the field that I had taken plunge into was seemingly like a bottomless pit. At this late... |
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Akhtarul Wasey |
Education Gandhi and Man: Select Writings Khwaja Ghulamus Saiyyadain |
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| The task of education is the task of training good men and women with a quality of goodness. He (Mahatma Gandhi) not only meant all that he said and wrote but for him a thought in the morning was a deed by nightfall, so far it was humanly possible.
Khwaja Ghulamus Saiyyadain was a traditional man but in a more rewarding sense of the term. He inherited all the good values of the social, cultural and religious ethos that the Indo-Islamic civilization offered to a sensitive and intelligent human... |
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Alain Danielou |
The Ragas of Northern Indian Music |
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| The first part of the book traces the history of Indian music and the continuity of its theory and practice for more than two thousand years. It is based on many years' research into the vast ancient Sanskrit literature of music. These valuable technical treatises, which lie in the form of scarcely catalogued manuscripts throughout the public and private libraries of India, had hitherto remained unemplored. Part Two transcribes and studies in detail 50 typical Raga-s. Each is preceded by a... |
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Alan Jacobs |
The Principal Upanishads |
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| The origins of the Upanishads, sacred writings of Hinduism, predate recorded history. They are thought of by many as perhaps the greatest of all the books in the history of world religions. Since they were revealed to the Rishis of the Vedic civilisation some 5,000 to 10,000 years ago, many have come to regard them as the kernel of the mystical and philosophical truths that are the basis of understanding religion today. Alan Jacobs has used free modern verse to convey the essential... |
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Algis Uzdavinys |
The Golden Chain |
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| Presenting key writings of the most important sources of Pythagorean, Platonic and Neoplatonic thought, The Golden Chain defines this philosophy as a spiritual and contemplative way of life that ultimately leads to the vision of God. These writings point to underlying influences from Chaldean, Egyptian, Phoenician and Indian sages, suggesting that the Hellenic wisdom from which all subsequent Western philosophy arose was established upon a perennial philosophy of unchanging metaphysical and... |
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Alice Elizabeth Dracott |
Simla Village Tales |
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| One cannot sojourn for long in the East without hearing strange stories, all
of which are vouched for by the natives. Most would make one's blood run
cold, but they are irresistibly fascinating. Filled with pathos but almost
always showing that every cloud has its silver lining, these tales carry the
reader into the mythical past that was India.
The majority of these tales have the raw transparency of folk art, whilst
others are fashinoned with uncommon... |
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Alka Chattopadhyaya(Tr.) Lama Chimpa(Guide) |
Atisa and Tibet: Life and Works of Dipamkara Srijnana (alias Atisa) in relation to the History and Religion of Tibet with Tibetan Sources |
$44.99 $31.49 |
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| The book opens with a full account of the baffling personality of the great Bengali Pandit Atisa or Dipamkara Srijnana, the greatest of the teacher reformers of Tibetan Buddhism. The author proceeds to portray the Tibetan background of early Buddhism and gives an account of the early history of Tibet and Indo-Tibetan connections, together with a study of Buddhism in Tibet from the seventh century onwards right down to the time of Atisa in the eleventh century A.D.ABOUT THE... |
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Alok Tripathi (Ed.) |
India and the Eastern Seas |
$160.49 $112.34 |
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| This book, containing papers presented in the International Seminar on marine Archeology, provides valuable information about maritime activities on the east coast of India and in the Eastern Seas. Papers contributed by eminent scholar contain recent information n archeological finds on the costs of Bengal, Orissa. Andhra and Tamil Nadu. It also contains research papers about the recent advances made in other countries of the eastern Seas. Extensive explorations on the coast and offshore and... |
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Problems of Early Christianity |
$9.49 $6.64 |
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| The first part of this book takes a refreshing new look at various issues surrounding the origins of Christianity, ranging from the historicity of Christ and events in his life to the Turin Shroud.
The second part focuses on the Resurrection of Christ, an event which, historical or otherwise, has had the profoundest influence on humanity. Evidence of its occurrence contained in the Gospels and elsewhere is studied, and especially enlightening is an examination of the nature of the Appearances... |
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