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Ananda |
Hindu View of Judaism |
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| First and foremost of all, it is a fact that there was a great dearth for books of this type. As such this publication tries to fill up the long felt want specially, from the Indian point of view. It is a good addition also to the religious series of the Ramakrishna Mission publications (which incidently includes books on Buddha and Buddhism, Christ and Christianity, even Mohammed and Islam) but uptil now not a single writing on Judaism. This publication no doubt nicely harmonises with the... |
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Harbilas Sarda |
Maharana Kumbha |
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| This book, first published in 1917, recounts the life and times of the ruler of Mewar and some of his immediate predecessors. Based on old inscriptions, coins and records, it is an authoritative commentary on the multifaceted Maharana Kumbha.
Rajputana is celebrated as the land of outstanding warriors - of remarkable men who changed the destiny of their land by virtue of their bravery, strength of character and achievements. One such distinguished hero is Maharana Kumbhakaran, better known as... |
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Rajkumar Singh |
Past, Present and Future of Kashmir |
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| The book Past, Present and Future of Kashmir deals in detail with the problem of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Beginning with the political history of the state in ancient times it presents Chronology of Kashmir rulers - Hindus, Muslims and the British respectively. When India was to become independent it was ruled by a Hindu King who failed in either way to decide the fate of the territory like other princely states of India. As a result of the Mini War between India and Pakistan a portion... |
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Population, Poverty and the Future of India |
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| Population, Poverty and the Future of India is a collection of speeches of Dr. Karan Singh when he was the Union Minister for Health and Family Planning.
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Swami Vedananda |
Aum Hindutvam |
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| The author negates some of the very old concepts, viz., that females and Shudras, and people who have not undergone the Upanayana Samskaras have no access to Vedas or they should not perform Vedic rituals.
He insists that 'all religious observances of a man, if devoid of right conduct, are of no avail. Right conduct constitutes an important element of education and civilization. In his opinion Hindus will have to develop the all-comprehensive idea of Hindu Dharma in and through their lives... |
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Swami Vimalananda |
In Indian Culture: Why do we |
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| Indian culture is admired and respected all over the world for its beauty and depth. This book features in simple terms, the various aspects of both beauty and depth in this culture. Almost every Indian custom and tradition has either a scientific, logical, historical, social or spiritual significance.
Understanding this lends meaning to an otherwise mechanical following of the customs which are often misunderstood to be mere superstitions that fade away in time. |
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
India Government Rise Above Problems |
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‘Let us create a government in India, the Land of the Veda, of that indomitable authority where no one can do wrong. Let us maintain integrated national consciousness, which will disallow the tendencies of any individual to fall into wrong temptations that take him off the royal road of life.’ - Maharishi |
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Matloob Ahmed Qasmi |
Emergence of Dajjal, the Jewish king |
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| All praise be to Allah, Lord and cherisher to the universe and sustainer of the divine throne. We pray to the supreme divine power to shower his blessings on his prophet Hazrat Mohammed S.A.W who gave glade tidings to the believers against the consequences and warned the unbelievers against the consequences.
While writing on the subject of Dajjal and Imam mahdi. I felt that this subject has very wide sepctrum. Any vicious and wicked reson, holding devilish power of killing and destruction can... |
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Vishwanath Tandon |
Acharya Vinoba Bhave: Builders of Modern India |
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| Acharya Vinoba Bhave, generally called Vinobaji succeeded Gandhi to the leadership of his constructive work movement, primarily aimed at building a new India of Gandhi’s dream. He shot into fame as the father of the Bhoodan Movement and was also his spiritual heir. There is, however, no such declaration of Gandhi in its favor as it was in the case of Jawaharlal Nehru whom he named as his political hair. The reason is obvious. Gandhi wanted to leave no sect after him and hence the question of a... |
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M. S. Parkhe |
Agnihotra: The Vedic Solution for Present-Day Problems |
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Tapasi De |
Bheema |
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| The story of little Bheema is a part of the great Indian epic, Mahabharata. He was the second among the Pandava brothers, and the strongest of all! The story of Bheema is full of captivating incidents, sometimes evoking laughter and sometimes astonishment. |
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Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
Democratic Values |
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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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Manoj Das Gupta |
Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee: "a pure and manly life" |
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| Based on a talk given at Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education on the occasion of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee's birth centenary, this book highlights his major contributions to Indian education and politics. Later known as "the lion of the Parliament", Mookerjee was an ardent son of India who led a courageous crusade against the partition of Bengal.
The Mother chose him as chairman of the Sri Aurobindo Memorial Convention in 1951, where he concluded his speech with a call for India... |
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Swami Sivananda |
Ethical Teachings |
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| Ethics is the science of conduct. Ethics is the study of what is right or good in conduct. Ethical science shows the way in which human beings behave towards each other as well as towards other creatures. It contains systematized principles on which a man should act. Works on ethics there have been many. More often than not these dealt purely with the theoretical aspect of it, various types of ethical theory, evolution of ethical thought in the course of history. What man today urgently needs... |
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Tapasi De |
Hanuman |
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| Hanuman is one of the most important characters of the great Indian epic-The Ramayana. He is a Monkey God, remembered and worshipped for his remarkable strength and loyalty towards Lord Rama. The stories of Hanuman are like a treasure house of extraordinary events, which will certainly evoke a lot of amusement among the young readers. |
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Dr Mangesh Nadkarni |
Hindu Muslim Unity |
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| In this talk Dr. Nadkarnin analyses the problem of Hindu-Muslim unity in the light of Sri Aurobindo's thought. Sri Aurobindo did not accept the division of the country as a politically settled fact.
In his message on Inida's Independence day he clearly pronounced his views on this issue: "India is free but she has not achieved unity, only a fissured and broken freedom... But the old communal division into Hindu and Muslim seems to have hardened into the figure of a permanent political... |
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
India to be the Supreme power in the world |
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| This book contains Maharishi’s address to political leaders of India (actually meant for political leaders of the world), on 26 May 1986, at Maharishi Nagar, India.
‘I have great joy to express my very strong desire to make India the supreme power in the world; and this desire has at its basis our ability to do so.’ - Maharishi |
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Tapasi De |
Krishna |
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| Lord Krishna is believed to be the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He is usually depicted as a young and naughty cowherd boy, playing the flute and stealing butter and milk from the villagers' houses. The stories of Krishna are interesting and delightful as well. |
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Tapasi De |
Luv Kush |
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| This is the story of the two little sons of Lord Rama, the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The stories woven around Luv and Kush are full of heroic incidents and will surely evoke a lot of inspiration among the young readers! |
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V. Madhusudan Reddy |
Meta-History: The Unfoldment and Fulfilment of Human Destiny |
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| Papers submitted at seminars. They are titled:
Understanding Meta-History
A Vision of History
The Anthem of Human Unity
Spiritual Fellowship
History as Divine Fulfilment
Civilisation and Values
The Need for a Civilisation of New Consciousness.
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Mountain of Shiva |
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| Mountain of Shiva is a novel set in Kashmir and deals essentially with the spiritual quest.
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Tapasi De |
Prahlad |
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| Among the thousands of stories found in the Hindu mythology, the story of Prahlad, the young devotee of Lord Vishnu, is incomparable. Prahlad was a little boy born to a ferocious demon, King Hiranyakashyap. This is an amazing story of a young devotee, whose father ceaselessly tried to kill his own son, but failed due to the eternal bonding between a devotee and the supreme God. |
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Paramahansa Niranjanananda |
Prashnopanishad: Yoga Siddhanta Bhashya |
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| In this Upanishad, six seekers of truth approach the sage Pippalada, and each of them asks the Sage a question. To his answers which range from the gross to the subtle principles of life form the prashna Upanishad or the Upanishad of Questions. The first question concerns the origin of living beings. The second question relates to the deities who are the helpers of all living beings. The third questions refer to the nature and origin of the transcendental prana. 4th Questions relates to sleep... |
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George Allen |
Prophet of Indian Nationalism |
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| Prophet of Indian Nationalism is the study of the political thought of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, one of the most outstanding thinkers of modern times.
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M. K. Gandhi |
Satyagraha in South Africa |
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| From the Preface by M. K. Gandhi: The Satyagraha struggle of the Indians in South Africa lasted eight years. The term Satyagraha was invented and employed in connection therewith. I had long entertained a desire to write a history of that struggle myself. Some things only I could write. Only the general who conducts a campaign can know the objective of each particular move. And as this was the first attempt to apply the principle of Satyagraha to politics on... |
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Dr R. S. Agarwal |
Secrets of Indian Medicine |
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| Expounding the concept that eyesight is intricately connected to the mind, and suggesting exercises and treatment based on traditional Indian medicine, for the betterment of eyesight without the use of glasses.
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Samar Basu |
Social and Political Evolution of Man: As Visioned by Sri Aurobindo (A Brief Study) |
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| This book is an "attempt to trace the development of (the) social and political thought of Sri Aurobindo across the rapidly changing scenario of his multiple life and provide the reader with a chart to study for himself not only Sri Aurobindo as a social thinker but also the history of modern India."
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Sri Aurobindo |
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Indian Independence and on War and Peace |
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| A selection of Sri Aurobindo's views and messages on topics such as:
Swaraj
India's independence
The Second World War and Germany after the War
The Mother's views and messages on the Freedom of India
The India-Pakistan War of 1965
The Bangladesh crisis, and other such events.
About the Authors:
Born in Paris in 1878, the Mother studied painting at an art studio and became an accomplished artist. Primarily interested in inner development, she was... |
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G. P. Gupta |
Sri Aurobindo on Democracy and Secularism |
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| The first part of this book is a compilation from Sri Aurobindo bringing together his penetrating insights on democracy and secularism. These have a living relevance for the present and future of the political life of India and the world and can serve as a guiding star to politicians, statesmen and administrators.
The second part is an essay by the editors, 'Religion, Humanism and Secularism', based on Sri Aurobindo's views.
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Mona Gupta |
Stories from Panchtantra |
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| Stories from Panchtantra have been a part of the culture of Indian story telling since centuries. These stories have a theme and propagate a principle for a good and useful living. Due to their worth, they have been translated into a number of languages. An amazing aspect of these stories is that they are liked by children and adults alike. This book brings some of the most amazing Panchtantra stories that would enlighten the readers with wisdom.
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Mona Gupta |
Stories of Akbar and Birbal |
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| Since ages, children have been told tales of Akbar and Birbal. Akbar was a Mughal Emperor, who had nine, jewels to adorn his court. Birbal was one of them. Son of a poor Brahman of Tikavanpur, he gained the king's favour with his wisdom, wit and valuable advice. Many of the exchanges between Akbar and Birbal have been recorded and circulated as tales. Here are some of those stories that would surely make the young learners desire for more.
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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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Sri Aurobindo |
Tales of Prison Life |
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| Sri Aurobino's account of his experiences as an undertrial prisoner in Alipore Jail, Calcutta. Arrested for conspiracy in May 1908, Sri Aurobindo spent one full year in jail while the British Government, in a protracted trial, tried to implicate him in various revolutionary activities. Acquitted and released in May 1909, he wrote a series of articles in Bengali in the journal Suprabhat describing his life in prison and courtroom. Translated by late professor Sisir Kumar Ghosh of Santiniketan,... |
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Mona Gupta |
Tales of Vikram and Betal |
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| The tales of King Vikram and vampire Betal have been a part of the treasury of Indian stories since centuries. While Vikram is entrusted with the task of getting Betal to a monk, the vampire is clever enough to tempt and compel the mighty king into speaking, so that he would fly back to his tree and escape the monk. This collection of Vikram and Betal stories brings before the young readers some of the most amazing tales ending with a moral.
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Sri Aurobindo |
The Renaissance in India |
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| On the spirit behind the Indian social and cultural resurgence.
About the Author:
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from British rule, Sri Aurobindo turned to the development and practice of a new... |
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Barindra Kumar Ghosh |
The Truth of Life |
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| Barindra Kumar Ghosh, younger brother of Sri Aurobindo, was a leader of the revolutionary movement in Bengal. He spent ten years in prison in the Andamans, and later lived for six years in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram before settling in Bengal. He was involved in various literary activities in different languages, much of which has recently come to light.
This booklet is a compilation of some of his articles on a variety of themes revolving around India, her destiny, and the evolution of... |
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Mona Gupta |
The Witty Tenali Rama |
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| The 16th century Telugu poet, Tenali Rama, also known as Vikata Kavi, was a court jester at Vijayanagar Empire, who gained popularity for his wit and prodigious poetry. He was one of the eight most prized poets of Raja Krishnadeva, who was known for his gift of gab and quick wit. He is also known for his stern and sarcastic remarks that put many conceited men to shame. With this collection, the young readers would get to read a lot of interesting tales of the Krishnadeva and Tenali Rama... |
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Towards a New India |
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| Towards a New India provides the essence of Indian philosophy and a conspectus of socio-political thought of India.
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Kireet Joshi |
Towards Universal Fraternity |
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| This text by the renowned educationist and philosopher Kireet Joshi is a meaningful essay on the necessity of human unity, but it also highlights the mistakes to avoid on the path.
Is human unity achievable, and if so, how?
What should be the contribution of India to this effort?
These are some of the central questions of this essay. |
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Varied Rhythms |
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| Varied Rhythms is a collection of pieces written on various subjects during the time when Dr. Karan Singh was Sadar-i-Riyasat of Jammu & Kashmir.
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P.N. Oak |
Agra red Fort is a Hindu Building |
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| We are proud to present to the Indian people, to students of Indian history the world over and to the tourist who loves to visit Indian historical sites this unique book revealing the hoary and glorious history of the majestic Red Fort in Agra.
In the present volume we have exposed one glaring mis-concept of mediaeval historical texts and tourist guide books. Visitors to the Red Fort in Agra and students and scholars of history are being made to believe and propagate that the Red Fort in Agra... |
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Swami Harshananda |
An Introduction to Hindu Culture: Ancient & Medieval |
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| The book presents a panoramic view of Hindu culture in all its aspects from the ancient days to the end of the medieval period.
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
The Beginning of History for Israel |
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| A scholar residing at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram who has written several books on the early history of the Middle East region and of India.
This book examines the early history of the Jews in the light of evidence provided by various written records and archaeological studies, and in its synthesis comes up with a refreshing new look at several key questions concerning this subject.
It focuses on the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt, the connection with Pharaoh Ramses II, the date of and... |
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W.H. Valentine |
Copper Coins of India |
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Sri Aurobindo |
A Journey from Politics to Yoga: From the Early Political Writings of Sri Aurobindo |
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| These selections from Bande Mataram and Karmayogin reveal "how even politics can and has to be reoriented and imbued with spirituality". "Though written several decades ago ... they present thoughts which are still very relevant and provide guidelines to present-day politicians and statesmen." The editor hopes "this compilation will help in reforming our political system on the lines of Sri Aurobindo's thought and vision". |
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Swami Sivananda |
Inspiring Stories |
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| Table of Contents:
City of Benightedness
The Load of Sins
The Ahimsa-Ideal
Running Away From Evil
The Lord's Compassion
The Pigeon in Prison
Man-the Glory of Creation
The Guru's Love
Kancha Prabhu
The Wisdom of God
Ayaz
Love Alone Can Transform
Living Presence of God
Narada's Music Pride Quelled
The Reward of Faith
How a Sage Ruled
You Can't Deceive God
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Benimadhab Barua |
Prolegomena to a History of Buddhist Philosophy |
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| This study canvasses the idea of writing a general history of Buddhist philosophy. The Buddha was not only the founder of a great world religion but was a gifted critical and speculative philosopher. The value of Buddhism as a religion and the historical development of Buddhism as a popular religion should not preclude the serious study of Buddhism as philosophy and Buddhism's unique approach to metaphysics, logic, causality and the classic philosophical problems. |
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K. D. Sethna |
The Virgin Birth and the Earliest Christian Tradition |
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| In this study on the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ, the author stresses that the focus must be not on the "manner in which orthodox Christians understand Mary's child to have emerged from her womb" but on "the nature of the conception by which that child is said to have been born virginally". He states, "the more correct term, therefore, would be the Virginal Conception of Jesus." The study is not from a rationalist angle but "to find if the basic Christian tradition itself affords ground for... |
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Sri Ram Sharma |
Maharana Raj Singh and His Times |
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| Maharana Raj Singh became the ruler of Mewar at a very critical juncture in its history. As soon as the ascended the throne, Shah Jahan sent the largest Mughal force that had ever ventured into Mewar. Then followed the last sack of Chitor. Raj Singh however soon had his revenge. When Aurangzed rebelled against his father he sought Raj Singh`s support and offered ot restore what Raj Singh had lost earlier. The Maharana spun out the negotiations till Aurangzeb had finally defeated his... |
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Pyarelal |
Going To Wipe Their Tears |
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| Between 1946-47, occured the heart-rending communal divide across the sub-continent and Mahatma Gandhi's valiant, single-handed struggle to stand against the tornado of primitive passions. With what super-human strength did Gandhiji carry on the battle is summed up by Pyarelal (Gandhiji's faithful secretary for 28 years) in one panoramic stroke of the pen : "During those fateful days like a Titan he rushed from one danger spot to another to prop up the crumbling heavens."
An attempt is made in... |
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Gene Sharp |
Gandhi Wields The Weapon Of Moral Power |
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| We have arrived at a moment in human history when wars have to be banned if humanity is to survive. Nations are forging nuclear weapons which, if used in a war, are likely to destroy or poison life on this planet for generations. Man has, therefore, for his very survival to find some other way of overcoming conflict than war.
Against this background Gandhiji's life, message and work derive vital significance for he points to an alter native to war. He turned his back to... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Speeches |
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| Before and during his political career (1906--1910) Sri Aurobindo gave a number of public speeches. The twenty-eight reproduced in this book are those that were noted down at the time of delivery and printed in journals or in government files.
Extract:
There are three rights which are particularly cherished by free nations... These are:
the right of a free Press
the right of free public meeting
the right of association.
There is a particular reason why they cling to... |
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M. K. Gandhi |
The Way To Communal Harmony |
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| The Way to Communal Harmony is a compilation of Gandhi's reflections on certain problems which divide mankind. Though they deal immediately with India, their validity extends beyond the circumstances of our country. Everywhere in the world, individuals and groups are divided because of fear, suspicion and hatred. It depends on local conditions whether the division expresses itself along religious, economic, political, caste or colour lines. Whatever be the form, insecurity is perhaps the major... |
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Brief Sojourn |
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| Brief Sojourn is a fast moving account of Dr. Karan Singh’s seven months as Ambassador to the United States.
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Cheiro |
Confession Memoirs of a Modern Seer |
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| The famous fortuneteller Cheiro reminisces about his life. Includes reminiscences of and interviews with King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, the Czar of Russia; King Leopold of Belgium; the Infanta Eulalie of Spain; the President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland; W. E. Gladstone, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum; Lord Balfour, Sir H.M. Stanley, the explorer, Cecil Rhodes, "Boss" Croker of Tammany Hall, Julia Ward Howe, Melba, Nordica, Lillian Russell, Joe Leiter, Mata Hari,... |
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Mahatma Gandhi |
Gandhi an Autobiography |
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| Gandhi's nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India had already brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation, and controversy that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. Although accepting of his status as a great innovator in the struggle against racism, violence, and, just then, colonialism, Gandhi feared that enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding. He says that he was after truth... |
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Prasanna Kumar Acharya |
Indian Architecture According to Manasara-Silpasastra - Manasara Series 2 |
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| This volume entitled Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Silpasastra is the second in the series of Professor P.K. Acharya's Manasara Series.
Here he has discussed exhaustively the question, waht is Manasara? An understanding of this term Manasara is essential; for buildings are the yard-sticks by which the achievements and standards of living of bygone ages can be correctly evaluated. But this term defies elucidation; for it not only embraces all activities connected with the... |
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K. D. Sethna |
Is Velikovsky's Revised Chronology Tenable?: A Scrutiny of Four Fundamental Themes |
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| The historian Immanuel Velikovsky has radically challenged the accepted times and sequences of Egyptian and Near-Eastern history in his work "Ages of Chaos".
The four fundamental themes of the revised chronology are:
The Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
The invasion of the Hyksos or Amu
The Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut
Her successor Pharaoh Thutmose.
In this book K. D. Sethna closely questions Velikovsky's "valiant attempt on many fronts to bring down the antiquity of... |
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Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami |
Readings in Vedic Literature, The Tradition Speaks for Itself |
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| Discover the Vedic tradition for yourself in this essential handbook on Vedic literature. Here's an excellent companion for any student interested in the Vedas.
Readings in Vedic Literature is often used as a college textbook because of its clarity and concise presentation of Indian philosophy.
It easily unravels the mystery of the broad base of Indian knowledge and philosophy.
You'll get the essential ideas of the Vedic tradition, as well as a sample of Vedic writings and a look at the... |
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M.R. Kale, Ed. |
The Kiratarjuniyam of Bharavi |
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| The Kiratarjuniya is a Mahakavya and is named after its chief incident, viz. the fight between Siva under the guise of a Kirata (Mountaineer) and Arjuna. This metrical composition describes the journey of Arjuna to the mountain Indrakila, part of Himalayas, for the propitiation of the gods Indra and Siva and the final obtainment of the divine weapons Pasupata and others from the gods. |
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Kaviraja Dhirendra Nath Ray |
The Principle Of Tridosa In Ayurveda |
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| Ayurveda is the most ancient of all medical sciences. It is the only medical science which has withstood the ravages of time and is still thriving steadily and triumphantly even amidst the modern medical sciences of the West. It is a rich heritage handed down to us by the ancient Hindu sages of divine insight and unlimited experience. Like Hindu sages of divine insight and unlimited experience. Like Hindu philosophy, it is a vast storehouse of knowledge and even in this age of rapidly... |
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Samar Basu |
The UNO, the World Government and the Ideal of World Union: As Envisioned by Sri Aurobindo |
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| This book in the form of correspondence with an imaginary character, traces the evolution of various World bodies such as the League of Nations, the UNO and the Federal World Government.
It analyses their shortcomings and failures and shows, in Sri Aurobindo's light, the steps that need to be taken at the global level to move closer towards the ideal of human unity.
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J. Krishnamurti |
Tradition and Revolution |
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| This book consists of a series of dialogues on ancient Indian religious and philosophical themes. Man's search for liberation, his ideas about the spiritual path and the goal, and various traditional concepts are dealt with in contemporary idiom. Krishnamurti's concern is to bring out the experiential component behind these terms and to lead his listeners to the heart of the human predicament. These dialogues are a profound investigation into the nature of consciousness. |
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V.R. Ramachandra Dikshitar |
The Lalita Cult |
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| The Lalita Cult has figured and still figures prominently among the countless cults of ancient India. Lalita is looked upon by the Hindus as a divine manifestation of the goddess Durga. The cult of Lalita is intimately associated with the Sakti cult or the worship of the Divine as Energy in the feminine form.
The present book studies the cult of Lalita from a historical point of view. Though this study is mainly based on the Lalitopakhayana section of the Brahmanda Purana, an endeavour is made... |
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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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Christine Devin |
Uniting Men - Jean Monnet |
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| This monograph presents the life and accomplishments of a man little known in
India, Jean Monnet.
He is considered as "the founding father of Europe", but in reality Monnet
has been much more than that. He has been an instrument at the service of a
vision.
That vision was a world that would not be divided by borders. From the first
World War to the creation of Europe, his life was entirely dedicated to uniting
men. |
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Shamsul Islam |
Golwalkar’s “We or our nationhood defined”: A critique |
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| This book attempts to put across actual facts about Golwalkar's life and beliefs in the light of his original writings, publications of the RSS, documents available in its archives and many other RSS documents the writer collected over the last 35 years from different parts of the country, specially the original text of Golwalkar's book We or Our Nationhood Defined (1939) which is being reproduced in this book.
It is the most important text in order to understand the RSS' concept of Hindu... |
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O.P. Jaggi |
Medicine in Medieval India: History of Science, Technology and Medicine - vol. 8 |
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Science and Technology in Medieval India |
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R.B. Whitehead |
Catalogue of Coins |
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| The book describes four hundred and six coins comprising well known types of all important rulers as well as a number of rare specimens. The catalogue is in three parts-first part deals with coins of pre-Muhammad an dynasties, second with those of Pathan kings and the third with the coins of Mughal emperors. |
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D.K.R.R. Patil |
Cultural History from the Vayu Purana |
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| The present book attempts to supplement the work of Pargiter on the Cultural plane. Pargiter was concerned with the dynastic records of the Puranic texts while this book aims to interpret "cultural history" from the Vayu Purana.
The work is divided into ten chapters arranged systematically. The first five chapters contain facts of intellectual culture and the last five of material culture. The presentation of material has involved a great deal of translation and interpretation of the Puranic... |
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Andrew Cohen |
Embracing Heaven & Earth |
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| It is a terrific book. It is must for every enlightenment library and highly recommended. I give this book ten thumbs up. Any seeker whether grounded in a tradition or weary of religious convention should read this remarkable book. The ring of truth in this book is like an alarm clock it remains up to each of us to bring ourselves to actually wake up. There is really no other way. This slender volume is a distillation of enormous wisdom about the most important thing for you... |
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R.S. Tripathi |
History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest |
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| Kanauj is of high antiquity and renown. Founded long before the dawn of the Christian era, it first rose to importance in the sixth century a.d. when it became the capital of the Maukharis and when it grew rapidly in authority and influence till its conflict with later Guptas. This followed Harsa of Thaneswar assuming control of affairs in Kanauj. Harsa`s death plunged Kanauj into anarchy and darkness that lasted for about half a century. However, as a result of the protracted campaigns of the... |
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Daniel P. Sheridan |
The Advaitic Theism of the Bhagavata Purana |
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| Within a compass of eight chapters of this volume the author makes a close examination of the fundamental tenets of Bhagavata Purana. By penetrating analysis he shows how as a unified scripture Bhagavata Purana combines Vedantic non-dualism and Vaisnava devotionalism; and how the Bhagavata non-dualism accommodates the reality of the universe and of the individual selves in it within the all-encompassing reality of Brahman.
According to the author, this wonderful beldning the devotionalism and... |
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Kireet Joshi |
Catherine the Great |
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| In the perspective of humanity's evolution, Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst, who was born the elder daughter of an obscure, noble German family and who died as Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, stands as an example of what one woman's unshakable faith, confidence in her destiny and own inner lights, can achieve over obstacles, failures and enemies.
Introduction, text and notes. |
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W. Caland |
The Jaiminigrhyasutra |
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| The Grihya Sutras contain rules for customs, ceremonies and sacrifices through which the life of an Indian attains purification. They record a number of popular customs and manners connected with conception, birth, name-giving, first-outing, first-eating by the child. They include rules for tonsure, initiation, completion of studies, customs of courting, engagement, wedding, etc. They are important for the student of comparative history inasmuch as they contain parallels in the manners and... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
India In The World |
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| The question of Indian culture faced with all kinds of external influences is more burning than ever. Sri Aurobindo explains how India should deal with this material coming from outside. Followed by "Message to America", written in 1949.
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Swami Krishnananda |
Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals |
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| The necessity which any religious adherent or spiritual seeker would feel for a book of this kind should be obvious. Generally, religion goes by rituals and performances of general routines come by way of tradition, but the mind of man, being what it is, also moves with the routine and does not always feel competent to visualize the vital role that religious observances play as vehicles which embody a deeper significance that may best be described as spiritual.
There is a meaning behind every... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
The True Destiny of India |
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| This book consists of Sri Aurobindo’s last two messages to his countrymen on August 15, 1947, the day India became independent, and in 1949, when the Indian constitution was being framed.
It also contains a biography of Sri Aurobindo. That India gained her freedom on 15 August, the birthday of Sri Aurobindo, was, as he says, the sanction and seal of the Divine on the work he has done for the liberation of India. |
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Georges Van Vrekhem |
Patterns of the Present |
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| In this account "the author puts the present situation of humanity in the perspective of the evolutionary vision of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. The result is a positive interpretation of the global situation. The meaning of history, the globalisation of our planet, the values represented by East and West, their meeting and reciprocal fertilisation, the future evolution of mankind - all these topics and more are presented here ...".
Sri Aurobindo spoke of three kinds of revolutions:
The... |
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Problems of Early Christianity |
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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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Sri Aurobindo |
Sri Aurobindo and the Freedom Struggle of India |
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| A bilingual compilation of Sri Aurobindo's writings on political events of India. This book is a bilingual compilation of Sri Aurobindo’s early political writings in English and Bengali, brought out as a tribute to him on the centenary of his return to Bengal from Baroda. The English section consists largely of articles from Bande Mataram and from the “New Lamps for Old” series in the Indu Prakash as well as some of his political speeches and essays from On Nationalism and... |
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Medhananda |
The Garden of Man and other stories from ancient times |
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| An avid student of ancient symbol-languages, Medhananda wrote this book of translations and interpretations, almost meditations, on the meanings behind three symbol-texts:
A 3500-year old hieroglyphic message from an Egyptian tomb
The iconic image of the tree as presented in several ancient cultures
An old Egyptian fairy tale.
He views and presents these as teaching images, symbols that lead the reader towards self-awareness.
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K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) |
The Indian Spirit and the World's Future |
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| A collection of editorial articles for Mother India from 1949 to 1952. These are of "immense value" because they were all approved by either Sri Aurobindo or the Mother, and their themes are as important and pressing today as when they were written.
After all, today "we are still debating the question of Indian nationalism, the meaning of national pride, the significance of the English language and the essential truths behind Hinduism." We are still confused about secularism and the... |
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Claude Apri |
And long and dark shall be the night |
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| This study tries to understand some of the events which occurred in Tibet during the first part of the 20th century. |
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Steven Rosen |
Diet for Transcendence: Vegetarianism and the World Religions |
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| Drawing from a wealth of original religious documents and texts in Diet for Transcendence the author Steven Rosen takes us on a fascinating journey back in time to explore the essential and often misunderstood roots of the world's major religious traditions to discover how vegetarianism was a cherished part of their philosophy and practice.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Christinaity
Early Christianity
Judaism
Isklam
Ahimsa and Eastern... |
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J Agarwal |
Hindu Tenets: The Founding Doctrines of Vedic Hindu Dharma |
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| This is the story of the religiosity of the ancient Aryan race of people who lived in their homeland called the Aryavarta or Bharata or India (now) from the most prehistoric times in the history of human civilization, and their way of life called the Vedic Dharma, which forms the heart and soul of the present day Hindu Dharma or Hinduism. The general reader from any part of the world will find this small book to be quite informative about one of the most widely practiced and living religions of... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo |
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| This monograph briefly introduces two major epic poems about the famous Trojan war.
The Iliad was written by Homer a few centuries after the siege of Troy. In the 20th century, more than two millenia later, Sri Aurobindo, the great seer and poet of modern India, wrote Ilion.
In both epics the main quality abundantly displayed is heroism but seeds of the other qualities can be seen. |
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Dr. Sashi Prabha Kumar (Ed.) |
Relevance of Indian Philosophy in Modern Context |
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Christine Devin |
The Descent of the Ganges |
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| Recounted by Valmiki, this is the wonderful story of how Ganga, Daughter of the Snows, descended on earth to purify mankind. The symbolism of the ancient myth is as powerful today as ever.
The book is illustrated with photos of famous rock carvings of Mahabalipuram. Notes on Valmiki are provided. |
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Sri Aurobindo |
The Genius of India |
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| This consists of a major extract from Sri Aurobindo's essay, The Renaissance in India.
In this text Sri Aurobindo gives us a masterly overview of India's culture through the ages. He evokes India’s essential spirit and her constant tendencies, her unique genius; in short, the qualities that have allowed her to survive for so long when many other ancient civilisations have disappeared. |
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Kireet Joshi |
The Siege of Troy |
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| An extract from the famous poem of Homer, the Iliad.
Through this epic, Homer presents the Greek world-view, a view of life where men are seen as a base metal beaten and shaped by the gods and fate until their inner golden nature is revealed.
He showed the Greeks more than just heroic deeds; his poetic genius drew aside the curtain of outer events and gave a vivid picture of the inner forces there at work.
Introduction, text and notes.
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Johannes Bronkhorst |
The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India |
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| This book elucidates the early Buddhist teachings and beliefs concerning meditation and its role to liberation. An analysis is offered also of the non-Buddhist (especially Jaina and early Hindu) practices and beliefs as they are described in the non-Buddhist literature of the time. Passages in the Buddhist canon which emphasize the distinctions between Buddhism and other religious currents are also taken into consideration. |
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Kireet Joshi |
Alexander the Great |
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| A few glimpses of Alexander’s life. It shows us what the life-force in man can achieve under favorable circumstances and yet what failures attend unbridled adventure.
The story of Alexander is also a pointer to the fact that the human personality has far richer potentials than is normally suspected.
Introduction, text and notes. |
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Bu Ston |
Jewellery of Scripture (translated from Tibetan) |
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| Bu-Ton Rinpoche was a native of Central Tibet and lived in the years 1290 to 1364, he thus belongs to the old school of Tibetan learning.
The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet by the great scholar Buston Rinchen grub-pa, also called Budon Rinpoche, is held in great esteem by Tibetan and Mongolian learned lamas. It is distinguished from the work of Taranatha by the plan of its composition. ... |
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Bu Ston |
The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet |
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| The History of Buddhism and Tibet contains the translation of the 2nd part of Bu-ton's History of Buddhism, beginning with the life of Buddha and ending with an account of the work carried out by the Tibetan Lotsvas and Indian Pandits of Bu-ton's own period and immediately before him (XII and XIII cent.). The
book contains translations of the Buddhist Cannonical texts, exegetical
treatise from Sanskrit and numerous quotations from both sutra and sastra.
Because of this it... |
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Ramesh Chandra Shah |
Ancestral Voices |
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| This is an extraordinary attempt to record and recover the long-neglected 'ancestral voices' of Indian civilisation.
The publication and subsequent reprinting of our civilisation ally significant lectures that Shah delivered at Temenos Academy, London in 1998, in the form of the book, is a welcome addition to the short-list of titles that sincerely explore the meaning of India. |
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Capt. W F O'Connor |
Folk Tales from Tibet |
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| Folk Tales from Tibet is a collection of some of the most exquisite stories from Tibet recorded by Captan W F O'Connor.
These tales were collected during his tenure as secretary and interpreter with the Lhasa Mission of 1904. They were compiled at a time when the western world knew little or nothing about this mystical and exotic country. |
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P.Arundhati |
Annapurna |
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| Annapurna is a bunch of flowers that bloomed in the course of quarter century of research with a fragrance of Indian thought on different branches of knowledge like nourishment, medicine, ecology, psychology, chemistry, petrology and like, spreading the aroma of Indian culture to the length and breadth of the world. The articles reflect the strength, vitality and vigour of Indian culture as known even in the times of hoary antiquity. Annapurna is a valuable contribution to Indological studies.... |
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David Knipe |
In the Image of Fire |
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| A penetratiting study of Vedic man's religious experience of fire and heat.
It is a portrayal of the profound and complex system of religious expressions that developed in ancient India from man's intimate relationship with the element fire, from his speculations upon the cosmogonic sacrifice and his intense desire to identify himself as a new being of cosmic heat and life. |
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K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) |
India and the World Scene |
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| This book contains editorial articles of Sri K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) written for the fortnightly Mother India, during the years 1949-51. Their immense value lies in the fact that all of them except the last two were read out to Sri Aurobindo and approved by him.
The articles are arranged in four sections:
The first section
The Spirit and Genius of India - deals with cultural issues and with India's spiritual genius.
The second and third sections... |
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Richard Bach |
Messiah’s Handbook |
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| In Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach met Donald Shimoda, a fellow pilot with the keys to the universe who barnstormed the Midwest in a Travel Air biplane. Part of Shimoda’s secret was a small book, bound in what looked like suede: Messiah’s Handbook, Reminders for the Advanced Soul. “Open it,” he said, “and whatever you need to know is there.” Lost for decades and rediscovered, here it is in print at last—reminders for those who have outgrown cynicism and doubt. |
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Sangharakshita |
Tibetan Buddhism: An Introduction |
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| A glorious past, a traumatic present, an uncertain future. What are we to make of Tibetan Buddhism? In the West it has an exotic, even glamorous image: there are books about secret teachings, and films about mysterious lamas. But if Western Buddhists are to learn anything of real value from Tibet, we must look beyond the merely exotic. Tibetan Buddhism, as Sangharakshita makes it clear, is a practical tradition with much to teach us.
Table of Contents:
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Sri Aurobindo |
Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest |
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| This book consists of notes, letters, telegrams, and public statements written by Sri Aurobindo at various times.
It includes approximately three hundred pages of material not included in the SABCL edition: well over a hundred pages are published here for the first time and the rest were previously published only in journals or as parts of different books.
Of the material already published in the SABCL edition and included in this new book, half is from the now-discontinued volume Sri... |
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Rene Guenon |
The Crisis of the Modern World |
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| In The Crisis of the Modern World, published for the first time in 1927, Guenon writes a relentless and radical criticism of the modern world, revealing its shallowness and its spiritual destitution when confronted with the traditional civilizations. 80 years later, his words are still amazingly present and fully valid, but there is something that has definitely changed: the traditional East that Guenon sets against the modern West has disappeared in a great measure as Asia has taken, by its... |
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Peter Heehs |
Nationalism, Terrorism, Communalism: Essays in Modern Indian History |
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| During his political career, Sri Aurobindo was one of the leading exponents of anti-British nationalism in India. At the same time he was the inspiration behind a clandestine group that planned to overthrow the colonial government by force. The sort of violent acts that this group carried out are regarded by social scientists as "terrorism", using that word in a technical sense that was current before recent events altered its meaning.
Sri Aurobindo's writings have sometimes been regarded as... |
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Susan L. Schwartz |
Rasa: Performing the Divine in India |
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| While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into the "global" repertoire, few are aware of the central role of religious belief and practice in Indian aesthetics. Completing the trilogy that includes Darsan: Seeing the Divine in India and Mantra: Hearing the Divine in India and America, this volume focuses on how rasa has been applied in a range of Indian performance traditions. "Rasa" is taste,... |
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H.W. Bodewitz |
The Daily Evening and Morning Offering (Agnihotra) : According to the Brahmanas |
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| Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Myths on the origin of the rite
The primeval agnihotra and creation
The connection of Surya and Vayu with the agnihotra. The origin of the milk oblation
The right time for the performance of the agnihotra
The ingredient of the oblation milk
Systematic treatment of the ritual
The sacrificer yajamana and the performer of the agnihotra
The keeping silent during the rite
Why the agnihotra has no fast upavasa
The... |
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E. Washburn Hopkins |
The Great Epic of India |
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| Long age when this book first appeared in the opening year of the century the great Epic, Mahabharata had not been thoroughly examined to see what literature it reflected had not received a careful investigation from the metrical side its philosophy had been reviewed only in a most haphazard fashion and its relation to other epic poetry had been almost judgment on the question of the date and origin of the poem of which scholars knew as yet this poem of which scholars knew as yet scarcely more... |
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R. Blake Michael |
The Origins of Virasaiva Sects |
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| A Typological Analysis of Ritual and Association Patterns in the Sunyasampadane.
Origins of the Virasaiva Sects in probably the most thorough exploration of Virasaivism availabel in any language except Kannada.
Already, the activities of founder/reformer Basava are well-known throughout India and world-wide. It explores a crucial text, the Sunyasampadane, from Virasaivism's third century of development. |
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Arthur Lillie |
The Popular Life of Buddha |
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| - Containing an Answer to the Hibbert Lectures of 1881. The Hibbert Lectures are an annual series of non-sectarian lectures on theological issues. They are sponsored by the Hibbert Trust, which was founded in 1847 by the Unitarian Robert Hibbert with a goal to uphold "the unfettered exercise of private judgement in matters of religion.". The Hibbert Lectures of 1881 were centred on the origin and... |
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Arthur A. Macdonell |
A History of Sanskrit Literature |
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| Among all the ancient literatures, that of India is... undoubtedly in intrinsic value and aesthetic merit second only to that of Greece. The work presents a complete history of Sanskrit literature in a condensed and succinct form. It embodies a general study of the Vedic, Epic, Puranic, Classical and Philosophical Literature. It sheds light on the life and thought of Ancient and Medieval India as reflected in the literary productions of those periods.
Sanskrit was considered the... |
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Hans Raj Agarwal |
A Short History of Sanskrit Literature |
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Amita Sarin |
Akbar and Birbal |
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| The friendship between Emperor Akbar and his minister Birbal created history-and some delightful stories! The tales of Akbar and Birbal have been passed on from generation to generation, enthralling young and old listeners alike. This book brings together a selection of these stories, along with fascinating historical details about the Mughal court, the emperor and his witty courtier.
From the time that a chance meeting in the forest brought Akbar and Birbal face-to-face, the emperor... |
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Raymond Buckland |
An Illustrated Guide To Magical & Spiritual Symbolism |
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| In an illustrated guide to Magical & Spiritual Symbolism, leading occult authority Raymond Buckland describes the form and meaning of over 800 symbols from ancient and modern religious, magical traditional, and indigenous cultures around the world. Understand the symbols used throughout human history and gain a deeper appreciation for the depth of the human experience and the vast uncharted realm of the collective unconscious. Raymond Buckland introduced Gardnerian Wicca to the United... |
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H.H. Bhagvat Sing Jee |
Ashort History of Aryan medical Science |
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| This book gives a complete history of the Aryan medical science in every respect. The carefully prepared bibliography and index and glossary, which are indispensable in the history book enhance the value of the book. The science of Aryan Medicine is so extensive in its range that its complete history in a small compass is possible to write only if its author is endowed with an encyclopaedic vision. H.H. Bhagvat Singh Jee has that vision, and his book Aryan medical science, is an eminently... |
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K.N. Tiwari |
Comparative Religion |
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| The book is primarily meant for the use of Honours and Post-graduate students of Philosophy and Religion of the Indian Universities. Most of the books that are available on the subject dwell more upon the history of the origin and growth of the different religions rather than upon the basic principles, beliefs and practices that these religions inculcate and emphasize.
Instead of going into the history of religions the author deals with certain specific topics relating to the important beliefs... |
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K.R.L. Gupta |
Hindu Anatomy, Physiology, Therapeutics, History of Medicine and Practice of Physics |
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| The present book embraces all the essential portions of the principles medical books of the Hindus. The present book is divided into four parts. Part in is on Hindu Anatomy. This part is divided into nine chapters.
Chapter I is on Elements of the body
Chapter II Generation
Chapter III Growth and functions of the body
Chapter IV Structure of the Corporal part of the body (Anatomy)
Chapter V; Vital parts.
Chapter VI Spiritual parts of the body
Chapter VII Nature of Temperaments... |
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David Kinsley |
Hindu Goddesses |
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| Hindu Goddesses is a valuable sourcebook and reference work for students
and scholars of Hindu goddesses and of Hinduism in general. Each goddess is
dealt with as an independent deity with a coherent mythology, theology and, in
some cases, cult of her own. Within the complex, diverse, and rich goddess
traditions of Hinduism, one can find suggestions of nearly every important theme
in the Hindu religion. In many ways, this book is as much a study of the Hindu
tradition itself as it... |
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S.N. Dasgupta |
Hindu Mysticism |
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| This book is a systematic introduction to Hindu mysticism as it evolved in India through the ages.
Mysticism is not an intellectual theory, It is fundamentally an active, formative, creative, elevating and ennobling principle of life. According to the author, mysticism means a spiritual grasp of the aims and problems of life in a much more real and ultimate manner than is possible to mere reason.
This small book gives a brief general outline of some of the most important types of mysticism,... |
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Sachidananda Mohanty |
K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran): A Centenary Tribute |
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| Born in 1904 K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) first came to Pondicherry in 1927 and stayed at the Ashram for several years. He permanently settled in Pondicherry in 1954 and has lived there ever since.
He is a distinguished writer, his works covering:
Poetry
Literary criticism
History
Christianity
Philosophy
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
He is also the editor of the monthly journal Mother India.
This volume, brought out to commemorate K. D. Sethna's centenary on 25... |
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Mohan Singh Karki |
Kabir: Selected couplets from the Sakhi in Transversion |
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| The book opens a new vista in the sphere of verse translation in India. In the introductory part there is a departure from a mass of Hindi criticism. The bases of selection of dohas from the Sakhi are:
Kabir’s proverbial and worldly wisdom
Analogy-finding gift
Richness and variety of imagery
Recurrent theme of death
Gift for satire
Rhetorical powers
This introductory part primarily focuses on Kabir as poet, which is his real estimate. Thus, the introductory part is... |
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J M Macfie |
Myths and Legends of India: An Introduction to the Study of Hinduism |
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| Myths & Legends of India presents a rich and dazzling collection of 46 tales taken from the sacred books of Hinduism - from the ancient hymns of the Vedas to the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics and on to the later Laws of Manu and the Puranas. A veritable kaleidoscope of Hindu mythology as it developed over a period of 3,000 years!
Tales of gods and goddesses, demons, rishis, saints and sages in all their varying moods... and tales of ordinary men and women, their hopes and fears and their... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
On Nationalism: Selected Writings and Speeches |
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| Selections from Sri Aurobindo's early political writings and speeches which mostly appeared in three journals he edited between 1906-1910: Bande Mataram, Karmayogin and Dharma. These are of striking contemporary relevance. |
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M. Hiriyanna |
Outlines of Indian Philosophy |
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| The beginnings of Indian Philosophy takes us very far back to about the middle of the second millennium before Christ. The speculative activity begun so early was continued till a century or two ago, so that the history that is narrated in the following pages covers a period of over thirty centuries. During this long period Indian thought developed practically unaffected by outside influence; and it has evolved several systems of philosophy. The present work is based upon the... |
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Charles Bell |
Religion of Tibet |
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| This volume forms a sequel to the author`s Tibet: Past and Present and The people of Tibet. Like them, it is in part an historical account, in part a description of conditions in the earlier part of the twentieth century. Sir Charles Bell traces the history of the introduction to Buddhism, of the resistance and general decay of the older magic-worship of Ponism, and of the developments which have taken place within Tibetan Buddhism itself. The latter part of the book deals more particularly... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Sri Aurobindo and the Freedom of India |
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| Selections (with supplementary notes and texts) covering various aspects of Sri Aurobindo's political life and thought. |
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Subhash Kak |
The Asvamedha - The Rite and it's Logic |
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| This book describes the Asvamedha rite and its symbolism to explain distinctive aspects of the Vedic sacrifice system. Several questions related to the Asvamedha are posed and answered in the context of Vedic epistemology. This rite has three important functions: (i) it presents and equivalence of the naksatra year to the heaven, implying that it is rite that celebrates the rebirth of the Sun; (ii) it is symbolic of the conquest of Time by the king, in whose name the rite is... |
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E.Obermiller |
The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet by Bu Ston |
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| The present volume contains the translation of the 2nd part of Buton's History of Buddhism, i.e. of the historical part proper. The latter begins with the Life of the Buddha and ends with an account of the work carried out by the Tibetan Lotsavas and Indian pandits of Buton's own period and immediately before him (XII and XIII Cent.), viz. the translation of the Buddhist kanonical texts and exegetical treatises from the Sanskrit. We have here, just as in the 1st Part, numerous quotations from... |
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C.V. Narasimhan |
The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses |
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| It is the longest and, in some ways, the greatest epic poem in any language. Intended to be a treatise on life itself, it embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. The shortest recension of the Sanskrit version consists of some 88,000 verses. The main narrative, however, is the story of the rivalry between the cousins, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, which culminates in the great battle of Kuruksetra. Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan here introduces... |
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Benjamin Preciado Solis |
The Krsna Cycle in the Puranas |
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| Krsna is one of the best loved figures in Indian religion and literature. The stories of his life and deeds occupy a central place in Indian literary traditions down to our day.
The present work deals with the main themes and motifs found in the Krsna legend up to the 10th century.In the first chapter the Vedic antecedents to the Krsna figure are examined, as well as some of the views that claim that Krsna is found in the Vedic hymns.
The second chapter deals with the first historical... |
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William P. Harman |
The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess |
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| For at least the past two hundred years, Hindus in southern India have celebrated the marriage of the goddess Minakshi to the Hindu god Siva. This annual ten-day celebration is among the largest and most famous Hindu festivals, attracting hundreds of thousands of the faithful each year.
William Harman's work examines this important ritual event from a variety of perspectives, including the history of religions, Sanskrit and Tamil textual traditions, and Hindu culture. Moving beyond... |
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Irmgard Meininger |
Chittor-Historical View and a Guide |
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| It presents the history and culture of Rajasthan's greatest fortified citadel and Mewar's ancient capital, Chittorgarh. It narrates the heroic sages of its warriors and describes its beautiful palaces, temples and lakes.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Chittor in the eyes of historians and travellers
Historical overview
A tour of Chittor
Historical-genealogical tree of the dynasty of Mewar
Glossary
Plan of Rana Kumbha’s Palace
Sources and... |
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Suphal Kumar |
Delhi City of Yoginis |
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| This book should be an eye opener and a jolt back to reality and the realization that it is time to search for one's roots, not in the by lanes of London or New York, but there in Delhi, the seat of a heritage still unfathomed by those closest to it. |
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D.K. Ganguly |
Ancient India: History and Archaeology |
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| Table of Contents:
Preface
The Imperial Mauryas: Some Problems
The Pala Kings of Bengal and Bihar
Side-lights on the Religious Life of Ancient Orissa
The Satamana Metallic Currency
Some Disquieting Features of Indian Archaeology
Different Categories of the Brahmin Donees
Historical Researches in West Bengal
Professor Dines Chandra Sigar (1907-1985)
Appendix: Orissa and Her Heritage
Select Bibliography
Index.
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Kedar Nath Tiwari |
Classical Indian Ethical Thought: A Philosophical Study of Hindu, Jaina and Bauddha Morals |
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T. R. R. Iyengar |
Dictionary of Hindu God & Goddesses |
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| The Hindu pantheon of gods and goddesses has evolved over many millennia from a simple worship of elements and phenomena of nature to a complex system of myriad gods and goddesses of differing physical attributes, characteristic features and functions and each with different forms. The present Dictionary is an attempt to provide an in-depth yet comprehensive account of Hindu gods and goddesses referring to all the important religion sources.
The Dictionary will be an immensely useful reference... |
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Rajbali Pandey |
Hindu Samskaras |
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| The Hindu Samskaras give expression to aspirations and ideals of the
Hindus. They aim at securing the welfare of the performer and developing his
personality. They go back to a hoary antiquity. The Vedas, the Brahmanas, the
Grhyasutras, the Dharmasutras, the Smrtis and other treatises describe the
rites, ceremonies and customs here and there but they do not present them in
their historical evolution.
The present work is a systematic study of all the Samskaras enjoined to be... |
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Christopher Bartley |
Indian Philosophy A-Z |
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| This alphabetical handbook defines and explains key concepts in classical Indian philosophy, identifies controversial issues, describes major traditions of thought, and locates influential thinkers in their intellectual and religious contexts. They introduce the central concepts of the various branches of philosophy written by establsihed philosophers, covering both traditional and contemporary terminology.
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Prithi Pal Singh |
The History of Sikh Gurus |
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| It is a history book covering the life-span, deeds, important events in the life of the ten Sikh Gurus and necessary details of the eleventh and the last guru, Shri Guru Granth Sahibji. Written in simple and lucid style it makes an easy and interesting reading. Though the book is meant for all age groups, the focus is on the youth of today, for, the moral and ethical values which the book imparts leaves everlasting message for the readers.
The book conveys a message of brotherhood, respect,... |
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Pierre Sylvain Filliozat |
The Sanskrit Language |
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| The Sanskrit Language by P S Filliozat has the rare distinction of being both an introductory book and a new ground-breaking study. It is an introductory book because the reader gets an accurate overview of the language, and it is also a new ground-breaking study because Filliozat’s approach harmonizes two different and complementary stands that often have been at war: the Western historical and comparative approach and the indigenous pundit tradition. Sanskrit is described here from these two... |
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Yeshi Dorjee |
The Three Boys: And Other Buddhist Folktales from Tibet |
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| A virtuous young woman journeys to the land of the Dead to retrieve the still-beating heart of a king; a wily corpse-monster tricks his young captor into setting him free, the king falls under a curse that turns him into a cannibal; a shepherd who understands the speech of animals, saves a princess from certain death. These are just a few of the wondrous tales that await readers of this collection of Tibetan Buddhist Folktales. Fifteen stories are told for modern readers in a vivid, accessible... |
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A.H. Francke |
History of Western Tibet: One of the Unknown Empires |
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| A History of Western Tibet is based on foreign and western Tibetan sources of information. The western Tibetan sources of information are records on stones and on paper. Records on stones cover the period 200 B.C. to 1900 A.D. Records on paper are the chronicles of the Kings of Leh. Though these are edited ones, much remains to be done.
The readers will find A History of Western Tibet interesting which is the outcome of scholarly enterprise and research as much as of familiarity with the... |
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Wash Edward Hale |
Asura in Early Vedic Religion |
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| In the Rg-Veda the word asura is frequently used as an epithet for various deities, however, in later Sanskrit it is used instead for a class of demons who are enemies of the gods.
In this book the Vedic passages containing the word asura - are examined to
see how such a remarkable shift in meaning could occur. Every verse in the
Samhitas containing the word asura - or a derivative or a compound of it is
quoted, translated, and discussed.
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Catherine Ludvik |
Hanuman |
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| The monkey-god Hanuman, one of contemporary Hinduism's most popular
deities, has a long history in Indian art and literature. This study traces
Hanuman's gradual evolution from his role as helper and messenger of Rama in the
Valmiki Ramayana in the 3rd century B.C.E. to his more dominant function in
Tulasi Dasa's Ramacaritamanasa, written circa 1575 C.E.
The study begins with a concentrated overview of Hanuman's non-Aryan
origins and later associations. It then illustrates and... |
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Melanie Pappadis |
Limbu Folklore |
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| Limbu Folklore by Melanie Pappadis is a first hand study of the traditions and culture of one of the many ethnic groups that constitute the Nepali nation. This survey traces the origins and the gradual development of these people within the framework of the greater Nepalese nation.
Limbu Folklore is a firsthand study of the traditions and culture of one of the many ethnic groups that constitute the Nepali nation. This survey traces the origins and gradual development of these people... |
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K.P. Madhu |
Preventing Wars and Terrorism |
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| The study of complex dynamic systems provides an explanation for the rise and fall of civilizations, of war and peace, social upheavals and violence in the name of country, caste, creed, colour...And if the theory is ritght we may soon have a technology that ends wars forever.
Scientists of the last country provided the basis for fission and fusion bombs. And the technocrats made the buttons that fire missiles with warheads. Now it is time for the human society - scientists, technocrats... |
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S.R. Bhatt |
Vedic Wisdom, Cultural Inheritance and Contemporary Life |
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| The book contains papers pertaining to the Vedic wisdom and Indian culture both in classical and contemporary contexts. It is an outcome of the study of classical literature with a positive and constructive mind. At places, it is a creative interpretation and reconstruction of the traditional ideas with a view to restoring their pristine purity and removing the contamination they have suffered from perverting influences due to travesty of history.
But for all these exercises there is... |
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Hermann oldenberg |
The Doctrine of the Upanisads and the Early Buddhism |
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| Chapter I of this study, which discusses the older Upanisads, viz., the Brhad Aranyaka Upanisad and the Chandogya Upanisad, describes at the outset how the idea of the Supreme Being, the unique mystic power, was conceived in the words Brahman and Atman and how these two entities merged with each other and became identical. It then discusses the doctrine of metempsychosis as evolved from the relation between the Supreme Being and the world of plurality. In this period, the magician-priest begins... |
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William Woodville Rockhili |
The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China Mongolia and Tibet |
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| "Rockhill was a remarkable American orientalist who was a diplomat in Beijing. He
was fascinated with Tibet, and worked for four years to study Tibetan (he
was already fluent in Chinese). In 1888 he resigned his position
and set off westward from Beijing on the Silk Road. His intent was
to get to Lhasa disguised as a Chinese. His plan was thwarted but, undaunted, he tried again
a year later; this time he got within 100 miles of his goal. While... |
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Dr. Hajari |
Glimpses of Devayana: A Short Synopsis of the Third Epic of India (with CD) |
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| The result of this birth of divine vision is that man's path manifests itself to him and those journeys of the Gods or to the Gods "Devayana" which lead to the infinite wideness of the Divine Existence. Before me the paths of the journeyings of the Gods have become visible, journeyings that violate not, whose movement was formed by the Vasus. The eye of the Dawn has come into being in front and she has come towards us over our houses. |
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Ramashankar Tripathi |
History of Ancient India |
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| This book gives an authoritative, up-to-date, and compendious account of the history, institutions and culture of India from the earliest times to the advent of the Moslem period. It is based on all available materials- literary, epigraphic, and numismatic- and is written in a most elegant, sober, and lucid style.
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Sri Aurobindo |
On Nationalism: Selected Writings and Speeches (Hard Cover) |
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| Selections from Sri Aurobindo's early political writings and speeches which mostly appeared in three journals he edited between 1906-1910: Bande Mataram, Karmayogin and Dharma. These are of striking contemporary relevance. |
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Charles Leslie (Ed.) |
Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge |
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| The present work is guided by two central ideas: that medical traditions are based on coherent forms of practice and belief about illnesses, and that these systems are embedded in the symbols and world views that characterize the historical differences between civilizations. These new essays by leading scholars from Europe and North America focus on issues in the humoral and biomedical traditions of several Asian countries.
How do patients and practitioners know what they know? What kinds and... |
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Gerhard Endress |
Islam: An Historical Introduction |
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| Endress presents and accurate picture of the interplay of religious inspiration and historical circumstances which shaped Islamic history from its inception. It reflects a distinct sensitivity to the nuances of the subject culture, combined with a clear command of the scholarly sources. It is therefore most appropriate for graduates students beginning a Middle East or Islamic specialization, for professional scholars with other specializations seeking a synoptic treatment of Islamic history, or... |
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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy |
A New Approach to the Vedas |
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| From the pen of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy this small but wonderful volume is an essay in translation and exegesis in relation to the Vedas in which passages from the Rgveda and the Brhadaranyaka and Maitri Upanishads, dealing with cosmogony, ontology and teleology, have been interpreted in a new perception of the quite extraordinary depth of those ideas and their amazing psychological accuracy. According to Coomaraswamy no great extension of our present measure of understanding of the Vedas can be... |
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Radhakumud Mookerji |
Asoka |
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| Written by one of the eminent historians this book brings out substantially the chief features of King Asoka's glorious rule.
It represents Asoka as a great humanitarian, wise statesman, good administrator, social reformer and upholder of truth, law and order. Nowhere else can we get such an immense wealth of information on the social and cultural mileu in the regin of this monarch.
The book is divided into eight chapters. Of these the first six deal with the early life and family of the... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Bande Mataram |
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| Early political writings, most of them editorials and articles from Bande Mataram, a Calcutta daily edited by Sri Aurobindo from 1906 to 1908.
"During its brief but momentous existence", wrote Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram "changed the political thought of India". As its editor, his "first preoccupation was to declare openly for complete and absolute independence (from British rule) as the aim of political action in India and to insist on this persistently in the pages of the journal".... |
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Y. Masih |
Critical History of Western Philosophy |
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| This is the enlarged edition of a Critical History of Modern Philosophy.
In this new edition Greek and Medieval Philosophies have been added. The book
also includes a critical and comparative account of the major contributions of
eight modern thinkers. To this exposition the idealism of Hegel and Bradley has
been introduced. Recent discussions concerning Hume, Kant, Hegel and Bradley
have also been incorporated. Whilst giving fully an analytic account of topics,
the author maintains... |
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Prem P. Bhalla |
Hindu Rites, Rituals, Customs and Traditions |
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| Rites, rituals and customs play a major role in the life of every person, irrespective of religious affiliations. However,this is more prominent in the case of Hindus. Right from the time of conception and birth, up to a person`s passing away and even after it, rites and rituals follow a Hindu at all times, much like a shadow. Indeed, there is one or the other rite, ritual or custom that comes into play for Hindus 365 days of the year. However, unlike other religions where many customs are... |
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India and the World |
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| India and the World is a collection of essays on diverse areas of life and ideas. This volume reveals an integrated personality, a lively mind with a refreshingly positive approach to the problems that humanity faces as it draws to the end of the twentieth century.
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Sir John Woodroffe |
Is India Civilized: Essays on Indian Culture |
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| When recall to the West Principles which both East and West held to before the batter's entry upon some paths of modern aberration. But who will listen to any message, indeed who can give it-if it we not given by a free, thinking, and respect-earning self.
About the Author:
Sir John Woodroffe (1865-1936), also known by his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, received his B.C.L. (Bachelor of Civil Law) from University College, Oxford. He moved to India, where he practiced law. He became... |
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Uma Chakraborty |
Ksemendra: The Eleventh Century Kashmiri Poet |
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F. Max Muller |
Sacred Books of the East (Vol-27) |
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| These volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions that have exercised a profound influence on the civilisations of the continent of Asia. The Vedic Brahmanic system claims 21 volumes, Buddhism 10, and Jainism 2; 8 volumes comprise Sacred Book sof the Parsis; 2 volumes represent Islam; and 6 the two main indigenous systems of China. Translated by twenty leading authorities in their respective fields,... |
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F. Max Muller |
Sacred Books of the East (Vol-28) |
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| These volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions that have exercised a profound influence on the civilisations of the continent of Asia. The Vedic Brahmanic system claims 21 volumes, Buddhism 10, and Jainism 2; 8 volumes comprise Sacred Book sof the Parsis; 2 volumes represent Islam; and 6 the two main indigenous systems of China. Translated by twenty leading authorities in their respective fields,... |
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Hugh B. Urban |
Tantra |
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| A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life--Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within the Western imagination ever since the first "discovery" of Indian religions by European scholars.
Always radical, always extremely Other, Tantra has proven a key factor in the imagining of India.... |
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F. Max Muller, |
The Golden Book of Buddhism: Humanity's Oldest Religion of Peace |
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| The Golden Books series of Indian religions is specially planned and designed for the general educated reader in India and abroad, who in the 21st century of the Third Millennium, wants to know about them to contribute his lot to the fast growing globalization of world cultures. It includes Vedic, Upanishad, Buddhist and Jain religions, the mainstay of Indian culture, which have made their mark in various ways in Asia and the West since olden times. In terror stricken modern times also, they... |
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Benjamin J Israel |
The Jews of India |
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| Though many may be aware of this. India has had resident Jewish communities for more than a millennium. Regular visits by Jewish merchants and sailors from West Asia go back two millennia and more. This book tells the story of the three strands of Indian Jews--the ancient Bene Israel and Cochini Jewish communities and the more recent (18th-20th century) community of West-India Jews,... |
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Robert A.F. Thurman |
Tibetan Book of the Dead |
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| The Tibetan Book of the Dead has been renowned for centuries as a classic of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought. More recently, it has become highly influential in the Western world for its psychological insights into the processes of death and dying-and what they can teach us about the ways in which we live our lives. It has also been found to be helpful in the grieving process.
Composed in the eight century, it is intended as an aid to preparing for the trials and transformations of the... |
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Compiled by Mahendra & P. Mittal |
Buddhist Literature and Art |
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| The basic Buddhist literature grew up on Indian siol in Pali nad Sanskrit languages and has shaped the Intellectual climate of India in ancient times. Soon it spread out to other Asian countries and reformed their psyche. It will be a gigentic work to be undertaken by a team of scholars. The Buddhist art occupies a very significant position in the totality of Indian art traditions. The Buddhist art went outside India alongwith the spread of Buddhism and it assumed newer forms in the countries... |
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David E.R. George |
Buddhism as in Performance |
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| It explores the art and concept of performance in varied Buddhist traditions - Chinese, Japanese, Sri Lankan and others. It explains theatrical performances representing Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana cultures with extensive endnotes and bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Part I - The theory: Buddhism as performance
The epistemology of performance
Buddhist epistemology: the world as performance
Part II - The case studies: Buddhism... |
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Gian Chand Chauhan |
Origin and Growth of Feudalism in Early India |
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| This work analyzes the origin and growth of feudalism, and deals with the political, economic and social aspect of Indian feudalism. Feudalism referred to the division of society into social estates, privileges for the nobility, closed economy, the dominant position of landed aristocrats- all that hampered the movement of society forward and restricted the development of town and trade.
The Indian form of feudalism has been treated on the basis of history of ancient India. The complexity and... |
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Claude Arpi |
Pondicherry |
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| Perspectives of a British Consul General: On June 3, 1947, Lord Mountbatten, the Viceroy called a Press Conference to announce that his government had decided to leave the Indian subcontinent by August 15 of the same year. Two hundred years of British colonization of the Jewel in the Crown had come to an end. This research based on seven letters written by Col. E.W. Fletcher, the British Consul General in Pondicherry, looks at the British attitude towards the French settlements... |
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Martin Heidegger |
An Introduction to Metaphysics |
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| In this work Heidegger presents the broadest and the most intelligible account of the problem of being, as he sees this problem. First, he discusses the relevance of it by pointing out how this problem lies at the root not only of the most basic metaphysical questions but also of our human existence in its present historical setting.
Then, after a short digression into the grammatical forms and etymological roots of the word "being", Heidegger enters into a lengthy discussion of the... |
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P.N. Oak |
Some Blunders Of Indian Historical Research |
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| The author, in this book incites some blunders of India historical Research. This is Oak’s most popular work.Table of Contents:PrefaceWhat Prompted My Historic QuestBlunder No.Indian monuments Credited to Alien MuslimsIgnoble Akbar Believed NobleMisplaced Faith in Mediaeval ChroniclesMyth of the Indo-Saracenic Theory of ArchitectureMyth of the Moghul School of PaintingMyth of the Development of Music in Mediaeval Muslim CourtsMyth about the Moghul Garden ArtMythical... |
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Stephen Knapp |
The Secret Teachings of the Vedas: The Eastern Answers to the Mysteries of Life - Vol 1 |
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| This is a book that provides one of the best reviews of ancient Eastern philosophy and gives access to some of the most important spiritual knowledge found anywhere. It also offers a look at some of mankind's loftiest of thoughts and realizations about who he is and what his relationship is with the universe. This book supplies a means to unlock the mysteries of the ancient Eastern wisdom and presents answers to questions not found in other religions or philosophies. It condenses information... |
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Francis Buchanan Hamilton |
An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal and of the Territories Annexed to This Dominion by the House of Gorkha |
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| Francis Buchanan Hamilton’s An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal is a seminal description of the history of Nepal, much sought after and unobtainable for a very long time.
Written almost two centuries ago, it is a methodical, non-judgemental perspective of the history of Nepal and its people. Although some portions may now seem obsolete, it is still of great value to the scholar, since it is impossible to read works of later historians without a constant reference to their predecessors.
Apart... |
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Salma Ahmed |
Cutting Free: The Extraodinary Memoir of a Pakistani Woman |
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| Beginning with a privileged childhood in an elite family of pre-Partition India, to a troubled youth in Pakistan, this is the inspiring story of Salma Ahmed—a woman who surmounted formidable odds to achieve extraordinary success in business and politics.
In this strikingly honest and candid account, Salma talks of her three marriages – to a naval officer, a scion of a leading feudal family, and a cricketing star; her conflicts as a mother as she makes the agonising decision to give up... |
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Daniel Wright |
History of Nepal |
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| History of Nepal by Daniel Wright and translated from the Parbatiya by Munshi Shew Shunker Singh and Pandit Shri Gunanand forms part of the indispensable canon of works about the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. Daniel Wright has his own distinctive style of writing about the people, culture, customs and history of Nepal.
In his book he talks about not only the history and geography of Nepal but also gives us an insight into the traditional instruments, songs and original manuscripts of this... |
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Dr. P. Priyadarshi |
India`s Contribtions to the West |
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| India was the mother of all civilization’ is often said by many. But little significant research or reliable writing has ever been done to substantiate this fact. “India’s Contributions to the West” primarily discusses how India has been a source of knowledge to the West over ages. Even the growth of modern sciences in the West, called the ‘Renaissance’ was a direct result of flow of Indian knowledge to the West.
Kanaka, an Indian scientist from the Sind province of India landed in the court... |
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Gunabhiram Barua |
Ramnabami - Natak: The Story of Ram and Nabami |
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| Gunabhiram Barua’s Ramnabami-Natak, written in 1857, revolves around the tragic story of a young widow, Nabami, and her lover, Ramchandra. The first modern Assamese play on a secular theme, it presents a bold redefinition of consensual marriage while strongly advocating widow remarriage.
Translated into English for the first time, Ramnabami-Natak mounts a severe critique on the moral guardians of society and makes interesting references to certain social mores and beliefs in... |
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Arun Kumar Singh |
The Comprehensive History of Psychology (Paperback) |
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| The Comprehensive History of Psychology is a simple introduction to the
history of psychology. It provides a basic understanding of the major systems
and theories in psychology is a comprehensive way. It covers in detail the historical backgrounds taking place before the emergence of each system. As such, it provides a better understanding about the historical emergence of the status of psychology in beginning and its separation from philosophical traditions. It covers a lucid discussion... |
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E. M. Abraham |
A Comparative Survey of Hindu, Christian and Jewish Mysticism |
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| The present book is a comparative and evaluative study of Hindu, Christian and Jewish mysticism. Not much work is done in the field, though there are sketchy studies of any two of these schools and not all together Again the author has taken within his scope, not only the three schools of Vedanta, but has considered the four important Upanisad viz. Isa, Kena, Katha and Mundaka. He has then dealt with Christianity, with reference to the New Testament and the Christian... |
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R.C. Majumdar |
Ancient India |
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| This is a comprehensive, intelligible and interesting portrait of Ancient Indian History and Civilization from a national historical point of view. The work is divided into three broad divisions of the natural course of cultural development in Ancient India:
From the prehistoric age to 600 B.C
From 600 B.C. to 300 A.D
From 300 A.D. to 1200 A.D.
The work describes the political, economic, religious and cultural conditions of the country, the expansionist activities, the colonisation... |
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Nalinksha Dutt |
Buddhist Sects in India |
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| This extraordinary book is the only authentic document of its kind.
Beginning with a detailed and lucid exposition of the political background of
India from Ajatasatru to Mahapadma nanda, it goes on to trace the sources of the
Second Buddhist Council, to locate with unerring exactitude the disruptive
forces in the Sangha and, in the fourth chapter, to classify the Sects. In the
chapters that follow, the learned author deals with the Mahasanghikas, doctrines
of Group II-V Schools. In... |
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SPB Enterprises, Noida (U.P.) |
CD-ROM on the History of India |
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| A simple interactive presentation, using more than 200 visuals, some animation, video and audio clips. History of India is the story of India's past, about its people and how they lived. It covers the Indian history from the magnificent Indus valley civilization of 2500 BC, right through the centuries, covering thr triumph of the freedom struggle, coming upto the present era. All the important personalities and events that gave shape and colour to the Indian history are discussed in vivid... |
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Osho |
Dimensions Beyond The Known |
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| A fascinating journey into many mysterious realms of our existence, including what happens to a per-son after death, reincarnation, the esoteric roots of religious experience, and the dimension of time. There is also an account of the Tibetan practice of Bardo. The beauty of this book is that it explains metaphysical concepts in a simple and comprehensive way, at the same time presenting some challenging new perspectives on the universe and what makes it tick.
About the... |
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David J. Kalupahana |
Ethics in Early Buddhism |
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| Throughout the centuries, moral philosophers, both Eastern and Western, considered a permanent and eternal law a necessary requirement for the formulation of a moral principle. If such a law was not empirically given, it had to be determined through reason. In contrast, early Buddhism presented a radical theory of impermanence. Interpreters of early Buddhism have been unable to abandon the presupposition of permanence, however, and hence have persisted in viewing nirvana or freedom as a... |
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Prasanna Kumar Acharya |
Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad - Manasara Series 6 |
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| Contents:
Preface
Introduction
I. Pre Vedic Architecture/Mohenjo-Daro
Harappa
Jhukun
Johi, Sehwan and Kohistan
Baluchistan
Waziristan
II. Vedic Architecture:
Vedas
Brahmanas and Suras
III. Classical or Post-Vedic Architecture:
Buddhist architecture
Jain architecture
Brahmanical architecture: i. Epicsii. Puranasiii. Agamasiv. Miscellaneous treatises
IV. Silpa-Sastra:
Manasara
Mayamata
Amsumadbheda of Kasyapa
Visvakarma... |
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H.H. Bhagat Singh Jee |
History of Hindu Medical Science |
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Georg Feurstein |
In Search of the Cradle of Civilization |
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| The book shows that the ancient Indians were no primitives but possessed a high spiritual culture, which not only influenced the evolution of the Western world in decisive ways but which still has much to teach us today. India's archaic spirituality is codified in the rich symbols, metaphors, and myths of the magnificent Rig-Veda, which is shown to be much older than has been widely assumed by scholars. The present book also unravels the astonishing mathematical and astronomical code... |
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Frank Moraes |
Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography |
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| Nehru has won the admiration of the people of India and the world as a national leader, as a writer, as a humanist etc. Anyone who wishes to understand the controversial aspects of his personality would do well to peruse this biography. This work also traces the history of the freedom movement in India.
The occasional glimpses of the family life of Nehru are enlivening. He was the most remarkable statesman, a man who enthralled everyone with his magical personality; a leader who was literally... |
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T.M.P. Mahadevan |
Outlines of Hinduism |
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| This book is a complete survey of Hinduism in all its aspects. In the first chapter the author introduces us to the essentials of religion in general: in the second he sets forth the essence of Hinduism. In chapter VII the doctrines of the Hindu philosophies are explained. In chapter VII an account is given of the beliefs and practices of the Tantrik cults. The concluding chapter, entitled living hinduism, is devoted to the teachings of four great sages of modern India: Sri Ramakrishna, Sri... |
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Christopher Ives (Ed.) |
The Emptying God : A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation |
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| Masao Abe is widely acknowledged as a leader in the worldwide dialogue on Buddhism. A profound scholar of Buddhism and of Christian theology, his critical and constructive reflections culminate in the seminal essay which is the corner stone of this volume. Seven eminent scholars respond to the challenge of Abe’s construal of Kenotic God and Dynamic Sunyata.
Abe demonstrates powerfully the dynamism of the Buddhist appreciation of the diving emptiness at the heart of Being. His essay suggests... |
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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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S.N. Aggarwal |
The Heroes of Cellular Jail |
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| The Heroes of Cellular Jail unfolds the saga of the heroic deeds of the young revolutionaries during India’s struggle for freedom. It was their immense devotion to their motherland that led them to perform valiant deeds.
The story forms a glorious chapter in the history of the freedom movement. Many patriots were prosecuted and, after sham trials, sentenced to imprisonment for life. Put in chains and fetters, they were banished to the Andaman and Nicobar islands and confined to the dark... |
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M.R. Kale |
The Raghuvamsa of Kalidasa |
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| This epic poem in Sanskrit text with a literal English translation and copious notes and also commentary Sanjivani of Mallinatha is the only work of Kalidasa which contains a number of references to the geography of India as it was known to him in those days. |
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Samten G. Karmay |
The Treasury of Good Sayings - A Tibetan History of Bon |
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| This volume is a partial translation of the Tibetan text, 'legsbshad-mdzod,' a history of the Bon religion. Bon is a pre-Buddhist system of belief in Tibet, which survived many persecutions, and still covered large parts of Tibet till occupation by Communist China in 1959. The book gives a full account of the ancient religion, its origins and developments, its struggles against the later imported Buddhism, and its fight for survival in spite of persecution and even abolition on two... |
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R.C. Majumdar |
The Vakataka-Gupta Age |
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| The tile of the volume was selected for the sake of convenience only. It is not claimed that the political or cultural achievements of the Vakatakas were comparable to those of the Guptas and sufficiently important to justify their association with the name of the age.
Although this volume is intended to cover the period from 200 to 550 A.D., it has not always been possible to conform to these chronological limits. |
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Ram Avtar |
Theory Of Indian Music |
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| This book provides a historical, cultural & technical overview of the evolution of Indian music. |
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F.R. Allchin (Ed.) |
A Source-Book of Indian Archaeology (Vol. 1) |
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Beni Madhab Barua |
Ceylon Lectures |
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| Collects lectures detailed by the author in 2 series - The History series and religion series. Contains a clear statement of relations that have existed between India and Sri Lanka and as the position of Buddhism for a comparative point of view - Buddhism as an institutional religion. |
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Mukund Lath |
Dattilam |
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| The Dattilam is a remarkable treatise from the earliest known period of organized, systematic writing on music in India. The work can be placed in the same period as the Natyasastra (the beginning of the Christian era) and it presents to us a well-developed sastra, composed at the end of a long tradition of analytic thinking on music. It is devoted to the description of gandharva, a sacred corpus of music, derived from the still more ancient sama, sacred Vedic form. Gandharva was also the... |
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T.R.R. Iyengar |
Hinduism and Scientific Quest |
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| The author focuses on some of the contemporary scientific ideas vis-a-vis the achievements of old-world Hinduism in cosmogony, astronomy, meteorology and psychology.
The book, in the process, unfolds some fundamental Hindu philosophical concepts. Hinduism is not just a religion. It synonymizes the five millennia of India`s cultural heritage which is unequivocally manifest in the Hindu architecture sculptural art music, mythology sanskrit literary classics social institutions and ethical/... |
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Holger Kersten |
Jesus Lived in India - His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion |
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| This compelling book presents irrefutable evidence that Jesus did indeed live in India, dying there in old age. The result of many years of investigative research, this study takes the reader to all the historical sites connected with Jesus in Israel, the Middle East, Afghanistan and India.
Why has Christianity chosen to ignore its connections with the religions of the East, and to dismiss repeatedly the numerous claims that Jesus spent a large part of his life in India? This compelling book... |
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William Barr |
Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshawur and from thence to Cabul |
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| This is a reprint of the 1844 classic.
Originally published in 1844 contains an account of the operations undertaken in 1839 by Colonel Wade`s auxiliary army. Contains useful information of the areas concerned.
Contents:
From Delhi to Kurnal,
Kurnal to Lodianah,
Lodianah to Lahore,
Lahore,
Lahore to Rhotas,
Rhotas to Peshawur,
Camp at Peshawur (2 chapters),
Camp at Koulsir,
The Khyber Pass,
From Dhaka to Cabul,
From Cabul to Ferozepore.
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Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
Orion : A Search into the Ancientness of Aryan-Vedic Culture (An Ignored Historical Research) |
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| That the sacred thread – Yajnopavita among the Hindus and Kushti among the Parsis – is the sign of the constellation Orion’s belt, underlines its supreme significance among ancient and modern Aryans. Its mention in Vedic literature inspired the Sanskrit scholar Lokmanya Tilak to use it to fix the date of that early period of history – a task neither Yaska nor Sayana could think of.
A unique and definitive study of the subject, it casts interesting new light on obscure Aryan-Vedic culture. It... |
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James R. Ballantyne |
Sankhya Aphorisms of Kapila: With Extracts from Vijnanabhiksus Commentary |
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| Traditionally and historically it is affirmed that Kapila is the real founder of the philosophical school known as Sankhya, or Enumeration. The school is so termed on account of it having given rise to twenty-four categories of existence or what may be called evolutes. Prior to Kapila, Indian philosophical scene was in a state of diffusion, in that the Sankhya elements of thought were scattered in various Upanisadic texts, which meant no systematic presentation existed insofar as philosophical... |
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R.P. Singh |
Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur Life and Legend |
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| "Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur: Life and Legend" is the story of how fate catapulted Kanwar Mor Mukut Singh of Isarda to the throne of Jaipur, a state that he ruled as Sawai Man Singh II for 27 years before its merger with independent India. From being a ruler to serving as India's ambassador in Spain, he lived through a period of Indian history marked with glory and upheavals. Flamboyant, debonair and elegant, he had two overriding passions-polo and his third wife, Maharani Gayatri Devi. His... |
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Eugenia Vanina |
Urban Crafts and Craftsmen in Medieval India |
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| This book discusses the development of non-agricultural production in pre-colonial Indian cities. The author's purpose is twofold: firstly, to analyze the technological, organizational and social evolution of urban crafts in medieval India along with the economic and socio-political atmosphere in which this sphere of production existed and, secondly, to compare the above-mentioned processes with their counterparts in other medieval societies, especially the better known European ones, and thus... |
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A. Berriedale Keith |
A History of Sanskrit Literature |
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| Taken in conjunction with the author's Sanskrit Drama, this work covers the field of classical Sanskrit literature as opposed to the Vedic literature, the epics and the Puranas. To bring the subject-matter within the limits of a single volume has rendered it necessary to treat the scientific literature briefly, and to avoid discussions of its subject-matter, which appertains rather to the historian of grammar, philosophy, law, medicine, astronomy or mathematics, than to the literary historians.... |
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L.P.Pandey |
History of Ancient Indian Science - Voll.I: Botanical Science and Economic Growth - A Study of Forestry, Horticulture, Gardening and Plant Science |
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Mangesh Nadkarni |
India's Spiritual Destiny: Its Inevitability and Potentiality |
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| In this collection of six essays originally written as lectures for seminars and conferences, Mangesh Nadkarni examines some of the crucial problems facing India today from the spiritual perspective offered by Sri Aurobindo, who pointed out that what man is facing now is not just a social, political, economic, ecological or nuclear crisis but an evolutionary one.
Man is a transitional being, and he must evolve from his current mental consciousness, which has proven incapable of solving these... |
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Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty |
The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology |
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| In this pertinent and valuable study O'Flaherty answers the crucial questions such as , what solutions did the Hindus offer to the problems of evil? How did these arise and develop historically? And, how if at all can these various solutions be subsumed under a unified world veiw?
The problem of evil, in particular the question of theodicy, has long been overlooked or misunderstood by Indologists, who have maintained that there is no problem of evil in Indian thought, or that it was "solved"... |
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David J. Kalupahana |
A History of Buddhist Philosophy |
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| The present work has, since its original publication in 1976, offered an unequaled introduction to the philosophical principles and historical development of Buddhism.
Now, representing the culmination of Dr. Kalupahana's thirty years of scholarly research and reflection, A History of Buddhist Philosophy builds upon and surpasses that earlier work, providing a completely reconstructed, detailed analysis of both early and later Buddhism. |
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Edward C. Sachau |
Alberuni's India |
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| It was in 1017 AD, at the behest of Sultan Muhmud of Persia, Alberuni, aka A1-Biruni, travelled to India to learn about the Hindus, and to discuss with them questions of religion, science, and literature, and the very basis of their civilisation. He remained in India for thirteen years, studying and exploring. Alberuni's scholarly work has not been given the due recognition it deserves. Not for nearly eight hundred years would any other writer match Alberuni's profound understanding of almost... |
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Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer |
Hinduism Reconsidered |
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| This volume is based on papers delivered during the IXth European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies at Heidelberg in 1986. The idea of holding the panel "Hinduism Reconsidered" was to evaluate critically current concepts and analytical frameworks used by scholars in their studies on Hinduism. The participants of the panel were therefore invited to contribute papers which either focus critically on theoretical approaches to Hinduism or illustrate their analytical parameters and concepts... |
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Murray T. Titus |
Islam in India and Pakistan |
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| A Religious History of Islam in India and Pakistan.
Contents include:
The religious objective of the Muslim conquerors,
The methods of the conquerors,
Peaceful penetration,
Organization of the Sunni Community,
Shi'ahs and Mahdawis,
Religious orders,
Saint-worship,
Islam in its Hindu environment,
Modern movements: reactionary and progressive,
The parting of the ways,
The new Muslim apologetic and polemic,
Appendix,
Bibliography,
Glossary of Islamic... |
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Shifu Nagaboshi Tomio |
The Bodhisattva Warriors |
$21.40 $14.98 |
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| This unique study of the genesis and development of the
earliest form of Buddhist self-defense practiced by Chuan Fa monks and mystics
shows both the philosophical and physical basis of the skills developed and
passed on to subsequent generations.
There are many who mistakenly believe Buddhism to be a predominantly philosophical teaching that regards physical and spiritual being as incompatible, or even antagonistic, toward each other. This book seeks to reunite these concepts. Its... |
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Rais Akhtar |
Geographical Aspects of Health and Disease in India |
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Ravindra Kumar |
Selected Essays Mostly on Buddhism and Gandhism |
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| In this book, more than a dozen articles, by universally renowned writer and scholar Dr. Ravindra Kumar are included. Although most of the articles are based on welfaristic philosophies of Buddhism and Gandhism, but the rest, especially on morality and non-violence are also important and worth giving a thought, as he is of the opinion that man is non-violent by nature, and that non-violence is not a matter of convenience; rather non-violence is a value permanently present in human nature.... |
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Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra |
Swaraj: A Multi-Dimensional Concept |
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| Swaraj is a multi-dimensional concept. It not only relates to political freedom, but also means autonomy and harmony in all spheres of life—political, economic, social, cultural, spiritual and moral. This book presents a spiritual and moral exposition of the concept of Swaraj as interpreted by great Indian thinkers like M. K. Gandhi, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sri Aurobindo, Raja Rammohun Roy, Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda. |
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Mahadeva Chakravarti |
Concept of Rudra-Siva Through the Ages |
$21.94 $15.36 |
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| The present book throws new light on the gradual development of the concept of Rudra-Siva in his animal, phallic and human forms, since the days of the Harappa Civilization. It examines how Siva, the composite Aryan-non-Aryan Divinity, was not only admitted but was ultimately crowned with an exalted position in the Brahmanical pantheon; how the bull once identified with the deity, was regulated to the position of a vahana; how phallism was related to Saivism and also how Siva, in his different... |
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Uma Marina Vesci |
Heat and Sacrifice in the Vedas |
$21.94 $15.36 |
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| In all religions of the world which maintain sacrificial rituals and in which the portion offered to Gods is given to fire, that portion is normally offered raw except in Vedic India, where its previous cooking is necessary.
About the Author:
Born in Roma (Italia), Uma Marina Vesci received her education in Roma itself, graduating in Ancient History and Archaeology with a thesis on: "The Use of Musical Instruments in the Religious Life of Ancient Greece." |
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Bharat Bhushan Gupta |
India Through the Ages |
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| India through the ages is a book that takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, exploring a fascinating country. The book brings India's growth from an ancient to a modern, strong democracy in a vivid and detailed manner.
It introduces readers to a panoramic view of her history and civilization. It presents the saga of her sages and scientists, warriors and vagabonds, poets and philosophers, who at various periods in time scripted the destiny of the Indian subcontinent. It enables... |
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H.D. Griswold |
Religion of the Rigveda |
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| The present work expounds substantially the value and significance of Indo-Aryan religious ideas as represented in the Rgveda.
The work is divided into three Sections arranged in thirteen chapters.
Section I deals with the origin of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian religion, its development into the concept of Godhood, Demonology and Priesthood. It describes Vedic tribes, their expansion, colonization, settlement, organization and culture.
Section II discusses the peculiar traits of major... |
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Anaryan |
Hindu Stories |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| Since the beginning of humanity, fables and stories have been the means of
imparting instruction and amusement to man. The stories were designed to
illustrate and exemplify precepts for human conduct. After centuries, these
stories eventually found themselves in print. They are divided into four groups:
Sanskrit or Hindu, Arabic or Persian, Western or European and the American. Of
these, the Sanskrit or Hindu group of stories are the oldest and probably served
as the basis of Arabic... |
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Kim-Anh Lim |
Practical Guide to the I Ching |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| A comprehensive overview of the I Ching's evolution in Chinese history and
philosophy. Explains how to cast hexagrams, and includes complete
interpretations. |
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Guy Mazars |
A Concise Introduction to Indian Medicine |
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| This is an ideal and brilliant book for readers wanting to know more about the Ayurveda and the other system of traditional medicine in India. The book sets Indian medicine firmly in its historical context, and provides a reliable and unbiassed survey.
Topics covered include: the origin and development of Indian medicine, its place in modern India and the world, and the theoretical and practical aspects of actual medical diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Mazar's book... |
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Ashok Jaitly |
Celebrating 125 Years of Excellence St. Stephen's College A History |
$21.99 $15.39 |
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| St. Stephen's College, which celebrated its 125th Anniversary in 2006, has a special niche amongst educational institutions of excellence, not only in Delhi but also all over India. Apart from its revered internal traditions, the College has also been an integral part of the social and structural changes that have taken place in the nation. And it has been the school for a long and impressive alumni list which includes sportspersons, writers, poets, actors, journalists, entrepreneurs,... |
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Priya Vrat Sharma |
History of Medicine in India |
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Bidyut Chakrabarty |
Mahatma Gandhi: A Historical Biography |
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| Quite distinct from the abundant literature available on Mahatma Gandhi, this historical biography attempts to articulate the historiography of India’s freedom struggle of which Gandhi was undoubtedly the central figure. Relooking at key issues and themes that have been raised in the research conducted over the past few decades, this is an interpretative essay that seeks to contextualize Gandhi and his ideology of ahimsa and satyagraha.
Instead of focusing merely on Gandhi’s... |
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Koichi Shinohara and Phyllis Granoff |
Speaking of Monks: from Benares to Beijing |
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| This book contains one long, very interesting and informative essay on biographical writings in the Jain tradition. The author translates and discusses biographies and autobiographies of two Jain monks who lived in the 11th and 14th centuries respectively.
The book also brings together twelve essays by leading scholars of Chinee and Indian civilizations from Europe, North America and Asia. The essays cover a wide range of topics in Indian and Chinese religions and cultures and offer fresh... |
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Peter Heehs |
The Bomb in Bengal: The Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism in India 1900-1910 |
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| From the blurb:
The Bomb in Bengal is a narrative history of the revolutionary movement in Bengal from its origins around 1900 to the close of its first phase in 1910. Heehs' approach is nationalist in focus, narrative in form and chronological in presentation.
While giving sufficient attention to the social, economic or political background, he is concerned mainly with presenting the factual data in a narrative that both academic and general readers will find... |
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Anand Mulloo |
Voices of the Indian Diaspora |
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| Written in an easy readable style and shorn of academic jargon, Voices of the Indian Diaspora is a contemporary effort at understanding overseas Indians. It is honest, compelling, thought provoking and substantial. |
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Darlena L'Orange |
Ancient Roots Many Branches |
$22.18 $15.53 |
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| Ancient Roots Many Branches takes us on a fascinating journey across cultures and through time.We journey to India, Egypt, China, Greece and the natives of America to explore and understand the diverse medical traditions of these cultures. Presenting a range of possibilities in our quest to health and hence growth and explorations, it offers practical suggestions to understand ourselves and to integrate these teachings in our lives. This journey through healing takes you from the... |
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Harvey De Witt Griswold |
Insights into Modern Hinduism |
$22.22 $15.55 |
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| Hinduism has been a great force in World's History. Like, every other living religion, contemporary Hinduism presents a multitude of varying aspects. Hinduism in India has been all-inclusive for many centuries. The present volume discusses in detail the evolution and development of Hinduism and deals with the study of religions movements and reformed sects. |
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V.S.Misra |
Ancient Indian Dynasties |
$22.49 $15.74 |
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Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian |
$22.49 $15.74 |
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| Nirad C. Chaudhuri, India’s most controversial writer, was born at Kishorganj in East Bengal on 23rd November, 1877. Brought up in an intellectual environment, by his father a lawyer and his mother, an uncompressing Puritan, he was profoundly influenced by them in his formative years. In this autobiography he gives chapter-by-chapter account of his life: his birth place, his parents, his experiences and adventures. He talks about the race of Indian renaissance, nationalism, and politics and... |
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T.W. Rhys Davids |
Buddhist India |
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| The present work portrays ancient India, during the period of Buddhist ascendancy, from the non-Brahmin point of view. Based on the literary, numismatic and inscriptional records, it throws light on points hitherto dark and even unsuspected. It presents a a detailed account of the socio-economic, geo-political and ethico-religious conditions of the country. It described at length the history of kings, clans, nations, vis-a-vis their role in the growth and spread of Buddhism. Reader get a... |
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M.R. Kale |
Dasakumaracarita of Dandin |
$22.49 $15.74 |
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| The Dasa-kumara-carita or 'Adventures of the Ten Princes', contains stories of common life and reflects a faithful picture of Indian society during the period. The Dasakumaracarita consists of:
Purvapithika
Dasakumaracarita proper
Uttarapithika
The Purvapithika consists of five Uchchhvasas of which the first one deals with the birth of the ten boys, the second with the Digvijaya of Rajavahana, the third with the adventures of Somadatta and his marriage with Princess Vamalocana,... |
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Bibek Debroy |
Sarama and Her Children : The Dog in Indian Myth |
$22.49 $15.74 |
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| The most recognized dog in Indian myth is the dog in the Mahabharata that accompanied the Pandavas—not actually a dog but Dharma in disguise. There are, however, several more references to dogs in the classical texts. Mentioned for the first time in the Rig Veda, the eponymous Sarama is the dog of the gods and the ancestor of all dogs. In Sarama and Her Children, the evolution of the Indian attitude towards dogs is traced through the vedas, epics, puranas, dharmashastras and niti shastras. The... |
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Alan Jacobs |
The Principal Upanishads |
$22.95 $16.07 |
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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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M.K.V. Narayan |
Exploring The Hindu Mind: Cultural Reflection & Symbolism |
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| Hinduism has a rich cultural heritage spanning the past four thousand years or more. In this long epoch starting from the Vedic times and its evolution through spiritual and Puranic periods in a multi-ethnic and multi-linguistic settings, the religion had absorbed many changes and modifications to blossom into modern Hinduism. In this book, an attempt is made to bring out the symbolism apparent or hidden in the ideas of Hindu mythology, rituals and cultural practices touching some visible... |
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Bimala Caran Law |
Ksatriya Clans in Buddhist India |
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| This study, a monograph on Ksatriya clans in Buddhist India prepared by Bimala Charan Law, has proved to be promising on the basis of his authentic work as a research scholar. The study is divided into two parts. The first-one deals with the Licchavis and the second is devoted to the Videhas, the Mallas, the Sakyas and other minor clans. As is well known, there is no systematic account available in early Pali books on the political conditions of Northern India during the life time of Lord... |
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P.N. Oak |
Some Missing Chapters of World History |
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| A revolutionary work by P N Oak. The book is about those facts which were ignored knowingly or unknowingly by the said great historians. In the light of these facts history seems to be different.This book is intended to awaken and arouse the world from its complacent slumber about its history to the realization that there is much to learn and unlearn.History as it is currently taught, presented and presumed throughout the world, harbours a number of misconceptions, at times so gross as to... |
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P.N. Oak |
The Taj Mahal is A Temple Place |
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| P N Oak has given such evidences in this book which prove that the building Taj Mahal existed years before the death of Mumtaj Mahal.The book shows that the archaeological records of the Taj Mahal were falsified. Historians had duped the public and changed the Temple Palace to grave.This book is dedicated in grateful memory particularly to Her Highness the late Maharani Chandrawati Holkar of Indore, to whose munificence the author owes a part of his academic education, and generally to the... |
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P.N. Oak |
Who Says Akbar was Great |
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| The Present day historians consider Akbar as a great Moghul emperor. The author of this book questions this view. He quotes innumerable incidents and deeds of the so called great emperor and proves that Akbar was the greatest rogue. A well documented work worth reading. In the preface to his eight-volume critical study of mediaeval Muslim chronicles a well-known historian, the late Sir H M Elliot observes that the history of the Muslim era in India is an impudent and interested fraud.
This... |
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Sarojini Chaturvedi |
A Short History of South India |
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| A Short History of South India covers a vast canvas from the 4th Century A.D. which coincided with the rise of the Sathvahans, South of the Vindhyas and stretching up to the 16th Century A.D., which witnessed the decline of the Vijayanagara Kingdom. The objective of this book is mainly to focus attention on certain hitherto neglected areas of the South Indian history and to explode the myth that the presence of the Vindhyas caused a North-South divide. The North remained mostly isolated from... |
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Jyoti Prasad Jain |
Jaina Sources of the History of Ancient India |
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| The contribution of the Jaina sources to the making of the history of our great nation, during the epoch-making millennium of 100 BC to AD 900, is of vital importance. But it has only lacked proper research and application.
This book presents a brief survey of the more important sources, particularly literary ones, and a discussion of certain fundamental problems such as the dates of Mahavira and of the beginning of the Earlier Saka, Vikrama, and Saka eras, as well as the dates of important... |
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Uma Chakravarty |
Indra and Other Vedic Deities |
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| In deities : whether in anthropomorphic or symbolic forms, the Vedic sages conceived a transcendent principle, which is far too subtle, far too abstract for the ordinary minds to grasp. And likewise, they concretized “as divinities” the various forces of nature — recognizing the indispensability of rain and thunder, of the sun and fire for human survival.
"Alongside the material representations of the cosmic order or of nature and nature-related phenomena, mankind has also mythologized some... |
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J. Gonda |
Aspects of Early Visnuism |
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| Visnu holds a divinity of highest rank among the Hindus. In the present work, the author has made an attempt to sketch the main features in the character of Visnu as they appeared in different ages.
The book is divided into three chapters, each running into several sections.
Chapter 1 opens with the description of the origin of Visnu, his character, emblems, attributes, incarnations, comparative status etc. The author has endeavoured to present a faithful portrait of the god with reference... |
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Pushkar Bhatnagar |
Dating The Era of Lord Ram |
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| Sage Valmiki, a contemporary of Lord Ram, mentioned in his magnum opus Ramayana that when Lord Ram was born, the sun was located in Aries,Saturn was in libra, Jupiter and the moon were shining in Cancer, Venus was seen in Pisces while Mars was in Capricorn. Moreover, It was the ninth day of the increasing phase of the moon in the lunar month of Chaitra.
The two illustrations on the cover display, with the help of a powerful software, that these unique astral conditions were present in the sky... |
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Mireille Josephine Guezennec |
Ganga: In Search of the Source |
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| Since the dawn of humanity, Ganges-Ganga-the sacred river of India, born in the higher Himalayan realms, has inspired the imagination of mankind. In this book, the author invites us on an initiatory voyage to the sources of the revered river at Gaumukh, passing through the principal holy cities of Uttaranchal (Haridwar, Rishikesh, Gangotri, Badrinath) and following the prestigious junctions where the powerful affluent mixes with the venerated river. A crowned path in the Garhwal Himalayas,... |
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T.A. Saraswati Amma |
Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India |
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| This book is a geometrical survey of the Samskrit and Prakrt scientific and quasi-scientific literature of India beginning with the Vedic literature and ending with the early part of the 17th century. It deals in detail with the Sulbasutras in the Vedic literature, with the mathematical parts of Jaina Canonical works of the Hindu Siddhantas, and with the contributions to geometry made by the astronomer mathematicians Aryabhata I & II, Sripati, Bhaskara I & II, Sangamagrama Madhava,... |
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Perceval Landon |
Nepal Volume I & II |
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| Perceval Landon’s Nepal vol.1 treats the inward and outward politics of the land from when it grew into a national entity. He examines Nepal in the political, religious and historical context vis-à-vis the reality of the twentieth century. Nepal — which he describes as ‘full of antiquities and relics of the past’ — is unique because it has never suffered the repercussions of the Christian or the Moslem expansion.
In vol. II Perceval Landon concentrates on the people and politics of the land.... |
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George Watt |
Indian Art at Delhi-1903 |
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| The volume was first published as a Catalogue and Guide to the Indian Art Exhibition held at Delhi `to coincide with the Durbar of 1902-03`. The volume is a unique work of documentation of nineteenth-century Indian craftsmanship. The text is enriched with graphic representation of rare specimens of Indian artistry. Its usefulness as `a gazetteer and an ethnographical dictionary` makes it invaluable for the students engaged in research of the history of craft and industry in India. George Watt... |
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Patrick Olivelle |
The Asrama System |
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| The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism- asrama and varna-asrama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first full-length study of the asrama system, Olivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines in depth its relationship to other institutional and doctrinal aspects of the Brahmanical world... |
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W. Pachow |
A Comparative Study of the Pratimoksha |
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| Pratimoksa is a code of Buddhist monastic disciplinary rules governing the daily conduct and decorum of bhiksus (monks). It was established by the Buddha on various occasions out of necessity. This work discusses the historical, cultural, religious and social issues in ancient India in relation to the rationale of formulating particular precepts. Depending on the special circumstances some of the rules may be enforced or suspended.
On the basis of this code the Buddhist Sangha has the... |
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S.Kapoor |
A Dictionary of Hinduism |
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| Hinduism, one of the great religions of the world, is the major religion of India, where nearly 85 percent of the population is classified as Hindu. Hinduism has developed over about 4,000 years and has no single founder or creed; rather, it consists of a vast variety of beliefs and practices. In its diversity, Hinduism hardly fits most Western definitions of religion; rather, it suggests commitment to or respect for an ideal way of life, known as dharma.
A Dictionary of Hinduism is the... |
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Ram Sharan Sharma |
Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India |
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| The present work Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India discusses different views on the origin and nature of the state in ancient India. It also deals with stages and processes of state formation and examines the relevance of caste and kin-based collectivities to the construction of polity. The vedic assemblies are studied in some detail, and developments in political organisation are presented in relation to their changing social and economic background. The book also... |
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Janet O'Shea |
Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage: At Home in the World |
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| One of the most popular and widely performed dance styles in India and around the world, bharata natyam has made the transition from its beginnings in the temples and courts of southern India to a highly respected international dance practice. In this study of a classical dance form, author Janet O'Shea tracks the choreographic transformations that accompanied the transfer of bharata natyam to the urban concert stage in the 1930s and 1940s.
At Home in the World situates these changes within... |
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David Burton |
Emptiness Appraised |
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| Emptiness (sunyata) is a religious/ philosophical concept which is central to much of Buddhist thought. It is employed in numerous contexts by different thinkers and schools, with a variety of meanings.
A thorough comparative study of the uses and meanings of the notion of emptiness throughout the history of Buddhism was certainly a desideratum, which this present work fulfils. It is an investigation into the philosophy of emptiness as expressed by the second century Indian Buddhist thinker... |
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Vidya Niwas Misra |
Foundations of Indian Aesthetics |
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| Presenting an analysis of the basic aspects of aesthetics this volume systematically expounds important concepts from the Indian thought system. Presenting a lucid account of the Indian world view the volume explains the dynamics of literary appreciation. The comprehensive perspective offered by this volume covers the notions of Beauty.
Originally presented as lectures at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS) by the author the chapters provide an experiential Journey into the vast field... |
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Colonel ARD Mackenzie |
Mutiny Memoirs: Being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857 |
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| Born in 1835, Mackenzie entered the Bengal Army in 1854, became Lieutenant-Colonel in 1878, and Colonel four years later. He belonged to the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry that also broke into rebellion in Meerut, and commanded the 8th Irregular Cavalry at Bareilly when they rebelled. He was also part of the British forces that seized and captured Delhi and Lucknow. Appointed to the regiment of the Bengal Cavalry, he led his regiment as Lieutenant-Colonel during the Second Afghan War, 1879-80.... |
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A.K. Sharma (Ed.) |
Puramanthana: Current Advances in Indian Archeology |
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| Contents:
Prehistoric Mansar
Goddess Aditi in Rig Veda
Susaka - An Indian Prince who Rules over Egypt, Palestine and Babylonia
Exploration around Ganeshwar( Rajasthan)
The Indian Copper Hoard Ring: Some fresh Observations
Archaeology of Kuppam Region: Recent Discoveries
Is Orjhar the Celebrated Purvarama Monestery?
Percussion made votive stupas from Satdhara, District Raisen( M.P)
Plundering of Antiquities in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Newly Discovered Gupta... |
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D.C. Sircar |
Studies in the Religious Life of Ancient and Medieval India |
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| Table of Contents:
Vedic Vishnu and the Bhakti Cult
Vasudeva Krishna and Narayana in Early Vaisnavism
Vaisnavism in the Gupta and Post-Gupta Ages
Purusottama Jagannatha
Balabhadra and Other Divinities
Sakti or the Mother-goddess
Kumara and Vinayaka in Uttarapatha
Bhayillasvamin and Bhillamaladeva
The Nagas and Yaksas
Vamadeva and Vivesvara
Hiranyagarbha and Asvamedha
Decline of Buddhism in Bengal
Religious Suicide
Ardhanari-Narayana
Mahisamardini... |
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Salim Pushpanath |
Temples of South India |
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| This book "Temples of South India" presents a fascinating insight into the major temples of the three southern states of India – Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The architectural grandeur of the temples; colourful history of the dynasties of that period and the beauty of the powerful deities worshipped are vividly described. These centuries old historical monuments are great tourist attractions. Despite rapid condensation and a shift in socio-cultural values these temples have maintained... |
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H.D. Sharma |
Ten Walks of Mumbai |
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| In Ten Walks of Mumbai, the author takes you along many fascinating journeys through a different Mumbai altogether - oft-forgotten sights, sounds and roads. The book offers tourists as well as the city-bred junta a wider canvas to probe further into Mumbai’s invaluable expanse of heritage sites, forgotten roads and public buildings - its magnificent monuments and structures. The book will throw light on many nuances of the city’s priceless and intriguing past. The ten... |
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Dilip K. Chakrabarti |
The Battle for Ancient India - An Essay in the Sociopolitics of Indian Archeology |
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| A number of issues regarding the study of ancient India have recently emerged in the public domain. The most important of them are the saraswati project, Aryan invasion theory, the textbook controversy in India and California and the language of the Indus civilization. The intensity of debate on each of these issues is reminiscent of religious clashes. Much of this debate is also not limited to professional historians and archeologists. The mass of data and opinions, which are currently... |
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John S. Strong |
The Legend of King Asoka |
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| This is the first English translation of the Asokavadana text, the Sanskrit version of the legend of King Asoka, first written in the second century A.D. Emperor of India during the second century B.C. and one of the most rulers in the history of Buddhism. Asoka has hithero been studied in the West primarily from his edicts and rock inscriptions in many parts of the Indian subcontinent. Through an extensive critical essay and a fluid translation, John Strong examines the importance of the Asoka... |
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Braja Kishore Swain |
The Voice of Verdict: A study on Vyavahara-Dharma in Dharmasastra |
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| The books contains au analysis of ancient Indian law in twenty one chapters. From the first chapter to fourth chapter concept of law and legal procedure are vividly discussed. From the fifth chapter to seventeenth chapter various subjects relating to debt, adoption, trade and commerce, community organisation etc., are critically analysed. From the eighteenth chapter to twentieth chapter a comparitive study of law of inheritance according to Kautilya and Yajnavalkya is made. In the twenty first... |
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John Butler |
Travels and Adventures in the province of Assam, During a Residence of Fourteen Years |
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| Originally published in 1855, this work is a sequel to A Sketch of Assam and describes the habits, customs and manners of the remaining wild tribes of the hills, viz. Angahmee, Nagahs, Kookies, Meekirs, and Rengma Nagahs, with whom a lengthened residence rendered the author intimately acquainted.
The adventures and travels will also illustrate the life of an officer in the employ of Assam. |
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John Crook |
Yogins of Ladakh |
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| It investigates the social anthropology of the area through studies of
village life. Further it enquires the social organisations, history,
meditational practices and philosophy of the yogins who still lived and
practised in the remote parts of the area. This study is a record of author's
findings about Ladakhi Yogins.
In 1977 prof. Crook led an expedition to Zangskar in Ladakh initiating a series of studies on the ecology of village and monastic life in the Buddhist Himalayas. During... |
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S.P. Sharma |
Fairs & Festivals of India: Unfolding the Colourful Heritage of India |
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| Hinduism remains the oldest religion in the world. It has, over the years, continued to assimilate within itself different sects, creeds and castes, along with their respective customs, traditions, culture and mode of worship, forming a formidable amalgam of astonishing vitality and dynamism.
The secret of Hinduism’s successful survival can be traced to the imaginative and colourful celebration of its festivals by the people. These joyous occasions of festivals have a powerful impact on the... |
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Shakti M. Gupta |
Plant Myths and Traditions in India |
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| Trees and plants play an important part in the myths and customs of India. Many are considered holy, often for reasons that are lost in the mists of antiquity - they are associated and identified with Gods, planets, months, etc. - certain plants are used as protection against witchcraft and the evil eye - some plants bring luck and are offered in the temples - and others play an important part in other religious rites. These traditions and myths form an important aspect of the Indian’s... |
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V.K. Jain |
Prehistory and Protohistory of India |
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| Fresh excavations, new dating techniques and ever-growing conceptual frame-works since 1950 have greatly reshaped our perspective on Prehistory and Protohistory of the Indian subcontinent. This monograph, which is primarily aimed to serve as a starter for the undergraduate and postgraduate students, presents, in a concise but comprehensive manner, a syncretic view of the latest information on various aspects such as tools and technologies, settlement and subsistence patterns, ecological... |
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R.K. Ramakrishnan |
Ravana and Lanka |
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| This title is a critical and historical analysis of Ravana and geographical identification of Lanka. Lanka is popularly believed to be the home of the Raksasas (demon). The Ramayana describes clearly about three clans of the Raksasas: Viradha, Danavas, and Raksasas. Raksasas were inhabitants of Lanka under the rule of Ravana. This work has been classified into seven chapters: the characteristic features of Ravana and his empire Lanka; ethnic history of Ravana's tribes; geographical... |
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Indu Sundaresan |
Shadow Princess  |
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| The Mughal Empire is crumbling. With the death of his beloved queen Mumtaz, Emperor Shah Jahan slowly loses interest in everything, confining himself to his bed, while his sons conspire and scheme to gain control of the empire. Princess Jahanara is only seventeen when the weight of the imperial zenana is thrust upon her. Shah Jahan’s favourite daughter, she is the most important woman in the harem and is forced to remain at the Mughal court all her life, caught up in the intrigues and power... |
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Prabodh Kumar Mishra |
Archaeology of Mayurbhanj |
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| This book delves into the rich antiquity of Mayurbhanj as evident in its archaeological discoveries. It discusses how the patronage of enlightened rulers helped archaeologist-scholars like K.P. Bose to unravel Mayurbhanj's ancient wealth.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Historical background
Archaeology of Haripur
Archaeology of Khicing
Epilogue
Postscript
Visuals
Appendix
Bibliography
Index. |
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P.R. Ramachandra Rao |
Alampur: A Study in Early Chalukyan Art |
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| These discoveries establish the Alampur temples to be the proto-types originated and developed by the Chalukyas in their hegemony at Aihole, Pattadakal and Badami in Karnataka, independently of any proximate Gupta influence.
Also, importantly, by the transmission of influences through the political incursions of the Chalukyan kings into the Kalinga territory (historic orissa), its famed temples at Mukhalingam were mediately derived. |
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K. Krishna Murthy |
Archaeology of Indian Musical Instruments |
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| This book is a study of the different varieties of musical instruments delineated in the early Indian plastic art. It discusses in detail each item of the musical instruments under the classification. |
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Claude Arpi |
Born in Sin: The Panchsheel Agreement |
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| The Sacrifice of Tibet: A hundred years ago a young British Colonel, Francis Younghusband entered the holy city of Lhasa and forced upon the Tibetans their first Agreement with the mighty British empire. In signing this treaty with the Crown, Tibet was acknowledged as a separate nation by the British. Ten years later, London called for a tripartite Conference in Simla to settle the issue: British India, Tibet and China sat together at a negotiation table for the first time.... |
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Frank Van Den Bossche |
Elements of Jaina Geography |
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| The present work provides a critical edition and translation of the
Jambudvipasamgrahani of Haribhadra Suri (c. 1123 A.D.) together with its
Sanskrit commentary by Prabhananda Suri.
The Jambudvipasamgrahani is one of the minor (Laghu) texts of Jaina Geography
wirtten in standard Maharastri. It consists of thirty gathas and
describes the structure of Jambudvipa in a very concise manner.
Together with its commentary it was one of the primary sources used by W.... |
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Claude Arpi |
India and Her Neighbourhood |
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| For the past 30 years, Claude Arpi has been a keen observer of the political developments in India and her neighbourhood. In the early 90’s, he started has writing on current affairs in the region, sharing with his readers his research on the history of the subcontinent.
This series of articles published over a span of ten years covers subjects as diverse as the Dalai Lama’s non-violent struggle for Tibet’s ‘genuine autonomy’, the rise of China, the Kashmir imbroglio and the relations between... |
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Irfan habib |
India-Studies in the History of an Idea |
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| What India means may elicit different answers from people today. The answers that might have been given a thousand, two thousand or three thousand years ago would have been possibly quite different.
This volume explores how notions of India have grown: even as a geographical expression the notion (under whatever name) took time to form. Political factors and cultural diffusion both helped in the formation. Nor is the role of outsiders in looking at India as country with some identifiable... |
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K. D. Sethna |
The Problem of Aryan Origins: From an Indian Point of View |
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| This research work is a challenge to the historical orthodoxy that believes in the dogma of an Aryan invasion of the Indian subcontinent around the middle of the second millennium B.C..
The author, with the help of the insight provided by Sri Aurobindo in this subject, has mustered a host of arguments archaeological, literary and linguistic, in order to establish his thesis that contrary to the belief of an Aryan invasion of a Dravidian country, the presence of Dravido-Aryanism or... |
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John Garrett |
A Classical Dictionary of India |
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| This Dictionary attempts to unfold all that anyone would want to know about Vedic, post-Vedic and classical India: its religions, mythology, pantheonic/legendary personages, schools of philosophy, sacred and secular texts, arts, antiquities, sciences, geography, rituals, customs, and the like. These besides, the dictionary includes English equivalents and definitions of a myriad of Indic (largely Sanskrit) terms.
For authenticity, the late John Garrett had drawn on key eminent Orientalists:... |
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Dr. N.N. Bhattacharyya |
History of the Tantric Religion |
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| The book studies the different aspects of Tantrism, its vastness and intricacies, its heterogeneous and contradictory elements and gives a historical perspective to the conglomeration of ideas and practices through space and time. It also incorporates a review of Tantric art and a glossary of technical terms. Tantrism, both traditional and Buddhist, with its vast literature containing intricate ritualistic and philosophical details occupies an important place in the religious and cultural life... |
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Bettina Baumer |
Kalatattvakosa (Vol. 3): Primal Elements Mahabhuta |
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| Kalatattvakosa series of the IGNCA has endeavoured to evolve an important modern device to grasp the essential thought and knowledge system of the Indian tradition. Through an indepth investigation into the primary sources of various disciplines the series aims at facilitating the reader to comprehend the interlocking of different disciplines. Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan former Academic Director of IGNCA Has provided the conceptual framwork to the whole project. Prof. Ramesh Chandra Sharma a... |
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Bettina Baumer |
Kalatattvakosa: Manifestation of Nature Srsti Vistara (Vol. 4) |
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| Kalatattvakosa series of the IGNCA has endeavoured to evolve an important modern device to grasp the essential thought and knowledge system of the Indian tradition. Through an indepth investigation into the primary sources of various disciplines the series aims at facilitating the reader to comprehend the interlocking of different disciplines. The present volume: Srsti-Vistara is the fourth in the series. It contains the seminal terms which are complementary to the primal elements (mahabhuta)... |
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K.L. Kalla |
Saints of Kashmir: A Galaxy |
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| Saints, sages, seers, mystics and savants belong to all religions from ancient times. The Saints of India i.e. Adi Shankra Charya, Valmiki, Tulsi Das, Kabir Das, Ravidas, Parmahans Ram Krishen, Vivekananda, Yoga Nand, Sai Baba, Satya Sai Baba, Mahesh Yogi, Ram Tirath, Asa Ramji etc., preached the essential tenets of the Vedas, Upanishads, Purans and Gita. Their aim has been to propagate spirituality in order to make the Humanity God-fearing and noble and also, the world as a heaven, in this age... |
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Isaac Taylor |
The Origin of the Aryans |
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S.A.A.Rizvi |
The Wonder That Was India (Vol. II) |
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| The Wonder that was India - Volume II is a groundbreaking enquiry into the history of India during the period of Islamic political dominance in the subcontinent. Through meticulous research and painstaking study Rizvi pieces together a comprehensive account of the five hundred years between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, detailing the political histories of the Arbas. From his exploration for the social and economic conditions, the state, religion and the fine arts, a... |
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Nonoru Karashima |
A Concordance of Nayakas |
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| In the history of the Nayakas of the Vijayanagar kingdom, in South India, the period from 1326 to 1675 is particularly important. The Nayaka system was dominant from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. The Nayakas were key state administrators, functionaries, and revenue collectors and as such were liable to be transferred. Although they played a very important administrative role, there are no detailed studies on them except those on some big families. This detailed statistical... |
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Ghulam Yahya |
Crafting Traditions |
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| Our knowledge of Indian society during British rule in the nineteenth century has rested primarily on the voluminous records of the East India Company, the works of various Europeans, the writings of many civil servants of the Company and the accounts of Indians writing in this period. Interesting first-hand and very useful alternative sources are writings of Indians produced on request or assignment by company administrators. Such accounts are by no means readily available; they were probably... |
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Shridhar B. Shrotri |
The Religion of the Veda |
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| The work is complete in four chapters preceded by an introduction discussing in detail the sources, viz., the Vedas, brahmanas and Sutras.
Translation of Oldenberg's classic German work on Vedic religious beliefs, cults and customs. trans. by Shridhar B. Shrotri. Represents the best of orientalist scholarship. |
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Sadanandam |
Art And Culture Of Marginalised Nomadic Tribes In Andhra Pradesh |
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| India is rich in its oral tradition. Its antiquity defies historical inquiry. Indian folklore offers diversity in the forms of expression while retaining the unity of theme, i.e. Dharma. The forms may be changing periodically to suit the times. The purpose of these popular art forms has been the same in a way as the classical arts. They provide education through entertainment. Andhra Desa, comprising roughly the present state of Andhra Pradesh, is the very significant in its folk tradition in... |
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D.C. Sircar |
Indian Epigraphical Glossary |
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| The interested world of scholars is sure to receive with gratitude this latest work from the erudite pen of Prof. D.C. Sircar who has opened up for us new vistas in the study of Indian antiquities. Prof. Sircar`s Indian Epigraphical Glossary, characterised by a wide sweep of vision based on a meticulous attention to details, is a contribution of the utmost importance. Here one finds an embarras de richesses in a comprehensive dictionary of technical expressioins found in documents embracing... |
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H.D. Sharma |
100 Significant Pre-Independence Speeches 1858 - 1947 |
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| The nine decades between 1858 and 1947 were an important time for India. The country was awakening to new realities, trying to shape her own destiny and was inching her way to freedom. In the process was produced a galaxy of statesmen, social reformers and freedom fighters who were not just exceptional people, but brilliant orators as well. Starting with Queen Victoria’s ‘Proclamation’ and ending with Jawaharlal Nehru’s famous ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech, this book brings together some of the... |
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Motilal Pandit |
Encounter with buddhism |
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| The main purpose of writing this book is not only to explain, but also to interpret, the three phases of development of Buddhist thought in India, and how and in what manner it spread out to countries as far away from the land of its origin as Japan. Though the subject may be vast, a conscious effort has been made to explain the complexity of Buddhist philosophical thought in as concise terms as possible.The first five hundred years, which constitute the initial phase of development, is that of... |
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Samarendra narayan Arya |
History of Pilgrimage in Ancient India |
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| The book outlines the origin and development of the practice of pilgrimage in India between AD 300 and 1200 and draws extensively on epigraphic and literary data particularly the Puranic corpus to delineate the growing popularity of the ritual, spatially and chronologically.
Viewing religion as part of the social process, it seeks to explore linkages between new religious trends and changes taking place in the material conditions of life. Although there are a few references to pilgrimage... |
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Dr. Myneni Krishna Kumari |
Kings, Gods And People |
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| A Significant feature of this volume is the critical analysis of archaeological and historical sources relating to the specific issues of cultural history with special reference to Andhra region.
Besides the historical sources, the oral traditions and folkloristic materials provide substantial materials for the better understanding of the culture of the people on which certain historical generalizations can be made. Further, it allows for a range of historical interpretations especially... |
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K. D. Sethna |
Ancient India in a New Light |
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| Broadly serves as a sequel to The Problem of Aryan Origins and Karpasa in Prehistoric India. The author effectively challenges the modern chronology.
Part One "lays out the traditional-Puranic scheme of Indian history and focuses on a crucial problem in India of the 4th century B.C. for which the Puranically derived answer oposes the current solution very impresively. It goes on to drive the modern chronologist into a corner from which there seems to be no logical escape."... |
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H.L. Sharma |
Basic Principles of Natural & Medical Science in Vedas and Puranas |
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| Contents:
Introduction
Prologue
Foreward
AcknowledgementAbbreviations
Alphabets Sanskrit
Part I- Developments of Natural Sciences in India
Historical Study of Natural Sciences in The Ancient India
Development and Tradition of Physics
Development and Tradition of Chemistry
Development and Tradition of Zoology
Development and Tradition of Botany
Development and Tradition of Medical Knowledge
Development and Tradition of Veterinary Sciences
Part II- Pre-Clinical... |
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Hananya Goodman |
Between Jerusalem and Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism and Hinduism |
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| This book represents the first serious attempt by a group of eminent scholars of Judaic and Indian studies to take seriously the cross-cultural resonances among the Judaic and Hindu traditions. |
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K. D. Sethna |
Problems of Ancient India |
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| In this collection of essays the author re-examines available evidence relating to various events in the history of the Indian sub-continent, shedding new light on old problems. With his original handling of existing data he convincingly points out subtle weaknesses in the received wisdom relating to the location and chronology of certain historical events as reflected in modern textbooks.
A sampling of the essay titles best conveys the wide range of material analysed:
The Aryans, the... |
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Prashant Srivastava |
The Apracharajas: A History Based on Coins and Inscriptions |
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| The monograph aims at highlighting the significant role played by the family of the Apracha kings in ancient Indian history, and at connecting this family of the Apracha kings with the Asvaka tribe. The work is divided into six chapters. Chapter one deals with the history of the family of the Apracha kings. The members of this family acted as subordinate rulers and strategoi, first under the Indo Greeks and subsequently under the Saka-Pahlavas, till finally Sasan was able to establish himself... |
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Yogi Ramacharaka |
The Inner Teachings of the Philosophy and Religion of India |
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| This books deals with the inner teachings of the Philosophy and Religion of India. It takes about the contribution of India to the world in terms of language, philosophy through Vedas and Upanishads, spirituality, the theory of the one Supreme Soul, etc. The sankhya system. The meaning of the term ?Sankhya?, the basic proposition of the sankhya System, which is known as Prakriti and Purusha have been discussed in detail. Advaita school of Vedanta, founded by Sankaracharya, Vishishtadvaita... |
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Donald H. Bishop(Ed.) |
Chinese Thought |
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| As China comes on the world stage again, people are increasingly becoming
interested in the philosophies and philosophers of that ancient land. The
Chinese philosophical tradition is a long and venerable one. It consists of
several streams--Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism and
post Neo-Confucianism. Their flow has been sustained by numerous
personages--Confucius, Lao Tzu, Mo Tzu, Mencius, Hsun Tzu, Han Fei, Chou Tun-i,
Chu Hsi, Wang Yang-ming and K'ang... |
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Anthony Kennedy Warder |
A Course in Indian Philosophy |
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| The present volume appears to be the first general introduction, for English-reading students, to that which, in Indian tradition, corresponds to 'philosophy' in British and probably in most other English-speaking universities. It shows how Indian philosophers have posed such questions as whether we can be sure we 'know' anything, whether words 'mean' anything, whether it is possible to generalise from observed regularities in nature and whether there is anything in nature, or in 'reality',... |
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Patrick Olivelle |
Asoka: In History and Historical Memory |
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| The current volume, which contains the presentations at a symposium sponsored by the South Asia Institute and the Department of Asian Studies of the University of Texts at Austin (February 4, 2006) is intended to advance the study of Asoka both as history and historical memory.
The authors of these papers take as historically significant not only the "historical truth" of Asoka but also the ways in which Asoka presents himself and his political, nationalistic, and religious purposes by... |
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Richard Lannoy |
Benares A World within a World |
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| This book is the most inclusive presentation of Benraras city ever attempted. It is the fruit of a lifelong interest in Benaras from 1953 until the present day by an author well known for his unusual combination of reflective thought, scholarship and poetic sensibility. This book shows the metaphysical substructure of the city organized as a microcosm of the universe. Also the extremely ancient cults of the pillar and the sun-wheel survive and continue to underpin the society's ritual calendar... |
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Frits Staal |
Discovering the Vedas: Origins, Mantras, Rituals, Insights |
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| This is a remarkable book. It untangles the many complexities of the Vedas and combines Staal’s scholarly respect for the texts, with explanations that are lucid and occasionally witty. His insights are thoughtful and perceptive. Romila Thapar In this unprecedented guide to the Vedas, Frits Staal, and the celebrated author of Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar and Universals: Studies in Indian Logic and Linguistics examines almost every aspect of these ancient sources of Indic... |
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A.K. Warder |
Indian Buddhism |
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| This book describes the Buddhism of India on the basis of the comparison of all the available original sources in various languages. It falls into three approximately equal parts. The first is a reconstruction of the original Buddhism presupposed by the traditions of the different schools known to us. It uses primarily the established methods of textual criticism, drawing out of the oldest extant texts of the different schools their common kernel. This kernel of doctrine is presumably common... |
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G C Pande |
Life & Thought of Sankaracarya |
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| The present work is based on a critical study of all the available sources in the original and attempts a historical reconstruction of Sankara's life and work. The ideas of Sankara have been generally interpreted in the light of later Advaitic and monastic tradition.
The present work, following the lead of recent critical scholarship, seeks to discover the original ideas of Sankara on the basis of his genuine works and discusses them in the light of his relationship to his predecessors, the... |
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V.V. Mirashi |
Literary and Historical Studies in Indology |
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| Literary and Historical Studies in Indology contains twenty-seven articles grouped under four sections. The first section has nine articles on various topics dealing with Indian literature and history.
This is the fifth collection of the research articles of Dr. Mirashi, dealing with various problems of Sanskrit literature, ancient Indian history, art and architecture. |
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Kenneth G.Zysk |
Medicine in the Veda: Religious Healing in the Veda (Soft Cover) |
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| Tracing the history and evolution of Indian medicine is a complex enterprise. Continuties of doctrine and practice rarely occur, preventing historian from positing an unbroken succession of development from earliest time. Until now most commentary has focused on later stages of Indian medical science that feature approximate analogies to the Hippocratic and Gaelic systems. This volume looks back to the earliest period (1200-200 B.C.) in which a clearly discernible medical... |
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Kamlesh Sharma |
The Gems of Vedic Wisdom |
$31.99 $22.39 |
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| The study of Vedas is essential for everyone who desires to acquire complete knowledge about God, soul and the world. Vedas are indispensable for attainment of peace, prosperity in the life. Vedas advocate the establishment of world peace based on spiritual foundation which is the most important need today in this conflict torn world and the mad rat-race of obtaining superiority over others. Universal love and friendship are the basics of the Vedas.
All actions of human beings are covered by... |
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W.L. M’Gregor |
The History of the Sikhs |
$31.99 $22.39 |
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| Written by a British army surgeon who participated in the military campaign to consolidate colonial rule over Punjab - the land of the five rivers - this mid-nineteenth century document is more than a fascinating source book for a significant period of Sikh history. Rich in anecdotes and eye-witness accounts,
The History of the Sikhs also opens a window into the British mind - the way the conquerors understood the people they tried to subdue and the land they conquered. This... |
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M. R. Kale |
The Mrichchhakatika of Sudraka |
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| Among the known dramatic composition of ancient India, the Mrichchhakatika occupies a very high and distinguished position. It is a creation of outstanding brilliance. The Mrichchhatika is a drama in ten Acts based on the story of the love of Charudatta, a prominent but poor inhabitant of Ujjayini, and Vasantasena, an exquisitely beautiful but pure-minded courtesan of the city. By virtue of its high dramatic charm and its great literary excellence it has endeared itself to generations of... |
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Heinz Werner Wessler |
The Avatars of Modernity |
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| Containing contributions by Indian and Western scholars side by side and covering the period from Vasco da Gama's arrival in India to the present day, this book attempts to explore the complicated processes of Indian identity formation from both an Indian and a Western perspective. Not only the history, language and literatures of India, but also more specific aspects of modern India are analyzed as markers of this process.
About the Authors:Dr. Heinz Werner Wessler, academic... |
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Kamala Subramanian |
Mahabharata |
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| The Mahabharata is not a mere epic; it is a romance, telling the tale of heroic men and women and of some who were divine; it is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival; but, above all, it has for its core with Gita, which is, as the world is beginning to find out, the nobles of scriptures and the grandest of sagas the climax of which is reached in the wondrous... |
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R.N. Sharma(Ed.) |
Manusmrti : Sanskrit text with English translation of M.N. Dutt, Index of Slokas and Critical Notes |
$32.49 $22.74 |
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| The Manu-smrti stands foremost among the principal works of its class. It has always been a work of universal authority. It has served as a veritable storehouse of information for social, cultural, political and religious life of the people. It contained the very essence of later Hinduism. Its study is imperative for the proper understanding of Indian culture. In fact the period represented by the Manusmrti holds a key to the understanding of the entire and subsequent social history of India.... |
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Bimala Charan Law |
Some Ksatriya tribes of Ancient India |
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| The most pressing need at the present day is the detailed investigation of carefully chosen aspects of Indian history, and it was a happy thought of Dr. Bimala Charan Law to select for investigation the history of certain Ksatriya tribes of ancient India. Many things are obscure in the history of these tribes, and it is of special value to have the whole of the facts regarding them set out, without parti pris, in a spirit of scientific research.
The entire volume is to present a narrative of... |
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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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Rene De Nebesky-Wojkowitz |
Oracles and Demons of Tibet |
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| This book, a reprint of a long out-of-print study sheds fascinating insights on the occult secrets of Tibetan mysticism. It details the classification, appearance, and attributes of the Tibetan protective deities, their iconography, sacrifices, ceremonies, oracles, ritual dances, black magic and their cult of weather making.
Table of Contents:
Part I: The Iconography of the Protective Deities
The Protective Deities. Their Classification, Appearance and Attributes
A. The... |
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Snigdha Tripathy |
Inscriptions of Orissa (Vol. 1) |
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| The present volume, the result of the intellectual labour, covers a subject of immense value for those interested in the reconstruction of ancient and mediaeval history and culture of Orissa, the major part of which is still in darkness. Based on the original documents in the form of copper plate and stone records, discovered from different parts of Orissa, it presents almost a complete picture of the history and culture of the period (C.A.D. 5th-8th century A.D.) in Orissa as part of the wider... |
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E. Jaiwant Paul |
Arms and Armour Traditional Weapons Of India |
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| A soldier values his sword almost as much as his life and a Rajput's most powerful and binding oath was by his sovereign's throne (gadi ki an) or by his arms (ya sil ki an) or by his sword and shield (dhal talwar ki an).Akbar's swords had names and ranks assigned to them and these were sent by rotation each night to his bed chamber. This book traces the development of the weapons of the Indian warrior, from the earliest to modern times, and also provides illustrations of a wide variety of the... |
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Charles Willemen |
Essence of Scholasticism |
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| The Essence of Scholasticism is a meditation manual, leading to arhatship. It is the Gandharan cultural area, i.e. Bactria. Brobably composed in the first century BCE, it was commented on and elaborated in several sastras, the best known being the Abhidharmakosabhasya of the fifth century.
The Essence and the Astagrantha are the basic treatises of the non-Vailbhasika sarvastivadins, i.e. of the sautrantikas, of the Gandharan cultural area. These texts were translated in China in the fourth... |
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Claude Arpi |
The Fate of Tibet |
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| This book is an in-depth study of the origins of the fate of a nation.
It begins from the time Buddhism was introduced in Tibet. It studies the evolution of the Priest-Patron Relationship with the Mongol Khans and later the Manchu Dynasty. It observes the effect of the appearance, in the eighteenth, of a new player on the stage: the British Empire with its 'large insect' expansionist policies and its rivalry with the Russian Empire.
It looks at the conservative attitude of the Tibetan... |
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Bertil Tikkanen |
Themes and Tasks in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan Linguistics |
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| The present volume contains twelve of the sixteen papers presented at the Linguistics Section of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference (Helsinki, Finland, 13-18 July, 2003) T
he papers span a wide range of topics and time depth, extending from Common Indo-Iranian all the way to Modern Indo-Aryan. The problems and tasks addressed in these contributions pertain to the historical phonology of Sanskrit, Vedic morphosyntax, the evolutionary morphosyntax of Indo-Aryan, the syntax of... |
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R.G. Bhandarkar |
Study of Philology |
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| This book deals with various aspects of philology. Modern vernaculars of Northern India are also included. This book delivers a course of seven lectures on Sanskrit in its several forms, the Pali and the Dialects of the period, the Prakrits and the Apabhramsa, Phonology of the Vernaculars, Remnants of the older Grammatical Forms in the Vernaculars, New Grammatical Formations to supply the place of the forms that have disappeared and General Questions as to the relation between several... |
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Pramote Seangpolsit |
Other Religions of the World |
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| From the very beginning of man's life, the Religion (Dharma) has played a key role in his daily behaviours and progress. In its broad meaning, the Religion (Dharma) is adoption of goodness; it carries with it the spirit of all welfare. What we take to be religious on the earth are, in fact, religious-communities and each of them directs its followers to lead life in a separate way based on some eternal value foremostly. Because that eternal value also incorporates goodness in it, all... |
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Prof. Kittu Reddy |
A Vision of United India: Problems and Solutions |
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| Sri Aurobindo said on 15 August 1947 regarding the partition of India, "This must not be; the partition must go."
This book is an attempt to trace the political history of India from the ancient times to the modern day. It looks at the partial success and failure of unification in the past and tries to analyse the causes of the failure. Great importance has been given to the psychological and deeper cultural unity, which is the foundation of political unity.
Suggestions have been made to... |
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Satya Prakash Singh |
Life and Vision of Vedic Seers, 1 Visvamitra |
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| Life and vision of Vedic seers is a series aiming at reconstructing lives and thought contents of prominent Vedic seers so that they may emerge out in their individual capacities as great contributors to the history of human vision, ideation and understanding. The series is intended to cover as many seers as possible.
This is the first volume of the series dealing with the life and attainments of Visvamitra, the seer of the sacred Gayatri Mantra. It retraces penetratively the contours of... |
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Satya Prakash Singh |
Life and Vision of Vedic Seers: Dirghatamas |
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| About the Author:
Born in the year 1934 near Varanasi, Prof. Satya Prakash Singh is a product of the Banaras Hindu University as also a D. Litt of the Aligarh Muslim University. Having served the Aligarh Muslim University as a Lecturer, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, he retired as Chairman of the Department of Sanskrit in 1994. He has also served as Director of the Dharam Hinduja International Centre of Indic Research, Delhi for a period of four years.
Presently... |
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Pema Dorjee |
Stupa and Its Technology: A Tibeto-Buddhist Perspective |
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| Among all the religious monuments of the world, the stupa has the longest uninterrupted historical development. Though modelled after the Indian prototype, the stupa architecture was developed in all the countries where Buddhism had flourished. Over time, the structural shape of the stupa underwent significant modifications in India and the other Asian Buddhist countries.
The present study shows how Tibet became a treasure house of Buddhist culture and literature--highlighting important texts... |
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Bansi Pandit |
The Hindu Mind |
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| Hinduism is the oldest surviving religion on the world. The religions and philosophical literature of Hinduism is vast, diverse and covers thousands of years of accumulated spiritual experiences of Hindu Saints and Seers. This book presents the fundamentals of Hindu religions and philosophical thought in a logical and straightforward manner. The purpose being, to create a story book for further study of Hinduism.
About the Author:
Bansi Pandit, nuclear engineer by profession, Kriya... |
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Balraj Puri |
Muslims of India Since Partition |
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| After 1947, Muslims of India acquired a different form, in terms of their role, status, problems, challenges and opportunities. The partition of the country divided them in two and later three parts and led their political, bureaucratic and intellectual elite to migrate to Pakistan.
The expert opinion was divided about their very future. W.C. Smith, a renowned scholar of Islam, for instance, believed that Islam in India would emerge as more progressive, dynamic, liberal and... |
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Bezbaruah, M P |
The Guest Is God: Reflections On Tourism |
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| The book is a kaleidoscope of the tourism issues of the New Millennium. Global regional, national and local concerns relating to the biggest industry of the world, logically, forcefully presented by the author over the years before international and national audiences, are now edited and beautifully interwoven in this collection.
A special feature of the book is a study of the tourism development in India's NE-commonly called the Paradise Unexplored.
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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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Bhupender Heera |
Impact of Buddhism on Socio-Religious Life of the Asian People |
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| Buddhism is an ancient religion that spread across Asia in a matter of centuries and had a rare kind of influence on the social and religious life of the Asian peoples. The volume stresses on the social and cultural transformation brought about by Buddhism when the royalty in these countries adopted the religion and propagated it.
It deals with Sri Lanka's evolution into a stronghold of Theravada Buddhism and China and Tibet's contribution to the Mahayana and Tantrayana Buddhist traditions.... |
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Prof. G.C. Nayak |
Reflections on Indian Wisdom: Philosophical Perspectives |
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| Reflections on Indian Wisdom is a stimulative survey of different aspects of Indian wisdom and philosophy and it contains seventeen reflective essays by reputed Indological researchers, both from India and abroad. The issues raised in the essays pertain to metaphysics, theology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language and socio-political philosophy.
The book constitutes the literary tributes from the admirers, colleagues and pupils of Prof. G.C. Nayak, one of the foremost Indologist of... |
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D.R. Khanna |
Science in Veda |
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| Vedas are considered as an ocean of knowledge. Every bit of Vedas is very important each stanza, each line, each word has a significant meaning to it. For the language also supports its purpose. It is said that Sanskrit is the only nearest language which could be used to explain or describe anything clearly and specifically. It is the only Vedic Dharma where religion and Science go in hand to hand. The Vedas contain in them the gems of all true sciences.
The book science in Veda deals with... |
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Dipak Kumar Barua |
An Analytical Study of Four Nikayas |
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| The first four Nikaya-texts are of inestimable value since they provide important source materials to study the religious/cultural history of the contemporary period. Because they vividly present the daily life of the people of ancient India, they are, from the sociological point of view, of utmost significance. The importance of the Nikayas can neither be gainsaid nor exaggerated. In this book an attempt has been made to introduce the first four Nikaya texts in their entirety.The book is... |
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S. Kalyanaraman |
Indian Alchemy: Soma in the Veda |
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| The book is an epoch-making work-a paradigm-shift in Vedic studies-which identifies soma as electrum (god-silver metallic compound). Soma is referred to in the Rgveda as the should of the Yajna (atmayajnasya).
The path-breaking identification is based on textual evidence and a penetrating analysis of the Indian alchemical tradition, spanning nearly five millennia. The author is also the discoverer of the integrating role played by the mighty Sarasvati river adored in the Rgveda as the best of... |
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Robert H. Lowie |
Primitive Society |
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| "Robert Lowie belongs to that era of anthropology when the subject was beginning to identify itself as a 'scientific discipline'. The school of American cultural tradition, established by his mentor Franz Boas, who had introduced the concept of cultural relativism and the earlier school of evolutionism, was under severe criticism in as much as it graded human cultures. The term 'primitive' is borrowed from this earlier era although its philosophical meaning may not be the same."First... |
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Levi S. Jacob |
Judaism |
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| Around 1800 BCE a man named Abraham entered the world stage in ancient Mesopotamia. He revolutionised the concept of religion, which till then, comprised mainly of Nature worship and veneration of numerous gods, Proclaiming belief in one God, his beliefs embodied the fundamental principles, ethics and morality of a religion that came to be known a Judaism.
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Khadi: The Fabric of Freedom |
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| Contents:
Foreword/Andreas Reinhart.
Reflections on Khadi/Asha Sarabhai
From a different cloth/Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Khadi – the thread of inner silence/Rta Kapur-Chishti
Photo essay/Manuel Bauer/Lookat
Hand-spun and hand-woven : cotton Khadi in the new millennium/Rahul Jain
Introduction
Cotton Species and cultivation :
Cotton cultivation in India
Cotton varieties in India
The structure and properties of cotton fibre :
Chemical composition... |
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Shonar |
Of Past Dawns and Future Noons |
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| Ancient India achieved and contributed in almost every field of human endeavour in ways that were bewildering for her time. Although much has been written on Indian culture and history, an attempt has been made here at a fresh approach.
Practically all areas of human interest – architecture, sculpture, painting, handicrafts, dance, theatre, music, education, literature, politics, war, science, agriculture, medicine, religion – have been studied and presented.
Historical, yet not burdened... |
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Prof L.S. Rathore |
The Regal Patriot: Maharaja Ganga Singh Of Bikaner |
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| The princely states of pre-independent India threw up many charismatic leaders, political stalwarts and influential princes. Among the more dynamic was Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner (1880-1943).
Inheriting a strife-ridden kingdom as a mere adolescent of eighteen, Ganga Singh showed a leadership and wisdom well beyond his years, successfully reigning in warring factions and carving out a meticulous, and far sighted plan of progress for Bikaner, which he executed with remarkable success.... |
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T. Ganesan |
Two Saiva Teachers of the Sixteenth Century |
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| This book is a complete analytical study of all the œuvres of Nigamajñana I and his nephew-cum-disciple Nigamajñana II. This study aims at bringing to limelight the great contributions made by these two teachers in the sixteenth century for the consolidation, elaboration and propagation of the Saivasiddhanta religious system and philosophical doctrines.
For the first time the contents of all the available texts of these two Saiva teachers in Sanskrit and Tamil, of which many are unpublished,... |
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S. N. Pandey |
Economic History of Modern India |
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| The studies on economic history of modern India had a very late beginning. During the early stage of historiography, a few historians recognized the connection between political and economic history remained a chapter on economic conditions only. Causes and effects of economy were never and analyzed. This book attempts to fill that gap.
Examining the characteristic of a colonial economy, the book discusses the process of colonizing Indian economy, with speared focus on monopolistic trade... |
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P. V. L. Narasimha Rao |
Kanchipuram: Land of Legends, Saints & Temples |
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| This is a heritage book which takes readers on a spiritual voyage of legends, mythology, saints, temples and dynasties. It presents vignettes of India's rich cultural background. As one of the seven mokshapuris (centers of salvation) and the nerve-centre of vedic schools, Kanchipuram has always been a role model. Adi Sankaracharya, brought religious renaissance in the country by providing a new meaning to sanatana dharma. He established the Kanchi Kamakotipeetham which continues to be a center... |
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Dr. Bimal Roy |
Sangiti Sabda Kosa |
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| Dealt in Bengali alphabetical order, it explains origin and evolution from Vedic Era, of Svaras, Srutis, Grammas, Murcchanas, Ragas, Talas, notation systems and later developments like Gharana Systems etc., along with all relevant words related to these, so that there is no need to look for them elsewhere. In this book, many technical terms of Arabic, Persian and western origin have found place.
About the Authors:
Smt. Chhaya Chatterjee had her initial training in music in... |
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Haripada Chakraborti |
The Light of the Upanisads |
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| Swami Vivekananda said " The Upanisads are the religious treatises of the highest importance and their place may be compared with that of the New Testament in the Christian world... and the Veda could be said to be the oldest Indo-European literary monument. Because of its antiquity the Veda stands at the head of Indian literature and hence no one who was not gained an insight into the Vedic literature can understand the spiritual value and culture of the Vedic people".
The present book is an... |
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Margaret and James Stutley |
A Dictionary of Hinduism |
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| This encyclopedic dictionary is indispensable to all those interested in Hinduism, whether specialist, student or general reader. The dictionary comprises around 2,500 romanised Sanskrit subject headings with their English equivalents, explanations and etymology. An index of English subjects with Sanskrit equivalents, and an extensive bibliography are appended.
The dictionary indexes and describes the mythology, folklore, religion, philosophy, literature and history of Hinduism over a period... |
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G.D. Gulati |
Central Asia under the Mongols |
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| This study deals with Central Asia under the Mongols. It begins with a critical survey of ecological factors and their impact in making Central Asia as a specific region. The author examines in details the rise of the Mongol power under Chingiz Khan and his successors. The work in particular unfolds the story of the growth of the Chaghataisí power in the region. Its focus is on the nature of ChaghataiñQaidu regime in Central Asia and also their relations with neighboring powers including China... |
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A.L.Basham |
History and Doctrines Of The Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion |
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| The book presents the history and the doctrines of the Ajivikas who formed a third heretical sect besides the sect of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism and that of Mahavira Vardhamana, the twenty fourth Tirthankara of the Jainas. The three heterodox sects react against the ritualistic creed of the Verdicts. The cult of Ajivikas was founded by Makkhali Gosal, the contemporary of Mahavira Vardhamana, on the basis of strict determinism with a belief in the all-embracing rule of Niyati... |
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B.M. Barua |
History of Pre-Buddhistic Indian Philosophy |
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| The present work is designed to survey the evolution of philosophical thought in the Vedic and post-Vedic periods preceding the rise of Jainism and Buddhism. The author has traced up the development of early Indian philosophy on divergent lines on the basis of the Rgveda, Atharvaveda, Aranyakas, the older Upanisads and the allied literature.
The author has exploited the original Indian sources and in defiance of several scholiasts has proved that the process of early Indian thought evolution... |
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A.M. Shastri |
India as Seen in the Kuttanimata of Damodara Gupta |
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| The Kuttani-mata of Damodaragupta is one of the few works in the history of classical Sanskrit literature the time and locale of the composition whereof can be ascertained with a fair degree of certainty. We learn from Kalhana that Damodaragupta occupied a high position under the Karkota-Naga king Jayapida Vinayaditya who ruled over Kashmir in the closing years of the eighth and early years of the ninth centuries A.D. A critical study of the internal evidence indicates that the work was... |
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A. L. Herman |
Influences of Ancient Hinduism on Early Christianity |
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| This is a work about influences and what "influences" means. Following an analysis of this elusive concept, A. L. Herman presents compelling evidence that the following hypothesis is testable, defendable, and probably true: that the Indus Valley religion with its Savior-God, Siva (2500-1800 B.C.E.), significantly influenced a Greek religion with its Savior-God, Jesus of Nazareth (50-300 C.E.), such that it can be meaningfully claimed that the religion of the Indus Valley civilization probably... |
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Ganpat Gompertz |
Magic Ladakh: Land of Topsy Turvy Customs & Natural Beauty |
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| The high Snows in general and Ladakh in particular, exercise an attraction which is irresistible if, reader, you like me, love the quainter corners, the quainter people of the world even if, like me, you refuse to believe that this trait of ours is du to forgotten lives of our own-then in exchange for an hour or two of your time I will try to show you, as much as can be shown through the medium of mere words, one of the most fascinating countries I have even seen-Ladakh, which I call... |
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Dominik Wujastyk |
Mathematics and Medicine in Sanskrit |
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| The chapters in this volume were originally presented in the panels on Scientific Literature at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference in Helsinki, Finland. They represent some of the most up-to-date scholarship on the history of early science in India being done today.
The first part of the book focuses on the history of mathematical commentaries and the role of illustration in Sanskrit mathematical manuscripts.
The second part of the book investigates fundamental ayurvedic theories, ayurvedic... |
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Margaret Stutley |
The Illustrated Dictionary of Hindu Iconography |
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| Indian art is becoming increasingly popular in the West, but it cannot be appreciated fully without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background. Margaret Stutley covers all aspects of Hindu iconography, and explains that its roots lie far back in the style of prehistoric art which has remained part of a living tradition for 7, 000 years and which resembles the folk murals of many Indian houses today. The dictionary demonstrates the rich profusion of cults, divinities,... |
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P N Oak |
World Vedic Heritage - A History of Histories (2-Vol Set) |
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| Table of Contents: World Vedic Heritage University Introduction to Second Edition Indignation and Indictment Novel Facts and Format The Unified Field Theory of History A New Framework for World History De-briefing and Disinfection How Much History Does the World Know? The Current Hodsge - Podge of History What Led Me to This Discovery The Five Thousand Year Barrier Basic Definition Theories About the Creation The Vedas Validity of Basic Concepts Concerning... |
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Yuvraj Krishan |
Ganesa: Unravelling an Enigma |
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| Ganesa commands universal respect among the indigenous religious schools and sects of the Hindus, Jainas and Buddhists. He is a god who is unique in many ways--his peculiar physiognomy, his double character, as a vighnakarta (creator of obstacles) and as a vighnaharta (remover of obstacles). He is worshipped first to ensure success of all religious and secular functions and enterprieses. GAnesa is also the god of dance and music.
The cult of Ganesa spread to various countries of Asia. The... |
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B. S. Harishankar |
Art and Arcchaeology of India |
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| Table of Contents:
Preface/S.P. Gupta
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Introduction
The early fossil hominds and related apes of siwalik foothills of the Himalayas (stages of pre-human evolution)/A.P. Khatri
Hominid fossils (stages of human evolution)/V.N. Misra
The pleistocene mammalian fossils of the Narmada River Valley and their horizons/A.P. Khatri
Looking at Indian art history/A.Model and S.P Gupta
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Palaeolithic period or old stone age
Neolithic period or new stone age
The... |
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Donald A. Mackenzie |
Indian Myth and Legend |
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| Indian Myth and Legend deals with the myths and legends of India,
which survive in the rich and abundant-storehouse of Sanskrit literature. The
reader is introduced to the various sacred works of the Hindus. The ancient
forest sages and poets of India invested the legendery themes and traditional
beliefs with beautiful symbolism and used them as mediums for speculative
thought and profound spiritual teaching. These ennobling ideas are still a
potent culturing influence in the... |
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Thomas Wilson |
Swastika the Earliest Known Symbol and its Migrations |
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| About the Book
The word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit svastika (in Devanagari, स्वस्तिक), meaning any lucky or auspicious object, and in particular a mark made on persons and things to denote good luck. It... |
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Samuel Beal |
Buddhist Records of the Western World |
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| Among the various travelogues, Hiuen Tsiang's Si-yu-ki or Records of the
Western World, is regarded to be the most valuable source-book for the study of
ancient Indian history. Si-yu-ki is not merely a travel-diary recording Hiuen
Tsiang's visit to various places in India and the places en route, but is also
an account of the conditions of India during the seventh century. This journey
was undertaken by Hiuen Tsiang primarily with a view to visiting the Buddhist
places of pilgrimage... |
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Johannes Beltz |
Mahar, Buddhist and Dalit |
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| Bhimrao Ambedkar born in a Mahar (of the untouchable caste) converted to Buddhism at Nagpur in Maharashtra in 1956. Buddhism was for him the only religion which could solve the problems of social inequality and caste. Thousands of untouchables in the State followed his example against their social exclusion. Today the majority of the Mahars (more than 5 million) consider themselves Buddhists.
The objective of this book is to analyse the discourses, representations, ritual practices and... |
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Adalbert J. Gail, Gerd J.R. Mevissen and Richard Salomon |
Script and Image |
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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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Susmit Pani |
Gandhi Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan on Bhagavadgita |
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| The book analyses the treatment of Bhagavadgita by three important thinkers to Modern India, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi and Radhakrishnan. Bhagavadgita is the essence of Indian philosophical and religious textual heritage, acceptable and intelligible to vast range of readers. Through out the ages saints and scholars have commented on it. Sri Aurobindo, Gandhi and Radhakrishnan have been chosen as representative thinkers of the 20th century. Sri Aurobindo was associated with the extremist... |
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Mahendra Nath Sircar |
Life, Thought and Mysticism in India |
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| The present book by Dr. M.N. Sircar is a unique work on Indian Philosophy. It is not just an exposition or history of Indian Philosophy in the traditional sense. Dr. Sircar has brought out in this work what is living in the continued history of Indian philosophy in inimitable language and style. The author has brought out the true essence of Upanishadic mysticism which is the fountain head of all Indian thought currents and religious life. With equal penetration and understanding he has fully... |
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Sadashiv Ambadas Dange |
Myths from the Mahabharata : Vol. 3: Probe in Early Dim History and Folklore |
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| The book forms the third and final part of the plan of studying the Mahabharata, from a different point of view,
Vol. 1 being – Myths from the Mahabharata – Quest for Immortality
Vol. 2 being – Myths from the Mahabharata – Study in Patterns and Symbols.
In this volume are unearthed through myths come iti-ha-asa records, which shed light on the facts and incidents of the hoary past, as yet shrouded in mystery. The iti-ha-asa records through myths, such as those gathered round the sage... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Nationalism, Religion, and Beyond: Writings on Politics, Society, and Culture |
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| Sri Aurobindo wrote extensively on political, social and cultural theory. His contributions to these fields are not always given the attention they deserve by contemporary thinkers. There are two main reasons for this. First, his political, social and cultural writings are scattered through six or seven volumes of his complete works. Secondly, the political and cultural worlds have changed greatly since he wrote.
The editor of this anthology overcomes the first problem by selecting... |
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Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya |
Surgical Instruments of the Ancient Hindus |
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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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Raimundo Panikkar (Ed.) |
The Vedic Experience |
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| One of the most stupendous manifestations of the Spirit is undoubtedly that which has been handed down to us under the generic name of the Vedas. The Vedas are still too much neglected not only in the world at large but also in their country of origin. this Vedic anthology will make direct and fruitful knowledge of the Vedas available to a wider range of people than the small elite of pandits and Indologists.
This anthology collects the most crucial texts of the Indian Sacred Scriptures--in... |
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G.P. Singh |
Early Indian Historical Tradition and Archaeology |
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| Surveying the whole extent of Itihasa-Purana and sifting facts from myths, the book reconstructs millennia of ancient India`s political-cultural history (pre-Bharata war days to about AD 1200), with chronological details of all kingdoms that ruled. |
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G.C. Pande |
Foundations of Indian Culture (2 Volumes) |
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| The Two volumes together may be described as search for the original ideational foundations of Indian Culture. In one way this work recalls the tradition of Coomaraswamy but seeks to join it to the mainstream of critical history. It argues that the living countinuity of Indian Culture is rooted in a unique spiritual vision and social experience.
The Foundations of Indian Culture comprises, under a single connecting title, the series of articles which originally appeared in the... |
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Farley P. Richmond |
Indian Theatre: Traditions of Performance |
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| Indian Theatre expands the boundaries of what is usually regarded as theatre in order to explore the multiple dimensions of theatrical performance in India. From rural festivals to contemporary urban theatre, from dramatic rituals and devotional performances to dance-dramas and classical Sanskrit plays, this volume is a vivid introduction to the colourful and often surprising world of Indian performance. Besides mapping the vast range of performance traditions, the volume provides in-depth... |
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Bettina Baumer |
Kalatattvakosa (Vol. 1): A Lexicon of fundamental concepts of the Indian Arts |
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| Kalatattvakosa series of the IGNCA has endeavoured to evolve an important modern device to grasp the essential thought and knowledge system of the Indian tradition. Through an indepth investigation into the primary sources of various disciplines the series aims at facilitating the reader to comprehend the interlocking of different disciplines. Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan former Academic Director of IGNCA Has provided the conceptual framwork to the whole project. Prof. Ramesh Chandra Sharma a... |
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O.N Bimali (Ed.) |
Vamana Purana: Sanskrit Text with English Translation |
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| According to Manu- ‘‘Vedas are primary source of religion’’, the Puranas, however, are the essence of the religion of Hindu society. Puranas are also regarded as the chief source for the detailed explanation of the Vedas. They, therefore, occupy a significant place in the ancient literature of India. The Puranas have obtained the name of Panchalakshana because their contents generally embrace five topics namely (1) Primary creation or cosmogony, (2) secondary creation, (3) genealogy of gods and... |
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Diana Preston |
A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time: The Story of the Taj Mahal |
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| Emperor Shah Jahan married Mumtaz Mahal in 1612 in an unusual love match. Jahan involved his wife on all matters of state, and she followed him on all his military campaigns in spite of being almost constantly pregnant. She bore him 14 children, but her sudden death in childbirth caused Jahan inconsolable grief. His only solace was in creating the perfect memorial to his lost love on the banks of the Jumna River at Agra.
The mausoleum, made from milk-white marble and studded with a fortune in... |
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Arun Kumar Jain |
Faith and Philosophy of Jainism |
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| Jainism is a religion which symbolizes solidarity and unity between all beings. Jainism is deeply philosophical and a very scientific religion. This book covers historical developments of Jainism from its earliest time to its latest version. As one of the world’s major religions, Jainism has today a very long history of a splendid tradition, with a well-defined philosophy and code of ethics. This volume covers its beginning, antiquity, doctrines, Tirthankaras, spread, and its contribution to... |
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Vasant S. Patel |
V. S. Naipaul`s India |
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| The book "V. S. Naipaul`s India - A Reflection" is an interesting and comprehensive analysis of India presented by V.S. Naipaul a Nobel laureate in his books An Area of Darkness India-A Wounded Civilization and India- Million mutiries Now.
This book reflects the views and approach of V.S. Naipaul to Indian life and culture. The book presents a remarable and thorough socio political analysis. The book also gives and analysis of V.S. Naipaul`s style.This book will be useful for the teachers... |
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P.D. Mehta |
Early Indian Religious Thought |
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| This book is divided into two parts.
The part deals with the pre-vedic thought which contain proto-australoid beliefs, Mediterranean, Indus Valley Culture, Mother-Goddess figurine, Tree worship, the Siva armlet, etc. The Vedas, Aryan entry, Brahma, Linga, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, India, Upanisads, Buddha, his teachings, Bhagavat Gita, Yoga teachigs, Samkhyan viewer, etc. are some of topics discussed in the first part of the book.
The second part is about Hinduism, caste,... |
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Dilip K. Chakrabarti |
Archaeology In The Third World |
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| This volume shows how in the first flush of Independence archaeological research added new depths and dimensions to the ancient Indian past. It also looks closely at the tangled web of ideas behind this research, highlighting the major mile-posts in its story of development.At the same time it demonstrates with unerring clarity how the national archaeological policy of the 1950s and the 1960s has currently lost its direction. This is accompanied by an incisive analysis of different aspects of... |
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Prem Singh Jina |
Ladakh Buddhist Culture and Tradition |
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| Ladakh is one of the remote region of Jammu & Kashmir State in India. Its people were negelected in the past due to the inaccessible terrain and inhospitable climatic conditions. However, Buddhist Yogis (Tib. Rnal-byor-pas-rGod-tsang-pa, stag0tsang-ras-pa etc. Indian Acharyas-Padmasambhava and Naropa and Rinpoches of Geluk, Saskya, Nyingma and Ka'gyud tradition have made their valuable contribution for the preservation of Buddhist culture and tradition. The Naropa... |
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Bimala Churn Law |
A History of Pali Literature |
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| This book, published for the first time in 2 volumes in 1933, has become a class in Pali studies. It presents an exhaustive picture of the Pali literature, both canonical and post-canonical, giving summaries of all the Pali books, from the Vinaya Pitaka which specifies the rules of conduct of bikkhus and bikkhunis to the Jataka tales containing popular stories. Here are presented the first Buddhist books in history, which became the scriptures that form the base for the Theravada... |
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Robert M. Place |
A Mandala of Cards The Buddha Tarot |
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| The twenty-two sequential cards of the Tarot’s major arcana are often seen in larger terms as a depiction of the archetypal hero’s journey. The journey from the naivete of the Fool card to the universal consciousness of the World card is in many ways a path similar to Prince Siddhartha’s journey to enlightenment. In this companion guide to The Buddha Tarot, artist and writer Robert M. Place, who drew parallels between Christianity and the Tarot in the Tarot of the Saints, now applies his unique... |
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Dr. K.P.A. Menon |
Adhyatma Ramayanam: Text with introduction & English Translation (2 vol set) |
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| The Adhyatma Ramayanam is, as the title would indicate, a spiritual version of the Ramayanam. While Valmiki Ramayanam as an Itihasa was composed with the objective of giving proper advice on all the four goals life – Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksa, this version is primarily concerned with the last and final goal. Devotion to the feet of the Supreme Lord in the form of Rama is the surest and easiest means of achieving this objective.
About the Author:
Dr. K.P.A. Menon B.Sc,... |
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K.N. Jayatilleke |
Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge |
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| The book is based primarily on the source material available in the Pali Canon, studied historically and philosophically in the light of the contemporary, earlier and later literary evidence related to the subject. The antiquity and authenticity of the material is vouchsafed by the literary, linguistic, ideological, sociological and historical evidence existing in to Pali Canon itself. The book traces the origin of the theory of knowledge and its development in early Buddhism--the Hinayana... |
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Prasad, B Rajendra |
Early Medieval Andhra Pradesh AD 624-1000 (Comprehensive History And Culture Of Andhra Pradesh, Volume III) |
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| This third volume in the Comprehensive History and Culture of Andhra Pradesh series spans the Early Medieval period, from ad 624 to 1000. This period was one of distributive economics and regional cultures, and marked a transition in the political, economic, social and cultural spheres. Identity and status were provided to Telugu, the language of the land, and also to various communities in the varna structure.
The role of landed intermediaries and of religious sects - Pasupata, Kalamukha,... |
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Raj Kumar |
Essays On Ancient India: History And Culture Series |
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A.K. Warder |
Indian Kavya Literature : Vol. V |
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| Volume V of this study displays some of the riches and diversity of Indian culture in the ninth and tenth centuries. Most of the authors discussed aimed at bold expression, Yogesvara in describing peasant life and Vasukalpa in fanciful verses on such topics as wild landscapes and birds. Rajasekhara is better known, for his forceful expressions in plays, and Bhallata, for his satirical verses on bureaucracy. The epics of Abhinanda, Ratnakara, Sivasvamin, Buddhaghosa, Svayambhu and Puspadanta,... |
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A.C. Sinha |
Sikkim: Feudal and Democratic |
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| The book divided into three parts and twelve chapters, tells the story of Sikkim from its hoary past to the present and reports as to how the Tibetans, Nepalese, and the British dealt with Sikkim leading to eclipse of its autonomous entity.
Part one provides with the back ground and social history indicating the emergence of ethnic plurality and indeterminate political status.
Part two deals with the feudal and democratic elite and shows how they fashioned its destiny during two critical... |
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D.C. Sircar |
Studies in Indian Coins |
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| The present book is an authoritative and authentic source for the study of Indian Coins. It not only describes the coins but also studies them critically in all their aspects. In describing the features of a particular class of coins from the standpoint of standard, style and fabric or in discussing the significance of the numismatic terms, the author has utilized the literary data which have a bearing on them. |
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Eili Goldberg |
The Encyclopedia of Dream Interpretation |
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| This encyclopedia is a collection of interpretations of thousands of dreams and dream fragments. The author examined 73 different dream dictionaries and countless other books dealing with drams and their meanings- from ancient sources such as the Bible, Ancient Egypt, the Middle Ages, and up to modern books such as Freud and Jung's theories and interpretations of dreams.
This impressive encyclopedia is unique in that it both interprets the dream and relates to dreams as an important tool to... |
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Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya |
History of Indian Medicine : Containing Notices, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Ayurvedic Physicians and Their Works on Medicine : From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time - 3 Volumes |
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| The present book contains the history of Indian medicine from the earliest ages to the present time, and was awarded the Griffith Memorial Prize for the encouragement of advanced study of science and letters by the Calcutta University in 1909.
This is a pioneer work of its kind and traces in detail the steady growth of the ancient science of medicine (Ayurveda) from the Vedic times upto the advent of the British rule. To make it complete the learned author has given the account of the... |
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R. N. Dhar |
History: A Journey Through The Ages Themes In Indian History |
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| The book is primarily meant as a reference book for these who are keen to know their past. The book covers the history of ancient India from prehistoric times to about the eighth century. An effort has been made in this book to highlight the forces and factors behind the rise, growth and spread of civilization and culture in ancient India rather than present details of dynastic history.
The growth and diffusion of various aspects of civilization, the peculiar from of a social system that... |
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Madan Mohan Agrawal |
Six Systems of Indian Philosophy |
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| The word for philosophy in Sanskrit, viz. Darsanam denotes that it is the science of ‘Thinking-consideration’-‘Vicarasastram’. Its contents are not mere speculation in regard to the duties of man or the verities of life. There are two prominent divisions in Indian philosophy.
The first is concerned with the rational demonstration of the propositions of duty laid down in the Veda. Here is indicated the answer to the question of the type: What man should do or avoid in order to achieve... |
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Hajime Nakamura |
A Comparative History of Ideas |
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| Hajime Nakamura argues with remarkable erudition that particular intellectual and social developments can be traced in all great cultures; that each culture deals with its problems in about the same order. About the Author:Prof. Hajime Nakamura, D. Litt. (University of Tokyo), Honorary D.Litt. (Government of India and Nehru University), was a distinguished scholar of international repute. He was a member of the Japan Academy and was decorated with the highest Japanese awards... |
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Pularre Balakrishnan |
Economic Growth in India: History & Prospect |
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| This study of economic growth in India is both an interpretation of its trajectory since 1950 and an evaluation of its prospects in the near future. It is marked by theoretical integrity, historical perspective, thick description, discriminating use of econometrics, and definitive conclusions.
Commencing with a favorable appraisal of the growth record of early independent India and an account of how this advantage was lost, the author proceeds to argue that by now it is more than just delayed... |
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Asha Gupta |
Education in the 21st Century: Looking Beyond University |
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| Whereas the impact of globalization on politics, economy, society and culture are well-studied and well-researched, it is difficult to visualize and conceptualize the changes occurring at the power knowledge realm. The book is an attempt to look beyond the traditional concept of a university to be able to grasp not only the drastic changes taking place at higher education systems worldwide but it also traces the causes and consequences of the same. Earlier the universities acted as the... |
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Carmel Berkson |
Indian Sculpture: Towards the Rebirth of Aesthetics |
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| The author wonders why so many Indian studio sculptors today choose to follow their contemporaries in the west, since the vision of these peers is the exclusive product of the western historical past which bears little relevance to the complex world that is India. She expresses the hope that dormant cultural dynamics can be reawakened after depth encounters with the great sculpture of India. Hopefully this will result in revitalized native art forms.
Diagrams, photographs and texts clarify... |
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Brendan S. Gillon |
Logic in Earliest Classical India |
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| The last two decades of Indological research have led to a marked increase in the investigation of logic in India, especially in the earliest period of classical India. A panel of senior and junior scholars from America, Asia, and Europe, all specialists working in this area, was concerned at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, held in Helsinki in the summer of 2003.
This volume contains not only their papers, which address both philosophical and philological matters pertaining to logic as... |
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Firoz A Shaikh |
Partition A Human Tragedy: A Critical Study of Novels on Partition of Indian Subcontinent |
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| The book presents an exhaustive study of the Indian English novels written on the theme of the partition of the Indian subcontinent that took place in 1947. It throws light and analyses objectively the causes and effects of the fateful decision of the partition rendered millions homeless and forced them to migrate and an equal number to face horrible atrocities, arsons, abductions, rapes and unforeseen violence.
The selected authors are Indians and their selected novels are written and... |
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R. Soma Reddy |
Studies in the Socio-Economic History of Medieval Andhra Desa |
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| The book contains twenty selected research papers which highlight the significance of some of the important aspects of Andhra society and economy during the very crucial period of its history, i.e. 1300 A.D. to 1800. These essays embody the findings of investigation undertaken by the author in the course of several years. Some of the important socio-economic aspects covered in the papers include Rural Settlements, migration pattern, History of Islam in the region, cult of female deities.... |
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David Gordon White |
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India |
$48.49 $33.94 |
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| The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas.
Working from a body of previously unexplored alchemical sources, David Gordon White demonstrates for the first time that the medieval disciplines of Hindu alchemy and Hatha Yoga were practiced by one and the same people, and that they can only be understood when viewed together.
White opens the way to a new and more comprehensive understanding of medieval Indian mysticism, within... |
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C.E. Yate |
Khurasan and Sistan |
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| I now carry on the description farther west into Persia, and describe each district of Khurasan and Sistan in detail, from the Kurd and Turkoman country along the Russian frontier on the north, to the confines of Baluchistan on the Indian frontier to the south.
A full account is given of the time I spent amongst the Goklan and Yamut Turkomans, hitherto comparatively unknown; their life and character is described, and an account is given of my trip to the source of river Gurgan, never before... |
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M.S. Valiathan |
The Legacy of Caraka |
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| Caraka, the master physician, is believed to have lived in the first century AD. The Samhita composed by him forms the bedrock of ayurvedic practice today. His contribution to India’s cultural inheritance was profound. Caraka Samhita was, in fact, a revision of an older text Agnivesa Tantra, which was written several centuries before Caraka’s time. Caraka’s revision became so popular that it was translated into Tibetan, Arabic, English and many Indian languages. T
he Legacy of Caraka retells... |
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T. Burrow |
The Sanskrit Language |
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| The Sanskrit Language presents a systematic and
comprehensive historical account of the developments in phonology and
morphology. This is the only book in English which treats the structure of the
Sanskrit language in its relation to the other Indo-European languages and
throws light on the significance of the discovery of Sanskrit. It is this
discovery that contributed to the study of the comparative philology of the
Indo-European languages and eventually the whole science of... |
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Sengaku Mayeda |
Sankara's Upadesasahasri (2 Volumes) - Introduction, Text & Indices |
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| Sankara, the eighth-century Indian philosopher, is generally regarded as the greatest thinker in the long history of Indian philosophy as well as in the metaphysical tradition known as Vedanta. Advaita Vedanta, the school or system founded by him, stresses the Advaita or non-dualist approach to the problem of existence and ultimate reality, and has been the main current of thought in India for hundreds of years.
Most of Sankara's works are commentaries on other classics of Indian thought,... |
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Sameer Das Gupta |
Advanced History of Buddhism: Monasteries and Temples |
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| The history of Buddhism is also characterized by the development of numerous movements and schisms, foremost among them the Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions, punctuated by contrasting periods of expansion and retreat.
The history of Buddhism spans from the 6th century BC to the present, starting with the birth of the Buddha Siddhartha Gautama. This makes it one of the oldest religions practiced today. Throughout this period, the religion evolved as it encountered... |
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Suraj Vashishth |
Buddhist and Jain Period |
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| The culture of India was moulded throughout various eras of history, all the while absorbing customs, traditions, and ideas from both invaders and immigrants. Many cultural practices, languages, customs, and monuments are examples of this co-mingling over centuries. India was the birth place of religious systems such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, each of which have had a strong influence not only over India but also over the rest of the world.
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Navneet Dugar |
History of The Ancient Indian Rituals |
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| The Hindus have Varna System. It is not at all caste-equivalent. It simply indicates a social division based on Gunas. There exists all over the world one sort of division or the other in a society, which is so inevitable for social growth and prosperity. Each individual is possessed of a particular ability by nature.
One may well perform a physical labour another may be more of thinker and some may be artistic some included to technology, music, Medicine, trade, industry or any other... |
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R.C. Mehta |
Indian Classical Music & Gharana Tradition |
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| This book presents insightful reflections on different aspects of Indian music - its roots, philosophy, growth, history, guru-shisya parampara, gharanas, contemporary scene and a glimpse of the coming decades. Analyzing the impact of Indian thought and philosophy on Indian classical music, it makes an appraisal of the contemporary scenario of Hindustani classical music. Taking a close look at tradition and style of Agra Charana, with special focus on the rich repertoire of its ragas and... |
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Xavier Greffe |
Managing Our Cultural Heritage |
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| Cultural heritage is the sum-total of historical sites, neighbourhoods, art collections and practices tat a society inherits from its past and tries to preserve for future generations.
In principle, nothing is as far removed from our production-and-trade-based economy as this body of unchanging assets that defy duplication. However, the development of cultural tourism, the importance of artistic pursuits and the vitality of art markets, testify to the economic value of this heritage. By... |
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F.R. Allchin, Dilip K.Chakrabarti |
A Source-book of Indian Archaeology (Vol.III) |
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| Taken together, the three volumes of this set offer a definitive historical perspective of Indian archaeology through a selection of astonishingly wide-ranging but integrated body of sources up to the 1980s. This volume takes one to the tentative beginnings of Indian sculptural, architectural numismatic & inscriptional studies and tries to give an idea of what has been generally achieved in the fields of human skeletal discoveries, rock-art and religion. The articles chosen for the first... |
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Dhruva |
Astrological Analysis of Indian Affairs (1947-2050) |
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| This book attempts to trace the history of post Independent India astrologically. It presents the key events chronologically along with the important indicators of these events grouped under the Vimshottari Dasa - Antara Dasa segments. Each event has been analysed in the context of prevailing Dasa periods, the transits and, wherever possible, in terms of the Chart cast for the time of the event.
The analysis of Indian affairs is made sectorwise - polity, economy, industry, agriculture,... |
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Rana P.B. Singh |
Banaras, The Heritage City of India Geography, History, and Bibliography |
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| "This book describes various facets of geography, history and heritage of Varanasi, the heritage city of India, on/about which a vast historical literature is available. The section on Geography covers the general background of the topography, climate, soils, vegetation, and human landscape. The history section gives a general brief outline of history, from the ancient to the modern, including a chronological chart. The issue of inscribing the heritage scopes, especially of the riverfront... |
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Utpal K Banerjee |
Hindu: Joy of Life |
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| Hindu: Joy of Life in this present new edition is an attempt to simplify the tenets of an age-old religion and to demystify it for the reader of today. Utpal K Banerjee delves into the past to bring understanding to the present. This book is a quest to discover the enduring vitality that exists in the Hindu way of life. It celebrates a great tradition. Beginning with the Vedic deities the sun, moon, fire and storm, Banerjee weaves his narration through a time when the universe was devoid of a... |
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K.C. Jain |
Malwa Through the Ages (Hardback) |
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| The present book offers an exhaustive treatment of the political, social, economical and cultural history of Malwa from the earliest times to 1305 A.D. Herein for the very first time the author has arranged systematically and discussed and relevant historical material in the form of archaeological antiquities, inscriptions, coins and literature.
About the Author:
The author born on 21st April 1930 at Maroth in Nagaur District of Rajasthan Professor K.C. Jain got a merit scholarship a the... |
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Stephen Knapp. |
Vedic Culture: The Difference It can Make in Your Life |
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| The Vedic tradition of India is not simply a spiritual path but a way of life. It includes many avenues of learning that an increasing number of people from the West are investigating and using. This book provides a new view of what the Vedic culture has to offer from those who discovered it and practice it themselves, and how it has affected and benefited their own lives. This type of presentation is rarely found in books that are available today on eastern traditions.
This book will show... |
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B N Ray |
Gandhigiri: Satyagraha after Hundred Years |
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| In a time ravaged by large scale violence and unending terror where nothing seems more promising and urgent than to be reminded of another possibility: the path of non-violent struggle for justice exemplified by Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi continues to be subject of enduring relevance and interest as it is evident in the interest and passion generated by popular Hindi movie, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Gandhigiri is gradually entering into popular imagination and academic discourses. His writings, running... |
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S.K. Ahluwalia |
Socio-Political Trends in Indian Nationalism |
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| The book deals with socio-political trends in Indian Nationalism which have been weaved into eight chapters having deep bearing on Gandhian ideology and British policy during, the 1930s. The Karachi Congress, 1931, is indeed an historic event which was presided over by Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel. However there were a few controversies which were resolved among the prominent personalities.
Besides, the volume contains an assessment, the important appendices, a glossary and bibliography... |
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Prof. Kittu Reddy |
History of India: A New Approach |
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| (Second Revised Edition, First Edition published in February 2003)
This book is an attempt to write the history of India from the subjective viewpoint, without in any way distracting from the external events.
History, as it has generally been conceived and written in modern times, has limited itself to the outer narration and interpretation of events and ignored the psychological forces and factors that affect human life ...
This book is an attempt to look at Indian history from the... |
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Nirmal Saxena |
Yogaratnakara |
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| Yogaratnakara is one of the most renowned treaties of Indian Medicine. It is an extract of Indian medicine discussed in several books ranging from ancient period to later part of the 17th century A.D. It is a compiled work and masterpiece of Indian Medical system.
This unique work aims at determining the history of different drugs when they first appeared in Ayurvedic texts, like Yogaratna Samuccaya (10the century A.D.), Yogaratnavali (1574 A.D.), Yogasara (1600 A.D.), Yogasata (15th century... |
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S.N. sinha |
History of Prostitution in India (2 Volumes) |
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Kumkum Roy |
The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power: Explorations in Early Indian History |
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| Is it possible to recover the histories of gender for early India? How can gender analyses enrich our understanding of early India today? Drawing upon a range of textual traditions, this unique collection examines the significance of gender in the reconstruction of India’s past. It goes beyond the simple binaries of a ‘high’ or ‘low’ status for women to explore the diversities and complexities of gender relations in early India.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Towards... |
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Vijaya Laxmi Singh |
Mathura Sculptures |
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| Mathura, widely known as birth place of Lord Krishna, is located on the western bank of the river Yamuna, north-west of Agra in the State of Uttar Pradesh, India. In times past, Mathura was the hub of culture and civilization and is held in sanctity by the Buddhists, Jain and Brahmanical faith alike.
The book "Mathura" has been undertaken to understand the spacial aspect of Mathura's early growth and culture and its socio-political and economic history. Drawing on the archaeological... |
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Asko Parpola |
Deciphering the Indus Script |
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| Of the writing systems of the ancient world which still await deciphering, the Indus Script is the most important. It developed in the Indus or Harappan Civilization, which flourished c. 2500 -1900 bc. in and around modern Pakistan. Prof. Parpola outlines what is known about the Harappan culture and its script, presents a decipherment of a small number of interlocking Indus signs, and proposes a method which will permit further progress in decipherment. His fascinating study confirms that the... |
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K.S. Gulia |
Art and Culture of Himalayas |
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| A number of factors are responsible for disappearance of different art forms from the Himalayan region. The main among them are social, economical and ecological ones. The cultural invasion from outside is also one of them. During Mughal, Sikh and Rajput periods, the Himalayan art and culture was at its zenith. But during the British period, it took a nosedive. The British were rather pragmatic and matter of factly. They wasted no efforts on vain and inane aesthetics even in the building... |
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K.S. Gulia |
Ecology and Environment in the Himalayas |
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| Today environment and ecology are the buzzwords. The pace of development and modernisation has endangered the ecological balance of Himalaya. When the British brought railways in India in the late eighteenth century, the Himalayan jungles were denuded of vast forests cover due to the demand for sleepers. When in early nineteenth century, the Britishers attempted to curb wanton tree-felling, there arose resentment among the people of Garhwal and Kumaon in Uttarakhand. But in later times, those... |
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Sadashiv Ambadas Dange |
Towards Understanding Hindu Myths |
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| The book takes a survey of important opinions and schools regarding the meaning of myths, such as the nature-myth school, the ritual-myth school which believed that all myths and rituals are intimately connected to each other and that they are counterparts of each other, the functional school and the structural approach to the understanding of myths. It also takes note of the historical and the typological method. It examines all these methods and evaluates the role of metaphor and symbol in... |
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Sushama Londhe |
A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture |
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| Thoughts and Wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture by Sushama Londhe is a collection of quotations from some of the world's greatest philosophers, thinkers, scientists, and leaders. The book asks us to take a fresh look at Hinduism and her many traditions through the eyes of these great personalities. Organized into 14 chapters including topics such as Science and Art, this hardbound book also contains beautiful photographs and illustrations. It is a great addition to... |
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Frederick M. Smith |
Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asia |
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| This book, winner of CHOICE outstanding Academic Title Award 2007, is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years. In South Asia possession has always been... |
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Stephen H. Philips |
Epistemology of Perception: Transliterated text, Translation, and Philosophical Commentary of Gangesa's Tattvacintamani (Jewel of Reflection on the Truth) |
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| The Tattvacintamani, or Jewel of Reflection on the Truth (about Epistemology), is the sole composition left us by the great fourteenth century Indian logician Gangesa Upadhyaya. With this foundational text Gangesa solidified the "New" (navya) phase of the long-running school of epistemology and metaphysics known in India as Nyaya. The Present work is a translation of the perception chapter (Pratyaksa-khanda) of this important text. The authors have provided an introduction conversing essential... |
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Jogesh Chander Dutt |
Rajtarangni of the Jonaraja |
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| The narration left by Kalhana, who may be called the father of Indian history, was taken up by Jonaraja. He again was followed by his pupil Shrivara: and Shrivara's work was continued by Prayabhatta. It is not generally known that Prajyabhatta left his work incomplete, and that it was taken up by Shuka who brought the account of Kashmira to the time when the country was conquered by Akbar, and it ceased to be an independent kingdom.
The works of all these authors have been translated in... |
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Kanti Chandra Pandey |
Abhinavagupta: An Historical and Philosophical Study |
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| The work of "Abhinavagupta : An Historical and Philosophical Study", is an important contribution to scholarship. It provides an account of well-known, but little-studied, philosophical system, known under the several names of 'Siva' 'Trika' 'Pratyabhijna' and others. The basic Sutras expounding the system are by Siva himself, followed by Parasurama Gaudapada and others: but like Sankaracarya in the realm of Vedanta whose basis lay in the Upanisads, the person who made the system... |
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S.R Bakshi |
Dr. B.R Ambedkar: Socio-Economic and Political Ideology |
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| The volume has been weaved into eight chapters which have been explained in a comprehensive way. The historical background has been managed in a systematic method. His early career has been brought about in a method which was destined for a social change.
The new trend in his career was mainly on account of his disciplined hard work for more than three decades. This definitely paid him rich dividends of highest degree. His contribution for the constitution of India is most unique in the... |
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Shailendra Sengar |
Encyclopaedia of Hindu Civilisation, Customs and Tradition |
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| India is one of the ancient civilization of the world. The underlying efficiency of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization is remarkable. The ancient Indus Valley Civilization was quite clearly advanced, to a great extent. The Vedic civilization is the culture associated with the people who composed the religious texts called the Vedas, in the Indian subcontinent. Hinduism is the religion of the majority of the population of India. The holy books of the religion namely, the Vedas and the... |
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Sukumar Chattopadhyay |
Kalatattvakosa: A Lexicon of Fundamental Concepts of the Indian Arts (Vol.6) |
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| Kalatattvakosa series of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts has endeavored to evolve an important modern device to grasp the essential thought and knowledge system of the Indian artistic and cultural tradition. Through an in-depth investigation into the primary sources of various Ideological disciplines, the series aims at facilitating the reader to comprehend the interdisciplinary approach of Ideological and art historical research. The present volume: Abhasa (Appearance/Symbolic... |
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M.P. Singh |
Social movement |
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| A movement is the manifestation of ire and anger of the masses, in general, regarding any specific issue of public interest. Though, it differences, yet it turns the tables, once the required momentum is gained. As far as Indian history, is concerned, it is replete with movemements. Of them, the National Movement of 1857, holds the paramount importance as regards the Independence of India. Thereafter, a series of movements followed. TheKhilafat Movement, the Quit India Movement,... |
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Usha Venkateswaran |
The Life and Times of La Meri: The Queen of Ethnic Dance |
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| Russel Meriwether Hughes, born in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13th May, 1898, later came to be known as La Meri, the dancer, poet, writer, ethnic dance teacher and choreographer of repute. She traveled three times around the world and each time she diligently studied authentic dance forms and made they part of her repertoire.
She came to India, her dreamland, and managed to learn Bharatanatyam from Papanasam Vadivelu and Kathak from Ram Dutt Tiwari and held performances very creditably. She... |
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Steven J. Rosen |
Essential Hinduism |
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| In Essential Hinduism, the religion's teachings, beliefs, practices, and history are reviewed by an expert hoping to rectify that.
This straightforward overview, focussing on Vaishnavism-the most common form of Hinduism - is ideal for those who wish to learn more about this ancient tradition. Beginning with chapters about the foundations of Hinduism, Rosen clearly lays out what is otherwise a complicated history.
Providing Hindu terms alongside English translations, he illuminates the basics... |
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Sadasiba Pradhan |
Rock Art in Orissa |
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| The book Rock Art in Orissa for the first time presents an exhaustive account of the rock art heritage in Orissa documented from 55 rock shelters by the explorer himself. It brings to limelight a distinct regional style in the rock art heritage of India.
One notices a happy blending of engravings (petroglyphy) with paintings (pictographs), both being complementary to each other, drawn in non-thematic and non-figurative pictorial codes - a rare phenomenon not encountered so far from anywhere... |
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S.R. Bakshi |
A Legacy of Protest and Non Violent Resistance |
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| The legacy of protest and non-violent resistance is the unique phenomenon which has deep links with the technique of satyagraha launched by Mahatma Gandhi. The theme gives us a vivid picture of his way of life which was quite simple and it has identification with a common villager living in the far-flung region.
The theme of the volume, weaved into twelve chapters, has bearing on the crucial period of history. It gives out a rich background and deals with the early ideology of the... |
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Bettina Baumer |
Kalatattvakosa (Vol. 2): Concepts of Space and Time |
$60.99 $42.69 |
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| Kalatattvakosa series of the IGNCA has endeavoured to evolve an important modern device to grasp the essential thought and knowledge system of the Indian tradition. Through an indepth investigation into the primary sources of various disciplines the series aims at facilitating the reader to comprehend the interlocking of different disciplines. Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan former Academic Director of IGNCA Has provided the conceptual framwork to the whole project. Prof. Ramesh Chandra Sharma a... |
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H.C. Verma |
Dominion Status Vs Complete Independence |
$62.99 $44.09 |
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| The volume contains twelve chapters having deep bearing on the socio-economic and political ideology of Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru. The plitical ideology of Dominition Status was challenged by young Nehru and he emphatically declared complete independence as the goal for swaraj. It is quite evident that the coming two decades were quite hectic in the long-dran political struggle.
The twelve chapters have been weaved in a comprehensive way. It led to the mass movement after the Lahore... |
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Nupur Chaturvedi |
Khadi: A Historical Journey |
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| A chronological account of the rise of the fabric that eventually became a symbol of India's struggle for freedom, Khadi: A Historical Journey traces back the weave to five thousand years ago. The book tells the story of how Indian history and culture form as much a part of the fabric as cotton does.
Starting from the hints of fabric found in Harappa excavations, passing through the Nationalist Movement of India and, of course, the ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi, the book talks about the... |
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Mukta Naik |
Khadi: A Historical Journey |
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| A chronological account of the rise of the fabric that eventually became a symbol of India’s struggle for freedom, Khadi: A Historical Journey traces back the weave to five thousand years ago. The book tells the story of how Indian history and culture form as much a part of the fabric as cotton does. Starting from the hints of fabric found in Harappa excavations, passing through the Nationalist Movement of India and, of course, the ideologies of Mahatama Gandhi, the book talks about the... |
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B.s. Nijjar |
Origins and History of Jats and Other Allied Nomadic Tribes of India, 900 B.C.--1947 A.D |
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| Preface. 1. Origin and history of Scythians and other allied nomadic tribes of India (Jats, Ahirs, Gujars, Rajputs, Baloches and Pathans). 2. The Jats (descendants of Scythians). 3. The Abhiras (ancestors of Ahirs). 4. The Ahirs (descendants of Abhiras). 5. The Gujjars (Gurjaras). 6. The Sakas (ancestors of Jats, Ahirs, Gujjars, Rajputs, Baloches and Pathans). 7. The Kushans (ancestors of Jats, Ahirs, Rajputs, Baloches and Pathans). 8. The Huns (ancestors of Jats, Rajputs, Baloches and... |
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Subrata Banerjee |
Punjab in the 20th Century: The Crucial Years |
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| The Book: A Study of the finings of a survey of the border districts of Punjab by the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development, Chandigarh, in the nineteen-eighties, at the height of Sikh militancy, led the Author to seek an understanding of this traumatic development. Those were indeed crucial years for the people of Punjab. The Author has sought the roots of this crisis in the history of Punjab, since the days of the national movement. The result is a comprehensive study of the... |
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Sylvia Wong |
The Karmapa Prophecies |
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| In 1981, the revered 16th Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, passed away. His death set n motion a process to identify his reincarnated successor that originated 900 years ago with the 1st Karmapa who was the first Tibetan Buddhist master ever to reincarnate. Since the early 1990's, the identification of the 17th Karmapa has been mired in controversy; causing a schism in the Karma Kagyu sect. two competing factions within the sect have recognized different... |
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Anil Saxena |
Early Mughals |
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| Indian history is glamourous and eventful. India is a great country, which boasts of a rich history, richer than many a nation in the world. Its history is vast and illustrious by all counts. the term 'India' finds its origin in the 'Indus Valley Civilisation' that florished at the banks of the river Indus. The history of India is one of the most interesting and enlightening onnes in the midst of a plethora of world histories. For the purpose of ease, it can... |
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Anil Saxena |
Early Sultanate Period |
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| Indian history is glamourous and eventful. India is a great country, which boasts of a rich history, richer than many a nation in the world. Its history is vast and illustrious by all counts. the term 'India' finds its origin in the 'Indus Valley Civilisation' that florished at the banks of the river Indus.
The history of India is one of the most interesting and enlightening onnes in the midst of a plethora of world histories. For the purpose of ease, it can... |
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Anil Saxena |
Great Mughals |
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| Indian history is glamourous and eventful. India is a great country, which boasts of a rich history, richer than many a nation in the world. Its history is vast and illustrious by all counts. the term 'India' finds its origin in the 'Indus Valley Civilisation' that florished at the banks of the river Indus. The history of India is one of the most interesting and enlightening onnes in the midst of a plethora of world histories. For the purpose of ease, it can... |
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Anil Saxena |
Hindu Kingdoms of South |
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| Indian history is glamorous and eventful. India is a great country, which boasts of a rich history, richer than may a nation in the world. Its history is vast and illustrious by all counts. He term 'India' finds its origin in the 'Indus Valley Civilization' that flourished at the banks of the river Indus.
The history of India is one of the most interesting and enlightening ones in the midst of a plethora of world histories. For the purpose of ease, it can broadly be divided into... |
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Anil Saxena |
Later Mughals |
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| Indian history is glamourous and eventful. India is a great country, which boasts of a rich history, richer than many a nation in the world. Its history is vast and illustrious by all counts. the term 'India' finds its origin in the 'Indus Valley Civilisation' that florished at the banks of the river Indus. The history of India is one of the most interesting and enlightening onnes in the midst of a plethora of world histories. For the purpose of ease, it can... |
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Anil Saxena |
Later Sultanate Period |
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| Indian history is glamourous and eventful. India is a great country, which boasts of a rich history, richer than many a nation in the world. Its history is vast and illustrious by all counts. the term 'India' finds its origin in the 'Indus Valley Civilisation' that florished at the banks of the river Indus.
The history of India is one of the most interesting and enlightening onnes in the midst of a plethora of world histories. For the purpose of ease, it can... |
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Anil Saxena |
Mughal Administration |
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| Indian history is glamourous and eventful. India is a great country, which boasts of a rich history, richer than many a nation in the world. Its history is vast and illustrious by all counts. the term 'India' finds its origin in the 'Indus Valley Civilisation' that florished at the banks of the river Indus. The history of India is one of the most interesting and enlightening onnes in the midst of a plethora of world histories. For the purpose of ease, it can... |
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Anil Saxena |
Mughal Culture |
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| Indian history is glamourous and eventful. India is a great country, which boasts of a rich history, richer than many a nation in the world. Its history is vast and illustrious by all counts. the term 'India' finds its origin in the 'Indus Valley Civilisation' that florished at the banks of the river Indus. The history of India is one of the most interesting and enlightening onnes in the midst of a plethora of world histories. For the purpose of ease, it can... |
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Anil Saxena |
Society and Culture under Sultanate |
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| Indian history is glamourous and eventful. India is a great country, which boasts of a rich history, richer than many a nation in the world. Its history is vast and illustrious by all counts. the term 'India' finds its origin in the 'Indus Valley Civilisation' that florished at the banks of the river Indus.
The history of India is one of the most interesting and enlightening onnes in the midst of a plethora of world histories. For the purpose of ease, it can... |
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F.R. Allchin (Ed.) |
A Source-Book of Indian Archaeology (Vol. 2) |
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| Table of Contents:
Preface
Settlements
Introduction
Memoir of a map of Hindoostan/James Rennell
Memoir of a map of Hindoostan/James Rennell
The tenth anniversary discourse, delivered 28 February 1793 on Asiatic history, civil and natural/William Jones
Inquiry concerning the site of ancient Palibothra/William Francklin
Sravasti\A. Cunningham
Kausambi and Sravasti/Vincent A. Smith
The Acheulian succession at Bhimbetka, Central India/V.N. Misra
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Prasanna Rao Bandela |
Coin Splendour |
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| Coins are indeed the most enduring pieces of frozen time. These time-capsules transport us instantly into our past. They conjure up before us the lives and times of our ancestors. They provide the most authoritative record of history. As pieces of evidence they are invaluable because they may add a new fact, or a name, or a date to history.
The rise and fall of great early civilizations of Rome and Greece are well chronicled and illustrated on their coins. In India, for example, the coins of... |
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William Muir |
The Caliphate (2 vols.) |
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| A Caliph is the spiritual head and temporal ruler of the Islamic state. In principle, Islam is theocratic: when Muhammad the Prophet died, a caliph (successor) was chosen to rule in his place. The caliph had temporal and spiritual authority but was not permitted prophetic power; this was reserved for Muhammad. The caliph could not, therefore, exercise authority in matters of religious doctrine.
About the Book
The Caliphate, is based upon the Annals of... |
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Dr. Vijay Kumar Mathur |
Art and Culture Under the Sungas |
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| The Sunga rule marks an important epoch in the political, religious, social, economic and literary field in ancient India.
The author has presented in elaborate form a picture of the developments of the arts of sculpture, architecture and terracotta of this period. A detailed survey of the sources of the material, an exhaustive bibliography, an index and the plates make this book a rich contribution to the study of the art.
About the Author:Dr. Vijay Kumar Mathur is M.A., Ph.D. in... |
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Subrata Ganguly |
Symbol, Script and Writing |
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| This book attempts to deal with the old and yet very modern problem of different scripts for different languages. However, it is concerned with one people-the variegated people who make up the multi-lingual republic of modern India, with all its requirements for developing into an up-to-date commercial and industrial power-centre. Starting from the very beginnings of script in Egypt and summer, the book deals with the fascinating evolution and spread to South Asia of various scripts and their... |
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C.P. Sinha |
Appreciation of Indian Art |
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| Art in India, as in other countries of the world, was principally devoted to the service of religion. It reflects the intimate relationship of ideas and life.Mythology, symbolism and iconography are just vehicles or aids to understand the essence and spirit of Indian art as each symbol or every icon has a specific meaning and is expressed with a specific purpose. To appreciate and enjoy Art in its proper perspective, it is imperative to understand the inner meaning and the philosophy behind the... |
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Ranju Bezbaruah (Ed.) |
North-East India: Interpreting the Sources of its History |
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| North-East India is no longer a terra incognito to Indian historiography. Thanks to the efforts of various agencies and departments, there has been considerable progress in the historical research of this region. These researches have brought to light evidences of past cultures of North-East India. However there is a need to sustain this enthusiasm and also study and interpret the different sources of the history of this region.
The book also emphasizes on the need to explore non-conventional... |
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Suniti Kumar Chatterji |
The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language (3 vols.) |
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| The first systematic and detailed history of Bengali—a
modern Indo-Aryan language- by an Indian scholar, it is an invaluable
contribution to the scientific study of the modern Indo-Aryan Languages as a
whole and is a landmark in the history of philological researches into Indian
languages.
"The admirable work, says Sir George Grierson in his Foreword, "which is a fine example of wide knowledge and of scholarly research, is the result of a happy combination of proficiency in facts and... |
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William J. Kirkpatrick |
An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul |
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| The Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul by Colonel William J. Kirkpatrick is the original classic on Nepal and its people.
It contains the substance of observations made during a mission to that country in the year 1793 when the author was sent to Nepal by Lord Cornwallis to mediate in the dispute between China and Nepal. Originally written for the Government and Court of Directors of the East India Company, this work on Nepal was the first to be written in English and the only reference work on... |
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Michael Collopy |
Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Word and Images |
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| The visions of seventy-five of the world's greatest peacemakers — spiritual leaders, politicians, artists, and activists — testify to humanity's diversity and its potential. Featuring sixteen Nobel Peace Prize laureates and such visionaries as Nelson Mandela, Cesar Chavez, and Mother Teresa, the reader hears from figures often working at the very nucleus of bitter conflicts. Here are voices of peace and progress that dare to speak and act on behalf of a better planet.
An elegant tribute to the... |
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Elisabeth Beck |
Pallava Rock Architecture and Sculpture |
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| Divided into sections devoted to the eras of two great Pallava kings, Mahendravarman and Narasimha Mahamalla, this book describes the development of the Pallava cave temples in Tamil Nadu from their early, primitive outlines to the intricately sculpted creations of Mamallapuram.
Enriched by more than 200 black and white photographs and illustrations and printed entirely on art paper, it provides both extensive historical backgrounds to these eras and the panoramic details of rock architecture... |
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Narasingha Charan Panda |
Perspective of Indian Thought |
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| Perspective of Indian Thought is a collection of seventeen research Articles on Indology, written by Dr. Narasingha Charan Panda. These research articles are presented before the intellectual audience on various conferences and highly appreciated because of their originality and deep clarity on the subject.
The articles contained in this volume deal with an extended canvas of topics including Vedas, Epics, Puranas, Buddhism, Kashmir Saivism and some other renowned works of Classical Sanskrit... |
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Avadhanula Vijaya Kumar Babu |
Bhavanarayana Temples |
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| This book entitled Bhavanarayana Temples - An Epigraphically and Architectural Study, is the outcome of the exhaustive study of the celebrated Bhavanarayana Temples. This fascinating study lends an authentic account of epigraphically and Architectural details of Bhavanarayana shrines. In this book an in-depth study has been made to trace out the Cult of Bhavanarayana for the first time. The original contribution of this book is the visualization of the Bhavanarayana Cult which was non-existent... |
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Patrick Olivelle |
Dharma: Studies in its Semantic, Cultural and Religious History |
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| This is the first scholarly book devoted to the study of the term dharma with in the broad scope of Indian cultural and religious history. Most generalizations about Indian culture and religion upon close scrutiny turn out to be inaccurate. An exception undoubtedly is the term dharma. This term and the notions underlying it clearly constitute the most central feature of Indian civilization down the centuries, irrespective of linguistic, sectarian, or regional differences.
The nineteen papers... |
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Karl H. Potter |
Encyclopaedia of Indian Philosophies - Vol VIII |
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Sarla Khosla |
Ksemendra and His Times: Socio-Religious & Economic History of Kashmir as Depicted by Ksemendra |
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| The work deals with the socio-religious history of Kashmir in 10 &11 c. A.D. It is based on original works of Ksemendra & allied sources including the upto date archaeological evidences. Except the octagerian writer Ksemendra no one has written about the corrupt life of common man in Kashmir. He in his satirical style, teaming will jokes has not spared from thieves and prostitutes to Kayastha and judges. The psychological study of contemporary society e.g. foreign students, vanika, wife... |
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Devendra Handa |
An Epic Pilrimage |
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| This book is the first comprehensive account of Pehowa, one of the oldest and most sacred place (tirtha), located on the banks of the illustrious Rigvedic river Saraswati, in the Kurukshetra region. It is believed that Yudhisthira performed the obsequies of all those who died in the great war of Mahabharata, here. After giving the geographical and archaeological background and the historical survey of region, the book presents an account of the different places of pilgrimage- tirthas, asramas,... |
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Tobdan |
Moravian Missionaries in Western Trans-Himalaya: Lahul Ladakh and Kinnaur |
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| Moravian missionaries entered the Himalayan states in the middle of the nineteenth century with the objective to propagate the Christian faith and remained there under very tough climatic conditions for nearly a century.
The whole period of their stay is the story of their struggle and adventure. They were highly educated and some of them like Jaeschke and Francke were scholars of international repute. While there was general acceptance among the people for their projects of the nature of... |
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Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi |
Odissi: An Indian Classical Dance Form |
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| The book is the first one dealing with the historical background, evolution and emergence of Odissi as a classical dance form in India. It traces the development of Odissi from a local ritual of temple dancers (Maharis) in the Jagannath temple and the performance of Gotipuas outside the temple in the 1940's, to the modern day sophisticated internationally acclaimed Odissi dance. The pioneer Odissi dancer Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi has been directly associated with the revival and... |
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Sadasiba Pradhan |
Art and Archeaology of Orissa |
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| The present volume is a pioneering effort to unravel the rich archaeological potential of the middle Mahandi Valley in Orissa that was traditionally considered terra incognita or an area of isolation. The area roughly extends from the Hirakud dam in Sambalpur district up to the Satkosia in Angul district. The present volume entitled ‘Art and Archaeology of Orissa’-Recent Perspectives with a collection of three important research scholars based on their field works negate this long-standing... |
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Anantalal Thakur |
History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: Origin and Development of the Vaisesika System (Volume II, Part 4) |
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| The volumes of the project on the history of science, philosophy and culture in Indian civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India's heritage and present them in an interrelated way. These volumes, in spite of their unitary look, recognize the difference between the areas of material civilization and those of ideational culture. The project is not being executed by a single group of thinkers and writers who are methodologically uniform or ideologically identical in their... |
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Abu-L-Fazl |
The Akbarnama of Abu-l-Fazl (2 parts in 3 Vols.) |
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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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Anita Sharma |
The Bakkarwals of Jammu and Kashmir: Navigating through Nomadism |
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| Sedentary patterns of living are often termed as ‘civilized’, yet, in semi-arid regions, pastoral nomadism remains an efficient subsistence-base. While seven percent of India is nomadic, a majority have little access to development programs. Research across continents reveals that the success of such initiatives among nomads is contingent upon their sensitivity to a mobile lifestyle.
The personal Bakkarwals of Jammu and Kashmir herd goat and sheep and are a subset of the buffalo-herding... |
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B.B. Lal |
The Homeland of the Aryans : Evidence of Rigvedic Flora and Fauna and Archaeology |
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| For well over seven decades two theories have been blinding our vision of India's past, viz. that:
There was an 'Aryan Invasion' of India
The invaders destroyed the Harappan civilization which became extinct.
Although in his book, The Sarasvati Flows On, the present author completely demolished these theories, there are still a few scholars who cling to them.
Resurrecting the 'Aryan Invasion/Migration' theory, a stalwart writes: 'one thing seems certain; the speakers of Vedic Sanskrit...... |
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B. B. Lal |
The Saraswati Flows On: The Continuity of Indian Culture |
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| This book deals with two major controversies relating to India's past. First, It has been asserted by many scholars, both Indian and foreign, that the Sarasvati mentioned in the Rigveda is the Helmand of Afghanistan. The author examines the entire Rigvedic evidence and demonstrates that it goes counter to aforesaid assumption.
On the other hand, there are compelling geographical data in the Rigveda itself which unambiguously show that the Rigvedic Sarasvati is none other than the present-day... |
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Rekha Rao |
Therapeutics in Indian Sculptures: Ranki Vav-Patan |
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| India is a land known for its antiquity. Its heritage is expressed in its cultural and architectural traditions, which have transcended time and space to remain alive and appropriate even in the present. Gujarat in western India is a place with many historical monuments, the step-wells; especially the one at a place called “Patan” is truly a store-house of the rich cultural and religious heritage of India with stunning architectural grandeur. Ranki Van also called Rani-ki-Vav; the step-well at... |
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D.P. Agrawal |
Traditional Knowledge Systems and Archaeology |
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| The Traditional Knowledge Systems (TKS) are the corpus of accumulated folk knowledge gained through trial and error through millennia. This folk knowledge therefore has a parental relationship to the elite science. The micro-variations of the ambient harsh environment of the hills have been responsible for the extremely rich community knowledge systems and a biodiversity necessary for sustainability of human life here.
The mountain people also cultivate many lesser known crops and medicinal... |
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Gordon Risley Hearn |
The Seven Cities of Delhi |
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| The present volume contains an excellent account of the history and architecture of Delhi. It will afford readers and visitors not only a clear guide to all that is seen in Delhi but also an intelligent record of the history of the place in all its various phases.
Sir Hearn coined the phrase "Seven Cities of Delhi", popularizing the famous
drawing of the seven cities that accompanied the original text. Both the drawing
and the notion of the seven cities of Delhi have survived to this day.... |
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P.K. Kaul |
Antiquities of the Chenab Valley in Jammu |
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| An attempt is made by the author, in this Monograph, to evaluate the antiquity of the Jammu region, and valuable material in terms of some 150 items of inscriptional record, copper plates, Sanads, Pattas, Grants, official Certificate and Firmans etc. have been treated. All these pertain to the valleys of Chenab and its tributaries in the mountains of Jammu. |
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R. Nath |
Chittorgadh Kirtti-Stambha |
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| Maharana Kumbha of Mewar, who was the preceptor of Medieval Indian Renaissance, built his greatest monument, the Kirttistambha in the fort of Chittorgadh (Rajasthan) between 1440 and 1460 A D. It is generally known by the misnomer Vijaya Stambha (The Tower of Victory), though it was not built to commemorate a military event. The author has examined here the fundamental question : what was the idea which led to its incarnation in such a beautiful form, under such headings as Mahameru, Vedic... |
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P.K. Mishra (Ed.) |
Researches in Archaeology and Conservation |
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| This book of its kind is being published in India for the first time. Here we have a book for those who are interested in the critical appreciation of the problems relating to conservation and preservation of monuments and antiquities including the entire World Heritage. It encompasses in itself a vast vista of visions visualizing the entire gamut of conservation and preservation required for the safeguard of the World Cultural Heritage including minor antiquities housed in museums and varied... |
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Dr.A.P. Singh |
Geometrical Patterns Of Ancient Icons |
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| Iconography means not merely the mechanical description and identification of on image but also the study of various aspects, which lead to the growth of cult. The worship of Icon originated the right from prehistoric period. The excavation of Mohan Jodaro and Harappa substantiate to this fact. It is critical study of geometrical patterns of Icons of different sects of various dynasties of ancient India. Besides this, it enables us to visualize with the idea of anatomical details of human body.... |
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Bimal Bandyopadhyay |
Buddhist Centres of Orissa |
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| Orissa has been the Cinderella of Indian archaeological exploration. For historical reasons the decision makers deterred the spade of the archaeologists. Nonetheless, the occasional foray into the field threw a flood of light on the hitherto hidden historical, religious and artistic traditions of the state. The excavation conducted by the Archaeological Survey of India from 1997 to 2000 at Udayagiri was epoch-making. It unearthed a grand monastery with magnificent shrines and unique... |
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Devendara Handa |
Buddhist Remains from Haryana |
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| Buddhist Remains from Haryana is based on the first-hand study of the Buddhist remains, mostly lying unnoticed at various places and in museums and private collections. It has taken years of study and fieldwork to dig up the literary and archaeological data to prepare this monograph which brings to light many stupas, pillars, sculptures, terracottas and other antiquities from the region of Haryana showing clearly that Buddhism continued to live here even after it was wiped off from the... |
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N.L. Batra, Prof.Mushirul Hasan |
Jama Masjid |
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| About five hundred metres west of the Red Fort stands an enduring monument to Shah Jahan's Passion- the Jama Masjid, and extraordinary specimen of architectural extravaganza built during the years 1650-1656. Jama Masjid- the mosque of Friday- was built from 1644 to 1658 in the reign of Shahjahan. The mosque, which measures 65m on 35m and whose court forms a square of 100m on side is, by its surface, the greatest religious construction of Islam. The book brings to you the facts and... |
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J.R. Subba |
History, Culture and Customs of Sikkim |
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| Sikkim, the tiny Himalayan Kingdom came in existence in 1642 A.D. with a much larger area than it was in 1975 A.D. before it's integration in the Indian Union. The frontiers of the Kingdom was the whole of Limbuwan, now the eastern most part of Nepal, southern parts of Tibet Autonomous Region of China from Nathu La and Jelep La to the Tang La beyond Phari Jong, Western Bhutan up to the watershed range between the Ammo Chu Valley and Har Chu Valley, and the Northern plains of West Bengal as far... |
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H Potter (ed.) Kari |
Encyclopaedia of Indian Philosophies Volumes III |
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| The following volume constitutes the second in a series devoted to Buddhist philosophy. It takes up more or less where its predecessor, Volume Seven of this Encyclopedia, leaves off, around the beginning of the second century A.D. This is a period still not well understood, with a great deal of scholarly disagreement remaining about many aspects of the history and thought of the period. The editor of the volume has tried to utilize the most up-to-date scholarship known to us. The volumes on... |
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Karl H. Potter |
Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies - Vol. XI |
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| This is an endeavour by an international team of scholars to present the contents of Indian Philosophical texts to a wider public than has hitherto been possible. It attempts to provide a definitive summary of current knowledge about each of the systems of classical Indian philosophy. Each volume consists of an extended analytical essay together with summaries of every extant work of the system for which a summarizer can be found. Volumes include a Bibliography, a Glossary, and treatments of... |
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Chandra Dhar Tripathi |
Kamarupa-Kalinga-Mithila: A Politico-Cultural Alignment in Eastern India: History, Art, Traditions |
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| Indological studies, during the colonial era, largely emphasized the differences between the various regions, linguistic groups, religious persuasions, etc. Even after the Independence, the trend seems to continue and the 'divisive studies'-at the author terms them-far outnumber the 'integrative studies' (again, a term coined by the author). The present work is an attempt towards such 'integrative studies'. Kamarupa, Kalinga and Mithila are three civilisational regions that developed close... |
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R.K.Sharma |
Nagas: The Tribe and the Cult |
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| Nagas, the snake-worshipping communities of Ancient Indian occupy an important place in Indian history. To a student of Indian history and the common man alike, it appears as if there lay a complete veneer of belief in the divinity of the Nagas and of the Naga racial blood over the length and breadth of Indian. From Kashmir, Tibet, or Nepal to the Malabar coast in the South; from Gujarat to Bengal and Assam; from Sri Lanka to Java, Sumatra and Cambodia, there are very few places indeed where we... |
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R.D. Benerji |
Prehistoric Ancient and Hindu India |
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| This book is about the prehistoric, ancient and Hindu India, and covers several aspects such as physical features of India, the races of India and their languages, earlier Indo-Aryans and the Dravidian,s Vedic Literature, the Epic Literature of India.
Besides, sixteen kingdoms of the north, the Persian conquest of north-western India, the Maurya empire, Greek invasions, Dravidian dynasties of the South, the culture of northern India, Gupta empire of northern India, southern dynasties of the... |
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Robert G. Bednarik |
Rock Art Science: The Scientific Study of Palaeoart |
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| This is the first comprehensive academic textbook about the application of scientific principles and methods in the study of pre-Historic art. The volume is especially intended for use by researchers, teachers, students, authors, conservators, site managers and administrators concerned with the study, analysis or protection of rock art, it is an essential source for academics in archaeology and several other disciplines concerned with this cultural resource. A tightly written text covers... |
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Ratan Das |
The Philosophy of Sarvodaya |
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| The concept of Sarvodaya was conceived by Mahatma Gandhi while he came across the monumental book "Unto this Last". Gandhi found in it a composite concept of social welfare & economic justice. But he could not activise the concept owing to his preoccupation in the liberation movement of India. He died with the concept of Sarvodaya very much in his mind. Later on Vinoba recued & activated the concept of Bhoodan, Gramdan & Sarvodaya movement.
The most salient aspect of Sarvodaya is... |
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Bikas Kumar Bhattacharya |
Tara In Hinduism: Study With Textual And Iconographical Documentation |
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| This documentation will help researches to make a through investigation into the Brahmanical cult of Tara, especially, in the background of cultural and ideological developments of India.
The Ist Chapter presents a survey of the development of the concepts of the Mother Goddess in ancient India as gleaned from textual and archaeological sources, vis-à-vis the seedling of the godhead of Tara in her pleasant and terrible forms. The II chapter comprises a catalogue of 265 antique images of Tara.... |
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Pamela Mountbatten |
India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens |
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| On New Year’s Day 1947 Lord Mountbatten was summoned to Downing Street to discover his future role in history- to guide India to independence as the last Viceroy. Travelling from post-war Britain under rationing to the outsized splendour of Viceroy’s House in New Delhi, the Mountbattens leapt straight into their responsibilities.
Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, Patel, Baldev Singh and a wealth of Maharajas all appear in this testament to the biggest challenge faced by a Viceroy- to break the deadlock... |
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Yogesh Praveen |
Monuments of Lucknow |
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| Lucknow is abode of fine Arts and 'Ganga-Jamuna' culture. After the downfall of Delhi this cosmopolitan city had given shelter to a captivating panorama of arts and culture. Lucknow there after developed and refined every aspect of this culture throught the delicacy, mannerism and literary prominence of art and culture of Avadh, to give it world-recognition. In the Monuments of Lucknow the glorious golden era of Avadh has been expressed by commencing a tour through the famous buildings built in... |
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Rattanlal Hangloo (Ed.) |
New Themes in Indian History: Art, Politics, Gender, Environment and Culture |
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| In keeping with the diverse trends and thematic orientations, this volume has been designed to give space to the faculty and scholars working on new areas and themes where there is an abundance of source material that is only now beginning to be tapped. Migration, popular culture, ethno-medicine, historical geography, craft production, miniature paintings are some of the themes that are part of the contents of this work. Though the volume at a first glance would seem to be disparate in terms of... |
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M.K. Dhavalikar |
Satavahana Art |
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| The Satavahanas (Ca. 2nd cent. BC-2nd cent. AD) were one of the empire builders in ancient India. Their rule extended almost over the entire region is marked by considerable peace and prosperity which was due to the flourishing trade with the Roman empire. The artistic creations of the Satavahana era are among the grandest in India, comparable in their monumental quality to such imposing buildings as the Khajuraho nd Chola temples. They are unsurpassed in early India and many of them are still... |
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Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty |
Indian Rock Art and its Global Context |
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| This is a unique volume in the history of rock art studies, meant at once for the advanced scholar, serious student and the curious but conscientious layman, co-authored by K.K. Chakravarty and R.G. Bednarik, who co-chaired the Rock Art session of the World Archaeological Congress 3 at Delhi in 1994. It is a synoptic but comprehensive survey, illustrated by 221 photographs and sketches, including 172 photographs in colour.
The two scholars have not only described the latest state of research... |
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Jadunath Sarkar |
The Fall of the Mughal Empire (4 Vols.) |
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A.S. Gaur |
Archaeology of Bet Dwarka Island : An Excavation Report |
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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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Prem Prakash Pandey |
Bhojpuri Panktipavan Arts |
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| Folk art is the visual representation of folk culture and folk customs. As literature is the mirror of society, so is art the manifestation of its culture, Religious beliefs, myths, symbols and traditions, when reflected in the art of a society.
The documentation of such art is not only significant for preservation of our heritage, but also important from anthropological point of view for understanding of human values.This introductory monograph examines the folk arts of Bhojpuri Saryupareen... |
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Vinay Kumar Gupta |
Buddhism in Mathura: A Detailed Study of Buddhist Tradition, Archaeology and Art |
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| The book is an attempt by the author to present the holistic view of Buddhist Mathura. This book explores all the literary references available about Mathura and nearby region in the ancient Buddhist literature. An attempt has been made by the author to identify those sites mentioned in the literature with the archaeological sited found during explorations. The author has also delved in the account of Chinese pilgrims Fa-hian and Hiuen-Tsang related with Mathura and has tried to verify those... |
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G.T. Shendey |
Global Awareness for Preservation of Cultural Property |
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| The Control over the illegal activities of art treasures in cultural properties should be tighten with International Conventions and national legislations on the International platform by UNESCO and inside the country by the concern nation for preserving the human art treasures and could pass on it to the future generals intact.
The United Nations had proclaimed the period 1988-1997 as would decade of cultural development. Out of this, the global awareness concept for preserving... |
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Paromita Das |
History and Archaeology of North-East India: With Special Reference to Guwahati |
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| This book is an exhaustive study of the archaeological remains of the modern city of Guwahati from the fifth century A.D. to the end of the pre-colonial period in Assam. It focuses primarily on the different aspects of the history of the city, its religious and economic life, its society and polity. The history of the city is traced based primarily on its material remains, inscriptions, coins and sculpture.
The history of Guwahati is intricately linked with the forces that shaped the history... |
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Subodh Gopal Nandi |
Manuscript and Manuscriptology in India |
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| Preservation of manuscripts is a serious issue for the Librarians, information scientists and archivists ever since human beings acquired the knowledge of writing. The manuscripts have the chances to be damaged by insects or due to tearing by use of rough handling; so it is most essential to repair these damages at the moment of identification.
The preservation of manuscripts follows traditional as well as modern methods, which are scientific and preserve documents for further use. In... |
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Milan K. Chauley |
Prehistory and Protohistory of Eastern India |
$96.49 $67.54 |
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| The idea of this book was first suggested by Sri J.P. Joshi (Ex. D.G. ASI) and Dr. Agam Prasad of Agam Kala Prakashan way back in 2000. Later while taking classes on Pre and Proto History of Orissa in Utkal university and Utkal University of Culture both in Bhubaneswar, it was seen that the materials on the subject was scarce and scattered. Then the only book available was published long back in the 60's only dealt with the Lower & Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic cultures of Orissa and... |
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K Narayana Iyer |
The Permanent History Of Bharat Varsha (2 Vols.) |
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| "CURIOUS and paradoxical as the title may appear at the very outset, it is earnest wish and prayer that all Hindus interested in their ancient country, literature and religion, as well as those desirous of knowing Indian affairs better, will kindly condescend to pursue, at least as a pass-time, this little essay, which with all its unavoidably serious defects may be assured to be the humblest product of several years' continued and anxious efforts. It is not possible or perhaps desirable... |
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Dr. Sindhu S. Dange |
Vedic Beliefs and Practices (2 vols.) |
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| The Vedic ritual reasonings (arthavada-s) glorifying the Vedic rites and rituals and initially springing from the 'sacred' tradition, bring directly or indirectly with them the beliefs and practices prevalent in the then Vedic society. At times are indicated in them the 'avedic' beliefs and practices. The arthavada-s thus bear relation to the 'secular' or profane tradition. Even admitting that the 'sacred' and 'secular' traditions are complementary to each... |
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Ideal India |
$98.95 $69.27 |
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| This book is a special presentation of the highest quality of the
applications of Maharishi's Vedic Science to restore India as the Lighthouse of
Peace on Earth. Maharishi describes how this Vedic transformation can easily be
created through five main areas of governmental responsibility — education,
health care, administration, defence and agriculture.
A presentation of all Maharishi's Programmes in the fields of Vedic
Education, Health Care, Administration, Defence, and... |
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Aniruddha Ray |
Merchant and the State : The French in India, 1666-1739 |
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| This brief survey of the activities of the French East Indian Company in India, based principally on the unpublished factory records of the French archives, deals with their problems, their linkages with the Mercantile groups and their relation with the local rulers.
Starting with their arrival at Surat in 1666, this study closes with the occupation of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1739, which marks the changes of the attitude of the European powers including the French towards the Mughal Empire.... |
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Sir Charles Eliot |
Hinduism and Buddhism |
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| First published in 1921, when the author was the British Ambassador in Tokyo, Hinduism and Buddhism provides a vivid historical sketch of the Hindu and Buddhist religions, an immense subject.
In his introduction Sir Charles Eliot points to the real foundation of Indian thought: ‘Here more than in any other country the national mind finds its favourite occupation and full expression in religion. This quality is geographical rather than racial, for it is possessed by Dravidians as much as by... |
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B Ramesh Chandra Babu |
Palaeography of The Brahmi Script in Andhra |
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| The book traces the evolution of the Brahmi Script in Early Andhradesa and envisages an in depth study of the scriptural forms of early inscriptions.
It embodies a meticulous study on the development of the script of the early Brahmi inscriptions, coins, seals, sealings and pot-sherds.
The first three chapters deal with the topics like historical introduction, the analysis of the records and the Epigraphical formulae. The remaining six chapters highlight the Palaeographic peculiarities of... |
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Thomas McEvilley |
The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies |
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| This unparalleled comparative study of early Eastern and Western philosophy challenges every existing belief about the philosophical foundations of Western civilization. Spanning thirty years of intense intellectual inquiry and research, the author proves what many scholars before him have sensed but couldn't empirically explain: that the seemingly autonomous and separate metaphysical schemes of Greek and Idnian cultures have mutually influenced each other over a long period of time, to the... |
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Ashvini Agrawal |
In Search of Vedic-Harappan Relationship |
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| Although the idea of a Vedic-Harappan relationship was put forward as early as the 1920s, it is only recently that scholars have given it serious attention.
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, more scientifically inclined scholars around the world have taken... |
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Momin Mohiuddin |
Muslim Communities in Medieval Konkan (610-1900 A.D.) |
$105.99 $74.19 |
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| An Attempt is made to study the Muslim Communities in Medieval Konkan dating from the earliest known arrivals of foreign Muslims on the Western coastland in the Konkan littoral, until the end of the nineteenth century. The present study seeks to identify the socio-intellectual and politico-religious roles played by them on the stage of history; and to appreciate their contribution to various other aspects of culture co-related to this, are the assessments made of the commercial activities and... |
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S.K. Aruni |
Surapura Samsthana |
$108.95 $76.27 |
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| The fall of Vijayanagara empire caused the emergence of splinter states in South India and Deccan. These states collectively known as Poligars (Palegars). They dominated the political scenario of the South India from These Poligar states founded by the warrior tribes of South India; they eventually came to the mainstream of the south Indian polity.
The present book deals one such Poligar state known as Surapura Samsthana founded by the Bedars and ruled between 1650 and 1858 AD. In Sagara-nadu... |
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Horacio Fabrega Jr. |
History of Mental Illness in India: A Cultural Psychiatry Retrospective |
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| Examining "mental illness" in societies where different world views, thought worlds, and habit patterns prevail is ordinarily frowned by social scientists since it involves analysis of phenomena steeped in modern conventions of knowledge. This boon contravenes this position giving reasons for and ways of circumventing social science scruples. It formulates and provides details about the systems of healing of conditions of psychiatric interest that would have been found in ancient... |
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K.K. Chaturvedi |
Agnihotra : Studies in Indic Traditions : Prof. Prabhu Dayalu Agnihotri Felicitation Volume |
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| Contents:
I. Life and achievements:
An interview by late K.P. Narayanan/M.P. Chronicle.
II. Research papers:
Treatment of Rasa-dosas in the Kavyanusasana (Ka. sa.) of Acarya Hemachandra (H.C)/Tapasvi Nandi
Parakkumkuttu - a drama in flight/N.P. Unni
Ramayana tradition after Valmiki in India and abroad/Rajendra Mishra
Sanskrit drama - origin and development/K.G. Paulose
The Samavrtta type of meters of the Chandomanjari and the Vrttamanjari/Dipak Kumar... |
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Adrian Snodgrass |
The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism (2 Vol) |
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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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S.S. Toshkhani |
Cultural Heritage of Kashmiri Pandits |
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| The book presents an overarching study of the significant contributions made by Kashmiri Pandits in core areas of Indian cultural and intellectual endeavours, from aesthetics, poetics, dramaturgy, historiography, linguistics, literature, folklore, transmission of the doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism, Kashmir Shaivism, mural, architectural and sculptural art. With these narrative on the long odyssey of the Kashmiri Pandits serving as the perspective, the volume presents interesting and... |
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S D Trivedi |
Metallic Art of India |
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| This book contains papers presented on metal art of India. These articles on ancient bronzes, gold images, and use of gold in textiles give a deep insight into the various aesthetic and technical aspect as metal art of India. The papers deal with collection in famous museums like Lucknow, Allahabad and Mathura and some other metal images. It contained study of various famous centres of metallic art such as Chausa, Aluara, Western Orissa, South India and Konkan. Not only the art of Pala and... |
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Swati Ray |
Scythian Elements in Early Indian Art |
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| The study and research of the history of Indian art and foreign influence on it, being a subject of absorbing interest, started receiving the special attention of scholars and art historians from about the beginning of the nineteenth century. The presence of the Sakas in early India is well known to scholars. It is also known that the sakas were a part of the Scythians.
The term Scythian is generally employed to denote numerous groups of nomadic tribes from the borders of China to the... |
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Lokesh Chandra |
Buddhism: Art and Values - A Collection of Research Papers and Keynote Addresses on the Evolution of Buddhist Art and Thought Across the Lands of Asia |
$112.99 $79.09 |
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| This volume explores the relation of Buddhism to Greek cosmology, its contacts with West Asia, and parallels top Christianity. The interpretation of Adibuddha as a theistic concept has been elucidated. Buddhist period of Classical Afghanistan, a new identification of the colossi of Bamiyan, and the 108 symbols on the feet of the Buddhas are the way on the physical and divine planes.
Several Khotanese panels, murals and icons have been identified anew on the basis of the six Annals of... |
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Kalaprapoorna Varalakshmi Janapathy |
Splendour of the Classical Dances of Andhra Pradesh |
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| My aim is to present the history, origin, technique and basic principles underlying the dance forms of Andhra Pradesh. A study of the art, architecture and literature through the ages reveals that the art of dance flourished and occupied a special place in the evolution of Andhra place in the evolution of Andhra Culture. "Andhri" style referred to by Bharata in his Natyasastra related to Telugu Land. Popularity of compositions of Kshetrayya, narayana Tundha, and others richly... |
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Vishwa Chander Ohri |
The Technique of Pahari Painting : An Inquiry into Aspects of Materials, Methods and History : (Based Upon Observation and Field –Work) |
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| This richly illustrated book is the first detailed study of the technique of Indian painting with an emphasis on the particulars for crafting of Pahari paintings of the Basohli, the Guler and the Kangra styles. After Moti Chandra’s The Technique of Mughal painting, 1949, numerous articles on various aspects of this subject had appeared in the long intervening period.
The author presents here a comprehensive account of the technique, the methods and the materials used in painting, miniatures... |
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Vibha Tripathi |
Archaeometallurgy in India |
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| Ancient metals and their manufacturing make a fascinating, as well as challenging subject of academic investigation. The overgrowing application of scientific knowledge and sophisticated analytical techniques in archaeological studies have opened newer perspectives on the understanding of ancient metals and metallurgy. The resultant inter-disciplinary subject of Archaeo-metallurgy adds new dimensions to archaeological research. It bridges the gap of Arts and Sciences. It is only through such an... |
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Chahryar Adle |
History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Development in contrast from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century (Vol.4) |
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| The volume continues the History of Central Asian Civilizations from c.1500 to c. 1850, a period which saw the last medieval empires notably the Uzbeks, Safavids, Mughals and Dzungars, and witnessed the early impact of colonialism. Like the preceding volumes, the present one also deals with all the diverse elements of culture. It describes the last phase of nomadism as a viable system of social organization; the effects on Central Asian economies of the shift of the main lines of... |
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C. Dorje |
Kumbhalgarh: The Pride of Maharanas of Mewar |
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| Kumbhalgarh has played an important role in the history of Mewar, particularly from the time of Maharana Kumbha to Maharana Pratap. It is located at a distance of 80 km north-west of Udaipur and about 48 km to the west of Rajsamand in Rajasthan. Due to the strategic location of the Fort, Maharana Pratap continued to retain his second capital here at Kumbhalgarh.
In this monograph, an attempt has been made to highlight the historical background of the Mewar State and Kumbhalgarh, its... |
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Rosie Llewellyn-Jones |
Portraits in princely India 1700-1947 |
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| Since Independence, the princes and regional rulers of India have mostly been seen as anachronistic figures, too closely associated with the former colonial government, and often a byword for extravagance, sybaritic lifestyles, and mild despotism. When they were stripped of their privy purses in 1971, there were more protests in Britain than in India. No serious efforts have been made to put these men, and a few women, in a pictorial context, to analyze the differing styles of portraiture... |
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B.V. Subbarayappa |
The Tradition of Astronomy in India Jyotihsastra: History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization (Volume IV Part-4) |
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| This Volume endeavours to present the preceptible facets of the tradition of astronomy in India:- the torch-bearers of this tradition and their texts; main characteristics of Indian astronomy; scientific approach to the phenomenon of eclipse; pancanga and its social dimensions including the vrata-s, festivals and other observances, origin of astrological ideas, their seeming links with astronomy and certain contraditictions; extensive computations concerning planetary revolutions in a huge... |
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BN Goswamy |
The Word is Sacred; Sacred Is The Word: The Indian Manuscript Tradition |
$118.99 $83.29 |
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| The Word is Sacred; Sacred is The Word: The Indian Manuscript Tradition sets out to demonstrate the wealth and diversity of India’s manuscript traditions and to communicate a lasting impression of India as a multifarious and multicultural society that holds knowledge and knowledge systems in high regard. Some one hundred precious manuscripts, books, and related documents introduced in this book span a timescale of almost two millennia of Indian cultural history.
Often elaborately illustrated,... |
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Badar Jahan |
Abstraction in Indian Painting: Post Independence Era |
$121.99 $85.39 |
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| The presence of Abstraction in Indian Contemporary Art has been intensely debated throughout the post independence era. It was in late 1940's that Bombay Progressive Group, Calcutta Group, Group 1890, Cholamandal Artists Group, Baroda Group and later some individuals exuded new ethos towards abstraction. There have also been artists like V.S. Gaitonde, Jeram Patel, Nasreen Mohammedi and S.H. Raza, who have been totally devoted to the non-representational art.
This book... |
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Aruna |
Orchha Paintings |
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| In the history of Central Indian Art, the wall-paintings of Orchha occupy a unique position. The artists, under the patronage of Kings, adopted long-lasting techniques in the creation of murals, depicting values dear to them based on the Vedas, the Epics – the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the various Puranas etc. These Paintings and murals have not received due exposure, prominence and importance from the viewpoint of cultural study. The present work is an attempt to fill this gap.
The book,... |
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Ranbir Singh |
Jaisalmer: Art, Architecture & Tourism |
$123.49 $86.44 |
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| The cultural life of the people of Jaisalmer is fascinating. This book is based largely on the personal experiences, narratives of the local people gathered during several visits in addition to references drawn from historical records about Jaisalmer. I owe gratitude to Mr. Anupam Mishra of Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi and Shri Bhagwan Das Maheshwari, the great old man of Jaisalmer who have been not only instrumental in attracting my attention to Jaisalmer but also helping me in gathering... |
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P.C. Sahajwala |
India through Questions and Answers - In 2 Volumes |
$124.99 $87.49 |
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| The book in the hands of the reader is a valuable collection of questions and answers that help the reader know about India from its earliest civilisations to the present day democratic set up in India. It addresses all types of readers from Research Scholars to enthusiastic students of history, those preparing for IAS, IFS, IPS etc. and also those preparing for TV quiz like KBC2 and other competitive games based on knowledge. Indeed it is a first attempt of its kind, looking at the large... |
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R. Balasubramanian |
History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization (Volume II part 3) |
$125.49 $87.84 |
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| The volumes of the project on the History of science, philosophy and culture in indian civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India's heritage and present them in an interrelated way. these volumes, in spite of their unitary look, recognise the difference between the areas of material civilization and those of ideational culture. The Project is not being executed by a single group of thinkers and writers who are methodologically uniform or ideologically identical in their... |
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R.D. Choudhury |
Kala |
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| Kala - the book publishes recent researches in the field of Indian Art History. This volume contains research articles on Indian art and architecture covering a vast area from Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar in the east to Gujarat in the west and down south to Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Equally diverse are the subjects dealt by eminent art historians, such as sculptural art, paintings, temple architecture, Jaina, Buddhist, Surya, Sakta, Saiva and Vaisnava iconography from proto-historic... |
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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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Pride of India: A Glimpse into India`s Scientific Heritage |
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| Ancient Indian have always been acclaimed for their contributions to art, literature, philosophy, and allied branches of knowledge. But the significant strides they had made in the fields of science and technology have remained relatively unknown.
Today, the scientific literature in Samskrit available to us is vast and varied, covering subjects as diverse as alchemy and astronomy, mathematics and metallurgy, gemology and zoology, and many more. Even so, several questions have been raised as... |
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Narendra Luther |
Raja Deen Dayal: Prince of Photographers |
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| This is the story of Deen Dayal, the greatest photographer of India whose genius was acknowledged worldwide. It is also the history of photography, its arrival in India, the work done by the British and Indian photographers, and its application in the documentation of various aspects of administration.
On the human side, it gives a glimpse of the fabulous life-style of the nabobs of the East India company, and the sahibs of the British Empire. The latter’s fascination for documenting the... |
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Jeyapriya Rajarajan |
Terrific Manifestations of Siva: Virabhadra |
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| There are several books on such individual manifestations of Siva such as Nataraja, Ardhanarisvara, Sadasiva and so on. There is no exhaustive study of a fierce form of the Lord Virabhadra. This work fulfils the need. In seven chapters and three appendices the mythology, art and cult of Virabhadra is systematically sketched.
The first chapter deals Prolegomena, second chapter deals exhaustively with most of the Sanskrit Puranas and other liturgical works. The specialty is the summary of Tamil... |
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Tarapada Bhattacharyya |
Vastuvidya Systems of Indian Architecture |
$127.99 $89.59 |
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| The Indian Vastusastra or the canons of Indian Architecture is a field of study in which very few scholars have worked in the last few years in India. The Indfian Vastusastra includes 'Brihat Samhita' Samarangaon Sutradhara' and the 'Isana-SivaGurudeva Paddhati'. We know from the South Indian inscription that Isana-Siva-Gurudeva was the preceptor of King Rajendra Choladeva of the Chola dynasty who has helped us a lot to form a chronology of the history of the Vastusastra.
The origin of Indian... |
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A.K. Bhattacharyya |
Indian Numismatics and its Cultural Aspects |
$128.49 $89.94 |
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| The book presented here in ten chapters and an important Appendix contains not only general surveys of the coin-systems in India but also some studies of important aspects of the coins issued from the 8th or 7th century B.C. down almost to the present times. Some of the interpretative essays apart, compositional excellences of the legends and artistic achievements in the issues have been discussed in extensor.
An additional merit of the book consists in laying before scholars and the lay... |
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Arvind Kumar |
Pollution and Biodiversity: Biosocial Aspects |
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| Environmental regulatory agencies in certain states are authorized to ban the production, sale, use of certain chemicals disposal of certain wastes, or the use of certain production processes or waste management practices. Similarly mandatory banning or reduction of toxic substances has been proposed for implementation in some states.
Policymakers could also lower concentration thresholds for allowable emissions and effluents of specific pollutants. Lowering concentration thresholds might... |
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Dr. K.M. Suresh |
Ramayana Sculptures from Hampi - Vijayanagara |
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| The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India and its influence on the life of Indian people has been great and immeasurable. The ideals of the Ramayana have gone deep into the core of Indian life and have largely molded its social, political and cultural fabric and eternal history of India. Rama is an ideal hero and the Ramayana describes his character unparalleled in human history.
During Vijayanagara period many poets and scholars translated the Ramayana in Kannada language. The most... |
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John Malcolm |
A Memoir of Central India (2 Vols.) |
$133.33 $93.33 |
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| The present work (in two volumes) is an absorbing and informative account of Central India. The book contains the collection of facts illustrative of the genuine history and character of the natives of Central India and is a clear and complete exposition of the times the author had set himself to chronicle.
The book offers a balanced history of the region and also provides a fascinating account of British imperial relations with the princely states. It is thus a work of great historical... |
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S.P. Verma |
Aspects of Mughal Painting: Expressions and Impressions (Vol.I) |
$134.99 $94.49 |
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| Present collection of essays researched and analyzed by S.P. Verma, since 1973, provides the readers an introduction to the Mughal painting. The sixteen studies in this volume offer a fresh interpretation of the Mughal miniatures. These relate to the aesthetic values, art-forms, signs and symbols, and the social and cultural history. Most importantly, Akbar's attempt to liberate painting from the straitjacket of sectarian ideology is the theme of Chapter 1.2. The 'artists signatures' (Chapter... |
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Raj Kumar |
History of the Chamar Dynasty : From Sixth Century A.D. to Twelfth Century A.D. |
$134.99 $94.49 |
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| History of the Chamar Dynasty' over the past centuries bears witness to the fact that India was at no time a single political unit. Even during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya and Asoka, though a large part of the country was under the sovereignty of the Maurya Kings, and there were a considerable portion of the territory was under the control as an independent kingdom of the three subcontinent, i.e., India, Pakistan and China. The same story has been repeated by the Kushana, Guptas, and... |
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Sangitanarayana (2 vols.) |
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| Sangitanarayana is a Sanskrit text on music and dance written in the 17th century by Purusottama Misra, a minister at the court of King Gajapati Narayanadeva of Parlakimidi in Orissa and his instructor in musicology, with the assistance of the king. While the precise date of the Sangitanarayana is not known, its relationship to Purusottama Misra and Gajapati Narayanadeva prompts us to place it in the first half of the 17th century.
One of the most valuable and extensive texts on music and... |
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Critically edited and translated by H.G. Ranade |
Latyayana Srauta Sutra - 3 Volumes |
$137.99 $96.59 |
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| The Srauta Sutras form a very important unit of the Sutra literature which lays down in brief the quintessence of the Vedic texts i.e. the Samhitas and the Brahmanas strengthening further the sacrificial tradition in India. As it is known worldwide, the sacrificial tradition in India is based mainly on the oldest book of the human beings namely the Rigveda (RV) as also on the Yajurveda (YV) and the Samaveda (SV) which have developed a variety of recensions with difference of utterance and... |
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D.C. Sharma |
Post-War Developments: Pathway to Swaraj (2 vols. set) |
$141.49 $99.04 |
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| The volume I and II have been weaved into eighteen chapters having bearing on Indian nationalism. They deal with various phases of Gandhian philosophy and political thought. The repressive Acts being promulgated in South Africa greatly hurt the socio-economic dignity of Indian migrants. They were indeed hard-working people in various regions. But they were not permitted to act in a way they wanted. Their demands, as mentioned earlier, were socio-economic in contents.
The Mahatma felt unhappy... |
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Sanjay Singh |
Yatra 2 Yatra |
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| With these points in mind, this collection of pilgrimages, Yatra2Yatra has been compiled. It includes the chronological history of the pilgrimage site, the various mythological beliefs involved, important tourist spot, major festivals and all other vital information like, location, weather, suggested time of travel, travel guide etc. |
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D.P. Chattopadhyaya/R.Balasubramanian |
History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization (Vol-XI Part 4) |
$144.49 $101.14 |
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| The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India's heritage and present them in an interrelated way.
The jiva who lives in the world is the enworlded subjectivity. The concept of trhe "enworlded subjectivity" interrelates consciousness, science, society, value, and Yoga. Every individual who is placed in this world becomes an enworlded subjectivity encountering and experiencing three worlds as... |
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Anupa Pande |
Cultural Interface of India With Asia |
$145.00 $101.50 |
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| The reality of the Indian presence in Asian cultures is undeniable. Recent scholarship in the field of Asian cultural studies has laid much stress on the essential oneness of the substratum that defines what may be termed as an Asian identity. Buddhism and Hinduism, having originated in India, travelled beyond the frontiers of the land of their origin, and in many ways, moulded the beliefs and faith of the people of Asia. Trade, political ambitions, and religious pursuits led to a dissemination... |
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Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
India Then and Now |
$149.00 $104.30 |
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| India lives in many centuries. Discover the majesty and sweep of India's rich cultural and historical heritage, replete with the people, events and places that have contributed the chequered mosaic of India's past. Featured in this exquisite book, India Then and Now gives rare and never-before-seen vintage photographs from some of the finest collections across the world. The vibrant and ever-changing cultural landscape of contemporary India is also featured in a series of photographs,... |
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R. Satyanarayana |
Caturdandiprakasika of Venkatamakhin (2 volumes) |
$149.95 $104.97 |
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| Caturdandiprakasika (c. 1650 A.D.) of Venkatamakhin is a fundamental treatise of Karnataka music and marks the rearguard in the renaissance of Indian music. It has launched a crucial, conceptual revolution which has metamorphosed this musical system into an enduring the attractive paddhati. Caturdandiprakasika is written in ten chapters: Vina, Sruti, Svara, Mela, Raga, Alapa, Thaya, Gita Prabandha and Tala. The first volume consists of the critically edited Text, English Translation,... |
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D.P. Chattopadhyaya |
History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian civilization |
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| These volumes, in spite of their unitary look, recognize the difference between the areas of material civilization and those of ideational culture. The Project is not being executed by a single group of thinkers and writers who are metholdologically uniform or ideologically identical in their commitments. In fact, contributions are made by different scholars with different ideological persuasions and methodological approaches.
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S.P. Verma |
Eighteen Fifty Seven: Revolt and Contemporary Visuals |
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| The Revolt of 1857, often called India a First War of Independence, is always to be remembered as a violent opposition of the British rule in India. It launched a new phase in Indian policies and political ideas, and there emerged amongst the people of India a consciousness of belonging to one country. Undoubtedly, the uprising of 1857 was a liberation movement, and today, its relevance lies in its enormous significance as a focus for nationalist sentiment in modern India.
After the definitive... |
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Daniel T. Potts (Ed.) |
Memory as History: The Legacy of Alexander in Asia |
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| This volume examines the legacy of Alexander, the Macedonian, as it survived and transformed itself in literature, the arts and archaeology in Asia. The tendency to idealise Alexander began in antiquity and by the Roman period, a body of romance had grown around him, which continued to expand in almost every language from Scotland to Mongolia. The portrait of Alexander as the universal conqueror who was also the civiliser and benefactor of mankind owes its origin to Plutarch who wrote in the... |
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P.C. Venkatasubbaiah |
South Indian Neolithic Culture: Pennar Basin, Andhra Pradesh |
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| The book presents a systematic and scientific study of South Indian Neolithic culture in the Kadapa region of Andhra Pradesh carried out through explorations (village-to-village survey) and section-scrapings at secret sites by using ecological and ethnographic analogy as parameters in order to reconstruct the cultural process of human adaptation in the central Pennar Basin during 2nd Millennium B.C.
The present region of research was a desideratum in view of the expansion of Scuthern... |
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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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H. De Terra |
The Ice Age in the Indian Subcontinent and Associated Human Cultures : With Special Reference to Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Sind, Liddar & Central and Peninsular India |
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| This book deals with the geological and archaeological results of an expedition carried out to understand the Ice Age cycle in the Himalayas and to unravel the Pleistocene history of the Stone Age in other parts of India.
Due to the regional division of this fieldwork, the book has two main categories. The first, Part I, deals with the Ice Age in southwestern Kashmir including Sind, Liddar, Pir Panjal, Jammu and Ladakh and the second, Part II, III, IV, and V, studies the Pleistocene and... |
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A.P. Bhatnagar |
The Oudh Nights: Tales of Nawab Wazirs, Kings and Begums of Lucknow |
$156.49 $109.54 |
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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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Bhup Singh Gulia |
The Traditions of Northern India: A Study of Art, Architecture and Crafts in Haryana |
$156.49 $109.54 |
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| Bhup Singh Gulia and Ranbir Singh have done a remarkable job in generating primary information about the text of the book and enriched it with pictorial representations depicting various unknown elements of folk art and craft that could be gathered from Haryana. A large number of distinctive forms and styles, in respect of arts and crafts invented and developed by the people of Haryana that accompany the text as photographic representations and illustrations in various chapters of the book,... |
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Shailendra Sengar |
Ancient Indian Rituals and Their Social Impact |
$160.49 $112.34 |
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| The book holds that the beliefs and ideals of different civilizations are formulated in their rituals more explicitly than in any other cultural trait which gives the study of ritualism a greater historical significance. This book also examines the steps taken by the classical thinkers for restoring their deteriorating traditional social order and the declining hegemony of their managerial class in the society. The work evoked great scholarly interest and was acclaimed as a significant... |
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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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Sanjay Kumar |
Encyclopaedia of Indian Fairs and Festivals |
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| India is a land of festivals and fairs. Every day of the year there is a festival celebrated in some part of the country. Some festivals welcome the seasons of the year, the harvest, the rains, or the full moon. Others celebrate religious occasions, the birthdays of divine beings, saints and gurus (revered teachers), or the advent of the New Year. In this handy volume, primarily the attention has been paid to all Pan-Indian festivals, but efforts been also made to cover every leading regional... |
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Subhash Parihar |
History and Architectural Remains of Sirhind: The Greatest Mughal City on the Delhi-lahore Highway |
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| Sirhind, during the Mughal period, was the largest city situated in the midst of the Lahore-Delhi Highway. Even before that the antiquity of the city is traceable to the beginning of the Christian era. But it reached the zenith of its glory during the seventeenth century when it became one the most prosperous cities of the Mughal Empire. Its splendor is often described by the chroniclers and travelers of the period.
The work is dividing into two parts. The first part comprises three chapters.... |
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R.S. Bisht (Ed.) |
History and Heritage: In Honour of Prof. Kiran Kumar Thaplyal (In 3 Volumes) |
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| As a humble tribute to their esteemed teacher and a great human being, Prof. Kiran Kumar Thaplyal, this book, History and Heritage, is brought out by his proud students as a guru-dakashina. All his students of successive generations have always held him high I great admiration, respect and love for his erudition, for his self-effacing nature and for his ever-charged enthusiasm that he has shown ungrudgingly whenever someone sought his help, guidance, interaction, or exchange of ideas.
Truly,... |
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Alok Tripathi (Ed.) |
India and the Eastern Seas |
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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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V. Ganapati Sthapati |
Indian Sculpture & Iconography: Forms & Measurements |
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| This is a rare work which gives in great details the forms and accurate measurements of a large variety of Indian sculpture, along with the spiritual vision and philosophy underlying it. This information is based on the ancient texts and the long ancestral tradition and actual experience of the sthapatis, the architects and sculptors of ancient India. The book is divided into three parts. The first section of ten chapters deals with the philosophy and spiritual thought that is the basis of all... |
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Bhagwant Sahai (Ed.) |
Recent Researches in Indian Art and Iconography |
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| This collection of fifty-one articles brings to light the recent trends in the study of sculptural art, iconography and architecture and focuses on the different aspects of Indian Art. These papers are contributed by the eminent scholars expert in their fields from different parts of India and presented in honour of in honour of Dr. C.P. Sinha, former Director of the prestigious K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna. The papers, written in wide and expressive style are supported with... |
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Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty |
River Valley Cultures of India |
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| River Valley has been the sites of the oldest human settlements and consequently the cradles of civilization as well as the repositories of the cultural milestones of the mankind. In India, rivers have played a predominant role in the temporal, cultural and spiritual life of the people through the ages. Several civilizations and associated multi-cultures have evolved around them. Many of them have disappeared leaving trails behind them; others continue in fully and partly transformed... |
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Nandana Chutiwongs |
The Iconography of Avalokitesvara in Mainland South East Asia |
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| This book contains a life-long study by the author on the concept and configuration of one of the best loved religious figures in Asia. It is based on data extensively acquired from inscriptional and other archaeological evidence. The book offers a deep insight into the religious life of ancient Southeast Asia, which had provided the backdrop to the veneration of Avalokitesvara, the Buddhist personification of compassion.
The visual representations portray him in an amazing variety of forms,... |
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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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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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Mary Shepherd Slusser |
Art and culture of Nepal Selected Papers |
$166.67 $116.67 |
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| This volume brings together in one convenient format a selection of papers devoted to Nepalese culture published over several years in a variety of places. In one of them, for example, jointly authored and published in Artibus Asiae in 1973, the authors make one exciting discovery after another as they unravel various facets of Nepalese history. The so-called "Sleeping Vishnu" at Balaju turns out to be actually part Siva and to be a thousand years older than previously thought. In an... |
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G.E. Marindin |
Encyclopaedia of Classical Mythology and Culture (Including Art, Biography and Ancient Geography) - 3 Volumes |
$168.99 $118.29 |
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| The present book is designed to be a compendious book of reference for scholars of Classical Mythology, Folklore and Culture. Here is a wealth of classical lore and information, all clearly and succinctly expressed. The book provides information about both historical reality and legend.
The influence of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures pervades our lives and an informed appreciation of the achievements of the ancient world leads to a better understanding of our own culture.
The book is... |
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E.B. Havell |
Encyclopaedia of Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent |
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| The book is a scholarly account of the glories of India's architectural heritage and deals with the entire subcontinet including Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The book traces the cultural contacts which have contributed to the rich mosaic of temples, mosques, palaces, forts and other nonuments that have gone towards the creation of one of the greatest civilizations of the world.
The book is a scholarly account of the glories of India's architectural heritage and deals with the... |
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V.R. Parthasarathy |
Devi: Goddesses in Indian Art and Literature |
$175.49 $122.84 |
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| The worship of the Divine as a Mother has an ancient history and persists in many cultures to the present day. The evolution of Goddess worship in India from the proto historic period to the Sixth century has been studied with relevant sculptural examples. A perusal of select texts provides a literary basis for this study. Further, the symbolic significance behind the icons comes to light by understanding the technical aspects of iconography. The book attempts to trace the various... |
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S.P. Verma |
Narrative of the Indian Revolt: From its Outbreak to the Capture of Lucknow by Sir Colin Campbell |
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| This remarkable volume gives a graphic descriptions of the Revolt of 1857 in India and narrates in full its progress and suppression. The author's breathtaking illustrated account of the sepoys' uprising strictly based on official letters and dispatches, eye-witnesses, and memoirs reported in chronological order cannot be ignored. Of course, this rich material makes the volume indispensable work of historical importance.
The book published first in 1858, is now a collector's... |
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Ravindra Kumar |
Selected Documents Of Lokamanya Balgangadhar Tilak (in 4 Vols.) |
$175.49 $122.84 |
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| Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who passed away little before Gandhiji becoming the supreme leader in Indian Politics, cannot be excluded from freedom struggle for India from 1880 to 1920. His role in Swadeshi movement (1905), Surat Session of Indian National Congress (1907) accord with Muslim League in Lucknow and in the formation of Indian Home Rule League was noteworthy. As a matter of fact it is true that behind the heritage of mass awareness which Mahatma Gandhi got during freedom struggle,... |
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J.C. Dua |
Illustrated Encyclopaedia & Who's Who of Princely States in Indian Sub Continent |
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| Ever since the Indian independence it has been normally understood that the Indian States and Estates which numbered six hundred on 15th August 1947 were the symbols of incompetence, oppression and vices. The States has a very peculiar status in the political theory which grew up in India in the 19th century. They did not form part of the British Indian Empire nor were they sovereign powers. The State were neither feudatories of the Government of India, nor protectorates and nor merely allies... |
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Devendra Handa |
Sculptures from Haryana : Iconography and Style |
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| This book is the outcome of sustained interest, occasional surveys and researches in the archaeological and cultural heritage of Haryana by the author during the last four decades.
The very strategic location of Haryana on the route connecting India with the western world made it a rendezvous of the east and west and also a state to bear the brunt of all alien incursions from the early historic to medieval times. The medieval iconoclastic hordes demolished all religious edifices and tried to... |
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Shanti Lal Nagar |
Siva Mahapurana: An Exhaustive Introduction, Sanskrit Text, English Translation with Photographs of Archaeological Evidence |
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| The Puranas are considered to be the pillars of the Vedic dharma comprising of Sruti, Smrti and Puranas. The Siva-Mahapurana is a famous one amongst the eighteen Mahapuranas. Relatively bigger in size, this Purana is primarily of a religious tone, dedicated mainly to the glory, various forms, their importance and valour of Lord Siva.
There had been certain deities, who after once appearing over the Indian Religious Horizon, never lost their importance and continue here even to the present... |
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Subodh Kapoor |
An Introduction to Epic Philosophy |
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| The Epic Age of India was an age of Light and Darkness, Peace and Unrest, Progress and Decline, Prosperity and Adversity- an age of proud self-assertion and fiery valour. It was an age of excellent learning, culture, religion, philosophy. moral and manners, solemn rites and pompous ceremonies. It was an age where the learned Rishis became the pioneers of civilization. They traveled all over India, selected suitable sites for their hermitages on hill-tops, by tidal rivers or in some lovely and... |
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R.K. Sharma |
Tribal History of Central India - 3 Volumes |
$181.49 $127.04 |
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| Central India comprising of modern Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and adjoining regions strategically forming the heartland of our country has played a key-role in the development of historical and cultural traditions of the nation. It has been the playground of interacting political and cultural forces passing from north to south, east to west and vice versa in all ages of Indian history.
Interaction led to experimentation in diverse spheres of cultural life and in this process, the tribal... |
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Subhash Parihar |
Land Transport in Mughal India: Agra-Lahore Highway and its Architectural Remains |
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| The seventeenth century Europeans, who traversed the Agra-Lahore Mughal Highway, showered high praise on it. the British traveler Thomas Coryat (1612-17) considered it an incomparable show of that kind ever surveyed by his eyes. Thomas Roe (1614-18), Ambassador of James I, the King of England to the Mughal Court, praised it as 'one of the great works and wonders of the world'. This high acclaim of the route prompted Subhash Parihar to study the route, traveling it stage by... |
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Devendra Handa |
Tribal Coins of Ancient India |
$185.99 $130.19 |
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| Tribal coins throw a flood of light on the history, culture, religion, economy, polity, trade, commerce, technology, symbology, metrology, movements, etc. of the various tribes in ancient India. They thus enlighten us about various aspects of the life and culture of the people in ancient India.
Numismatic discoveries made from time to time, interpretations and newer techniques of analysis have rendered earlier views in many cases as obsolete and worth revision. Some new types of Agreya coins... |
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Deo Prakash Sharma |
The Lost Saraswati Civilization |
$187.95 $131.57 |
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| The "Lost Saraswati Civilization" is an edited work of Deo Prakash Sharma and madhuri Sharma. Till today around 2668 Harappan and its associated sites have been reported in north-West south Asia in which 1100 sites are located on dry banks of river Saraswati and its tributaries. During 3rd millennium B.C. Hindon was a tributary of river Saraswati and around 250 Harappan sites have been reported on the banks of river Hindon, mandi, Hulas, Alamgirpur, Sanuoli Toppal are important... |
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A.K. Bhattacharyya |
Indian and East Asian Art and Iconography |
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| The collection of studies of Indian and East Asian Art and Iconography is a considerable assemblage of essays. Though it deals with selected topics relating to iconographic and archaeological art, it touches, sporadically though, almost the entire range of Indian art-history and salient periods of East Asia. Nonetheless, the treatment although and documented. Though by character the studies are not an all-inclusive one, they afford a glimpse of the artendeavours of most... |
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Ajay Mitra |
Revealing India's Past (2 Volumes) |
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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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Pepita Seth |
Heaven on Earth: The Universe of Kerala’s Guruvayur Temple |
$191.99 $134.39 |
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| Every day of the year, thousands of pilgrims swarm into the sacred precincts of Kerala's Guruvayur Temple. They come to seek the blessings of Lord Krishna, known locally as Guruvayurappan, a deity whose precious idol was, according to myth, originally worshipped by Lord Vishnu. Another belief states that the idol was eventually inherited by Lord Krishna and enshrined in Dwaraka and that, just before his death. He declared that it was to be re-installed in India's most sacred place.
The task... |
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Shahid Ashraf |
Concept of Islamic Culture |
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| Islam has amde a great contribution to the development and growth of human civilization, education and intellect in particular and the whole society, in general. Islam is a scientific and progressive religion. All its teachings have a scientific and logial aproach. Islam, as a living faith stands for spreading light and eliminating darkness from the world. They contributed a lot to the growth of all branches of knowledge and thus enriched the new civilization.
This... |
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Swami Ramashankar Das |
Encyclopaedia of Indian Mythology |
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| Hinduism has often puzzled Westerners and its plethora of Gods and Goddesses, intricate philosophies and an overpowering mythological contents. This work fulfils the long-felt demand for an all-inclusive lexicon of Hinduism. It contains both religion and mythology, which are so closely linked in the Hindu perspective. The book covers a large span of literature-from Rigveda to iconographical texts. Also it contains exhaustive translations of the Asvin hymns from the Vedic Samhitas and the... |
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Shahid Ashraf |
Family Culture in Islam |
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| This volume portrays the relevance of Islamic culture from different angles. This volume is titled: Family Culture in Islam, the topics covered are as following:
The Backdrop
Respect to parents
Women in Islam
Wife's Obligations Privileges for Women
Pride for Women
Women's Rights
Islamic Perception of Marriage
Muslim Marriage Traditions
Marriage Essential
Different Marriage Practices
Divorce in Islam
Special Attention to Children
Affection for Children
Status of... |
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Shahid Ashraf |
Intellectual Culture of Islam |
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| Intellectual culture of Islam is explained herein with pros and cons. The main themes given elaborate treatment herein are:
Law of Heavens
Exemplary Leadership
Islamic Wisdom
Institution of Intellectualism
Basis of Intellect
New Trends in Thoughts
Islamic Philosophy
Religious Culture
Islamic Beliefs
Scientific Thinking
Islamic practices
Ethical Aspects
Economic Culture
Misunderstood Issues
Islamic Culture at Test
Coping with Opponents |
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Shahid Ashraf |
Islamic Culture in India |
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| Islam has contributed immensely to the upliftment of suffering humanity. In Islam, the service of man and the good of humanity constitute preeminently the service and worship of God. This volume portrays the relevance of Islamic culture from different angles. This volume - Islamic Culture in India, the topics covered are following:
Impact of Islam
Islamic Heritage
Muslim Fraternity
Institution of Sufism
Turko-Islamic Influence
Economic Culture of Delhi Sultanate
Economic... |
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Shahid Ashraf |
Political Culture of Islam |
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| Islam has made a great contribution to the development and growth of human civilization, education and intellect in particular and the whole society, in general. Islam is a scientific and progressive religion. All its teachings have a scientific and logical approach. Islam, as a living faith stands for spreading light and eliminating darkness from the world. They contributed a lot to the growth of all branches of knowledge and thus enriched the new civilization.
This volume presents... |
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Shahid Ashraf |
Social Aspects of Islamic Culture |
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| Islam has made a great contribution to the development and growth of human civilization, education and intellect in particular and the whole society. In general Islam is a scientific and progressive religion. All its teachings have a scientific and logical approach. Islam, as a living faith stands for spreading light and eliminating darkness from the world. They contributed a lot to the growth of all branches of knowledge and thus enriched the new civilization.
Social Aspects of Islamic... |
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Shahid Ashraf |
Social Behaviour in Islamic Civilization |
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| Islam has made a great contribution to the development and growth of human civilization, education and intellect in particular and the whole society, in general. Islam is a scientific and progressive religion. All its teachings have a scientific and logical approach. Islam, as a living faith stands for spreading light and eliminating darkness from the world. They contributed a lot to the growth of all branches of knowledge and thus enriched the new civilization.
Social behaviour counts most... |
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S.C. Vasu (Tr.) |
The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (2 Vols.) |
$204.99 $143.49 |
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| Panini`s Ashtadhyayi represents the first attempt in the history of the world to describe and analyse the components of a language on scientific lines. It has not only been universally acclaimed as the first and foremost specimen of Descriptive Grammar but has also been the chief source of inspiration for the linguist engaged in describing languages of different regions. To understand Sanskrit language, and especially that part of it which embodies the highest aspirations of ancient Aryan... |
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Shovana Narayan |
Indian Classical Dances |
$218.95 $153.26 |
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| India is a fascinating country with plurality of ethnicity, cultures, religions and philosophy. Unsurprisingly this plurality extends to the arena of Unsurprisingly this plurality extends to the arena of classical dances having the distinction of being the only country with eight recognized classical dance forms, all of which are bound in the single thread of spirituality and philosophy radiating the fragrance of 'Indianness'. Though many books on Indian classical dances are available, this... |
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D.V. Sharma |
Archaeology of Fatehpur Sikri: New Discoveries |
$218.99 $153.29 |
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| The Archaeology of Fatehpur Sikri-New Discoveries is a fundamental research work on medieval archaeology. It contains results of excavations at Birchhabili-Tila and exploration of the region within a radius of 25 km. Besides this, chronological study of the monuments have been made phase-wise along with inscriptions and mason marks. The site of Ibadat-Khanah which Akbar founded for religious and philosophical discussions has been identified with fair amount of certainty. ... |
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V.N. Misra |
Rajasthan: Prehistoric and Early Historic Foundations |
$218.99 $153.29 |
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| The name, Rajasthan evokes many images, of Rajputs-tall, handsome men wearing colourful turbans, beautiful women, unmatched valour and chivalry, warn hospitality, reverence for life, impressive forts and palaces, varied wildlife, and rich traditions of music, song, and dance. The society of the State is composed of a large number of Hindu castes and several tribes, a few of which still live, at least, partially, a nomadic, hunting-gathering way of life. The present complex and... |
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Frits Stall |
Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Alter (2 Vols.) |
$222.22 $155.56 |
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| The first volume of Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar, contains a discussion of the place of the Agnicayana in the Vedic srauta tradition, its textual loci, traditional and modern interpretations of its origins and significance and an overview of the Nambudiri Vedic tradition.
The bulk of the volume, written in close collaboration with C.V. Somayajipad and M.Itti Ravi Nambudiri, is devoted to a detailed description of the 198\75 twelve-day performance, richly illustrated with tipped-in... |
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K.V. Ramesh |
Sri Puspanjali (2 Volumes) |
$222.49 $155.74 |
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| Recent Researches in Prehistory, Protohistory, Art, Architecture, Numismatics, Iconography and Epigraphy. A 2 Volume set.
About the Authors:Born in the year 1963, the author took his M.A. Degree with first rank from the Madras University in 1988. He took his P.G. Diploma in Archaeology with first rank from the Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi in 1990. He has received training at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London... |
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M.M.R. Khan Afridi |
Basics of Faith Hunder Quran |
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| Holy Quran is the embodiment of Divine Revelations, made from time to time, over a period, spanning over 23 years to the Holy Prophet, Muhammad (Pbuh) by the Almighty, through the agency of the archangel, Gabriel (Jibraeel). Originally encrypted in the Arabic language, it has been translated into almost every language of the world. Alive miracle in itself, it deals with every aspect of human life, here and hereafter.
The Holy Quran is not merely a religious book; rather, an encyclopedia... |
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M.M.R. Khan Afridi |
Economy under Quran |
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| Holy Quran is the embodiment of Divine Revelations, made from time to time, over a period, spanning over 23 years to the Holy Prophet, Muhammad (Pbuh) by the Almighty, through the agency of the archangel, Gabriel (Jibraeel). Originally encrypted in the Arabic language, it has been translated into almost every language of the world. Alive miracle in itself, it deals with every aspect of human life, here and hereafter.
The Holy Quran is not merely a religious book; rather, an encyclopedia of... |
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M.M.R. Khan Afridi |
Family Life under Quran |
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| Holy Quran is the embodiment of Divine Revelations, made from time to time, over a period, spanning over 23 years to the Holy Prophet, Muhammad (Pbuh) by the Almighty, through the agency of the archangel, Gabriel (Jibraeel). Originally encrypted in the Arabic language, it has been translated into almost every language of the world. Alive miracle in itself, it deals with every aspect of human life, here and hereafter.
The Holy Quran is not merely a religious book; rather, an encyclopedia of... |
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Berenice Ellena |
India Sutra: On the Magic Trail of Textiles |
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| India Sutra is a tribute to the skills of Indian craftsmen, and offers a discovery of textile routes in today's India. In remote villages, ancestral techniques help create countless varieties of fabrics adorned with symbolic designs, embroidery or by precious vegetable dyes. In this universe where all embellishment techniques continue to exist side by side, beauty itself lies in the heart of the workshops where day after day the canvas of the future is woven with fervour.
This book is a tool... |
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M.M.R. Khan Afridi |
Islamic Philosophy under Quran |
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| Holy Quran is the embodiment of Divine Revelations, made from time to time, over a period, spanning over 23 years to the Holy Prophet, Muhammad (Pbuh) by the Almighty, through the agency of the archangel, Gabriel (Jibraeel). Originally encrypted in the Arabic language, it has been translated into almost every language of the world. Alive miracle in itself, it deals with every aspect of human life, here and hereafter.
The Holy Quran is not merely a religious book; rather, an encyclopedia... |
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Utpal K. Banerjee |
Millennium Glimpses of Indian Performing Arts |
$224.49 $157.14 |
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| Dance, music, theatre and puppetry were born in India millennia ago, while cinema is the most new-fangled art form hardly a century old. But all five of them have been undergoing rapid transformation over the last few decades and the process has only been accelerated in the new millennium. The present volume attempts to provide some exciting glimpses in the happening scene in the current decade. Some aesthetes and experts, with substantial knowledge of their domains have offered an uncluttered... |
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M.M.R. Khan Afridi |
Morality under Quran |
$224.49 $157.14 |
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| Holy Quran is the embodiment of Divine Revelations, made from time to time, over a period, spanning over 23 years to the Holy Prophet, Muhammad (Pbuh) by the Almighty, through the agency of the archangel, Gabriel (Jibraeel). Originally encrypted in the Arabic language, it has been translated into almost every language of the world. Alive miracle in itself, it deals with every aspect of human life, here and hereafter.
The Holy Quran is not merely a religious book; rather, an encyclopedia... |
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M.M.R. Khan Afridi |
Polity Under Quran |
$224.49 $157.14 |
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| Holy Quran is the embodiment of Divine Revelations, made from time to time, over a period, spanning over 23 years to the Holy Prophet, Muhammad (Pbuh) by the Almighty, through the agency of the archangel, Gabriel (Jibraeel). Originally encrypted in the Arabic language, it has been translated into almost every language of the world. Alive miracle in itself, it deals with every aspect of human life, here and hereafter.
The Holy Quran is not merely a religious book; rather, an encyclopedia... |
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M.M. R. Khan Afridi |
Quran Historical Aspects |
$224.49 $157.14 |
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| Holy Quran is the embodiment of Divine Revelations, made from time to time, over a period, spanning over 23 years to the Holy prophet, Muhammad (pbuh) by the Almighty, through the agenncy of the archangel, Gabriel (Jibraeel).
Originally ecrypted in the Arabic language, it has been translated into almost every language of the world. A live miracle in itself, it deals with every aspect of human life, here and hereafter. The Holy Quran is not merely a religious book; rather, an... |
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M.M.R. Khan Afridi |
Reasoning and Consensus Under Quran |
$224.49 $157.14 |
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| Holy Quran is the embodiment of Divine Revelations, made from time to time, over a period, spanning over 23 years to the Holy Prophet, Muhammad (Pbuh) by the Almighty, through the agency of the archangel, Gabriel (Jibraeel). Originally encrypted in the Arabic language, it has been translated into almost every language of the world. Alive miracle in itself, it deals with every aspect of human life, here and hereafter.
The Holy Quran is not merely a religious book; rather, an encyclopedia... |
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D.P. Agrawal |
The Indus Civilization: An Interdisclipinary Perspectives |
$224.49 $157.14 |
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| The Indus Civilization is as old as the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China. It spreads over an area of more than a million sq km, an area much bigger than the Mesopotamian and the Egyptian Civilizations which are famous for their sepulchral splendor. Though technologically innovative, the Indus Civilization in marked by a modesty and the functionality of its architecture and artifacts. After the classical reports of the excavators of the 30s and 40s of the last century, in... |
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S.R. Bakshi |
Orissa Through the Ages: Historical Background (4 vols.) |
$243.99 $170.79 |
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| The theme has deep academic link with various phases of the history of Orissa. The four volumes have been dealt in a comprehensive manner and its contents are fairly useful for teachers and scholars.
Volume I deal with eleven chapters commencing from Kurus and Panchalas, the age of Mauryas, the Magadha Empire, kingship and administration, foreign invasions, the Gupta Empire, advent of a new era, the caste system, constitution of 1935 and views of the Viceroy Lord Linlithgow.
Volume II... |
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Deo Prakash Sharma |
Archaeology of Lower Ganga-Yamuna Doab (2 Vols.) |
$245.00 $171.50 |
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| The book "Archaeology of Lower Ganga-Yamuna Doab" includes field research work. Various controversies of Kausambi excavations done by G.R. Sharma have been discussed in this work. B.B. Lal had raised few points after a gap of 30 years of these excavations.
This region consisting of Fatehppur, Kausambi and Allahabad district and has
many significant discoveries like Reh inscription of Menander (Posthumous) and
inscribed 3rd century A.D. Siva Linga from Mazilgao, Neolithic tools from Khaga... |
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William D.P. Bliss |
Encyclopaedia of Social Reforms (3 Volumes) |
$249.00 $174.30 |
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| The New Encyclopaedia of Social Reforms was first published in 1908 under the chief editorship of William D.P. Bliss, an American clergyman and leading figure in the Christian socialist movement.
It contains a vast number of entries on virtually everything and everybody of interest in the liberal and radical thought of the day. Contributors range across the leftwing political spectrum from liberal democrats through Fabian socialist to early communists. They include H.H. Asquith, Henry... |
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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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M.M.R. Khan Afridi |
Islamic Ideology Under Holy Quran |
$256.49 $179.54 |
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| Holy Quran is the embodiment of Divine Revelations, made from time to time, over a period, spanning over 23 years to the Holy Prophet, Muhammad (Pbuh) by the Almighty, through the agency of the archangel, Gabriel (Jibraeel). Originally encrypted in the Arabic language, it has been translated into almost every language of the world. Alive miracle in itself, it deals with every aspect of human life, here and hereafter.
The Holy Quran is not merely a religious book; rather, an encyclopedia of... |
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Barbara Schmitz |
Mughal and Persian Paintings and Illustrated Manuscripts in the Raza Library, Rampur |
$256.49 $179.54 |
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| During the 19 century and the first half of the 20 century, the Nawwabs of Rampur, the hereditary rulers of Rohilkhand, a district some 75 kilometers east of New Delhi, amassed a large collection of books and art, including illustrated books and album paintings. Their collection was given to the people of India after independence.
The Raza Library at Ramput thus possesses a remarkable collection of Mughal and Persian Paintings and illustrated books. This includes miniatures from the great... |
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M.M.R. Khan Afridi |
Quranic Commands |
$256.49 $179.54 |
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| Holy Quran is the embodiment of Divine Revelations, made from time to time, over a period, spanning over 23 years to the Holy Prophet, Muhammad (Pbuh) by the Almighty, through the agency of the archangel, Gabriel (Jibraeel). Originally encrypted in the Arabic language, it has been translated into almost every language of the world. Alive miracle in itself, it deals with every aspect of human life, here and hereafter.
The Holy Quran is not merely a religious book; rather, an encyclopedia... |
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Jayanti Dora |
Sakta Monument of Orissa: A Study on Art, Architecture and Iconography |
$256.49 $179.54 |
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| This book is during attempt to present a consolidated record of Sakta Monuments of Orissa which are so widely distributed throughout the length and breadth of the state. Sakti, the eternal source of energy is an indigenous conception of the universal mother goddess. The impact of Saktism shapes the religious and socio-cultural fabric of the mass.
The author deals with the organization and evolution of Saktism in India as well as in Orissa. It reveals the scheme of art and architectural... |
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K.M. Suresh (Ed.) |
Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture: Hindu, Buddhist, Jain & Islamic: Buddhist |
$281.49 $197.04 |
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| This volume of the work entitled 'Encyclopedia of Indian Architecture' is devoted to the study of Buddhist architecture. It has twenty four chapters. The chapters discuss Buildings during the Rule of the Early Mauryan Dynasty (c. 400 B.C.): Wooden Origins, Asoka and the Beginnings of the Buddhist School (c.250 B.C.)
The Stupa and its Symbolism, Architecture of Sungas, Buddhist Rock -Cut Architecture, Rock-Cut Architecture of Hinayana 2nd Century B.C., Buddhist Architecture in Southern India... |
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Jagat pati Joshi (Ed.) |
Facets of Indian Civilization (3 Vols.) |
$281.49 $197.04 |
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| Facets of Indian Civilization provides unparalleled source of insight into Indian Civilization through the ages, containing a detailed account of archaeological and artistic data and incorporating the latest researches on the subject.
Perceptive, insightful and selective, the book is an indispensable reference tool. The unusual variety of the subjects and the notable richness of illustrations combine to make this a work of endless fascination.
The book will prove to be an invaluable asset... |
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Irving, Hugbes, Lammens, Fazl, Arnold |
The Masterpiece Library of Islam (8 Vols.) |
$287.99 $201.59 |
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| Islam has been a great force in world history. Within a few centuries after the death of Mohammed in A.D. 632 the Islamic creed had spread across half the world and obtained a powerful hold over millions of people. The present set published as a multivolume collection contains very rare and remarkable works on Islam. An attempt has been made to trace its origin and history. The endeavour is to elucidate the true place of Islam in the history of religions.
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Sunil Khosa |
Antiquities of Western Himalayas (2 Vols.) |
$288.49 $201.94 |
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| Himalaya is known as the abode of Lord Siva. Its cultural, social, religious and political significance is so vast that it allured the foreigners in the ancient past and continues to entice people from every nook and corner even today. The present book Antiquities of Western Himalayas has dealt with the cultural aspects of the western Himalayas. An art heritage may belong to a particular region yet it transcends all physical and language barriers to become a pan-human phenomena. The authors of... |
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Deo Prakash Sharma |
Early Harappans and Indus-Sarasvati Civilization |
$288.49 $201.94 |
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| According to a scholar the Harappan Civilization is the gift of two rivers - the Indus and Sarasvati whose tributaries had played a dominant and decisive role in the origin of this bronze civilization. As of now around 2658 Harappan and its associated sites have been reported, of which 1058 sites are located in the dried-up bank of the Sarasvati river. The Sarasvati was a mighty river between ca. 5000 and 1800 B.C. Around ca. 1800 B.C., due to neo-tectonic movements in the Himalayas, the... |
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Lotika Varadarajan |
Indo-Portuguese Encounters : Journeys in Science, Technology and Culture - 2 Volumes |
$288.49 $201.94 |
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| The genesis of the present publication can be traced to a remarkable series of International Seminars initiated in Goa in 1978. Since then, the series has continued at regular intervals of between two to three years. In 1998 the host institution for the Ninth International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History was the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, through its history of science programme.
This publication comprises the papers presented at this forum which had concentrated on the... |
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R. Balasubramaniam |
The Saga of Indian Cannons |
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| The invention of cannons and their use in warfare added a different dimension to battles. The fates of nations were decided by the use of cannons. The science of gunpowder and the technology of cannons, from their introduction in the Indian subcontinent in the middle of the fifteenth century up to the pre-modern period, have been illustrated using Mughal miniature paintings and analysis of extant cannon pieces. The massive and wonderful forge welded iron cannons and cast bronze cannons of... |
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Paul E. Schellinger |
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Historic Places (3 Vols.) |
$300.49 $210.34 |
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| Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Historic Places is a stimulative and perceptive survey of the most important cities and sites in Asia and Oceania.
The book offers extended histories of the pre-eminent sites, those that have been most notable in human history from ancient times to the present.
Each entry contains an essay in two parts.
Part One is a description of the "condition" of the site, what may be seen there currently.
Part Two, the main portion of the essay, is the history of the... |
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Arundhati banerji |
Hari Smriti - Studies on Art Archaeology and Indology (2 Vols) |
$307.99 $215.59 |
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| This collection of sixty-one papers contributed by the scholars from India and abroad is in memory of Dr. H Sarkar who retired as Jt. Director General, Archaeological Survey of India. He is very well known for his invaluable contribution to the field of archaeology. The papers included herein are the outcome of researches done on art, architecture, iconography, epigraphy, numismatic, archaeological explorations and excavations, antiquities and museums, conservation and heritage management... |
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Viraj Shah |
Jaina Rock-Cut Caves in Western India (In 2 Volumes) |
$314.49 $220.14 |
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| The hilly region of Mahrashtra on the western coast of India is famous for a long and rich tradition of rock-cut architecture with some of the famous and world heritage Buddhist and Brahmanical cave-sites such as Ajanta, Ellora and Elephanta. Compared to these, the Jaina caves of the region, except those at Ellora, are little known.
This book attempts to bring to light these less-known Jaina caves, about seventy caves scattered over western, hilly areas and excavated over a span of 1500... |
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M.C. Joshi |
Early Classical Art of South Asia (Set 2 Vols.) |
$320.99 $224.69 |
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| The present volume 'Early Classical Art of South Asia' is edited by Prof. M.C. Joshi and Dr. D.P. Sharma. The period of Gupta dynasty begins around 319 A.R ends up to 578 A.D. The art of Gupta period has often been referred to as the classical art of early South Asia. The art of Gupta period was characterized by a sensitivity modeled body from a severity of expansion and dominant spiritual purpose.
During Gupta Age there was all-round development particularly in fine arts-literature both... |
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Swami Parmeshwaranand |
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Puranas (5 Vols.) |
$325.00 $227.50 |
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| The Puranas have inspired and sustained the Hindu culture over the millennia. These scriptures have created, strengthened and preserved a great tradition of spirituality. Neither a school of religio-philosophical thought nor any socio-religious movements of the subsequent period of history of India has remained untouched by their influence.This Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Puranas in five volumes offers comprehensive information on more than one thousand Puranic themes and on many aspects... |
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Rene Grousset |
The Civilizations of the East : An Indepth Study of Asiatic Arts & Cultures from the Earliest Times to the Dawn of Modern Era - 4 Volumes |
$350.49 $245.34 |
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| The Civilizations of the East is a stimulating and perceptive survey of oriental civilizations and traces their evolution from the earliest times to the dawn of modern era.
The book provides an unparalleled source of insight into Asiatic arts and cultures. It is a study of eastern ideals and schools of art and contains a detailed account of archaeological and artistic data of the continent. The book also provides a guiding thread among the various styles and periods and gives an... |
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B.R. Mani (ed.) |
Expressions in Indian Art: Essays in Memory of Shri M.C. Joshi (In 2 Volumes) |
$352.99 $247.09 |
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| Expressions in Indian Art contains essays on art and architecture. Seventy-five articles in the volume cover various aspects of Indian art and architecture through the ages. Famous centers of art and architecture dealt with are Mohenjo-dara, Harappa, Chanhu-dara, Kalibangan, Dholavira, Banavali, Lothal, Amravati, Sanchi, Sanghol, Mathura, Sarnath, Deogarh, Ratnagiri, Lalitgiri, Mahasthan, Bangarh, Khajuraho, Bhubneswar, Kanchipuram, Badami, Ajanta, Udaipur, Sirpur, Modhera, Ramgarh,... |
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Malati Mahajan |
Deccan: Society & Economy |
$358.99 $251.29 |
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| The present project is based mainly on the inscriptions issued by the kings of Satavahana, Vakataka, Calukya of Badami, Rastrakuta, Calukya of Kalyani, Yadava and Silahara dynasties as well as of some other dynasties which had some sort of contacts with these royal families and the data obtained is supplemented and corroborated wherever possible and essential with the evidence available from other sources.
Taking into account the vast gamut of the territory and the period of the study is... |
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Onkar Rahi |
Khajuraho Unknown |
$384.99 $269.49 |
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| Khajuraho Unknown is a book about Khajuraho temple- complex, a world heritage, which presents before us sculpture as manifestation of refinement rekindling creative fire all around us. Khajuraho art has the lucidity of structure with passionate unrest, riotous activity and a preference for vast, wild and the predominantly picturesque. The sculptors not only have portrayed individual figures but turned sculpture to compositions with innumerable legends invading the stones of Khajuraho... |
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James Cowles Prichard |
World Civilizations (5 Vols.) |
$412.99 $289.09 |
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| This is the first comprehensive work seeking to present in totality the races, tribes and natives of the world. It is the first authoritative study of the original inhabitants of the world and covers in fascinating detail almost every aspect-Origin, Characteristics, Physical History, Customs, Languages, Mythologies, Traditions, Flora, Fauna etc.
The book interprets thoughts, theories, meanings and views on the origin, history, diffusion, structure and inter-relation of the cultures of... |
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James Gardner |
Encyclopaedia of Faiths and Religions of the World:An Indepth Study of all Religions and Religious Sects, their Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies and Customs - 5 Volumes |
$525.49 $367.84 |
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| The main design of the present Work is, as its title indicates, to exhibit an accurate, comprehensive, and impartial view of the "Faiths of the World". These are in themselves so numerous, intricate, and often obscure, that fully and satisfactorily to set forth their peculiar doctrines and principles, as well as their rites, ceremonies and customs, has been a task of extreme difficulty, requiring much laborious investigation and careful discrimination.
The aim of the present work is to depict... |
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Ganganath Jha |
Manusmrti with the Manubhasya of Medhatithi (10 Volume set) |
$599.95 $419.97 |
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| Ganganatha Jha's Multi-volume Manusmrti, originally published by the University of Calcutta between 1920 and 1939, is, as indicated by its subtitle "The Laws of Manu with the Bhasya of Medhatithi", mainly an edition and translation of the Mula text together with the 'explanation' of the most celebrated commentator. Medhatithi's Manubhasya has been characterized by one of the leading scholars on Dharmasastra, J. Duncan M. Derrett, as a large repertory of opinion on the meaning of the "Smrti and... |
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The Wealth of India: A Dictionary of Indian Raw Materials & Industrial Products: Second Supplement Series (Raw Materials) - 11 Volumes |
$690.49 $483.34 |
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| The demand for Wealth of India volumes is persistently growing from its users, and hence a Second Supplement Series to the Wealth of India-Raw Materials is being launched. The series shall contain supplementary information for the period 1982-86 and 1995-96 (wherever available) for all A to Z plant entries and does not differ substantially in overall presentation and arrangement from the parent series.
The volumes of this series have significant potential in the light of the present global... |
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P. Chenna Reddy (Ed.) |
Saundaryashri: Studies of Indian History, Archaeology, Literature & Philosophy (5 Vol. Set) |
$884.99 $619.49 |
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| The present book unusually runs into five volumes comprising nearly 175 papers dealing with the recent findings and interpretation relating to Literature; Archaeology: Prehistory and Proto-history, Rock Art, Early and Historical Cultures, Marine Archaeology, Science & Conservation; Architecture & Sculpture; Epigraphy & Numismatics; History; Religion & Philosophy. This book will attract the scholars, students and laymen alike.
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K.M. Suresh (Ed.) |
Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture: Hindu, Buddhist, Jain & Islamic: Hindu |
$1,062.99 $744.09 |
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| This volume of the book entitled 'Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture' is devoted to the study of Hindu architecture. It has fourty-six chapters. The Chapters in this volume deal with the origin of architecture in India, the architecture of Rgvedic period, the architecture in the later Vedas and Brahmanas, the Vastuvidya in Sutra literature, the settlement patterns, urban planning and architecture of Harappans, the residential architecture of Harappans, the architecture in the age of Ramayana,... |
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Gopal Bhargava |
Encyclopaedia of Art and Culture in India (27 vols.) |
$1,557.99 $1,090.59 |
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| This scientifically researched 27 volume Encyclopaedia of Art and Culture in India is a vast treasure of knowledge and information on 28 States and seven Union Territories.
Each volume contains an Introduction on the particular state describing its origin, history, geography, economy, and 23 chapters on topics ranging from the cultural change over period of time from the very early period of time from the very early period to the modern times to religion, pursuit of education, position of... |
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