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H.Daniel Smith |
Handbook of Hindu Gods, Goddesses and Saints |
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| The thirty-five brief essays in this book provide glimpses of the variety that is most characteristic of Hinduism in urban south India today. By examination, selected objects widely revered in contemporary Dravidian country ³ gods, goddesses, historical figures, sacred plants and stones are discussed. The expert integration into each essay of K.S. Ramu`s line drawings serves as vivid illustrations to the text. About the Author: H. Daniel Smith is perhaps best known in North America... |
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Deo Prakash Sharma |
Archaeology of Lower Ganga-Yamuna Doab (2 Vols.) |
$245.00 $183.75 |
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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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T.M. Manoharan (ed.) |
Silent Valley: Whispers of Reason |
$76.99 $57.74 |
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| This anthology of 38 articles on various aspects of Silent Valley is the culmination of the selfless endeavour of many persons who love Silent Valley and cherish the memory of the popular campaign for its conservation. It contains papers on the historical and managerial evolution of Silent Valley National Park as well as on its biodiversity. The decision to bring out such a comprehensive volume on Silent Valley was taken in a jubilant meeting on 25th November 1995, convened to celebrate the... |
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Mary Shepherd Slusser |
Art and culture of Nepal Selected Papers |
$166.67 $125.00 |
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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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R. Nath |
Chittorgadh Kirtti-Stambha |
$83.33 $62.50 |
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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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Snigdha Tripathy |
Inscriptions of Orissa (Vol. 1) |
$33.33 $25.00 |
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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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P.K. Mishra (Ed.) |
Researches in Archaeology and Conservation |
$83.33 $62.50 |
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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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Chob Singh Verma |
Splendour of Fatehpur Sikari |
$31.99 $23.99 |
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| Fatehpur Sikri-the red sand stone city built by Akbar is today one of the most important archaeological sites in India and exhibits an important phase of Mughal history. Here a galaxy of talented men lent luster to a brilliant Court. A visit to this historic city evokes this memorable epoch, when the dream of India-“equal respect for all religions” was realized again after centuries of conflict. This treatise - “Splendour of Fatehpur Sikri” traces the history of the town and planning... |
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Devangana Desai |
Erotic Sculpture of India: A Socio-Cultural Study |
$156.49 $117.37 |
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| Erotic sculpture around places of worship of any society would require an explanation. Its unignorable presence outside Hindu temples when the religion itself has been known for its other-worldly ideals and spiritual aspirations has both astonished and puzzled visitors. The Brahmin panda (guide) accompanying the inquisitive tourist at sites like Bhubaneswar or Konarak as well as the scholarly Hindu steeped in a less free later day morality find the anomaly embarrassing and proffer idealistic... |
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Virendra Nath Sharma |
Sawai Jai Singh and His Astronomy |
$18.06 $13.54 |
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| Sawai Jai Singh the statesman astronomer of 18th century India designed astronomical instruments of masonry and stone, built observatories prepared a Zij or a text for astronomical calculations and sent a fact-finding scientific mission to Europe. His high precision instruments were designed to measure time and angles to the very limit of naked eye observing. About the Author: Virendra Nath Sharma is a professor of Physics and Astronomy with the University of Wisconsin Centers, USA. He... |
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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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F.R. Allchin, Dilip K.Chakrabarti |
A Source-book of Indian Archaeology (Vol.III) |
$50.53 $37.90 |
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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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V.K. Jain |
Prehistory and Protohistory of India (An Appraisal): Palaeolithic -- Non-Harappan Chalcolithic Cultures |
$9.49 $7.12 |
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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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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, the 'Baghdadis', their inter-relations and interactions, both among themselves and with the Hindu and Muslim... |
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Christopher Ives (Ed.) |
The Emptying God : A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation |
$18.99 $14.24 |
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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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R.K. Sharma |
Tribal History of Central India - 3 Volumes |
$181.49 $136.12 |
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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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Agrawal |
Bronze and Iron Ages in South Asia |
$162.99 $122.24 |
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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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A.K. Bhattacharyya |
Indian and East Asian Art and Iconography |
$187.99 $140.99 |
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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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K.M. Suresh (Ed.) |
Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture: Hindu, Buddhist, Jain & Islamic: Buddhist |
$281.49 $211.12 |
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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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K.M. Suresh (Ed.) |
Encyclopaedia of Indian Architecture: Hindu, Buddhist, Jain & Islamic: Hindu |
$1,062.99 $797.24 |
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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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Tarapada Bhattacharyya |
Vastuvidya Systems of Indian Architecture |
$127.99 $95.99 |
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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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V. Ganapati Sthapati |
Indian Sculpture & Iconography: Forms & Measurements |
$160.49 $120.37 |
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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 |
$160.49 $120.37 |
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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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Raj Kumar |
History of the Chamar Dynasty : From Sixth Century A.D. to Twelfth Century A.D. |
$134.99 $101.24 |
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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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Bettina Baumer |
Kalatattvakosa: Manifestation of Nature Srsti Vistara (Vol. 4) |
$28.99 $21.74 |
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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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