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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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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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K.K. Chakravarty |
River Valley Cultures of India |
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| River Valleys have 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 civiliza-tions 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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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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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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Frans Welman |
Naga Culture: Free against the odds |
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| Naga Culture is the portrayal of the unique but unknown Naga Peoples. Their habitat is located in the mountains of Nagalim, disputably part of the North East of India and the Northwest of Myanmar, formerly Burma. Over forty tribes with common ancestry but a multitude of affiliated languages and attires make up the Naga community. Seeing them in their finest attires during festivals as well as in ordinary life is an extraordinary experience. And, because their land until recently has been... |
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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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Devangana Desai |
Erotic Sculpture of India: A Socio-Cultural Study |
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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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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Ideal India |
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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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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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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 |
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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 |
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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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David Gordon White |
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India |
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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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R. Satyanarayana |
Caturdandiprakasika of Venkatamakhin (2 volumes) |
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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.
About the Author: D.P. Chattopadhyaya, M.A., LL.B., Ph.D.... |
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Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
India Then and Now |
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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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Anupa Pande |
Cultural Interface of India With Asia |
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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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D.P. Chattopadhyaya/R.Balasubramanian |
History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization (Vol-XI 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.
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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Susan L. Huntington |
The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain |
$143.49 $107.62 |
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| To scholars in the field, the need for an up-to-date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of India’s centuries of splendor has been lacking. The Art of Ancient India is the result of the author’s aim to provide such a synthesis. Noted expert Sherman E. Lee has commented: “Not since Coomaraswamy’s History of Indian and... |
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