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Across the Threshold of India

Author : Martha A. Strawn
Publisher : Center for Amer Places Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781930066250
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Across the Threshold of India written by Martha A. Strawn and published by Center for Amer Places Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Hindu worldview, a door’s threshold is profoundly important as a symbol of the boundary between the physical and spiritual realms. Intricate diagrams of rice flour and chalk are painted by Hindu women on the thresholds of buildings as sanctification tools that trap negative energy within their complex geometric configurations and cleanse those who pass over them with positive energy. Martha A. Strawn was immediately captivated by these diagrams during her first visit to India, and they inspired her to explore the power of these images inAcross the Threshold of India. Drawing upon interviews with Hindu women, as well as international scholars and her own personal experiences, Strawn examines this lesser-known aspect of Hinduism through photographs and reflective writings. Utilizing her pioneering analytical method of visual ecology, Strawn explores how Hindu women, through their creation of the threshold images, carve out a unique artistic and cultural niche within the strictures governing their lives. Offering new insights into Hindu art and religion,Across the Threshold of Indiailluminates how culture and religion shape each other’s influence in the creation and maintenance of a society. “Martha A. Strawn welcomes us across the threshold into a world of remarkable and little-known women’s art. Conveying the depths of her own experience and the energy of place, she is the perfect guide to these intricate cosmograms that straddle everyday life and ancient ritual.”—Lucy R. Lippard, author ofOn the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place

Across the Threshold of India

Author : Martha Strawn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938086175
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Across the Threshold of India written by Martha Strawn and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important and strikingly beautiful new study of the sacred and ancient Hindu practice of threshold drawing (Casebound set of two hardcover volumes)

The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

Author : H. Clay Trumbull
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites written by H. Clay Trumbull and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Threshold Covenant shows the beginning of religious rites, by which man evidenced a belief, however obtained, in the possibility of covenant relations between God and man; and the gradual development of those rites, with the progress toward a higher degree of civilization and enlightenment.

The Threshold Covenant

Author : Henry Clay Trumbull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Threshold Covenant written by Henry Clay Trumbull and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Birth on the Threshold

Author : Cecilia Coale Van Hollen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052093539X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Birth on the Threshold written by Cecilia Coale Van Hollen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even childbirth is affected by globalization—and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth." Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Birth on the Threshold reveals the complex and unique ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts. Through vivid description and animated dialogue, this book conveys the birth stories of the women of Tamil Nadu in their own voices, emphasizing their critiques of and aspirations for modern births today. In light of these stories, author Cecilia Van Hollen explores larger questions about how the structures of colonialism and postcolonial international and national development have helped to shape the form and meaning of birth for Indian women today. Ultimately, her book poses the question: How is gender—especially maternity—reconfigured as birth is transformed?

The Threshold Covenant

Author : Henry Clay Trumbull
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Threshold Covenant written by Henry Clay Trumbull and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic includes the following chapters: I. Primitive Family Altar 1. A Blood Welcome at the Door 2. Reverence for the Threshold Altar 3. Threshold Covenanting in the Marriage Ceremony 4. Stepping or Being Lifted Across the Threshold 5. Laying Foundations in Blood 6. Appeals at the Altar 7. Covenant Tokens on the Doorway 8. Symbol of the Red Hand 9. Deities of the Doorway II. Earliest Temple Altar 1. From House to Temple 2. Sacredness of the Door 3. Temple Thresholds in Asia 4. Temple Thresholds in Africa 5. Temple Thresholds in Europe 6. Temple Thresholds in America 7. Temple Thresholds in Islands of the Sea 8. Only One Foundation III. Sacred Boundary Line 1. From Temple to Domain 2. Local Landmarks 3. National Borders 4. Border Sacrifices IV. Origin of the Rite 1. A Natural Question 2. An Answer by Induction 3. No Covenant Without Blood 4. Confirmation of This View V. Hebrew Pass-Over, or Cross-Over, Sacrifice 1. New Meaning in an Old Rite 2. A Welcome With Blood 3. Bason, or Threshold 4. Pass-Over or Pass-By 5. Marriage of Jehovah With Israel VI. Christian Passover 1. Old Covenant and New 2. Proffered Welcome by the Father 3. Bridegroom and Bride 4. Survivals of the Rite VII. Outgrowths and Perversions of This Rite 1. Elemental Beginnings 2. Main Outgrowths 3. Chief Perversions

Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia

Author : Peter R. Lavoy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139482823
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia written by Peter R. Lavoy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1999 conflict between India and Pakistan near the town of Kargil in contested Kashmir was the first military clash between two nuclear-armed powers since the 1969 Sino-Soviet war. Kargil was a landmark event not because of its duration or casualties, but because it contained a very real risk of nuclear escalation. Until the Kargil conflict, academic and policy debates over nuclear deterrence and proliferation occurred largely on the theoretical level. This deep analysis of the conflict offers scholars and policymakers a rare account of how nuclear-armed states interact during military crisis. Written by analysts from India, Pakistan, and the United States, this unique book draws extensively on primary sources, including unprecedented access to Indian, Pakistani, and U.S. government officials and military officers who were actively involved in the conflict. This is the first rigorous and objective account of the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Kargil conflict.

Folk Theatres of North India

Author : Karan Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000769720
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Folk Theatres of North India written by Karan Singh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical, social and cultural imprints, it explores how these theatres challenge the linearity of cultural history and subvert cultural hegemony. The book looks at diverse forms of theatre such as svangs, nautanki, tamasha, all with conventions like open performative space, free mingling of spectators and actors, flexibility in roles and genres, etc. It discusses the genesis, history and the independent trajectory of folk theatres; folk theatre and Sanskrit dramaturgy; cinematic legacy; and theatrical space as performance besides investigating causes, inter-relations within socio-cultural factors, and the performance principles underlying them. It shows how these theatres effectively contest delimitation of human creative impulses (as revealed in classical Sanskrit theatre) from structuring as also of normative impulses of religion and culture, while amalgamating influences from Western theatre, newly-rising religious reform movements of 19th century India, tantra and Bhakti. It further highlights their ability to adapt and reinvent themselves in accordance with spatial and temporal transformations to constitute an important anthropological layer of Indian society. Comprehensive and empirically rich, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, theatre, film and performance studies, sociology, political studies, popular culture, and South Asian studies.

Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics

Author : Atul Kohli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135122741
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics written by Atul Kohli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India’s growing economic and socio-political importance on the global stage has triggered an increased interest in the country. This Handbook is a reference guide, which surveys the current state of Indian politics and provides a basic understanding of the ways in which the world’s largest democracy functions. The Handbook is structured around four main topics: political change, political economy, the diversity of regional development, and the changing role of India in the world. Chapters examine how and why democracy in India put down firm roots, but also why the quality of governance offered by India’s democracy continues to be low. The acceleration of economic growth since the mid-1980s is discussed, and the Handbook goes on to look at the political and economic changes in selected states, and how progress across Indian states continues to be uneven. It concludes by touching on the issue of India’s international relations, both in South Asia and the wider world. The Handbook offers an invigorating initiation into the seemingly daunting and complex terrain of Indian politics. It is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, policy analysts, graduate and undergraduate students studying Indian politics.

India's Changing Innovation System

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309104831
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book India's Changing Innovation System written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-08-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of its review of Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century, the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy convened a major symposium in Washington to examine the policy changes that have contributed to India's enhanced innovative capacity. This major event, organized in cooperation with the Confederation of Indian Industry, was particularly timely given President Bush's March 2006 visit to India and the Joint Statement issued with the Indian government calling for strategic cooperation in innovation and the development of advanced technologies. The conference, which brought together leading figures from the public and private sectors from both India and the United States, identified accomplishments and existing challenges in the Indian innovation system and reviewed synergies and opportunities for enhanced cooperation between the Indian and U.S. innovation systems. This report on the conference contains three elements: a summary of the key symposium presentations, an introductory chapter analyzing the policy issues raised at the symposium, and a research paper providing a detailed examination of India's knowledge economy, placing it in terms of overall global trends and analyzing its challenges and opportunities.

Women and Entrepreneurship in India

Author : Harpreet Kaur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000442225
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Women and Entrepreneurship in India written by Harpreet Kaur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Constitution is the largest written constitution that guarantees equality to women and empowers the State to take affirmative actions in favour of women. India has adopted International conventions for protection of rights of women and granting them equality and ratified the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the year 1993. The National Policy for Women Empowerment was presented in 2001, the goal of that policy to bring about the advancement, development and empowerment of women and enable women to become financially independent. Currently, India is the only country where the economic gender gap is larger than the political gender gap. Women are required to understand their own potential and overcome social barriers. With constant support of the government, change in stereotype mindset and skill development in women, India will continue witnessing gradual increase in women entrepreneurship in future. The aim of this book is to show the latest state of knowledge on the topic of women entrepreneurship, the role of women in business and women empowerment in India. Many aspects relating to role of women in business, sustainable business development and aspects going beyond economic empowerment of women are discussed in addition to presenting legal and regulatory frameworks. This book will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students in the fields of entrepreneurship, empowerment, gender studies, and law.

Crossing the Threshold

Author : Dominique-Sila Kahn
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Threshold written by Dominique-Sila Kahn and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2004-08-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Hindu, who is Muslim? The answer, according to Dominique-Sila Khan, is not as simple as generally assumed. By analyzing documentary sources as well as original field data, she examines the shaping of religious identities in South Asia, particularly in North India. The author argues that the perception of Islam and Hinduism as two monolithic and perpetually antagonistic faiths coexisting uneasily in South Asia has become so deeply ingrained that the complexity of the historical fabric is often overlooked or ignored. She demonstrates how the emergence of clear-cut categories is a comparatively recent phenomenon, and shows how the past is characterized by a remarkable fluidity and diversity in the social and religious milieus of the two faiths. In exploring the historical mechanisms that have led to the emergence and crystallization of religious identities the author sheds light on the increasing number of conflicts which threaten the harmonious co-existence of South Asian communities today.

Indian Air Force in India's National Defence 2032

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Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9385714376
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Indian Air Force in India's National Defence 2032 written by and published by KW Publishers Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Air Force (IAF), from a humble beginning in 1932 with four Wapiti aircraft, six Indian officers and 22 hawai sepoys, has traversed a long journey and crossed noteworthy milestones to become the fourth largest air force in the world. In the past 81 years, while facing several limitations/challenges, the IAF has met all the national defence requirements, and made several strategic contributions. The 1948 Kashmir airlift, Tangail paradrop, heli-bridging in East Pakistan and many other achievements are historic examples of its sterling performance. The only war independent India has lost was the one in which the IAF was not employed in a combat role. With growing economic interests and national aspirations, expanding interests well beyond our territorial boundaries and prevailing internal security challenges, India’s national defence requirements are also increasing. Reliance of sovereign nation-states on aerospace power is essentially growing. The first Gulf War was a monumental turning point in the war-time employment of aerospace power. Ever since, the significance of aerospace power in war, crisis and peace-time has been gaining ascendency. Kosovo and Libya are the two pertinent examples of the allies virtually relying on aerospace power, without committing any soldiers on the ground. Scrutiny of the emerging global and national trends suggests that employment of aerospace assets, as well as the nation’s expectation from the IAF, will continue to rise. Alongside, there is an unplanned fall in flying platforms, weapon systems and pilot strength of the IAF. This study is an attempt to analyse the history of the IAF in war as well as ‘other than war operations’; to appreciate the emerging trends in geopolitics, aerospace technology and doctrine; and to identify the likely challenges the IAF would be facing in the next two decades and beyond. A roadmap for transformation of the national security framework, the indigenous aerospace industry and the IAF has also been suggested.

The Golden Threshold

Author : Sarojini Naidu
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465613722
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Threshold written by Sarojini Naidu and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is at my persuasion that these poems are now published. The earliest of them were read to me in London in 1896, when the writer was seventeen; the later ones were sent to me from India in 1904, when she was twenty-five; and they belong, I think, almost wholly to those two periods. As they seemed to me to have an individual beauty of their own, I thought they ought to be published. The writer hesitated. "Your letter made me very proud and very sad," she wrote. "Is it possible that I have written verses that are 'filled with beauty,' and is it possible that you really think them worthy of being given to the world? You know how high my ideal of Art is; and to me my poor casual little poems seem to be less than beautiful—I mean with that final enduring beauty that I desire." And, in another letter, she writes: "I am not a poet really. I have the vision and the desire, but not the voice. If I could write just one poem full of beauty and the spirit of greatness, I should be exultantly silent for ever; but I sing just as the birds do, and my songs are as ephemeral." It is for this bird-like quality of song, it seems to me, that they are to be valued. They hint, in a sort of delicately evasive way, at a rare temperament, the temperament of a woman of the East, finding expression through a Western language and under partly Western influences. They do not express the whole of that temperament; but they express, I think, its essence; and there is an Eastern magic in them. Sarojini Chattopadhyay was born at Hyderabad on February 13, 1879. Her father, Dr. Aghorenath Chattopadhyay, is descended from the ancient family of Chattorajes of Bhramangram, who were noted throughout Eastern Bengal as patrons of Sanskrit learning, and for their practice of Yoga. He took his degree of Doctor of Science at the University of Edinburgh in 1877, and afterwards studied brilliantly at Bonn. On his return to India he founded the Nizam College at Hyderabad, and has since laboured incessantly, and at great personal sacrifice, in the cause of education.

Nuclear Weapons and International Security

Author : Ramesh Thakur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131760928X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Weapons and International Security written by Ramesh Thakur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together more than three decades of research and writings by Professor Ramesh Thakur on the challenges posed by nuclear weapons. Following an introduction to the current nuclear state of play, the book addresses the challenge of nuclear weapons in three parts. Part I describes the scholar-practitioner interface in trying to come to grips with this challenge, the main policy impact on security strategy, and the various future nuclear scenarios. Part II addresses regional nuclear challenges from the South Pacific to East, South and West Asia and thereby highlights serious deficiencies in the normative architecture of the nuclear arms control and disarmament regime. In the third and final part, the chapters discuss regional nuclear-weapon-free zones, NPT anomalies (and their implications for the future of the nuclear arms control regime) and, finally, assess the global governance architecture of nuclear security in light of the three Nuclear Security Summits between 2010 and 2014. The concluding chapter argues for moving towards a world of progressively reduced nuclear weapons in numbers, reduced salience of nuclear weapons in national security doctrines and deployments, and, ultimately, a denuclearized world. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation, global governance, international organisations, diplomacy and security studies.

Indian Military Thought KURUKSHETRA to KARGIL and Future Perspectives

Author : Brig K Kuldip Singh
Publisher : Lancer Publishers LLC
ISBN 13 : 1935501933
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Indian Military Thought KURUKSHETRA to KARGIL and Future Perspectives written by Brig K Kuldip Singh and published by Lancer Publishers LLC. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title aspires to present a panorama of India’s yet to be fully discovered martial heritage, denoted by its unconquerable ancient epoch, a critique of the generally misread medieval age vicissitudes, followed by a survey of the contemporary & post-independence travails and triumphs. Not a historical narrative, it attempts to define what constitutes India’s natural-born military mind, how it evolved and breasted the world-conquering armies, followed by critical glimpses of the past ordeals, besides its uncelebrated defiance & conquests. The venture culminates in defining the nation’s prospective defence and development policy imperatives, for its emerging global role. It is rare in providing in one volume India’s scintillating perspective of the past, present and the future. The ardent quest, spanning over twelve years, is a reflective blend of a review of the Vedas, the Epics, relevant Shastras & other select material of help, with the author’s long years of rich military operational, planning and instructional experience. Poring over its pages answers many elemental questions, coming naturally to a lay reader, student, research scholar, man-at-arm, defence analyst and the policy maker. The thesis fills a gap by covering a wide range of archeological, historical, politico-military, socio-cultural and strategic and warfare issues, besides dispelling certain myths, which tend to demean India’s way of life and war fighting. The scrutiny of the post-independence wars comes to several untold finds. An exclusive study on ‘what motivates men in combat’ gives the subject an added depth. A lucid account of the nuances of the vital subject, bolstered by an unflagging perceptive probe, makes it an absorbing study.

Feeding a Thousand Souls

Author : Vijaya Nagarajan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190858095
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Feeding a Thousand Souls written by Vijaya Nagarajan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds of homes, businesses and temples. This thousand-year-old ritual welcomes and honors Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and alertness, and Bhudevi, the goddess of the earth. Created by hand with great skill, artistry, and mathematical precision, the kolam disappears in a few hours, borne away by passing footsteps and hungry insects. This is the first comprehensive study of the kolam in the English language. It examines its significance in historical, mathematical, ecological, anthropological, and literary contexts. The culmination of Vijaya Nagarajan's many years of research and writing on this exacting ritual practice, Feeding a Thousand Souls celebrates the experiences, thoughts, and voices of the Tamil women who keep this tradition alive.