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Author : Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Dr. S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar Commemoration Volume written by Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K.R. van Kooij
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004658645
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Function and Meaning in Buddhist Art written by K.R. van Kooij and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the function of Buddhist art at the time Buddhism was a major religion in large areas of South, East, and South-East Asia? Can we establish what these sculptures and paintings meant to Buddhist believers living at a time when this art fulfilled important religious needs? These questions are discussed, not answered, in a volume about ‘Function and Meaning of Buddhist Art’ which contains the papers of a workshop on this theme held at Leiden University in 1991. While dealing with a variety of themes and subject-matter, sometimes in great detail, sixteen specialists focus on ritual and semantic aspects of Buddhist works of art from countries such as India, China, Japan, Tibet, Thailand, and Indonesia. Recent non-western art-historical publications show an increasing tendency to work with methodological frameworks developed by specialists on western art. Moreover, there are more similarities between Buddhist and other religious art ‘than, literally, meet the eye’. For this reason, two comparative studies are included in which parallels and universals are brought forward. Two main lines emerge in the results offered in this book, the one indicating a tendency to focus on intended meanings; the other concentrating on more than one level of reception of Buddhist art in a liturgical context.
Author : Oskar von Hinüber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110814986
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Pali Literature written by Oskar von Hinüber and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook surveys the whole of Pali Theravada Buddhist literature (Ceylon, South East Asia). It reviews previous research in the field, and then concentrates on new methodological approaches and a treatment of later Pali literature (after the twelfth century).
Author : Asha Shukla Choubey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100047769X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre-colonial Eastern India written by Asha Shukla Choubey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive socio-cultural history of crafts and crafts persons in pre-colonial Eastern India. It focuses on the technology of crafts as being integral to the traditional lives of the crafts persons and explores their cultural and social world. It offers an in-depth analysis of the complexities of craft technologies in the three sectors of cotton textile, sericulture and silk textile and mining and metallurgy in the regions of Bihar and Jharkhand in Eastern India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Apart from technology, the book discusses a range of socio-economic themes including craft production systems; marketing and financing patterns; impact of contact with the world market; craft persons’ identities in terms of caste affiliations and group divisions; negotiations for upward caste mobility; contestations and dissent of lower castes; power and social stratification; functioning of caste panchayats; gender division of craft labour; myths, beliefs and religiosity attributed to craft usages; social and ritual traditions; and contemporary craft traditions. Rich in archival and diverse sources, including oral traditions, paintings, and findings from extensive field visits and interactions with crafts persons, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of crafts, medieval Indian history, social history, sociology and social anthropology, economic history, cultural history, science and technology studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest government and non-governmental organisations, textile historians, craft and design specialists, contemporary craft industrial sector, and museums.
Author : Salila Kulshreshtha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351356097
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book From Temple to Museum written by Salila Kulshreshtha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work examines how these images may have moved during different spates of temple renovation and acquired new identities by being relocated either within sacred precincts or in private collections and museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost. The book highlights contentious issues in Indian archaeology such as renegotiating identities of religious images, reuse and sharing of sacred space by adherents of different faiths, rebuilding of temples and consequent reinvention of these sites. The author also engages with postcolonial debates surrounding history writing and knowledge creation in British India and how colonial archaeology, archival practices, official surveys and institutionalisation of museums has influenced the current understanding of religion, sacred space and religious icons. In doing so it bridges the historiographical divide between the ancient and the modern as well as socio-religious practices and their institutional memory and preservation. Drawn from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of religious sculptures, classical texts, colonial archival records, British travelogues, official correspondences and fieldwork, the book will interest scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South Asian studies and Buddhist studies.
Author : J.L. Mehta
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9788120704329
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Vol. Iii: Medieval Indian Society And Culture written by J.L. Mehta and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Upendra Thakur
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170172079
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Some Aspects of Asian History and Culture written by Upendra Thakur and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Upendra Thakur
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 8170172896
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book India and Japan, a Study in Interaction During 5th Cent.-14th Cent. A.D. written by Upendra Thakur and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural interaction between India and Japan in the fields of religion, language and literature, and art; a study.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Vikrama Volume written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume commemorating 2000th year of King Vikramaditya.
Author : Tej Ram Sharma
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788170222514
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (225 download)
Download or read book A Political History of the Imperial Guptas written by Tej Ram Sharma and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tsong-kha-pa
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1559398698
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)
Download or read book The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Volume 1) written by Tsong-kha-pa and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of the 15th-century spiritual classic that condenses Buddhist teachings into one easy-to-follow meditation manual The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Tib. Lam rim chen mo) is one of the brightest jewels in the world’s treasury of sacred literature. The author, Tsong-kha-pa, completed it in 1402, and it soon became one of the most renowned works of spiritual practice and philosophy in the world of Tibetan Buddhism. Because it condenses all the exoteric sūtra scriptures into a meditation manual that is easy to understand, scholars and practitioners rely on its authoritative presentation as a gateway that leads to a full understanding of the Buddha’s teachings. Tsong-kha-pa took great pains to base his insights on classical Indian Buddhist literature, illustrating his points with classical citations as well as with sayings of the masters of the earlier Kadampa tradition. In this way the text demonstrates clearly how Tibetan Buddhism carefully preserved and developed the Indian Buddhist traditions. This first of three volumes covers all the practices that are prerequisite for developing the spirit of enlightenment (bodhicitta).
Author : Deo Prakash Sharma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Archaeology of Lower Ganga-Yamuna Doab (circa 1200 B.C. to 1200 A.D.) written by Deo Prakash Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tej Ram Sharma
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Personal and Geographical Names in the Gupta Inscriptions written by Tej Ram Sharma and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aggarwal R.C./Bhatnagar Mahesh
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8121905656
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Constitutional Development & National Movemen in India written by Aggarwal R.C./Bhatnagar Mahesh and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part-I : Constitutional Development Of India Part-Ii : National Movement Part-Iii: Modern Indian Constitution
Author : Javed Majeed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429799373
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India written by Javed Majeed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. It shows that the Survey was characterised by a composite and collaborative mode of producing knowledge, which undermines any clear distinctions between European orientalists and colonised Indians in British India. Its authority lay more in its stress on the provisional nature of its findings, an emphasis on the approximate nature of its results, and a strong sense of its own shortcomings and inadequacies, rather than in any expression of mastery over India’s languages. The book argues that the Survey brings to light a different kind of colonial knowledge, whose relationship to power was much more ambiguous than has hitherto been assumed for colonial projects in modern India. It also highlights the contribution of Indians to the creation of colonial knowledge about South Asia as a linguistic region. Indians were important collaborators and participants in the Survey, and they helped to create the monumental knowledge of India as a linguistic region which is embodied in the Survey. This volume, like its companion volume Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, will be a great resource for scholars and researchers of linguistics, language and literature, history, political studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.
Author : Lal Mani Joshi
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120802810
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Studies in the Buddhistic Culture of India During the 7th and 8th Centuries A.D. written by Lal Mani Joshi and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a pioneer attempt of its kind to study Indian Buddhism in its entirety as a system of rational philosophy, profound faith, and as a historical matrix of creative human culture and civilized institution during the 7th and 8th centuries the brilliant epoch of the University of Nalanda, the mere name of which spells the great wonder that was Buddhism in Ancient India.A chapter on the contribution of Buddhism to Indian Civilization has also been added. The treatment of the subject is critical and integral though not traditional.
Author : Raziuddin Aquil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199087849
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Sufism, Culture, and Politics written by Raziuddin Aquil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a political history of north India under Afghan rulers in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Focusing on interconnections between religion and politics, it also raises questions of paramount concern to an understanding of Islam in medieval north India. The book is divided into three sections. The first section explores the Afghan attempts at empire-building under the leadership of Sher Shah Sur. Discussing the incorporation of the Rajputs in the Afghan imperial project, the second part deals with the prevalent ideals and institutions of governance. The last segment investigates the social and political role of the Sufis. Questioning the overemphasis on the Sultanate and Mughal periods in Indian history writing, Aquil projects a dynamic view of the Afghan period.
