Poems of Mewar (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 13 : 9780483366794
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Book Synopsis Poems of Mewar (Classic Reprint) by : S. O. Heinemann

Download or read book Poems of Mewar (Classic Reprint) written by S. O. Heinemann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poems of Mewar With the exception of The Curse of Mewar, which, though founded on fact, does not follow the recorded history in detail, the stories have been kept as near to history as possible. The whole are based on that charming work of Miss Gabrielle Festing, The Land of The Princes published by Messrs. Smith Elder Co. In 1904. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Poems of Mewar

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Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book Poems of Mewar written by S. O. Heinemann and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan

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Total Pages : 272 pages
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Book Synopsis The Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan by : Sir George Abraham Grierson

Download or read book The Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan written by Sir George Abraham Grierson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Five Decades

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Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
ISBN 13 : 9788126020607
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Book Synopsis Five Decades by : D. S. Rao

Download or read book Five Decades written by D. S. Rao and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the completion of fiftieth year of Sahitya Akademi.

Maharana Sāngā; the Hindupat, the Last Great Leader of the Rajput Race

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Total Pages : 190 pages
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Download or read book Maharana Sāngā; the Hindupat, the Last Great Leader of the Rajput Race written by Har Bilas Sarda (Diwan Bahadur) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetry of Kings

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199877432
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Book Synopsis Poetry of Kings by : Allison Busch

Download or read book Poetry of Kings written by Allison Busch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study of the classical Hindi tradition brings the world of Mughal-era poetry and court culture alive for an English readership. Allison Busch draws on the perspectives of literary, social, and intellectual history to elucidate one of premodern India's most significant textual traditions, documenting the dramatic rise of a new type of professional Hindi writer while providing critical insight into the motives that animated this literary community and its patrons. Busch examines how riti literature served as an important aesthetic and political resource in the richly multicultural world of Mughal India, and provides, for the first time in a Western language, a detailed study of the fascinating oeuvre of Keshavdas, whose seminal Rasikpriya (Handbook for poetry connoisseurs, 1591) was the catalyst for a new Hindi classicism that attracted a spectacular following in the leading courts of early modern India. The circulation of Hindi literature among diverse communities during this period is testament to a remarkable pluralism that cannot be understood in terms of the nationalist logic that has constrained modern Hindi and Urdu to be "Hindu" and "Muslim" languages since the nineteenth century. With the cultural reforms ushered in by colonialism, north Indians repudiated the classical traditions of the courtly past, a complex process given extended treatment in the final chapter. Busch provides valuable insight into more than two centuries of Hindi courtly culture. Poetry of Kings also showcases the importance of bringing precolonial archives into dialogue with current debates of postcolonial theory.

Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan

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Total Pages : 694 pages
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Book Synopsis Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan by : James Tod

Download or read book Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan written by James Tod and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tellings and Texts

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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783741023
Total Pages : 568 pages
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Book Synopsis Tellings and Texts by : Francesca Orsini

Download or read book Tellings and Texts written by Francesca Orsini and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region. The texts and practices are contextualized in relation to the broader social and political background in which they emerged, showing how religious affiliations, caste dynamics and political concerns played a role in shaping social identities as well as aesthetic sensibilities. By doing so this book sheds light into theoretical issues of more general significance, such as textual versus oral norms; the features of oral performance and improvisation; the role of the text in performance; the aesthetics and social dimension of performance; the significance of space in performance history and important considerations on repertoires of story-telling. The book also contains links to audio files of some of the works discussed in the text. Tellings and Texts is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and story-telling.

Panjab Castes

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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Book Synopsis Panjab Castes by : Sir Denzil Ibbetson

Download or read book Panjab Castes written by Sir Denzil Ibbetson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Serving Empire, Serving Nation

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047429389
Total Pages : 247 pages
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Book Synopsis Serving Empire, Serving Nation by : Jason Freitag

Download or read book Serving Empire, Serving Nation written by Jason Freitag and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan was crucial in forming the modern image of the Rājpūt, a princely “martial” caste resident in India’s northwest desert. This book explores the relationships between the political power of the British imperial state, the construction of historical memories in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the uses of these constructions by European writers and Indian nationalist elites. The case of the Rajputs demonstrates how imperial histories reflected Indian social processes and pre-colonial forms of knowledge, interpreted India for the world outside and for Indians themselves. This book explores the multiple discourses within Tod’s Rajasthan, and European Orientalism, to show how intricately coded the British Empire was and, historically, remains.

Language of the Snakes

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520968816
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Book Synopsis Language of the Snakes by : Andrew Ollett

Download or read book Language of the Snakes written by Andrew Ollett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.

Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland

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Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048536758
Total Pages : 249 pages
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Book Synopsis Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland by : Arik Moran

Download or read book Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland written by Arik Moran and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput-led kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices engendered a modern reading of 'tradition' that informs communal identities to date. By revising the history of these mountain kings on the basis of extensive archival, textual, and ethnographic research, it offers an alternative to popular and scholarly discourses that grew with the rise of colonial knowledge. This revision ultimately points to the important contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group identities.

The Bābur-nama in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

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Total Pages : 538 pages
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Book Synopsis The Bābur-nama in English (Memoirs of Bābur) by : Babur (Emperor of Hindustan)

Download or read book The Bābur-nama in English (Memoirs of Bābur) written by Babur (Emperor of Hindustan) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Medieval Hindu India

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Total Pages : 400 pages
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Book Synopsis History of Medieval Hindu India by : Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya

Download or read book History of Medieval Hindu India written by Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Concise History of Modern India

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139458876
Total Pages : 372 pages
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Book Synopsis A Concise History of Modern India by : Barbara D. Metcalf

Download or read book A Concise History of Modern India written by Barbara D. Metcalf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India's huge advances in technology and the country's new role as a major player in world affairs. From the days of the Mughals, through the British Empire, and into Independence, the country has been transformed by its institutional structures. It is these institutions which have helped bring about the social, cultural and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century and paved the way for the modern success story. Despite these advances, poverty, social inequality and religious division still fester. In response to these dilemmas, the book grapples with questions of caste and religious identity, and the nature of the Indian nation.

Grounds for Play

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520910885
Total Pages : 577 pages
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Book Synopsis Grounds for Play by : Kathryn Hansen

Download or read book Grounds for Play written by Kathryn Hansen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play, Kathryn Hansen draws on field research to describe the different elements of nautanki performance: music, dance, poetry, popular story lines, and written texts. She traces the social history of the form and explores the play of meanings within nautanki narratives, focusing on the ways important social issues such as political authority, community identity, and gender differences are represented in these narratives. Unlike other styles of Indian theater, the nautanki does not draw on the pan-Indian religious epics such as the Ramayana or the Mahabharata for its subjects. Indeed, their storylines tend to center on the vicissitudes of stranded heroines in the throes of melodramatic romance. Whereas nautanki performers were once much in demand, live performances now are rare and nautanki increasingly reaches its audiences through electronic media—records, cassettes, films, television. In spite of this change, the theater form still functions as an effective conduit in the cultural flow that connects urban centers and the hinterland in an ongoing process of exchange.

Writing Self, Writing Empire

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286464
Total Pages : 394 pages
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Book Synopsis Writing Self, Writing Empire by : Rajeev Kinra

Download or read book Writing Self, Writing Empire written by Rajeev Kinra and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan “Brahman” (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan’s life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir (1658-1707), the last of the “Great Mughals” whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire’s power, territorial reach, and global influence. As a high-caste Hindu who worked for a series of Muslim monarchs and other officials, forming powerful friendships along the way, Chandar Bhan’s experience bears vivid testimony to the pluralistic atmosphere of the Mughal court, particularly during the reign of Shah Jahan, the celebrated builder of the Taj Mahal. But his widely circulated and emulated works also touch on a range of topics central to our understanding of the court’s literary, mystical, administrative, and ethical cultures, while his letters and autobiographical writings provide tantalizing examples of early modern Indo-Persian modes of self-fashioning. Chandar Bhan’s oeuvre is a valuable window onto a crucial, though surprisingly neglected, period of Mughal cultural and political history.