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Book Synopsis The Rise of Mahāsena by : Richard D. Mann
Download or read book The Rise of Mahāsena written by Richard D. Mann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the early development of Skanda-Kārttikeya’s Hindu cult from its earliest textual and material sources to the end of the Gupta Empire in the north of India. The text argues that Skanda’s early ‘popular’ cult is found in Graha and Mātṛ traditions oriented towards appeasing potentially dangerous spirits. Once propitiated, however, Skanda and his Grahas/ Mātṛs could become fierce protectors of their followers. During the Kuṣāṇa and Gupta empires, this tradition gains the attention of rulers, who transform the deity’s protective cult into one focused on the ruler’s military prowess and right to rule. Once detached from his former popular traditions the deity’s cult begins to falter in the north as it becomes increasingly focused on elite agendas.
Download or read book Mahasena written by Maurice Baring and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Material Culture and Asian Religions by : Benjamin Fleming
Download or read book Material Culture and Asian Religions written by Benjamin Fleming and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in ‘classical’ languages. Not only has a focus on literary evidence shaped the dominant narratives about the religious histories of Asia, in both scholarship and popular culture, but it has contributed to the tendency to study different religious traditions in relative isolation from one another. Today, moreover, historical work is often based on modern textual editions and, increasingly, on electronic databases. What may be lost, in the process, is the visceral sense of the text as artifact – as a material object that formed part of a broader material culture, in which the boundaries between religious traditions were sometimes more fluid than canonical literature might suggest. This volume brings together specialists in a variety of Asian cultures to discuss the methodological challenges involved in integrating material evidence for the reconstruction of the religious histories of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. By means of specific ‘test cases,’ the volume explores the importance of considering material and literary evidence in concert. What untold stories do these sources help us to recover? How might they push us to reevaluate historical narratives traditionally told from literary sources? By addressing these questions from the perspectives of different subfields and religious traditions, contributors map out the challenges involved in interpreting different types of data, assessing the problems of interpretation distinct to specific types of material evidence (e.g., coins, temple art, manuscripts, donative inscriptions) and considering the issues raised by the different patterns in the preservation of such evidence in different locales. Special attention is paid to newly-discovered and neglected sources; to our evidence for trade, migration, and inter-regional cultural exchange; and to geographical locales that served as "contact zones" connecting cultures. In addition, the chapters in this volume represent the rich range of religious traditions across Asia – including Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, and Chinese religions, as well as Islam and eastern Christianities.
Book Synopsis Women’s and Gender Studies in India by : Anu Aneja
Download or read book Women’s and Gender Studies in India written by Anu Aneja and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book frames the major debates and contemporary issues in women’s and gender studies in India. It locates them in the context of key theories, their interlinkages, and significant crossings and overlaps within the field while juxtaposing feminist and queer perspectives. The essays in the volume foreground emerging challenges as well as offer clues to future trajectories for women’s and gender studies in the country through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary survey of intersectionalities in feminist activism and theory; gender, caste and class; feminist, masculinity, queer and transgender studies; disability and feminism; feminist and queer pedagogies; and Indian, Western and transnational feminisms. The volume traces how gender studies have shaped established social science as well as interpretative and representational discourses (psychoanalysis, literature, aesthetics, cinema, new media studies and folklore). It examines their strategic potential to draw upon and transform these areas in national and international contexts. This book will be useful to students, teachers and researchers in women’s studies, gender studies, cultural studies, queer studies and South Asian studies.
Book Synopsis An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History by : Karl J. Schmidt
Download or read book An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History written by Karl J. Schmidt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical atlas is devoted primarily to India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, while also covering Napal, Bhutan and Ceylon/Sri Lanka. The maps are accompanied by text which illuminates recent political, economic, social and cultural developments.
Download or read book Bhasa written by G.S.Iyer and published by D C Books. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rediscovery of the 13 plays of Bhasa Mahakavi and their publication in Thiruvananthapuram in 1912 by Mahamahopadhyaya T. Ganapatisastri was as important an event in the recovery of India's cultural and literary history as was the deciphering of the Ashokan edicts in the 19th century in the recovery of India's political history. Bhasa was known from allusions by other poets and fragments stretching from the time of Kalidasa all the way to the 12th century. Inexplicably, he vanished from India's collective memory since then. At the same time, the reverence in which he was held is amply evident from the regularity of references to him and the unanimity of critics and rasikas on the superb quality of his work. The recovered Bhasa has now taken his rightful place in the stage and is presented again and again not only in Sanskrit but in most modern Indian languages too. It is an eloquent demonstration of his enduring power to move an audience, his undiminished relevance and, most important of all, the stunning stage worthiness of his works, the quality that raises him far above every other ancient dramatist of India known to us.
Book Synopsis Vāsavadattā by : Bhāsa (supposed author.)
Download or read book Vāsavadattā written by Bhāsa (supposed author.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inhabiting an Embattled Body by : Jani de Silva
Download or read book Inhabiting an Embattled Body written by Jani de Silva and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an anthropological account of Sri Lanka’s Eelam Wars III and IV. It is based on the life-narratives of ex-servicemen who fought on the frontlines. The volume approaches militarism as a practice of masculinity. It explores the sense of embattlement that young recruits feel, which stems from the inner war between notions of bodily deference instilled in childhood and having to conduct offensives on the battlefield. Thus though they wish to move smoothly into the assault techniques learnt in combat-training, they sometimes find their bodies are acting-out a different trajectory; engaging in acts of spectacular violence or simply running away. It traverses themes such as masculinity and Sinhala society, British martial masculinity vs the composed body in Sinhala discourse, combat-training and the battlefield. The author traces the ways in which troops tried to negotiate the thin line between valour and violence in a context in which the enemy’s suicide fighters engaged in the more extreme code of sacrificing-the-body, which derided the very manliness of soldiers who couldn’t prevail against them. She argues that the Sri Lankan experience has resonance for soldiers on battlefields everywhere, who become embattled when confronted by adversaries whose practice seems to diminish their own manliness. Rich in ethnographical narratives, this book will be interest scholars and researchers of war studies, gender studies, masculinity studies, peace and conflict studies, ethnic studies, political science, international relations, sociology, social anthropology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies, especially those concerned with Sri Lanka.
Book Synopsis A History of Ceylon for Schools by : Louis Edmund Blazé
Download or read book A History of Ceylon for Schools written by Louis Edmund Blazé and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mahavamsa by : Thera Mahanama-sthavira
Download or read book The Mahavamsa written by Thera Mahanama-sthavira and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Bangalore, India). by : Mythic Society (Bangalore, India)
Download or read book The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Bangalore, India). written by Mythic Society (Bangalore, India) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Ceylon written by L. E. Blaze and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic history of Sri Lanka from the ancient times to the modern. For the lay reader and scholar alike.
Book Synopsis Harmsworth History of the World: China. Pacific and Indian Oceans. Australia. India. Central Asia by : Arthur Mee
Download or read book Harmsworth History of the World: China. Pacific and Indian Oceans. Australia. India. Central Asia written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis INDIAN HISTORY by : Dr. Sanjeevkumar Tandle
Download or read book INDIAN HISTORY written by Dr. Sanjeevkumar Tandle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Ancient India by : Radhey Shyam Chaurasia
Download or read book History of Ancient India written by Radhey Shyam Chaurasia and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient History Of India From The Very Beginning To Twelve Hundred A.D. It Has Been Written In A Simple And Lucid Style. Controversial Matters Have Been Dealt With In Such A Way That Scientific And Objective Conclusions May Be Drawn. The Book Has Been Planned As An Ideal Textbook For The Students And A Reference Book For The Teachers.
Book Synopsis NCERT MCQs Indian History Class 6-12 (Old+New) for UPSC , State PSC and Other Competitive Exams by : Amibh Ranjan
Download or read book NCERT MCQs Indian History Class 6-12 (Old+New) for UPSC , State PSC and Other Competitive Exams written by Amibh Ranjan and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2022-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis “The” Historians' History of the World by : Henry Smith Williams
Download or read book “The” Historians' History of the World written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
