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Download or read book Headmasterji written by Sandeep Sharma and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the life of a man with a literacy mission. Headmasterji born in 1913 ,who hailed from Surajgarh, a small village of Rajasthan, India. He was a multifaceted personality and contributed towards the social and educational reforms. He was a firm believer of "Education for all". The book also provides us details about headmasterji's vision for surajgarh education and how surajgarh stand tall in education. The book is written in the backdrop of Independence movement of India. The atrocities and the pain of India- Pakistan partition has been outlined in the book. The book describes the efforts of Headmasterji to bring in reforms for development and growth of the children of Surajgarh .The book presents headmasterji who was first postgraduate of Lahore university in 1932.Headmasterji was the pioneer for bringing in the Gram agriculture cultivation(agrculture revolution) in this region in 1930.before that gram was not grown here.Because of the good soil conditions , the region was leading in gram cultivation. this led to first step towards industrilsation of the region.Around 100 Pulse mills started in the surajgarh ,mandi .region. headmasterji was the first person with such a high qualification to be principle of PB High School. the book also presents surajgarh's first peoples movement against the local authority for implementing the high house tax before 1960 by Headmasterji. the book also gives an insight into first election at surajgarh and headmasterji/s role in it after independence .The book also gives insight in the first election at students union, in chairman of surajgarh and MP from surajgarh. the book also provide historical details about surajgarh, its development from preindependence era to the present era. this is first book with mention of Rambilasji headmasterji and surajgarh.
Book Synopsis Alchemies of Violence by : Lawrence A Babb
Download or read book Alchemies of Violence written by Lawrence A Babb and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The several trading castes known generically as `Marwaris` are among the most powerful and wealthy groups in India. While they have spread throughout India and beyond, their homeland is Rajasthan. This absorbing book explores their origin myths and the manner in which these myths construct and express their social identities. Lawrence Babb draws attention to the special problems of self-definition faced by these groups and shows how myth engages these problems by using a distinctive symbolism drawn from the Vedic rite of sacrifice. According, to the author, origin myths utilize sacrifice as a master metaphor for creative power and social order. At a broader level, this book deals with three interrelated themes: the nature of India`s caste system; the special character and specific place of trading castes in Indian society; and the role of myth as a repository of socially important knowledge. A unique feature of this book is that it is based mainly on the literature published by caste and religious associations supplemented by oral material.
Book Synopsis Raj Rhapsodies: Tourism, Heritage and the Seduction of History by : Maxine Weisgrau
Download or read book Raj Rhapsodies: Tourism, Heritage and the Seduction of History written by Maxine Weisgrau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritage is a prized cultural commodity in the marketing of tourism destinations. Particular aspects of heritage are often more actively promoted, with others played down. The representation of heritage in tourism as static and timeless, derived since time immemorial from a distant past, is seductive. In Asia, a major part of the tourism market lies in the sale and consumption of highly orientalized images and versions of culture and history. In India’s marketing discourse, the state of Rajasthan symbolizes the nation in its heritage-laden, traditional and most authentic form. These images draw heavily on the British period in India - the Raj. In one sense, this vision of Rajasthan is ennobling, highlighting moments of cultural pride. In another sense, it demeans, by omitting and obscuring salient features of contemporary life. This fascinating book explores the cultural politics of tourism through interdisciplinary perspectives. Carol E. Henderson and Maxine Weisgrau demonstrate that tourism heritage privileges elite histories that recapitulate colonial relationships, compelling non-elites to collude in these narratives of subordination even as they advance their own alternative visions of history.
Download or read book Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Visual Turn by : Sandria Freitag
Download or read book The Visual Turn written by Sandria Freitag and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines explores new perspectives made possible by the evidence drawn from visual culture. This evidence is utilized by historians, literary analysts, anthropologists and, in a new way, art historians. Focusing on built environments within their urban contexts; the interactions of buildings, roads, and bodies; the meaning-making achieved through consumption of images (on their own or in concert with literary texts) all contribute to a much broader and deeper understanding of change in South Asia. Juxtaposed, these case studies not only approach their topics in a multi-disciplinary manner, but also make clear just what scholars from various disciplines can learn from each other to add nuance and depth to their own analyses. In the process, the authors demonstrate how the application of different methods and theorizing, when coupled with a fascinating range of types of evidence, contribute to a significant broadening of our abilities to interpret the past and the present. In particular, these essays bring new ways of thinking about cities as well as the multiple ways that visual culture contributes to individual and collective forms of identity-narratives that are negotiated at key moments of change in South Asia. Readers will see their own materials and historicized contexts with new eyes. This book was published as a special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
Book Synopsis Bulletin by : University of Michigan. Museum of Art
Download or read book Bulletin written by University of Michigan. Museum of Art and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1995 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
Book Synopsis The Travellers' Companion by : Abdur Rasheed
Download or read book The Travellers' Companion written by Abdur Rasheed and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asia and Oceania written by Trudy Ring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Taj Mahal to the Parthenon, from Gettysburg to Heidelberg, from Beacon Hill to Tower Hill, from the Great Wall to Hadrian's Wall, from Jerusalem to Kyoto, the International Dictionary of Historic Places presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include: location, description, and site office details; and a 3,000 to 4,000 word essay that provides a full history of the site and the condition of the site today. An annotated Further Reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry.
Book Synopsis Embodied Violence by : Kumari Jayawardena
Download or read book Embodied Violence written by Kumari Jayawardena and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodied Violence is a major investigation into the myriad of ways in which societies play out the struggle for cultural identity on women's bodies. Focusing on communal violence, it explores how such violence reconfigures women's experiences, facilitates the formation of particular identities and the dissemination of specific ideologies and how it positions women vis-a-vis their communities as well as the State. A distinguished cast of contributors explores the relationship between ideals of motherhood, tradition, community and racial purity, and uncovers the ways in which women's bodies become the recording surface of repressive cultural practices and symbolic humiliations.
Book Synopsis Focus on History & Civics for Class 8 by : I. L. Wanchoo
Download or read book Focus on History & Civics for Class 8 written by I. L. Wanchoo and published by Goyal Brothers Prakashan. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Focus on History and Civics for Classes 6 to 8 has been developed and designed strictly according to the latest curriculum prepared and recommended by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi. The objective of this new curriculum in History and Civics is to help the students not only to understand and analyse; but also to participate effectively in their future world and use their critical, mental and moral energy in a positive manner. Main Objectives of teaching History and Civics at this level are : To enable children to l Learn about the past by creating a sense of historical diversity. l Understand timelines and historical maps. l Create a strong sense of human values. l Make connections between political, social and economic issues and recognise the ways in which politics affects their daily lives. l Imbibe the values of Indian Constitution and their significance in everyday life. l Understand the normative dimensions like issues of equality, justice and dignity in society and polity.
Book Synopsis The Art of Cloth in Mughal India by : Sylvia Houghteling
Download or read book The Art of Cloth in Mughal India written by Sylvia Houghteling and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When a rich man in seventeenth-century South Asia enjoyed a peaceful night's sleep, he imagined himself enveloped in a velvet sleep. In the poetic imagination of the time, the fine dew of early evening was like a thin cotton cloth from Bengal, and woolen shawls of downy pashmina sent by the Mughal emperors to their trusted noblemen approximated the soft hand of the ruler on the vassal's shoulder. Textiles in seventeenth-century South Asia represented more than cloth to their makers and users. They simulated sensory experience, from natural, environmental conditions to intimate, personal touch. The Art of Cloth in Mughal India is the first art historical account of South Asian textiles from the early modern era. Author Sylvia Houghteling resurrects a truth that seventeenth-century world citizens knew, but which has been forgotten in the modern era: South Asian cloth ranked among the highest forms of art in the global hierarchy of luxury goods, and had a major impact on culture and communication. While studies abound in economic history about the global trade in Indian textiles that flourished from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, they rarely engage with the material itself and are less concerned with the artistic-and much less the literary and social-significance of the taste for cloth. This book is richly illustrated with images of textiles, garments, and paintings that are held in little-known collections and have rarely, if ever, been published. Rather than rely solely on records of European trading companies, Houghteling draws upon poetry in local languages and integrates archival research from unpublished royal Indian inventories to tell a new history of this material culture, one with a far more balanced view of its manufacture and use, as well as its purchase and trade"--
Book Synopsis Mug̲h̲al Painter of Flora and Fauna Ustād Manṣūr by : Som Prakash Verma
Download or read book Mug̲h̲al Painter of Flora and Fauna Ustād Manṣūr written by Som Prakash Verma and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume follows Mughal Painters and their Work-A Biographical Survey and Comprehensive Catalogue (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1994), the first comprehensive book of reference on the work of nearly 200 Mughal painters; and has been conceived to provide readers much information on the Mughal painting through the contribution of individual master painters. Need not say ample information is available about the artists of the Mughal atelier (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries). Yet, to date, except for some articles on a few painters, no book has been published on individual artist. Ustad Mansur, a keen observer of nature endowed with almost Euclidean intellect, deserved a more detailed study to re-evaluate his merit as an artist whose achievement in naturalistic portraiture of a large number of species from the world of flora and fauna has remained unsurpassed till today. Our attempt is to enter into the very creative process of this great Mughal painter; to relive in his times and environment, in order to discover real Mansur. The whole panorama of Mansur’s portraits of birds, animals and flowers set in marvellously and uniquely laid background represents, in his true spirit and characteristics, the very quintessence of nature’s endless variety of creation and beauty. Part I provides historical and artistic context in which Ustad Mansur worked. Information about him has been gleaned from original texts (principally Persian historical sources), supplemented by the evidence of artist’s own work. Part II comprises the plate section of representative eighteen miniatures that illustrate our painter’s style and his specialisation in painting. The appendix further enhances the value of this work since it provides correct rendering of contemporary inscriptions and determines genuine signatures and contemporary ascriptions. The volume is richly illustrated with a large number of black-and-white and colour illustrations. These illustrate the art and style of Ustad Mansur Nadir u’l ‘Asr (Unequalled of the Age), the most illustrious naturalist painter of India. It will naturally be of interest to students of art and natural history. It is also recommended to persons curious to know about the Mughal times. It is hoped that other volumes on individual Mughal painters will follow’ and monographs on their lives and work with a criticale valuation will be available.
Book Synopsis New Architecture and Urbanism by : Saswati Chetia
Download or read book New Architecture and Urbanism written by Saswati Chetia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on “New Architecture and Urbanism: Development of Indian Traditions” builds on the contributions from various architects, planners, educationists, decision-makers & others from across the world who gathered together to create a forum for the promotion of traditional processes and techniques for the creation of the built environment. This forum was initiated by INTBAU India, The International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism in India, and supported by The Nabha Foundation. This book presents the arguments, axioms and case studies related to Traditional Architecture and Urbanism in a sequential format. Firstly it examines the “New ways of looking at Heritage” by separating it from pure history into a living and evolving process. The book looks at what defines traditional methods and their relevance to the contemporary context. It also examines the aspects of Continuity and Contextual frameworks in the built environment. The section on “Sustainable Buildings, Places and Communities” explores the many facets of locally driven processes from the viewpoint of tradition and sustainability. These include many community based planning methods and their applications in shaping the built environment, aspects of environmental sustainability and on how appropriateness could be ingrained into current architectural education. Lastly, the book delves into a number of executed examples in architecture seeking to learn from tradition and examples in “place-making urbanism” which in turn promotes humane, walkable and connected neighbourhoods.
Book Synopsis A Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume III Early Modern by : Timothy Venning
Download or read book A Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume III Early Modern written by Timothy Venning and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access ‘who’s who’ with details on the identities and dates, ages and wives, where known, of heads of government in any given state at any time within the framework of reference. The relevant original and secondary sources are also listed in a comprehensive bibliography. Providing a clear reference guide for students, to who was who and when they ruled in the dynasties and other ruler-lists for the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern worlds – primarily European and Middle Eastern but including available information on Africa and Asia and the pre-Columbian Americas. The trilogy accesses and interprets the original data plus any modern controversies and disputes over names and dating, reflecting on the shifts and widening of focus in student and academic studies. Each volume contains league tables of rulers’ ‘records’, and an extensive bibliographical guide to the relevant personnel and dynasties, plus any controversies, so readers can consult these for extra details and know exactly where to go for which information. All relevant information is collected and provided as a one-stop-shop for students wishing to check the known information about a world Sovereign. The Early Modern volume begins with Eastern and Western Europe and moves through the Ottoman Empire, South and East Asia, Africa, and ends in Central and South America. Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume III Early Modern provides students and scholars with the perfect reference guide to support their studies and to fact check dates, people, and places.
Download or read book Love Colour written by Anna Starmer and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choosing colours for your home can become an overwhelming and confusing process--there is just so much on offer. Love Colour will help you to bring your favourite colours to life by successfully making all those challenging decisions. Renowned international colour expert Anna Starmer takes you by the hand and guides you through this lavishly illustrated rainbow world of colour combinations, teaching you everything you need to know about hues, tones, accents and foundation colours along the way. Start by simply choosing a colour you love, then take your inspiration from our accessible and practical palettes to create your own colour combinations. This book also includes removable colour chart booklet so you can note and match your perfect colours anytime you are out and about.
Book Synopsis Focus on History & Civics 8 (A.Y. 2023-24)Onward by : I.L. Wanchoo
Download or read book Focus on History & Civics 8 (A.Y. 2023-24)Onward written by I.L. Wanchoo and published by Goyal Brothers Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-05-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Series Focus On History and Civics for Classes 6 to 8 is a thorough course that covers elements of history and civics in accordance with the latest curriculum designed by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) and it also comprises the recommendations of the National Education Policy 2020, which focuses on the development of critical thinking, 21st century skills, collaboration, life skills, problem solving, experiential learning. The history curriculum gives students the knowledge of historical elements they need to deal with the present and make plans for the future. Civics exposes students to sociopolitical life. The engaging content fosters the social, cultural, and analytical abilities necessary to cope in a world that is becoming more interdependent and connected. It sharpens the ability to draw connections between events and processes, as well as between past and present developments. The series follows a structured approach. Activities for cross-curricular connections are provided in the course content to link learning across subject areas. Our attempt is to capture the interest and arouse curiosity to learn how to learn. The series include the interactive pedagogy, learning through experiential tasks and stimulant content. The series gives students plenty of opportunity to contemplate, observe, practise critical thinking, and improve their communication skills. Salient Features of the Series:- The series is learner-centred with a comprehensive approach. Leading the learning from general to specific. Terminology is provided on every chapter. Fascinating Illustrations and Photographs are given. Maps are provided to stay connected to the outside world and find the locations. Varieties of questions are given to assess the learning of the learners. Catering the quest to know more by providing Enrich Your Knowledge. Model test papers are included for the half yearly and yearly exam for practice. Emphasis on education based on art integration and interdisciplinary approach. The content of the Series’ is written in a learner-friendly language. The activities and pedagogy place a strong emphasis on developing 21st century skills. Includes the video lectures topic-wise accessible through QR code Other components of the Series Online Support provides: Chapter-wise Interactive Exercises Chapter-wise Assignments Practice Assignments E-book Video lectures Teacher’s Resource Book includes: Learning objectives of the chapters Solution of Textbook questions Lesson plan We hope this series satisfies the demands and requirements of the curriculum to achieve the learning objectives specified in the curriculum. Although every attempt has been taken to avoid errors, ideas for improvement and constructive criticism will be graciously welcomed and taken into account in a subsequent edition of the book. -Publishers
Book Synopsis A Global History of Architecture by : Francis D. K. Ching
Download or read book A Global History of Architecture written by Francis D. K. Ching and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE NOW FEATURING ADDITIONAL COVERAGE OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE AND MORE SUPERB DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS D.K. CHING! The book that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed, taught, and studied, A Global History of Architecture examines 5,000 years of the built environment. Spanning from 3,500 BCE to the present, and organized along a global timeline, this unique guide was written by experts in their fields who emphasize the connections, contrasts, and influences of architectural movements throughout history and around the world. Fully updated and revised to reflect current scholarship, this Third Edition features expanded chapter introductions that set the stage for a global view, as well as: An expanded section on contemporary global architecture More coverage of non-Western cultures, particularly South Asia, South East Asia Pre-Columbian America, and Africa. New drawings and maps by the iconic Francis D.K. Ching, as well as more stunning photographs An updated companion website with digital learning tools and Google EarthTM mapping service coordinates that make it easier to find sites Art and architecture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in architectural history, will have 5,000 years of the built environment perpetually at their fingertips with A Global History of Architecture, Third Edition.
