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Author : Unesco
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Islamic Heritage of Bengal written by Unesco and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 1984 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana L. Eck
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307832953
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Banaras written by Diana L. Eck and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sacred city of Banāras on the River Ganges is one of the oldest living cities in the world—as old as Jerusalem, Athens, and Peking. It is the place where Shiva, the Lord of All, is said to have made his permanent home since the dawn of creation. There are few cities in India as traditionally Hindu and as symbolic of the whole of Hindu culture as Banāras. In this eloquent, finely observed study, Diana Eck shows how the city over the centuries has become a lens through which the Hindu vision of the world is precisely focused. She reveals the spiritual and historical resonance of this holy place where great sages such as the Buddha and Shankara were taught, where ashrams, palaces, and universities were built, where God has been imagined and imagined in a thousand ways. She describes the rites of its temples, the busy life of its riverfront, and the exuberance of its festivals. She tells how people travel from all over India to Banāras for the privilege of dying a good death here, for they believe that on the banks of the River Ganges where “the atmosphere of devotion is improbable in its strength,” it is possible to be released from the earthly round forever. In her account of the sacred history, geography, and art of the city, its elaborate and thriving rituals, its myths and literature, and its importance to pilgrims and seekers, Diana Eck uses her wealth of scholarship to make the Hindu tradition come powerfully alive so that we come to understand the meaning of this sacred city to the millions of believers who have been coming here for over 2,500 years.
Author : J. C. Heesterman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226323015
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Broken World of Sacrifice written by J. C. Heesterman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice—the complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion. Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the brahmanas, and the ritual manuals, the srautasutras, Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the fire—the element of destruction—at the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as "self-sacrificer" who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial cult of the fire recedes behind doctrine of the atman's transcendence and unity with the cosmic principle, the brahman. Based on his intensive analysis Heesterman argues that Vedic sacrifice was primarily concerned with the broken world of the warrior and sacrificer. This world, already broken in itself by the violence of the sacrificial contest, was definitively broken up and replaced with the ritrualism of the single, unopposed sacrificer. However, the basic problem of sacrifice—the riddle of life and death—keeps breaking too surface in the form of incongruities, contradictions, tensions, and oppositions that have perplexed both the ancient ritual theorists and the modern scholar.
Author : India. Imperial Record Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Calendar of Persian Correspondence written by India. Imperial Record Department and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilhelm Pertsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Kṣitīśavaṃśāvalīcaritaṃ written by Wilhelm Pertsch and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ranajit Guha
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9780861312894
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)
Download or read book A Rule of Property for Bengal written by Ranajit Guha and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1982 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David McCutchion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691040103
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Brick Temples of Bengal written by David McCutchion and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion, will be forthcoming.
Author : Brian K. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195060546
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Classifying the Universe written by Brian K. Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive examination of the 'varna' system - a classificatory scheme laid out in the classical Hindu Vedic literature and thought to underlie the concept of caste, which continues to exert a powerful and pervasive influence over Indian life.
Author : Shāhnavāz Khān Awrangābādī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Maāt̲h̲ir-ul-umarā written by Shāhnavāz Khān Awrangābādī and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samaren Roy
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595342302
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Calcutta written by Samaren Roy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calcutta, for whose slums and poverty many moan, has been a city swept by various imported ideas and vibrant with indigenous ones. In the process it has evolved into a creative center, especially in the fields of arts, thought, and science. Controversy is what the city has thrived upon, despite its multiplicity of problems. The book deals with some of the controversies and their contribution to contemporary society and culture. "...a very well informed account--highly perceptive--of intellectual trends and related changes in Calcutta." Robert J. Crane Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asia History Syracuse University
Author : Aniruddha Ray
Publisher : Munshiram Manoharlal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Adventurers, Landowners, and Rebels written by Aniruddha Ray and published by Munshiram Manoharlal. This book was released on 1998 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Monograph, Based On Contemporary Documents In English, French, Persian And Bengali Languages, Tries To Trace The Socio-Economic Changes In Bengal In Late Medieval Period And Presents An Alternative Set Of Analyses, In Which The Neglected History Of The Coastal Society Of Bengal Has Been Brought Out From Oblivion. This Monograph Traces The Courses Of Three Revolts In Bengal Between Ad 1575 To 1715 And Attempts To Analyse The Changing Perceptions Of These Revolts In The Nineteenth Century Discourses.
Author : Ramya Sreenivasan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295997850
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)
Download or read book The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen written by Ramya Sreenivasan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical romance in the sixteenth century to nationalist histories in the late nineteenth century. The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen explores how early modern regional elites, caste groups, and mystical and monastic communities shaped their distinctive versions of the past through the repeated refashioning of the legend of Padmini. Ramya Sreenivasan investigates these legends and traces their subsequent appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist intellectuals, for varying different political ends. Using Padmini as a means of illustrating the power of gender norms in constructing heroic memory, she shows how such narratives about virtuous women changed as they circulated across particular communities in South Asia between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book will interest historians of memory, gender, community, culture, and historywriting in South Asia. Illustrating how enduring legends emerged out of particular precolonial repositories of "tradition," the book also addresses the nature of colonial transitions and precolonial historical consciousness.
Author : Romila Thapar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674726510
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Past Before Us written by Romila Thapar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The claim that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways very different from European conventions. Romila Thapar, a distinguished scholar of ancient India, guides us through a panoramic survey of the historical traditions of North India, revealing a deep and sophisticated consciousness of history embedded in the diverse body of classical Indian literature. The history recorded in such texts as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata is less concerned with authenticating persons and events than with presenting a picture of traditions striving to retain legitimacy amid social change. Spanning an epoch from 1000 BCE to 1400 CE, Thapar delineates three strains of historical writing: an Itihasa-Purana tradition of Brahman authors; a tradition composed mainly by Buddhist and Jaina monks and scholars; and a popular bardic tradition. The Vedic corpus, the epics, the Buddhist canon and monastic chronicles, inscriptional evidence, regional accounts, and literary forms such as royal biographies and drama are all scrutinized afresh--not as sources to be mined for factual data but as genres that disclose how Indians of ancient times represented their own past to themselves.
Author : Kumkum Chatterjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199088012
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Cultures of History in Early Modern India written by Kumkum Chatterjee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nature and function of history-writing in India by focusing on early modern traditions of historiography with particular reference to Bengal. Situating distinctive cultures of history vis-à-vis their relevant political and cultural contexts, it highlights the richness, variety and politically sensitive character of a range of oral and textual narratives. Kumkum Chatterjee also makes a significant contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of early modern India by exploring interactions between regional, vernacular cultures on the one hand and the Islamicate, Persianized culture of the Mughal Empire on the other. Strongly grounded in primary sources, The Cultures of History in Early Modern India re-examines the concepts of authority, evidence and method in early modern historiography. It also discusses the debates surrounding the culture of history writing in India.
Author : Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Speeches by Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy and Governor-general of India. 1898-1901 ... written by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bholanauth Chunder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India written by Bholanauth Chunder and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian K. Pennington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198037295
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Was Hinduism Invented? written by Brian K. Pennington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a large body of previously untapped literature, including documents from the Church Missionary Society and Bengali newspapers, Brian Pennington offers a fascinating portrait of the process by which "Hinduism" came into being. He argues against the common idea that the modern construction of religion in colonial India was simply a fabrication of Western Orientalists and missionaries. Rather, he says, it involved the active agency and engagement of Indian authors as well, who interacted, argued, and responded to British authors over key religious issues such as image-worship, sati, tolerance, and conversion.
