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The first-ever extensive biography of Tibet's most famous nonsectarian Buddhist lama Known as the “king of renunciates,” Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye (1813–1899) forever changed the face of Buddhism through collecting, arranging, and disseminating the various lineage traditions of Tibet...

This volume contains wide-ranging surveys of various aspects of the history of Awadh from its position as a province of the Mughal Empire to a successor state, a semi-colony under the Nawabi regime, the British annexation and the resistance in 1857. The study explores the manner of Mughal administration,...

The Indian Musalmans by Sir William Wilson Hunter Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE (15 July 1840 – 6 February 1900)[1] was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service. He is most known for The Imperial Gazetteer of India on which he started working...

Before the passage of the Hindu Widow's Re-marriage Act of 1856, Hindu tradition required a woman to live as a virtual outcast after her husband's death. Widows were expected to shave their heads, discard their jewelry, live in seclusion, and undergo regular acts of penance. Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar...

Who can you love? What do you owe to love and what to the world at large? Such are the questions that drive the story of Ramu, a Brahmin man, and Ponni, a woman of the Dalit “untouchable” caste. Set against the backdrop of twentieth-century South India, the novel takes readers from the...

Siddhartha Gautama, il Buddha, il Risvegliato: è lui il protagonista del viaggio di Carlo Buldrini, mentre le «Quattro grandi meraviglie» – Lumbini, Bodh Gaya, Sarnath e Kushinagar, i luoghi chiave della vita del Buddha che lui stesso suggerì di visitare –, scandiscono il racconto oltreché...

For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic and religious future. Yet there has been little in the way of systematic examinations of the evidence on marriage customs among Buddhists of this time, and...

This book is part of a series of books aimed at disseminating the accurate history of India drawn from the primary sources. History writing, especially about the medieval Muslim rule has been fraught with political correctness, controversy, and in several cases, downright falsification. This has occurred...

Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes. Gupta considers decolonization through the twined lenses...

A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by the Portugueses India officer, Duarte Barbosa.This book is one of the travel literature.He died in 1521 at the feast of rajah Humabon on Cebu Island in the Philippines.

Il 12 marzo 1930 Gandhi partì insieme a settantanove studenti del suo ashram di Sabarmati per raggiungere la costa ed estrarre qualche grammo di sale dall'acqua marina, in aperta violazione delle leggi sul monopolio imposte dall'Inghilterra. Un atto di disubbidienza civile che coinvolse moltissimi...

Of Colonial Bungalows and Piano Lessons can be read as a metaphor — as an icon — of the encounter between cultures. The memoir is based on Monica Chanda’s recollections between about 1913 and 1927, of life in Calcutta, districts of undivided Bengal, holidays in Kashmir and in Europe. There is...

This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World. Long-distance trade across the region was facilitated by a highly complex multi-currency system undergirded by shared ideas that transcended ethno-linguistic, religious and class divisions. Currencies also occupied...

La nuovissima edizione della prestigiosa Guida Touring dedicata all' India fa parte della collana Guide Verdi, un contenitore aperto a 360 gradi sul modo di viaggiare contemporaneo nel quale trovi di tutto: i consigli Touring, le info per la visita, vita-cultura-società, natura-escursioni-turismo...