India category: 2353 books
by R.W. Frazer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
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by William Tayler
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]
A fascinating insight into the events in the city of Patna, the capital of the state of Bihar, during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
“William Tayler (1808-1892) was a...
Chasing the Mountain of Light
Across India on the Trail of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The Koh-i-Noor diamond known as the Mountain of Light, the world's largest diamond, was found in India, traveled from Golconda to the Mughal palaces in the north. Fought over, cursed at and occasionally lost, it finally reached the Sikhs in the Punjab, only to be seized by British agents eager to...
by Sidney Owen
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
Along the Path
The Meditator's Companion to Pilgrimage in the Buddha's India and Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Full of practical and inspiring information for meditators who plan to visit the sacred sites where the Buddha lived and taught in India and Nepal, this unique guidebook provides a rich anthology of stories relating to each of the sites, as well as helpful maps, creative artwork, and spiritual...
Punjab Reconsidered
History, Culture, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
What is Punjabiyat? What are the different notions of Punjab? This volume analyses these ideas and explores the different aspects that constitute Punjab as a region conceptually in history, culture, and practice. Each essay examines a different Punjabi culture—language-based and literary; religious...
by Asghar Ali Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
The present book offers the researches of some of these enterprisingscholars. All the major religions in south Asia , namely hinduism ,Islam ,Buddhism and Christianity have been covered here.
Best Foot Forward
A Pilgrim's Guide to the Sacred Sites of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A pithy guidebook for Buddhist pilgrims to the four holy sites of India.
“The aim of all Buddhist practice is to catch a glimpse of the awakened state. Going on pilgrimage, soaking up the sacred atmosphere of holy places, and mingling with other pilgrims are simply different ways of trying...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi took pride in calling himself a Sanatani Hindu. He lived by what he professed. Indeed, he spiritualized his entire political existence and his very opinion, world view and discourse was weighted with morality and ethics born of Hindu Dharma.
This timely compilation of Mahatma...
by Zenaide A. Ragozin
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
The Demands of Recognition
State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity,...
by Vincent A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
Liberalization's Children
Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Liberalization’s Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a contrast between “midnight’s children,” who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian developmentalism, and “liberalization’s...
Locating the Medical
Explorations in South Asian History
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the ‘medical’, in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first...