India category: 2353 books
by Rosy Ferrante
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Pensare all'India come meta di viaggio è sempre una sfida con se stessi, un piacevole mettersi alla prova, come persone e come viaggiatori. Tante sono le aspettative, quanti sono i luoghi comuni e gli stereotipi che si raccontano su questo paese; la cosa migliore è liberarsi di tutte queste trappole...
Verso la cuna del mondo
lettere dall'India
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 13, 2016
«L’Oriente è pieno di città che furono. Ma risalgono a millenni, nella notte delle origini buddiche e bramine, ce le fa indifferenti l’abisso del tempo, della razza, della fede. La nostra malinconia ritrova invece a Goa lo spettro di cose nostre: conventi, palazzi, chiese del Cinquecento e...
by Antonio Franchini
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 28, 2016
"Signore delle lacrime" è uno degli appellativi di Śiva, la potente divinità che con Brahmā e Viṣṇu forma il pantheon induista. Brahmā è il creatore dell'universo, Viṣṇu è il suo conservatore, Śiva ne è il distruttore. Brahmā è poco più di un principio primo, mentre le...
Bombay Smiles
The Trip that Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
"Sanllorente's story, reminiscent of Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea, is remarkable and uplifting."—Booklist
In 2003, Jaume Sanllorente was a young journalist leading an active and exciting life in Barcelona—no more idealistic than any other young professional. Then a...
Ganges
The Many Pasts of an Indian River
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world’s third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora
Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India’s most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian...
Eloquent Spaces
Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It presents a new perspective on the principles and practices of early Indian architecture.
Defining it broadly over a range of space uses, the book argues for architecture...
by David Hardiman
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Much of the recent surge in writing about the practice of nonviolent forms of resistance has focused on movements that occurred after the end of the Second World War, many of which have been extremely successful. Although the fact that such a method of resistance was developed in its modern form by...
Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia
Essays in Memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
This volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919–2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India. It also includes two interviews with Ramkrishna Mukherjee by senior sociologists. The essays cover a variety of themes and topics...
Cronache indiane
Storie, incontri, interviste
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 17, 2018
L'Occidente si trova da sempre in difficoltà quando cerca di leggere e decifrare la relatà dell'India. Per secoli, l'approccio orientalista ha posto esclusivamente l'accento sulla sua spiritualità e sulla sua cultura millenaria. Oggi la si analizza prendendo in considerazione il solo tasso di crescita...
by DK Eyewitness
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
An unbeatable, pocket-sized guide to Mumbai, packed with insider tips and ideas, color maps, and top 10 lists - all designed to help you see the very best of Mumbai.
Visit impressive museums such as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, take in the architectural highlights of...
The Subhedar's Son
A Narrative of Brahmin-Christian Conversion from Nineteenth-century Maharashtra
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
The 19th century was a pioneering age for vernacular texts in India. Vernacular writings became popular for making the 'first' interventions of their kind, written by Indians for Indians, and establishing new genres such as the biographical novel. The Subhedar's Son, an award-winning Marathi novel,...
by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Tra il 1789 e il 1880, in compagnia di alcuni amici americani, Helena Blavatsky, fondatrice e massima teorica della Società Teosofica, compie un lungo viaggio in India, da cui ricava una grande quantità di appunti che sono all'origine di questo volume e di un altro (Un'isola di mistero). L'India...
by C.N.Jayalakshmidevi
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Raja Rammohun Roy has come to be called the 'Maker of Modern India. Without giving up what was good and noble in the past, he laid the foundations for a great future. He put an end to the horrible custom of burning the living wife with the dead husband. He was a great scholar and an independent thinker....
Gandhi the Man
How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
This is the story of Gandhi’s spiritual evolution – the turning points and choices that made him not just a great political leader but also a timeless icon of nonviolence.
Eknath Easwaran grew up in India and witnessed how Gandhi inspired people of all races, backgrounds, and religions...