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Cover of Vaisnava Iconography in the Tamil Country
by R Champalakshmi
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012

Indian iconography has chiefly been catalogued by historians; it has not been extensively subjected to the analytical scrutiny that is essential to its use as a source of knowledge about our historical past. The present volume is therefore a pioneering study in that it looks at iconography as an index...
Cover of A Narrative of The Siege Of Delhi with an Account of The Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857 [Illustrated Edition]
by Charles John Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016

Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny. A gripping account of the Siege of Delhi which formed one of the focal points of the entire Indian Mutiny. “The ever memorable period in the history of...
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Gujarat Beyond Gandhi

Identity, Society and Conflict

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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the land that produced Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Gujarat has been at the centre-stage of South Asia’s political iconography for more than a century. As Gujarat, created as a separate state in 1960, celebrates its golden jubilee this collection...
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Beyond Shangri-La

America and Tibet's Move into the Twenty-First Century

by John Kenneth Knaus
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012

Beyond Shangri-La chronicles relations between the Tibetans and the United States since 1908, when a Dalai Lama first met with U.S. representatives. What was initially a distant alliance became more intimate and entangled in the late 1950s, when the Tibetan people launched an armed resistance movement...
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The Last Sunset

The Rise & Fall of the Lahore Durbar

by Captain Amarinder Singh
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012

A comprehensive history of the Lahore Durbar, the glorious reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his exemplary organizational skills that led to forming of the formidable Sikh army and the fiercely fought Anglo Sikh wars. The Last Sunset: The Rise and Fall of the Lahore Durbar recreates history of the Sikh...
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The Bhāgavata Purāna

Sacred Text and Living Tradition

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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013

A vibrant example of living literature, the Bhagavata Purana is a versatile Hindu sacred text written in Sanskrit verse. Finding its present form by the tenth century C.E., the work inspired several major north Indian devotional (bhakti) traditions as well as schools of dance and drama, and continues...
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Culture of Encounters

Sanskrit at the Mughal Court

by Audrey Truschke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain...
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Himalayan Passages

Tibetan and Newar Studies in Honor of Hubert Decleer

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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014

Explore new research on the religious and cultural traditions of the Himalayan Buddhist world. Over decades, hundreds of American undergraduates spending a semester abroad have been introduced to Tibetan culture in India, Nepal, and China by Hubert Decleer. A number went on to become prominent...
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Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry

The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond

by Jesse Ross Knutson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014

At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature.  Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted...
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Temple to Love

Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal

by Pika Ghosh
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005

[A]n excellent analytical study of a sensationally beautiful type of temple.... This work is not just art historical but embraces... religious studies, anthropology, history, and literature." —Catherine B. Asher [A]dvances our knowledge of... Bengali temple building practices, the complex...
Cover of Our Little Hindu Cousin
by Blanche McManus
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014

Example in this ebook   Our little cousins of Hindustan are charming little people, even though their manners and customs and their religion are so very different from our own. India is a big country, and there are many different races of people living within its borders,...
Cover of A Widow’s Reminiscences Of The Siege Of Lucknow
by Katherine Mary Bartrum
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014

[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny] Life for Katherine Mary Bartrum must have seemed to have been almost perfect in early 1857, wife of a well-liked and respected medical officer posted just outside Lucknow...
Cover of Letters Written During The Indian Mutiny [Illustrated Edition]
by Field Marshal Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016

Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny Following the publication of 1st Earl Roberts’ account of the Mutiny of the Indian Army, Forty-One Years in India in 1902, and his subsequent death in 1914, a...
Cover of The Panjab, Northwest Frontier Province, and Kashmir
by Sir James Douie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Overview of northwest India, first published in 1901
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