History & Culture

Over the centuries there has been a significant fusion of cultures in India. Indian history is a rich mosaic of people and traditions. The political history of this land has been an unending saga of the rise and fall of different empires. The books under this category cast light upon the books to showcase the forgotten culture and history of India. Few books under this category are Education and Social Changes in Bihar, Essays on Vedic and Indo-European CultureKingship in Northern IndiaThe Mauryan Polity, and Studies in Mughal History.

  • Aadhunik Bharat ka Aarthik Itihas

    Aadhunik Bharat ka Aarthik Itihas

    Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is a well-known historian of the country, whose main area of ​​study has been colonial India. His book The Financial Basis of the British Raj is one of the most talked about and acclaimed books! Prof. Bhattacharya has presented the outline of the economic development of colonial India in the Economic History of Modern India. Prof. Bhattacharya has raised several fundamental questions while assessing the various ET:Ashreekh ideologies within the boundaries of this century and has dealt with those questions in detail in subsequent chapters! He has looked at the question of how India’s economic colonization took place from different angles and in this context has put forward the good or bad consequences of the various policies of the British Government, as well as the policies as a whole and the character of the imperialist nation. Tried to understand it simply. It is noteworthy that Prof. Bhattacharya has specially outlined the character of colonial exploitation and electrified economic development. Rameshchandra Dutt and Rajnipam Dutt’s books on the economic development of modern India were published much earlier, but the present book differs from their books in the sense that it makes full use of the latest research done on this subject and material available from the archives. ! This material was not available at the time of writing of the above mentioned books!

    145.00
  • Paryatan-Siddhaant Aur Prabandhan Tatha Bharat Mein Paryatan

    Paryatan-Siddhaant Aur Prabandhan Tatha Bharat Mein Paryatan is authored by Shivaswaroop Sahay. The book discusses about the tourism in India and various initiatives taken by the government of India from the time of independence to boost tourism. And various policies framed to attract international tourists and to make India a credible tourist destination.

    160.00
  • Roopmandan: Sanskrit – Hindi

    Roopmandan

    This 21st century book on the subject of the solar return horoscope is devoted to practical astrology, developed by Yavancharya, a persian astrologer. The information contained in this book is of immense use to the students and aspirents enabling them to make swifter progress in their decisions. in short this book is unique in itself as it contains the so far unfolded Secrets of the Solar Revolutions.

    195.00
  • Bharatiya Sthapatya Evam Kala: Art and Architecture of Ancient India

    Bharatiya Sthapatya Evam Kala: Art and Architecture of Ancient India

    The book describes about the rich art and architecture of ancient India. The Indus Valley Civilization, the Rise of Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism, the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, and India’s colonial history are all reflected in the architecture and sculptures. Each of these periods in Indian history contributed to the current diversity of Indian architecture and sculpture.

    245.00
  • Stories from Inscriptions : Hindu inscriptions

    Hindu inscriptions are actually Government records. Therefore, they provide us authentic and detailed information about historical events and people that they record. A single inscription often contains valuable information related to events occurring in different periods. In fact, some inscriptions are so profound that merit a serious study for its own sake.

    Hindu inscriptions also exhibit a powerful element of civilisational and cultural
    continuity and reveal the fundamental unity of India cutting across kingdoms and geographies within this sacred land.

    However, it is astounding to note that till date, there are any number of Indian history scholars who parrot the colonial British falsehood that Hindus have no sense of history. Our inscriptional wealth is perhaps the most glaring proof to the contrary.

    249.00299.00
  • History of Western Tibet: One of the Unknown Empires

    History of Western Tibet: One of the Unknown Empires

    A History of Western Tibet is based on foreign and western Tibetan sources

    of information. The western Tibetan sources of information are records on

    stones and on paper. Records on stones cover the period 200 B.C. to 1900

    A.D. Records on paper are the chronicles of the Kings of Leh. Though these

    are edited ones, much remains to be done.

    The readers will find A History of Western Tibet interesting which is the

    outcome of scholarly enterprise and research as much as of familiarity with

    the country and the people.

    The book is profusely illustrated, and illustrations and maps vis-a-vis the

    text make the readers move apace with the different phases of the history

    of the Western Tibet.

    250.00
  • The Veda and Indian Culture: An Introductory Essay

    The veda and Indian culture

    The author has presented the quintessence of the Vedic message in a few brief chapters, and the language is deliberately non-technical. There is a growing thirst among young people who want to be introduced to the secret of the Veda and to understand how various developments of Indian culture are rooted in the Veda.

    275.00
  • Who Really Killed Gandhi

    Highly intense page by page explosive research on the mystery behind Gandhi’s death. Is now available at just 249/-

    286.35
  • Abhilekh Nikara

    Abhilekh Nikara

    Consciousness is the most intimate experience of life the essence of life itself. among the many spiritual traditions born and developed in India one ancient philosophy-Kashmir Shaivism-has explored it completely.

    295.00

    Abhilekh Nikara

    295.00
  • An Introduction to the Study of Society

    The present book is an attempt to analyse social concepts and trace their origin and development, with particular reference to man as a member of his family, caste-group, social institutions and organizations. In presenting this analysis the author has followed the latest method of philosophers who interpret philosophy by the help of history, including the study of society through all stages of its growth. The study fully documented with the critical apparatus–general index and foot nootes–is designed to meet a long-felt need of the reader including the serious students of the subject at the Honours and post-graduate levels.

    300.00
  • Recent Research on Ladakh 6: Proceedings of the sixth International Colloquium on Ladakh Leh 1993

    Ladkh

    ladakh is known for tradition, values and cultures. The living Buddhist culture that you find in Ladakh is extraction from Tibet but itself is orginated in India

    300.00
  • Spiritual Consciousness

    Spiritual Consciousness

    This  book brings together research papers, essays, narratives and perspectives, both Indian and global, on the religion of Saints or Sant Mat, particularly the Radhasoami Faith.

    350.00
  • Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual and Exchange among Nepal’s Tamang

    Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual and Exchange among Nepal’s Tamang

    The study illuminates the diversity of types of sacrifice the study illuminates the diversity of types of sacrifice the interplay of spoken and written ritual languages and the paradox of exchange that differentiates while promising to unify

    350.00
  • Harsha: Calcutta University Readership Lectures 1925

    There are very few among the Rulers of India whose history is so rich in both contents and materials as the history of Harsha. His early life and career form the subject-matter of the Harsa-charita of Banabhatta, who wrote on Harsha as his court poet from his personal and intimate knowledge of his life and rule, and has given to Sanskrit literature one of its very few biographical works. The India of Harsha is also described by another eye-witness, the famous Chinese pilgrim, Yuan Chwang, to whose account reads like a Gazetteer in the scope of its inquiry and its wealth of details. To add to these two unique sources, we have several inscriptions of Harsha himself, a few of his great contemporary, Pulakeshin II of the Deccan, and the larger body of inscriptions of the Gupta and later kings of northern India, which together throw considerable light on the history of Harsa, especially on the interesting but imperfectly explored topic of the administrative system developed in that glorious age for the successful governance of extensive empires. The book embodies a course of readership lectures delivered by the late author in Calcutta University.

    About the Author(s)

    Radha Kumud Mookerji (1884-1964), was an Indian historian and a noted Indian nationalist during the period of British colonial rule. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Calcutta in 1905 and joined the newly established National Council of Education, teaching at the Bengal National College. After 1915, he embarked on a series of tenures at universities in Benares, Mysore, and Lucknow. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1957 for his contribution to Public Affairs. Some of his published books include Indian Shipping: A History of Seaborne Trade and Maritime Activity of the Indians from the Earliest Times (1912), Ancient Indian Education: Brahmanical and Buddhist (1947), reprinted by Motilal Banarsidass (1960), Men and Thought in Ancient India (1912), reprinted by Motilal Banarsidass (1996), The Fundamental Unity of India, A History of India, Chandragupta Maurya and His Times, and Early History of Kausambi.

    395.00
  • Asoka

    Asoka

    The book explains the life of king Asoka, who is  considered as one of the greatest emperors of India. Asoka, after the war of Kalinga, was upset with the bloodshed and vowed to never again wage a war of conquest. He patronised Buddhism during his reign.

    395.00

    Asoka

    395.00
  • Ancient India's Imprints and Influences on the World

    Ancient India’s Imprints and Influences on the World

    • ISBN Hardcover: 9789391024949, 9391024947
    • ISBN Paperback: 9789391024475, 9391024475
    • Year of Publication: 1994
    • Edition: 1st Edition
    • No. of Pages: 140
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House

    395.00695.00
  • Voices of the Indian Diaspora

    Voices of the Indian Diaspora

    Voices of the Indian Diaspora is a contemporary effort at understanding overseas Indians. It is honest, compelling, thought provoking and substantial. Mulloo’s understanding of and love for India’s great civilizational heritage is the recurrent theme of this book.

    445.00
  • Praacheen Bhaarat

    This book is based on the latest researchers and it contains all about the political and cultural history of ancient India. It is useful for both Competitive and University level examinations.

    445.00
  • Education and Social Changes in Bihar

    It is for the first time that a complete critical edition of the Satapathabrahmana of the Kanva School of the Sukla Yajurveda alongwith its English translation is published. This edition has taken into account the readings available in a few more manuscripts, besides those in the published edition in Telugu script, which were not available to Prof. Caland who brought out a critical edition of its first seven Kandas. It is also the first attempt at providing a complete English translation. No doubt the texts of the Satapatha of the Madhyandina and Kanva School do not differ much from Kandas VIII to XVI and Prof.

    495.00
  • Kingship in Northern India

    The present work relates to the political organization in Northern India during the period from 600 A.D. to 1200 A.D. It describes, in detail, how several Kingdoms emerged and how their rulers claimed divinity, possessed absolute powers over their subjects. The author discusses the culminative effects of the separatist tendencies of the monarchs on Indian Polity whichultimately resulted in their weak resistance to the Muslim invaders from the North-West. The work is based on literary, epigraphic and foreign accounts. It is critical, informative and intelligible. The reader would find it interesting as well as instructive.

    495.00

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