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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 Culture, Kingship in Northern India, The Mauryan Polity, and Studies in Mughal History.
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Worshiping Siva in Medieval India: Ritual in an Oscillating Universe
Saiva liturgy is performed in a world that oscillates: a world permeated by the presence of Siva, where humans live in a condition of bondage and where the highest aim of the soul is to attain liberation from its fetters. In this account of Indian temple ritual, Richard Davis uses medieval Hindu texts to describe the world as it is envisioned by Saiva siddhanta and the way daily worship reflects that world and acts within it.
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The Bharadvajas in Ancient India
The book comprises two parts part I deals with the socio-historical aspects of family of the Vedic Seer Bharadvaja and Part II discusses the significant contribution the family has made to the various fields of Indian culture.
Part I is divided into five chapters each comprising more than one section. The first chapter considers the textual evidences of the Vedic Samhitas the Brahmanas the Upanisads and the Ramayana in regard to the Bharadvajas. the second chapter traces the birth and parentage of Bharadvaja the progenitor and his relation with the gods, seers, kings and other persons.
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Resistance and Reform in Tibet
Tibet exerts a powerful fascination far beyond its borders; remoteness and the deeply pervasive character ot Tibetan Buddhism have provided the setting for countless works of romace adventure and fantasy. Resistance and Reform in Tibet reveals the emergence of a distinctive, modern Tibetan society and the sophistication, creativity and resourcefulness of its people’s responses to Chinese domination. Tibet today is neither a socialist idyll nor a regimented gulag but a rich mixture of traditonal and innovative strategies in an ancient nation’s struggle for survival.
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Maharana Raj Singh and His Times
Maharana Raj Singh became the ruler of Mewar at a very critical juncture in its history. As soon as the ascended the throne, Shah Jahan sent the largest Mughal force that had ever ventured into Mewar. Then followed the last sack of Chitor. Raj Singh however soon had his revenge. When Aurangzed rebelled against his father he sought Raj Singh’s support and offered ot restore what Raj Singh had lost earlier. The Maharana spun out the negotiations till Aurangzeb had finally defeated his father.
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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.
₹495.00Kingship in Northern India
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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.
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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.
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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.
₹445.00Voices of the Indian Diaspora
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
₹350.00Spiritual Consciousness
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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
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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.
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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.
₹295.00Abhilekh Nikara
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Who Really Killed Gandhi
Highly intense page by page explosive research on the mystery behind Gandhi’s death. Is now available at just 249/-
₹286.35Who Really Killed Gandhi
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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