The Vertical Man
The Vertical Man

Author: W.G. Archer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-23

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1000209601

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Originally published in 1947, The Vertical Man explores a form of Indian sculpture largely ignored in other studies, with a focus on two kinds of sculpture from the province of Bihar. The book provides detailed analysis of the formal characteristics of the sculpture and the influences of the myth, ritual, and context in which they were commissioned and made. It explains why the sculpture is regional and "why the styles are what they are". It is an original study which throws light on important subjects such as the relations of art and religion and of art and economics. The Vertical Man will appeal to those with an interest in art, specifically sculpture and the art of the Indian countryside.

Delphi Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn (Illustrated)
Delphi Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn (Illustrated)

Author: Lafcadio Hearn

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2017-08-03

Total Pages: 5131

ISBN-13: 1786560909

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In the Victorian era, Lafcadio Hearn introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. Celebrated for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, as well as writings about the city of New Orleans, Hearn produced a diverse and inimitable range of works. This comprehensive eBook presents Hearn's complete works in English, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hearn's life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All the published books, with individual contents tables * Features many rare story and essay collections available in only this eBook * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the complete short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Hearn's rare Creole works– available in no other collection * Features Bisland's seminal biography - explore Hearn's life and letters * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with three rare works and corrected texts and footnotes CONTENTS: Books on Japanese Subjects Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894) Out of the East (1895) Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896) Gleanings in Buddha-Fields (1897) Exotics and Retrospectives (1898) Japanese Fairy Tales (1898) In Ghostly Japan (1899) Shadowings (1900) Japanese Lyrics (1900) A Japanese Miscellany (1901) Kottō: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs (1902) Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1903) Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904) The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies and Stories (1905) Books on Louisiana Subjects La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes (1885) Gombo Zhèbes: A Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs (1885) Chita: A Memory of Last Island (1889) Creole Sketches (1922) Other Works One of Cleopatra’s Nights and Other Fantastic Romances by Théophile Gautier (1882) Stray Leaves from Strange Literature (1884) Some Chinese Ghosts (1887) Youma: The Story of a West-Indian Slave (1889) Two Years in the French West Indies (1890) Letters from ‘The Raven’ (1907) Leaves from the Diary of an Impressionist (1911) Fantastics and Other Fancies (1914) Pre-Raphaelite and Other Poets (1922) Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn (1922) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Biography The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1906) by Elizabeth Bisland

The Emperor Who Never Was
The Emperor Who Never Was

Author: Supriya Gandhi

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0674243919

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The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history. Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Although the Mughals did not practice primogeniture, Dara, a Sufi who studied Hindu thought, was the presumed heir to the throne and prepared himself to be India’s next ruler. In this exquisite narrative biography, the most comprehensive ever written, Supriya Gandhi draws on archival sources to tell the story of the four brothers—Dara, Shuja, Murad, and Aurangzeb—who with their older sister Jahanara Begum clashed during a war of succession. Emerging victorious, Aurangzeb executed his brothers, jailed his father, and became the sixth and last great Mughal. After Aurangzeb’s reign, the Mughal Empire began to disintegrate. Endless battles with rival rulers depleted the royal coffers, until by the end of the seventeenth century Europeans would start gaining a foothold along the edges of the subcontinent. Historians have long wondered whether the Mughal Empire would have crumbled when it did, allowing European traders to seize control of India, if Dara Shukoh had ascended the throne. To many in South Asia, Aurangzeb is the scholastic bigot who imposed a strict form of Islam and alienated his non-Muslim subjects. Dara, by contrast, is mythologized as a poet and mystic. Gandhi’s nuanced biography gives us a more complex and revealing portrait of this Mughal prince than we have ever had.

A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings-1850
A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings-1850

Author: Sujit Mukherjee

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9788125014539

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This Volume Aspires To Be A Handy Reference Work For Users Whose Interest Is Not Limited To One Or Two Indian Language Literatures But Spreads Over Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali And The Prakrit As Well As To Asimiya, Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sindhi, Telugu And Urdu. Starting With The Vedas And The Upanishads, The Coverage Spans Several Centuries Up To The Year 1850.