Multiple Preverbs in Ancient Indo-European Languages
Multiple Preverbs in Ancient Indo-European Languages

Author: Chiara Zanchi

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2019-08-26

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 3823392743

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The book investigates multiple preverbs (PVs) in some ancient IE languages (Vedic, Homeric Greek, Old Church Slavic, and Old Irish). After an introduction, it opens with the theoretical framework and a typologically-oriented overview of PVs. It then gives quantitative data about multiple PV composites and carries out philological, formal, semantic, and syntactic analyses on them. The comparison among these languages suggests that a process of accumulation lies behind multiple PV composites. Also, PV ordering is explained by different factors: semantic solidarity between PVs and verbs PVs tendency to be specified by event participants, PVs etymologies, influence from other languages. The book also contributes to casting light on the reasons for PVs grammaticalization and lexicalization. These are two distinct reanalyses triggered by the same factor, i.e. the mentioned semantic solidarity, which makes PVs be felt as redundant. They are thus reassigned salient pieces of information as actional markers (grammaticalization) or reinterpreted as part of the verb (lexicalization).

Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927
Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927

Author: Swarupa Gupta

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9004349766

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In Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927, Swarupa Gupta outlines a fresh paradigm moving beyond stereotypical representations of eastern India as a site of ethnic fragmentation. The book traces unities by exploring intersections between (1) cultural constellations; (2) place-making and (3) ethnicity. Centralising place-making, it tells the story of how people made places, mediating caste / religious / linguistic contestations. It offers new meanings of ‘region’ in Eastern Indian and global contexts by showing how an interregional arena comprising Bengal, Assam and Orissa was forged. Using historical tracts, novels, poetry and travelogues, the book argues that commonalities in Eastern India were linked to imaginings of Indian nationhood. The analysis contains interpretive strategies for mediating federalist separatisms and fragmentation in contemporary India.

Tantric Visual Culture
Tantric Visual Culture

Author: Sthaneshwar Timalsina

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-11-19

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1317606337

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Indian culture relies greatly on visual expression, and this book uses both classical Indian and contemporary Western philosophies and current studies on cognitive sciences, and applies them to contextualize Tantric visual culture. The work selects aspects of Tantric language and the practice of visualization, with the central premise to engage cognitive theories while studying images. It utilizes the contemporary theories of metaphor and cognitive blend, the theory of metonymy, and a holographic theory of epistemology with a focus on concept formation and its application to the study of myths and images. In addition, it applies the classical aesthetic theory of rasa to unravel the meaning of opaque images. This philosophical and cognitive analysis allows materials from Indian culture to be understood in a new light, while engaging contemporary theories of cognitive science and semantics. The book demonstrates how the domains of meaning and philosophy can be addressed within any culture without reducing their intrinsic cultural significance. By addressing these key aspects of Tantric traditions through this approach, this book initiates a much-needed dialogue between Indian and Western theories, while encouraging introspection within the Indic traditions themselves. It will be of interest to those studying and researching Religion, Philosophy and South Asian Culture.

Language of the Snakes
Language of the Snakes

Author: Andrew Ollett

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0520968816

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.

Notions of Nationhood in Bengal
Notions of Nationhood in Bengal

Author: Swarupa Gupta

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 9004176144

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This book reopens the debate on colonial nationalisms, going beyond derivative , borrowed , political and modernist paradigms. It introduces the conceptual category of samaj to demonstrate how indigenous socio-cultural origins in Bengal interacted with late-colonial discourses to produce the notion of a nation. Samaj (a historical society and an idea-in-practice) was a site for reconfiguring antecedents and negotiating fragmentation. Drawing on indigenous sources, this study shows how caste, class, ethnicity, region and community were refracted to conceptualise wider unities. The mapping of cultural continuities through change facilitates a more nuanced investigation of the ontology of nationhood, seeing it as related to, but more than political nationalism. It outlines a fresh paradigm for recalibrating postcolonial identities, offering interpretive strategies to mediate fragmentation.

Connected Places
Connected Places

Author: A. Feldhaus

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-12-18

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1403981345

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This book examines the words and actions of people who live in regions in the state of Maharashtra in Western India to illustrate the idea that regions are not only created by humans, but given meaning through religious practices. By exploring the people living in the area of Maharashtra, Feldhaus draws some very interesting conclusions about how people differentiate one region from others, and how we use stories, rituals, and ceremonies to recreate their importance. Feldhaus discovers that religious meanings attached to regions do not necessarily have a political teleology. According to Feldhaus, 'There is also a chance, even now, that religious imagery can enrich the lives of individuals and small communities without engendering bloodshed and hatred'.

The Lost Land of Lemuria
The Lost Land of Lemuria

Author: Sumathi Ramaswamy

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004-09-27

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0520240324

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This is a fascinating study of Lemuria--a mythical continent which was once believed to bridge the land masses of India and Africa millennia ago before ultimately sinking into the Indian sea.

Discoveries, Missionary Expansion, and Asian Cultures
Discoveries, Missionary Expansion, and Asian Cultures

Author: Teotonio R. De Souza

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9788170224976

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The Papers In This Volume, Presented At A Seminar Organised By Xavier Centre Of Historical Research, Goa, Analyse The Quantum Change In The Conditions Of Survival For The World`Discovered` By Europe And Subsequently Colonised By It.

Hindu Colonies in the Far East
Hindu Colonies in the Far East

Author: R C Majumdar

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781014034779

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