Medieval Indian Culture and Political Geography
Author: K. Satyamurthy
Publisher: APH Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9788170244424
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Author: K. Satyamurthy
Publisher: APH Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9788170244424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Diana L Eck
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 0385531915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged. No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, rivers, forests, and villages are elaborately linked to the stories of the gods and heroes of Indian culture. Every place in this vast landscape has its story, and conversely, every story of Hindu myth and legend has its place. Likewise, these places are inextricably tied to one another—not simply in the past, but in the present—through the local, regional, and transregional practices of pilgrimage. India: A Sacred Geography tells the story of the pilgrim’s India. In these pages, Diana Eck takes the reader on an extraordinary spiritual journey through the living landscape of this fascinating country –its mountains, rivers, and seacoasts, its ancient and powerful temples and shrines. Seeking to fully understand the sacred places of pilgrimage from the ground up, with their stories, connections and layers of meaning, she acutely examines Hindu religious ideas and narratives and shows how they have been deeply inscribed in the land itself. Ultimately, Eck shows us that from these networks of pilgrimage places, India’s very sense of region and nation has emerged. This is the astonishing and fascinating picture of a land linked for centuries not by the power of kings and governments, but by the footsteps of pilgrims. India: A Sacred Geography offers a unique perspective on India, both as a complex religious culture and as a nation. Based on her extensive knowledge and her many decades of wide-ranging travel and research, Eck's piercing insights and a sweeping grasp of history ensure that this work will be in demand for many years to come.
Author: Shan Muhammad
Publisher: APH Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9788176482752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raziuddin Aquil
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-09-24
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0199087849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a political history of north India under Afghan rulers in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Focusing on interconnections between religion and politics, it also raises questions of paramount concern to an understanding of Islam in medieval north India. The book is divided into three sections. The first section explores the Afghan attempts at empire-building under the leadership of Sher Shah Sur. Discussing the incorporation of the Rajputs in the Afghan imperial project, the second part deals with the prevalent ideals and institutions of governance. The last segment investigates the social and political role of the Sufis. Questioning the overemphasis on the Sultanate and Mughal periods in Indian history writing, Aquil projects a dynamic view of the Afghan period.
Author: Raj Kumar Pruthi
Publisher: APH Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9788176485814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelates To History And Culture Of Ancient India And Aims To Make Available The Best Sources On The Subject In Proper Historical Perspective. Has 13 Chapters. Also Covers Indus Valley Civilization In 16 Chapters, Has An Appendix, Map And Illustrations.
Author: Amiya K. Samanta
Publisher: APH Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9788176481663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mahmud Syed Jafar
Publisher: APH Publishing
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9788170245865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Irfan Habib
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9788131727911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Whitney Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-27
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1316781054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this compelling new study, Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through the reinterpretation of the contested accession of Kulottunga I (r.1070–1120) as the ruler of the imperial Chola dynasty. By focusing on this complex event and its ramifications over time, Cox traces far-reaching transformations throughout the kingdom and beyond. Through a methodologically innovative combination of history, theory and the close reading of a rich series of Sanskrit and Tamil textual sources, Cox reconstructs the nature of political society in medieval India. A major intervention in the fields of South Asian social, political and cultural history, religion and comparative political thought, this book poses fresh comparative and conceptual questions about politics, history, agency and representation in the pre-modern world.
Author: Matthew Adam Cobb
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1351732447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise of the Islam (c. late fourth century BCE to seventh century CE) saw a significant growth in economic, diplomatic and cultural exchange between various civilisations in Africa, Europe and Asia. This was in large part thanks to the Indian Ocean trade. Peoples living in the Roman Empire, Parthia, India and South East Asia increasingly had access to exotic foreign products, while the lands from which they derived, and the peoples inhabiting these lands, also captured the imagination, finding expression in a number of literary and poetic works. The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity provides a range of chapters that explore the economic, political and cultural impact of this trade on these diverse societies, written by international experts working in the fields of Classics, Archaeology, South Asian studies, Near Eastern studies and Art History. The three major themes of the book are the development of this trade, how consumption and exchange impacted on societal developments, and how the Indian Ocean trade influenced the literary creations of Graeco-Roman and Indian authors. This volume will be of interest not only to academics and students of antiquity, but also to scholars working on later periods of Indian Ocean history who will find this work a valuable resource.