Author: James FergussonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cave temples
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Archaeology in India, with Especial Reference to the Works of Babu Rajendralala Mitra
Author: James FergussonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cave temples
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Archaeology in India, with Especial Reference to the Works of Babu Rajendralala Mitra
Author: James FergussonArchaeology in India with Especial Reference to the Works of Babu Rajendralala Mitra
Author: Archaeology in India: with Especial Reference to the Works of Babu Rajendralala Mitra
Author: Fergusson JamesArchaeology in India
Author: James FergussonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331631609
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Excerpt from Archaeology in India: With Especial Reference to the Works of Babu Rajendralala Mitra Although the study of Indian Archaeology may to most people appear a very insignificant and trivia] affair, to me it happens to have been far otherwise. Though I will not say it has been the most important business of my life, it certainly has been its most important recreation, and I have derived from it more enjoyment than from perhaps any other source. I began the study some fifty years ago, at the time when the genius of Prinsep was te-creating, and breathing fresh life into the chaotic mass of idle fables, which, before his time, represented the history and doctrines of Buddhism. The chronology of the sect and the biography of its founder were then daily assuming shape and becoming clearer; but little had been done to ascertain what their architecture had been, or to discriminate what really belonged respectively to Buddhism, to the Jains or to the Hindus, still less had the origin of these various forms been traced, or how they arose, and what their influence was on each other. What little had been attempted, was of the haziest and most tentative character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
An Intellectual History for India
Author: Shruti KapilaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521199751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This volume addresses the power of ideas in the making of Indian political modernity. As an intermediate history of connections between South Asia and the global arena the volume raises new issues in intellectual history. It reviews the period from the emergence of constitutional liberalism in the1830s, through the swadeshi era to the writings of Tilak, Azad and Gandhi in the twentieth century. While several contributions reflect on the ideologies of nationalism, the volume seeks to rescue intellectual history from being simply a narration of the nation-state. It does not seek to create a 'canon' of political thought so much as to show how Indian concepts of state and society were redrawn in the context of emergent globalized debates about freedom, the constitution of the self and the good society in the late colonial era. In so doing the contributions here resituate an Indian intellectual history that has long been eclipsed by social and political history. These essays were originally published in a Special issue of the journal Modern Intellectual History (CUP, April 2007).
The Idea of Ancient India
Author: Upinder SinghPublisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9357082425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
How can the complexities of ancient India be comprehended? This book draws on a vast array of texts, inscriptions, archaeology, archival sources and art to delve into themes such as the history of regions and religions, archaeologists and the modern histories of ancient sites, the interface between political ideas and practice, violence and resistance, and the interactions between the Indian subcontinent and the wider world. It highlights recent approaches and challenges in reconstructing South Asia's early history, and in doing so, brings out the exciting complexities of ancient India. Authoritative and incisive, this revised Penguin edition-with two new chapters-is essential reading for students and scholars of ancient Indian history and for all those interested in India's past.
The Classics and Colonial India
Author: Phiroze VasuniaPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199203237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the minds of the British colonizers, and highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity.
No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying
Author: Saloni MathurPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351556231
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in the present, as it reflects the fissured identities of the post-colonial period.
Ruling Devotion
Author: Deborah SuttonPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438499221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
From 1800 onwards, the Hindu temple occupied a fragile and uneasy proximity to Imperial governance in India. The colonial state sought to regulate and extract the wealth of large temples. Imperial scholars classified the extraordinary diversity of architectural forms from across India, and selected temples were defined as monuments and brought into the custody of Imperial archaeology. Over time, the Imperial literary imagination transformed the Hindu temple from a place of worship and devotion into a space of wealth, sensuality, and violence. However, the Hindu temple also tested the Imperial state. Devotees and trustees manipulated and rejected attempts at governance, and the Hindu temple became a site at which the authority of the state was persistently modified or curtailed. Ruling Devotion combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the temple in particular localities, through the formation of pan-British-Indian policy and in the broadest of transnational realms of Imperial culture. Drawing on a huge range and diversity of archival materials, the book explores the preoccupations and frailties of the colonial state in India.