Author: Rahul Sankrityayan
Publisher: Leftword Books
ISBN: 9788194077817
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Victor Kierman
Publisher: Pilgrims Book House
ISBN: 9788177693096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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A raging fire erupts into the dark. cold forest twilight; a group of naked dancers -offer a sacrificial token to the fire, to their fire god Agni. The high priestess, the matriarch of the clan leads the ritualistic ceremony. But is this in Mexico, Central Asia or India? Set out in a series of short stories, this fascinating book relies on both fact and fiction for its inspiration. Each story defines a moment in the history of the Aryan tribes as they moved inexorably from Eastern Europe to India.-. over the course of thousands of years.Interwoven within the stories are the defining events of their history, the migration east, the coming of the Vedic scriptures and Buddha, the rise of Islam and the Moghuls, and finally the coming of the colonial powers, the passive movement of Gandhi and Communism. From Volga to Ganga is a remarkable work, it serves to bring history to life through its realistic short stories. It seeks to involve the reader in one of the greatest human migrations in history.

Author: Rahul Sankrityayan
Publisher: Abhishek Publications
ISBN: 9356522715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Volga Se Ganga is a 1943 collection of 20 historical fiction short-stories by scholar and travel writer Rahul Sankrityayan. A true vagabond, Sankrityayan traveled to far lands like Russia, Korea, Japan, China and many others, where he mastered the languages of these lands and was anauthority on cultural studies.

Author: Janet M. Hartley
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga--the first to fully reveal its vital place in Russian history The longest river in Europe, the Volga stretches over three and a half thousand km from the heart of Russia to the Caspian Sea, separating west from east. The river has played a crucial role in the history of the peoples who are now a part of the Russian Federation--and has united and divided the land through which it flows. Janet Hartley explores the history of Russia through the Volga from the seventh century to the present day. She looks at it as an artery for trade and as a testing ground for the Russian Empire's control of the borderlands, at how it featured in Russian literature and art, and how it was crucial for the outcome of the Second World War at Stalingrad. This vibrant account unearths what life on the river was really like, telling the story of its diverse people and its vital place in Russian history.

Author: Anthony Pagden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199237433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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A history of the conflict between East and West, from the struggles between the Greeks and the Persians in classical antiquity, through the wars between Islam and Christendom in the Crusades, to the modern clash of European Enlightenment and then colonialism with the Islamic societies of the East, culminating in the continuing tensions of the twenty-first century.

Author: Rāhula Sāṅkr̥tyāyana
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789351136446
Category : Historical fiction, Hindi
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Mike Upton
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491877448
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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Once again Sir Mark Watson, businessman and womanizer, is the primary character of this latest novel and the fourth in the series featuring him and his complex business and private life as he embarks on yet another major change of career direction, replacing the responsibilities of being chairman of several businesses, with the challenge of buying a number of companies that he will personally own. Wheeling and dealing to make the acquisitions in spite of many pitfalls and challenges, he gradually begins to acquire a diverse range of companies while, at the same time, managing his convoluted love life, with affairs aplenty, as well as dealing with a personal health issue. But following his divorce and now having passed sixty, he is becoming disenchanted with his convoluted single lifestyle and yearns for the comfort and satisfaction of married life again.

Author: Mahāśvetā Debī
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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This charming, expansive novel set in the sixteenth-century medieval Bengal draws on the life of the great medieval poet Kabikankan Mukundaram Chakrabarti, whose epic poem Abhayamangal, better known as Chandimangal, records the socio-political history of the time. In the section of this epic called Byadhkhanda the Book of the Hunter he describes the lives of hunter tribes, the Shabars, who lived in the forest and its environs. Mahasweta Devi explores the cultural values of the Shabars and how they cope with the slow erosion of their way of life as more and more forest land gets cleared to make way for settlements. She uses the lives of two couples, the brahaman Mukundaram and his wife, and the young Shabars, Phuli and Kalya, to capture the contrasting socio-cultural norms of rural society of the time. Mahasweta Devi acknowledges her debt to Mukundaram, who wrote about men and women, gods and goddesses. The hunter tribes refusal to cultivate and settle down, as described by him, is true of surviving forest tribes today. The villages and rivers mentioned by him still exist. Mahasweta Devi is one of India s foremost writers. Her powerful fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi (1979), Jnanpith (1996) and Ramon Magsaysay (1996) awards, the title of Officier del Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres (2003) and the Nonino Prize (2005) amongst several other literary honours. She was also awarded the Padmasree in 1986, for her activist work among dispossessed tribal communities. Sagaree Sengupta is translator based in the USA. She translates from Bengali, Hindi and Urdu. She has collaborated on this translation with her mother, Mandira Sengupta, an artist who maintains an active interest in her native Bengali. The two of them earlier translated The Queen of Jhansi in this series.

Author: Pranab Kumar Parua
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048131030
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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From time immemorial the Bengal Delta had been an important maritime des- nation for traders from all parts of the world. The actual location of the port of call varied from time to time in line with the natural hydrographic changes. From the early decades of the second millennium AD, traders from the European con- nent also joined the traders from the Arab countries, who had been the Forerunners in maritime trading with India. Daring traders and fortune seekers from Denmark, Holland, Belgium and England arrived at different ports of call along the Hooghly river. The river had been, in the meantime, losing its pre-eminence as the main outlet channel of the sacred Ganga into the Bay of Bengal, owing to a shift of ?ow towards east near Rajmahal into the Padma, which had been so long, carried very small part of the large volume of ?ow. On a cloudy afternoon on August 24, 1690 the British seafarer Job Charnock rested his oars at Kolkata and started a new chapter in the life of a sleepy village, bordering the Sunderbans which was ‘a tangled region of estuaries, rivers and water courses, enclosing a vast number of islands of various shapes and sizes. ’ and infested with a large variety of wild animals. In the language of the British Nobel Laureate (1907) Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). ???? ???? Thus the midday halt of Charnock grew a city.

Author: Rāhula Sāṅkr̥tyāyana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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