Author: Shyamalkanti ChakravartiPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Vinayatoshini
Author: Shyamalkanti ChakravartiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Pelagic Passageways
Author: Rila MukherjeePublisher: Primus Books
ISBN: 9380607202
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Due to the frontierization of nation-states, maritime historians have tended to ignore the northern Bay of Bengal. Yet, this marginal region, now dispersed over the four nation-states of India, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh, was not marginal in the past. Until recently, however, historians have concentrated largely on the 'big four': the Gujarat, Malabar, Coromandel and western Bengal coasts. Extreme eastern South Asia -- Bengal and the lands to its north-east fanning into Burma and China, or modern India's north-east and beyond -- is the focus of Pelagic Passageways. This regional unit, including diverse topographic features: plains, forests, estuaries, deltas, rivers, mountains, lakes, plateaus and remote passes, oscillates between unity and fragmentation, between centrality and marginality in the larger space of the Bay of Bengal. To attempt a history of this space is indeed challenging. There is not one, but two deltas here: the western delta, corresponding to present West Bengal in India and centred now on Kolkata, and the south-eastern delta, in present Bangladesh, centred on Dhaka, and running into Arakan. Not merely in terms of location, but on a historical axis too, the two deltas are vastly different as they have followed disparate trajectories, dictated in part by their geographies. Pelagic Passageways, therefore, questions the conventional fault line, located on the south-eastern Bengal delta, between the historiography of South and South-East Asia. Concentrating on commodity and currency flows, travel, trade, routes and interactive networks Pelagic Passageways visualizes the cultural space of the northern Bay of Bengal as embracing upland landlocked areas -- Ava, Yunnan, the Tripuri, Dimasa and Ahom states -- not usually seen as part of maritime history. This collection of essays suggests that they too were a part of the social and commercial networks of the Indian Ocean. While these countries literally fell off the map, this volume proposes that we see these areas instead as crossroads, mediating flows between the land-dwelling and aquatic worlds.
Silk Road Art and Archaeology
Author: Asian Giants in Indian Works
Author: Brij Kishore KumarPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Playing with Nature
Author: Sajal NagPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351986406
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
North East India is called nature’s gift to India. It is mountainous, thickly forested, nourished by massive rainfall, has massive rivers, has a diverse wildlife, inhabited a number of forest dwellers called tribes who cherished environmentalist ethos. The region has been experiencing environmental depletion which was a result of colonial policies, exploitation of its ecological and mineral resources, large scale trans-border immigration and settlement of people, establishment of the plantation industry through deforestation and the dependence of the dairy industry on grazing and other factors. This books depicts the precariousness of the environmental situation and traces the history and politics of such degeneration with a view to raise the consciousness of the people of the region towards their environment and save it from further aggravation.
Aspects of Indological Studies
Author: Mukund Lalji WadekarPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Trade in Early India
Author: Ranabir ChakravartiPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
This collection of fifteen essays underlines the significance of trade in the economic, political, and cultural life of traditional India, without dissociating it from the overall agrarian economy. Spanning the third millennium BC to 1300 AD, the book includes work from leading historians of early India and draws on new approaches to the study of trade and its links to social and political issues.
Early Buddhism and Laity
Author: Gayatri Sen MajumdarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Patralekha
Author: Shyamalkanti ChakravartiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Essays on Buddhist, Hindu, Jain Iconography & Epigraphy
Author: Gouriswar BhattacharyaPublisher:
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Category : Art, Hindu
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
This anthology represents a major advance in our knowledge of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain iconography as well as the epigraphy, particularly for the region of Bangladesh and Eastern India. Condition good.