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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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The Indian National Bibliography
Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition
Author: Tracy PintchmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195177061
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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In this text, 11 leading scholars of Hinduism explore the complex relationship between Hindu women's ritual activities and their lives beyond ritual.
Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D.
Author: Iravatham MahadevanPublisher: Harvard University Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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This book presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (ca. second century B.C.E. to sixth century A.D.), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. The work includes texts, transliteration, translation, detailed commentary, inscriptional glossary, and indexes.
Second Supplementary Catalogue of Tamil Books in the British Library, Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books
Author: British Library. Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Unruly Figures
Author: Navaneetha MokkilPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295745568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that has a long history of political protests. The 2014 “Kiss of Love” campaign garnered national attention, sparking controversy as images of activists kissing in public and dragged into police vans flooded the media. In Unruly Figures, Navaneetha Mokkil tracks the cultural practices through which sexual figures—particularly the sex worker and the lesbian—are produced in the public imagination. Her analysis includes representations of the prostitute figure in popular media, trajectories of queerness in Malayalam films, public discourse on lesbian sexuality, the autobiographical project of sex worker and activist Nalini Jameela, and the memorialization of murdered transgender activist Sweet Maria, showing how various marginalized figures stage their own fractured journeys of resistance in the post-1990s context of globalization. By bringing a substantial body of Malayalam-language literature and media texts on gender, sexuality, and social justice into conversation with current debates around sexuality studies and transnational feminism in Asian and Anglo-American academia, Mokkil reorients the debates on sexuality in India by considering the fraught trajectories of identity and rights.
Indian National Bibliography
Author: B. S. Kesavan100 Selected Stories
Author: O. HenryPublisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780890612415
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Languages : en
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This collection of one hundred of O. Henry's finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America's best and best-loved short story writers.
The Thief Who Stole My Heart
Author: Vidya DehejiaPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691253064
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India’s Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During festivals, these bronze sculptures—including Shiva, referred to in a saintly vision as “the thief who stole my heart”—were adorned with jewels and flowers and paraded through towns as active participants in Chola worship. In this richly illustrated book, leading art historian Vidya Dehejia introduces the bronzes within the full context of Chola history, culture, and religion. In doing so, she brings the bronzes and Chola society to life before our very eyes. Dehejia presents the bronzes as material objects that interacted in meaningful ways with the people and practices of their era. Describing the role of the statues in everyday activities, she reveals not only the importance of the bronzes for the empire, but also little-known facets of Chola life. She considers the source of the copper and jewels used for the deities, proposing that the need for such resources may have influenced the Chola empire’s political engagement with Sri Lanka. She also investigates the role of women patrons in bronze commissions and discusses the vast public records, many appearing here in translation for the first time, inscribed on temple walls. From the Cholas’ religious customs to their agriculture, politics, and even food, The Thief Who Stole My Heart offers an expansive and complete immersion in a community still accessible to us through its exquisite sacred art. Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
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