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Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Ṛta Ritu
Author: Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India
Author: Manish ChalanaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000296369
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India seeks to position the conservation profession within historical, theoretical, and methodological frames to demonstrate how the field has evolved in the postcolonial decades and follow its various trajectories in research, education, advocacy, and practice. Split into four sections, this book covers important themes of institutional and programmatic developments in the field of conservation; critical and contemporary challenges facing the profession; emerging trends in practice that seek to address contemporary challenges; and sustainable solutions to conservation issues. The cases featured within the book elucidate the evolution of the heritage conservation profession, clarifying the role of key players at the central, state, and local level, and considering intangible, minority, colonial, modern, and vernacular heritages among others. This book also showcases unique strands of conservation practice in the postcolonial decades to demonstrate the range, scope, and multiple avenues of development in the last seven decades. An ideal read for those interested in architecture, planning, historic preservation, urban studies, and South Asian studies.
R̥ta, the Cosmic Order
Author: Madhu KhannaPublisher:
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Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Contributed articles presented at a seminar.
Cultural Landscapes of India
Author: Amita SinhaPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822987864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen in time. In Cultural Landscapes in India, Amita Sinha subverts the idea of heritage as static and examines the ways that landscapes influence culture and that culture influences landscapes. The book centers around imagining, enacting, and reclaiming landscapes as subjects and settings of living cultural heritage. Drawing on case studies from different regions of India, Sinha offers new interpretations of links between land and culture using different ways of seeing—transcendental, romantic, and utilitarian. The idea of cultural landscape can be seen in ancient practices such as circumambulation and immersion in bodies of water that sustain engagement with natural elements. Pilgrim towns, medieval forts, religious sites, and contemporary memorial parks are sites of memory where myth and history converge. Engaging with these spaces allows us to reconstruct collective memory and reclaim not only historic landscapes, but ways of seeing, making, and remembering. Cultural Landscapes in India makes the case for reclaiming iconic landscapes and rethinking conventional approaches to conservation that take into consideration performative landscape as heritage.
Parwaaz
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A collection of Urdu short stories reflecting their female authors' myriad concerns, from the literary to the political. A critical introduction examines their concerns against the social and political background of the time and assesses their contribution to Urdu literature.
Vārshika Riporṭa
Author: India. Ministry of Human Resource DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Cultural Rhythms in Emotions, Narratives and Dance
Author: Nita MathurPublisher:
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
With reference to tribal traditions of India.
Classical Indian Ethical Thought
Author: Kedar Nath TiwariPublisher:
ISBN: 9788120816084
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The book is a philosophical treatise on the Hindu, Bauddha and Jaina morals meant for the University students of Indian Ethics as well as for the general readers interested in the subject. Books on the subject are generally written in a historical perspective. On the contrary, the present work is philosophical and critical which takes full cognisance of the recent developments in Western ethical thought and its likely impact on the understanding of the traditional Indian ethics. Attempt has been made to understand the subject in the light of certain well-knit conceptual frames developed in the West in the field of ethics. In course of doing this, certain reconstructions have also been made, but it has always been kept in mind that the reconstructions do not become jejune to the natural spirit of Indian thought.
The Artful Universe
Author: William K. MahonyPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791435793
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Provides an accessible introduction to the Vedic religious world by focusing on the role of divine and human imagination in sacred texts.
India
Author: D. R. SarDesaiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429968426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
This book deals with the sweep of traditional Indian history as well as with the post-independence events, judicially balancing narrative and analysis in the conceptual framework of postcolonial and postmodernist approaches, covering the process of change in India through the centuries.