Author: Andrew WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains Region
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Abode of Snow
Author: Andrew WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Himalaya Mountains Region
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Abode of Snow. Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, Through the Upper Valley of the Himalaya
Author: Andrew WilsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385524326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Early Writings on India
Author: H.K. KaulPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351867172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.
Pilgrimage in Tibet
Author: Alex McKayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136807160
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Western image of Tibet as a sacred land is in many ways a mythical construction. But the Tibetans themselves have traditionally mapped out their land in terms of areas of sacred space, and pilgrimage, ensuring a high degree of mobility within all classes of Tibetan society. Pilgrims travelled to local, regional, and national centres throughout recorded Tibetan history. In recent years, pilgrimage has resumed in areas where it had been forbidden by the Chinese authorities, and has now become one of the most prominent religious expressions of Tibetan national identity. In this major new work, leading scholars of Asian pilgrimage traditions discuss historical and contemporary aspects of pilgrimage within the Tibetan cultural world. Myths and legends, material conditions, textual sources, a modern pilgrim's impressions, political and economic influences, biographies and contemporary developments - all these and many other issues are examined here. The result is an informative and often entertaining work which contributes greatly to our knowledge of the history and culture of Tibet as well as the wider issues of religious power and practice.
Southern Tibet: Lake Manasarovar and the sources of the great Indian rivers. From the end of the eighteenth century to 1913
Author: Sven Anders HedinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tibet (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Himalayan Histories
Author: Chetan SinghPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438475233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Himalayan Histories, by one of India's most reputed historians of the Himalaya, is essential for a more complete understanding of Indian history. Because Indian historians have mainly studied riverine belts and life in the plains, sophisticated mountain histories are relatively rare. In this book, Chetan Singh identifies essential aspects of the material, mental, and spiritual world of western Himalayan peasant society. Human enterprise and mountainous terrain long existed in a precarious balance, occasionally disrupted by natural adversity, in this large and difficult region. Small peasant communities lived in scattered environmental niches and tenaciously extracted from their harsh surroundings a rudimentary but sustainable livelihood. These communities were integral constituents of larger political economies that asserted themselves through institutions of hegemonic control, the state being one such institution. This laboriously created life-world was enlivened by myth, folklore, legend, and religious tradition. When colonial rule was established in the region during the nineteenth century, it transformed the peasants' relationship with their natural surroundings. While old political allegiances were weakened, resilient customary hierarchies retained their influence through religio-cultural practices.
Fallen Giants
Author: Maurice IssermanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300164203
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.
Southern Tibet
Author: Sven HedinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tibet (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of Books in the Punjab Public Library
Author: Panjāb Pablik Lāʼibrerī, LāhaurPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library resources
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Lower Hall of the Boston Public Library in the Classes of History, Biography, Geography, and Travel
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description