Author: Pudukkottai (Princely State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pudukkottai (Princely State)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Translations, Copies and Extracts of the Several Letters in which the Services of the Ancestors of His Excellency the Maha Rajah of Poodoocottah are Particularly Acknowledged and Approved by the Governors and Other Public Officers of the Honorable E.I. Company and the Nobob of the Carnatic
Author: Pudukkottai (Princely State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pudukkottai (Princely State)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Unfinished Gestures
Author: Davesh SonejiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226768090
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Indian Paleography
Author: Georg BühlerPublisher:
ISBN: 9788121511162
Category : Paleography, Indo-Aryan
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Professor Buhler`S Indische Palaeographie, Consisting Of 96 Pages With 9 Plates Of Alphabetical Characters And Numerals And 8 Tables Of Explanatory Transliteration Of Them, Was Originally Published In 1896. An English Version Of This Was Prepared By Professor Buhler Himself; The Manuscript Was On Its Way To The Press At The Time Of His Death. J.F. Fleet, With Great Difficulties, Recovered The Ms. And Got It Printed In Indian Antiquary. 1904, In The Form Of An Appendix. But It Was The Text Without The Plates And Tables. And That Had Been The Only Form In Which It Has So Far Been Available To Our Students And Scholars. It Is A Matter Of Great Satisfaction That For The First Time The Complete English Version Of Buhler`S Monumental Work, Along With The Plates And Tables, In Its Proper Book-Form Is Published. Page-References Of The German Original Are Indicated In Square Brackets Along With Fleet`S Valuable Introduction To The Text.
A General History of the Pudukkottai State
Author: S. Radhakrishna AiyarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pudukkottai (Princely State)
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Bharatanatyam
Author: Davesh SonejiPublisher: OUP India
ISBN: 9780198083771
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bringing together some of the most important essays on Bharatanatyam written over the last two hundred years, this reader opens a window to the history, aesthetics, and personal journeys that have shaped this vital and ever-shifting art.
Performing Pasts
Author: Indira Viswanathan PetersonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Revised version of seminar papers and contributed articles.
The Powerful Ephemeral
Author: Carla BellamyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520950453
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. In this accessible and groundbreaking ethnography, Carla Bellamy traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India. Drawing on pilgrims’ narratives, ritual and everyday practices, archival documents, and popular publications in Hindi and Urdu, Bellamy considers questions about the nature of religion in general and Indian religion in particular. Grounded in stories from individual lives and experiences, The Powerful Ephemeral offers not only a humane, highly readable portrait of dargah culture, but also new insight into notions of selfhood and religious difference in contemporary India.
Secularizing Islamists?
Author: Humeira IqtidarPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226384705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama‘at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama‘at-ud-Da‘wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing her findings on thirteen months of ethnographic work with the two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism. This book offers a fine-grained account of the workings of both parties that challenges received ideas about the relationship between the ideology of secularism and the processes of secularization. Iqtidar particularly illuminates the impact of women on Pakistani Islamism, while arguing that these Islamist groups are inadvertently supporting secularization by forcing a critical engagement with the place of religion in public and private life. She highlights the role that competition among Islamists and the focus on the state as the center of their activity plays in assisting secularization. The result is a significant contribution to our understanding of emerging trends in Muslim politics.
The Men who Ruled India: The founders
Author: Philip MasonIslam Translated
Author: Ronit RicciPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226710904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating them into a diverse global community that stretched from India to the Philippines. In Islam Translated, Ronit Ricci uses the Book of One Thousand Questions—from its Arabic original to its adaptations into the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil languages between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries—as a means to consider connections that linked Muslims across divides of distance and culture. Examining the circulation of this Islamic text and its varied literary forms, Ricci explores how processes of literary translation and religious conversion were historically interconnected forms of globalization, mutually dependent, and creatively reformulated within societies making the transition to Islam.