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Author : Madhukar Shripad Mate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015042792112
Author : Vinod D. Shah, Ph.D
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781946390837
When you search for ‘water’ on Google, you get little less than 3 billion hits. When you do the same thing with ‘earth’, you get a little over 1 billion hits. Rightfully so, because water occupies nearly 75% of Earth’s surface. Perhaps no other substance comes near water. Water is ubiquitous. So why one more book on water? Water is the best gift of nature to the world. Water has been held in the highest esteem by humanity since times immemorial. It not only satisfies the physical needs, but also serves humanity with its un-manifested aspects. There is a certain mystifying element in water. Different facets to water such as Spirituality, Divinity, Philosophy and Aura play a significant role towards the satisfaction of mental and spiritual needs. This book gives the reader food for thought on the various aspects of water.
Author : Pushkar Sohoni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781838609283
The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy. They commissioned palaces, mosques, gardens and tombs as well as decorative paintings and coins. Of these sultanates, the Nizam Shahs (r. 1490-1636) were particularly significant, being one of the first to emerge from the crumbling edifice of the Bahmani Empire (c. 1347-1527). Yet their rich material record remains largely unstudied in the scholarly literature, obscuring their cultural and historical importance. This book provides the first analysis of the architecture of the Nizam Shahs. Pushkar Sohoni examines the critical relationship between architectural production, courtly practice and royal authority in a period when the aspirations and politics of the kingdom were articulated through architectural expression. Based on new primary research from key sites including the urban settlements of Ahmadnagar, Daulatabad, Aurangabad, Junnar and the port city of Chaul, Sohoni sheds light on broader Islamicate ideas of kingship and shows how this was embodied by material artefacts such as buildings and sites, paintings, gardens, guns and coins. As well as offering a vivid depiction of sixteenth-century South Asia, this book revises understanding of the cultural importance of the Nizam Shahs and their place in the Indian Ocean world. It will be a vital primary resource for scholars researching the history of the medieval and early modern Deccan and relevant for those working in Art History, Islamic Studies, South Asian Studies and Archaeology.
Author : Roy S. Fischel
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474436090
Focusing on the Deccan Sultanates of 16th- and 17th-century central India, Local States in an Imperial World promotes the idea that some polities of the time were not aspiring to be empires. Instead of the universalist and hierarchical vision typical of the language of empire, the sultanates presented another brand of state - one that prefers negotiation, flexibility and plurality of languages, religions and cultures. Building on theories of early modernity, empire, cosmopolitanism and vernaculars, Roy Fischel considers the components that shaped state and society: people, identities and idioms. He presents a frame for understanding the Deccan Sultanates as a rare case of the early modern non-imperial state, shedding light both on the region and on the imperial world surrounding it.
Author : Tushaar Shah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136524035
In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions of rural poor from droughts and famines is now a vast atomistic system of widely dispersed tube-wells that are drawing groundwater without permits or hindrances. Taming the Anarchy is about the development of this chaos and the prospects to bring it under control. It is about both the massive benefit that the irrigation economy has created and the ill-fare it threatens through depleted aquifers and pollution. Tushaar Shah brings exceptional insight into a socio-ecological phenomenon that has befuddled scientists and policymakers alike. In systematic fashion, he investigates the forces behind the transformation of South Asian irrigation and considers its social, economic, and ecological impacts. He considers what is unique to South Asia and what is in common with other developing regions. He argues that, without effective governance, the resulting groundwater stress threatens the sustenance of the agrarian system and therefore the well being of the nearly one and a half billion people who live in South Asia. Yet, finding solutions is a formidable challenge. The way forward in the short run, Shah suggests, lies in indirect, adaptive strategies that change the conduct of water users. From antiquity until the 1960‘s, agricultural water management in South Asia was predominantly the affair of village communities and/or the state. Today, the region depends on irrigation from some 25 million individually owned groundwater wells. Tushaar Shah provides a fascinating economic, political, and cultural history of the development and use of technology that is also a history of a society in transition. His book provides powerful ideas and lessons for researchers, historians, and policy
Author : André Wink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047402749
This third volume of Andre Wink's acclaimed and pioneering Al-Hind:The Making of the Indo-Islamic World takes the reader from the late Mongol invasions to the end of the medieval period and the beginnings of early modern times in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It breaks new ground by focusing attention on the role of geography, and more specifically on the interplay of nomadic, settled and maritime societies. In doing so, it presents a picture of the world of India and the Indian Ocean on the eve of the Portuguese discovery of the searoute: a world without stable parameters, of pervasive geophysical change, inchoate and instable urbanism, highly volatile and itinerant elites of nomadic origin, far-flung merchant diasporas, and a famine- and disease-prone peasantry whose life was a gamble on the monsoon.
Author : André Wink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004135618
This third volume of Andre Wink's acclaimed and pioneering "Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World" takes the reader from the late Mongol invasions to the end of the medieval period and the beginnings of early modern times in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It breaks new ground by focusing attention on the role of geography, and more specifically on the interplay of nomadic, settled and maritime societies. In doing so, it presents a picture of the world of India and the Indian Ocean on the eve of the Portuguese discovery of the searoute: a world without stable parameters, of pervasive geophysical change, inchoate and instable urbanism, highly volatile and itinerant elites of nomadic origin, far-flung merchant diasporas, and a famine- and disease-prone peasantry whose life was a gamble on the monsoon.
Author : Monica L. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646423521
In The Power of Nature archaeologists address the force and impact of nature relative to human knowledge, action, and volition. Case studies from around the world focusing on different levels of sociopolitical complexity—ranging from early agricultural societies to states and empires—address the ways in which nature retains the upper hand in human agentive environmental discourse, providing an opportunity for an insightful perspective on the current anthropological emphasis on how humans affect the environment. Climatic events, pathogens, and animals as nonhuman agents, ranging in size from viruses to mega-storms, have presented our species with dynamic conditions that overwhelm human capacities. In some cases, people have modified architecture to deal with a constant onslaught of storms, as in Japan or the Caribbean; in other cases, they have welcomed the occasional natural disaster as a chance to start fresh or to put into place new ideas and practices, as in the case of ancient Roman cities. Using the concept of “agency” as one in which multiple sentient and nonhuman actors interact in a landscape, and exploring locations such as the Caribbean, the Pacific, South Asia, the Andes, the Mediterranean, Mesoamerica, North America, and the Arctic, the authors provide compelling explanations of the effect of an entire realm of natural powers that beset human societies past and present—from storms, earthquakes, and fires to vegetation, domestic animals, and wild birds. Throughout, the emphasis is on the philosophical and engineering adjustments that people make to stay resilient when facing the perpetual changes of the natural world. Using an archaeological perspective, The Power of Nature illustrates and analyzes the many ways that people do not control their environments. It will be of interest to archaeologists, as well as scholars in science, biology, botany, forestry, urban studies, and disaster management. Contributors: Steven Ammeran, Traci Ardren, Katelyn J. Bishop, Karen Mohr Chávez, Sergio Chávez, Stanislava Chávez, Emelie Cobb, Jago Cooper, Harper Dine, Chelsea Fisher, Jennifer Huebert, Dale L. Hutchinson, Sara L. Juengst, Kanika Kalra, François Oliva, Matthew C. Peros, Jordan Pickett, Seth Quintus, John Robb, Monica L. Smith, Jillian A. Swift, Silvia Tomášková, Kyungsoo Yoo
Author : Abha Lakshmi Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015070124378
In Indian context.
Author : Shah Sufi Mostafizur Rahman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bogra District (Bangladesh)
ISBN : UOM:39015056322236
Focus Of The Work Is Scientific Documentation Of Archaeological Sites For Understanding The Settlement Patterns In Bogra District Of Bangladesh - Also Covers 2 Trial Excavations Of The Author At Kansher Dhap And Govinda Bhita - 7 Chapters - Bibliography - 3 Appendices - Index - Large Number Of Plates, Figures - Tables - Maps.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English imprints
ISBN : UOM:39015060789495
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : India
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022085471
Author : S. P. Shukla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-14
Category : Hydraulic engineering
ISBN : 8182747414
Author : Ed Bowker Staff,Staff Bowker, Ed
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 3274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0835246426
Author : L. Mays
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789048186327
There is no more fundamental resource than water. The basis of all life, water is fast becoming a key issue in today’s world, as well as a source of conflict. This fascinating book, which sets out many of the ingenious methods by which ancient societies gathered, transported and stored water, is a timely publication as overextraction and profligacy threaten the existence of aquifers and watercourses that have supplied our needs for millennia. It provides an overview of the water technologies developed by a number of ancient civilizations, from those of Mesopotamia and the Indus valley to later societies such as the Mycenaeans, Minoans, Persians, and the ancient Egyptians. Of course, no book on ancient water technologies would be complete without discussing the engineering feats of the Romans and Greeks, yet as well as covering these key civilizations, it also examines how ancient American societies from the Hohokams to the Mayans and Incas husbanded their water supplies. This unusually wide-ranging text could offer today’s parched world some solutions to the impending crisis in our water supply. "This book provides valuable insights into the water technologies developed in ancient civilizations which are the underpinning of modern achievements in water engineering and management practices. It is the best proof that "the past is the key for the future." Andreas N. Angelakis, Hellenic Water Supply and Sewerage Systems Association, Greece "This book makes a fundamental contribution to what will become the most important challenge of our civilization facing the global crisis: the problem of water. Ancient Water Technologies provides a complete panorama of how ancient societies confronted themselves with the management of water. The role of this volume is to provide, for the first time on this issue, an extensive historical and scientific reconstruction and an indication of how traditional knowledge may be employed to ensure a sustainable future for all." Pietro Laureano, UNESCO expert for ecosystems at risk, Director of IPOGEA-Institute of Traditional Knowledge, Italy
