Beloved Delhi

Author : Saif Mahmood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9388326040

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Beloved Delhi by Saif Mahmood Pdf

'A riveting resurrection of the city of poets, the city of history, Saif Mahmood's learned and evocative book takes us to the heart of Delhi's romance with Urdu verse and aesthetics.'--Namita Gokhale Urdu poetry rules the cultural and emotional landscape of India--especially northern India and much of the Deccan--and of Pakistan. And it was in the great, ancient city of Delhi that Urdu grew to become one of the world's most beautiful languages. Through the 18th and 19th centuries, while the Mughal Empire was in decline, Delhi became the capital of a parallel kingdom--the kingdom of Urdu poetry--producing some of the greatest, most popular poets of all time. They wrote about the pleasure and pain of love, about the splendour of God and the villainy of preachers, about the seductions of wine, and about Delhi, their beloved home. This treasure of a book documents the life and work of the finest classical Urdu poets: Sauda, Dard, Mir, Ghalib, Momin, Zafar, Zauq and Daagh. Through their biographies and poetry--including their best-known ghazals--it also paints a compelling portrait of Mughal Delhi. This is a book for anyone who has ever been touched by Urdu or Delhi, by poetry or romance.

Author : Nitya Khemka
Publisher : Good Night books
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781602194816

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Good Night Delhi by Nitya Khemka Pdf

Good Night Delhi highlights Janpath Market, Bangla Sahib Gurudwara, Lodi Gardens, Humayun's Tomb, Deer Park, Red Fort, Jama Masjid, Qutub Minar, National Zoo, Old Fort, Bahá'í Temple, the National Rail Museum, and more. This educational board book explores all of the sites and iconic landmarks this dynamic city has to offer. Welcome to the capital of India! This book is part of the bestselling Good Night Our World series, which includes hundreds of titles exploring iconic locations and exciting, child-friendly themes. Many of India's most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for India's natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area's attractions as rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.

Author : Dr. B. PREETHA M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.,
Publisher : Archers & Elevators Publishing House
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789394958081

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Exploited and Explored Feminine Self: A Study of the Select Novels of Toni Morrison and Shobha De by Dr. B. PREETHA M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Pdf

Author : Raza Rumi
Publisher : Harper
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9350294184

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Delhi By Heart by Raza Rumi Pdf

A sensitively written account of a Pakistani writer's discovery of Delhi Why, asks Raza Rumi, does the capital of another country feel like home? How is it that a man from Pakistan can cross the border into 'hostile' territory and yet not feel 'foreign'? Is it the geography, the architecture, the food? Or is it the streets, the festivals and the colours of the subcontinent, so familiar and yes, beloved... As he takes in the sights, from the Sufi shrines in the south to the markets of Old Delhi, from Lutyens' stately mansions to Ghalib's crumbling abode, Raza uncovers the many layers of the city. He connects with the richness of the Urdu language, observes the syncretic evolution of mystical Islam in India and its deep connections with Hindustani classical music - so much a part of his own selfhood. And every so often, he returns to the refuge of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, the twelfth-century pir, whose dargah still reverberates with music and prayer every evening. His wanderings through Delhi lead Raza back in time to recollections of a long-forgotten Hindu ancestry and to comparisons with his own city of Lahore - in many ways a mirror image of Delhi. They also lead to reflections on the nature of the modern city, the inherent conflict between the native and the immigrant and, inevitably, to an inquiry into his own identity as a South Asian Muslim. Rich with history and anecdote, and conversations with Dilliwalas known and unknown,Delhi By Heart offers an unusual perspective and unexpected insights into the political and cultural capital of India.

Author : Ramesh Chandra Dhussa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031285851

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Images of Delhi by Ramesh Chandra Dhussa Pdf

The main objective of this book is to analyze prominent literary images of Delhi in post-independence India. The author has probed into a number of eminent writings in Hindi, English and other languages. The author's methodology, a humanistic and phenomenological approach, allows exploration of experiential dimension of writers’ and their characters in various genres of literature. An inquiry into perceptions and imagination in literature enriches the understanding of place, space, time, and seasons, the concerns central to geography. The Perceptions of the metropolis of Delhi interestingly vary between authors and their characters. The images of Delhi in plethora of literary works show a wide spectrum of colors. The images evoke feelings of reverence, love, adoration, dislike, indifference or neutrality. Experiences vary from places of beauty and grandeur to utterly ugly environments. Natives express different views and attitudes toward the city of Delhi from those of expatriate writers.

Author : Zeno Ackermann,Isabel Karremann,Simi Malhotra,Nishat Zaidi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783958261686

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Terrains of Consciousness by Zeno Ackermann,Isabel Karremann,Simi Malhotra,Nishat Zaidi Pdf

TERRAINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS emerges from an Indian-German-Swiss research collaboration. The book makes a case for a phenomenology of globalization that pays attention to locally situated socioeconomic terrains, everyday practices, and cultures of knowledge. This is exemplified in relation to three topics: - the tension between 'terrain' and 'territory' in Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' as a pioneering work of the globalist mentality (chapter 1) - the relationship between established conceptions of feminism and the concrete struggles of women in India since the 19th century (chapter 2) - the exploration of urban space and urban life in writings on India's capital - from Ahmed Ali to Arundhati Roy (chapter 3).

Author : Pradeep K. Berry
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781638736417

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My Amazing American Wife by Pradeep K. Berry Pdf

Everything changed for Pradeep K. Berry on February 28, 2015. That was the day his wife of forty-one years, Constance A. “Connie” Berry, died. He’s been mourning ever since, and he seeks to cope with his loss in this tribute to his beloved spouse. In this book he celebrates their love—a love that would have never happened if he hadn’t left India to go to the United States. He only had seven dollars at the time, and he could not have dreamed that he’d meet a beautiful, intelligent, American wife. The author’s family embraced Connie as soon as they realized she was polite, smart, and self-made. In short order, she became the star of the family. Berry lovingly describes Connie’s qualities, character, and ethics as well as her professional career. He observes that even though he’s been in tremendous pain since she died, he would have never had such a long and happy marriage if he and Connie had not loved each other so much. Connie and Pradeep, both consider themselves as two bodies and one soul. Now, Pradeep is hoping that they will be again two bodies and one soul in the next life. Join the author as he shares lessons on enjoying a happy marriage and honors the woman who made his dreams come true. His only hope is to make some difference in other woman’s lives and how their husband can make a difference in their lives.

Author : Avril Ann Powell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136100420

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Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India by Avril Ann Powell Pdf

Focuses on the period leading up to the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

Author : Katherine Butler Schofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009058407

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Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India by Katherine Butler Schofield Pdf

Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive of Indian writings alongside visual sources, this book presents the first history of music and musicians in late Mughal India c.1748–1858 and takes the lives of nine musicians as entry points into six prominent types of writing on music in Persian, Brajbhasha, Urdu and English, moving from Delhi to Lucknow, Hyderabad, Jaipur and among the British. It shows how a key Mughal cultural field responded to the political, economic and social upheaval of the transition to British rule, while addressing a central philosophical question: can we ever recapture the ephemeral experience of music once the performance is over? These rich, diverse sources shine new light on the wider historical processes of this pivotal transitional period, and provide a new history of music, musicians and their audiences during the precise period in which North Indian classical music coalesced in its modern form.

Author : Jagdish Chandra Sharma
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Indic poetry (English)
ISBN : 8180691039

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Poetic Musings by Jagdish Chandra Sharma Pdf

Author : Raj Kumar,Raj Pruthi
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : India
ISBN : 8171416926

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Essays on Indian Culture by Raj Kumar,Raj Pruthi Pdf

Contents: Introduction, Culture Defined, Epochs of Indian Culture, The Continuity of Indian Culture, The Cultural Influences of Islam, Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, Amir Khusrau, The Nature of Indian Culture, Tulsidas, Chaitanya and Mirabai, Kabir, Perspective of Indian Culture, Cultural Interactions in South India (1400-1800), India s Epochs in World-Culture, Indian Culture and External Influence, Indian Culture in the World Perspective, The Degeneration of Indian Culture.

Author : Asma Husain
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482848304

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A Small Window in the Iron Gate by Asma Husain Pdf

On the crest of the harrowing divide of the Indian subcontinent, amid a climate of ferocious genocide, two girls abscond from the riot struck and smoldering city of Delhi. The family migrates to Pakistan, helplessly forsaking two of their daughters. Laleh Bukhari the older of the two reunites with her lover a person of Hindu faith. The young 15 year old Pareesa Bukhari, tricked by the older sibling, is taken to Bombay to live with a man whom she is bound only by a marriage contract. The story revolves around the obsession of the famed painter, Akbar Waziri, with his muse and the challenges of his young wife, Pareesa, to the diverse conflicts in her life. The famous film star Moneta Sen Gupta reveals the fears of a psychotic mind beneath the glitz and glamour of stardom. It also tells the story of secrecy and intrigue that surround Khairi Aztar Hekim bashi, born during the dwindling phase of the Ottoman Empire. From the brothels of Calcutta to the elite of Bombay the narrative traverses through India and cuts across realms. From India to Pakistan and Turkey to Morocco the narrative surpasses cultures, creeds and races to bind the commonality of oppression and abuse and tells a sensitive tale.

Author : Henry Beveridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : India
ISBN : PRNC:32101073850834

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A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military and Social by Henry Beveridge Pdf

Author : Henry Beveridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015069398835

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A Comprehensive History of India : Civil, Military and Social, from the First Landing of the English, to the Suppression of the Sepoy Revolt ; Including an Outline of the Early History of Hindoostan by Henry Beveridge Pdf

Author : K. C. Kanda
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Patriotic poetry, Urdu
ISBN : 8120728939

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Masterpieces of Patriotic Urdu Poetry by K. C. Kanda Pdf

Collection of poems by various poets; includes short biography of the poets.