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Author : Joseph W. Elder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015043805871
Contributed articles on history of the study of India in the United States and contributions of the study of India to various academic disciplines.
Author : Kavita A. Sharma
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education and globalization
ISBN : 8121210062
The book shows the power of ideas disseminated through education. It is through education that students come to know the cultural, social, political and economic realities of a country. The book describes how education shapes the minds of human beings. It is the ability and training of the mind to receive and disseminate ideas.
Author : Chris Ogden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781000825404
India’s anticipated rise to prominence in what has been termed the ‘Asian 21st century’ will have a significant impact upon geopolitics in the coming decades. As India’s stature continues to increase across Asia and the world, appreciating which interests and principles structure the country’s international interaction has never been more important. Central to these dynamics is how India’s identity – and the longstanding values, principles and practices underpinning it – acts as the paramount factor that deeply structures the conduct of its international affairs. Acknowledging this centrality, this edited volume uses this factor as its foremost theme of analysis through which to understand and analyse India’s most important regional, great power and diplomatic interactions. Not only providing a mechanism better to appreciate the historical foundations of these relationships, the focus on identity is also necessary to appreciate how the Hindu nationalism of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the leadership of Narendra Modi is now permeating Indian diplomacy. For the BJP, the pursuit – and attainment – of global influence and heightened status is the driving imperative of the BJP with regard to India’s contemporary international affairs. Chapter 6 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author : Charlie T. McCormick Ph.D.,Kim Kennedy White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598842425
Written by an international team of acclaimed folklorists, this reference text provides a cross-cultural survey of the major types and methods of inquiry in folklore. Did you know that the tale of Cinderella is over 1,000 years old, and similar versions of this singular story exist in hundreds of cultures around the globe? Have you heard of "deathlore," a subgenre of folklore involving tombstones, coffins, cemeteries, and roadside memorial shrines? Did you realize that UFO sightings and cyber cultures constitute modern folklore? The broad field of folklore studies, developed over the past two centuries, provides significant insights into many aspects of human culture. While the term "folklore" conjures images of ancient practices and beliefs or folk heroes and traditional stories, it also applies to today's ever-changing cultural landscape. Even certain aspects of modern Internet-based popular culture and contemporary rites of passage represent folklore. This encyclopedia covers all the major genres of both ancient and contemporary folklore. This second edition adds more than 100 entries that examine the folklore practices of major ethnic groups, folk heroes, creatures of myth and legend, and emerging areas of interest in folklore studies.
Author : Linda S Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317951698
Learn how acquisitions librarians successfully serve specialized users! In this book, you’ll find profiles, methods, and processes for acquisitions in specialized subject areas, such as local and regional poetry, oceanography, educational information in electronic formats, popular fiction, regional and ethnic materials, and more. Seasoned acquisitions librarians share their experiences in gathering the hard-to-find materials their libraries’ highly specialized clients need to access. You’ll also examine issues surrounding the acquisition of new reference tools that are vital in today’s emerging electronic environment. With Acquisition in Different and Special Subject Areas, you’ll examine: methods of ferreting out local and regional poetry—from Daniel Veach, editor/publisher of the Atlanta Review the acquisition process in a specialized institution devoted to oceanography—from Elizabeth Cooksey of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography how to acquire regional and ethnic materials for your library collection a practical guide to the acquisition of material from an African country (based on the author’s experience in the West African nation of Benin) acquisition of Web-based educational materials acquisitions in the expanding area of popular fiction an acquisition librarian’s mission to the multilingual nation of India, where she assessed the acquisition possibilities for the new India Studies program at Indiana University Special libraries can exist in corners of large public or university libraries or they can be independent. They can be large and populated by hundreds of staff, or very small, staffed by one person. The defining characteristic of a special library is that its clientele is specialized. Acquisition in Different and Special Subject Areas brings together the voices of acquisitions librarians serving a wide variety of fields to guide you through the acquisitions process in their areas of concentration. It is a book that no budding or experienced acquisitions librarian should be without!
Author : Surjit Mansingh
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 879 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810865020
The Republic of India is the second most populous, the seventh largest by geographical area, and has the fourth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity in the world. While it has always been an important country, it has often been neglected. Of late, however, there has been much talk of the 'new' India, one with greater economic dynamism, a more active foreign policy, and the emergence of a huge middle class. With over a hundred new cross-referenced dictionary entries-the majority of which pertain to the last decade-and updating others, the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of India illustrates the rapidly evolving situation without neglecting the country's ancient past. The chronology has been brought up to date, the introduction expanded, and the bibliography includes numerous new titles.
Author : Selva J. Raj,Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791487815
Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.
Author : David E. Ludden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521364248
Originally published in 1999, this book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia.
Author : Fabian Bakels
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783832556280
What are the implications of establishing a university department for ethnomusicology ``in the field''? How does this affect not only the local music culture but also the development of ethnomusicology? What are the advantages/disadvantages of an ethnomusicology curriculum giving as much importance to practical training in music as to theory classes? At Kathmandu University's Department of Music in Bhaktapur, ethnomusicologists and professional musicians together support the sustainability of traditional music in Nepal by developing approaches that explore the space between ``keeping it as it is'' (conservation) and ``letting it disappear'' (non-interference). This book examines these efforts through an analysis of ethnomusicological research and teaching and the work of professional musicians involved in the development of new forms of popular music. It offers unique insights into a decades-spanning project of applied ethnomusicology, while also contributing to the discourse about musical sustainability and the localisation and practical application of ethnomusicology in South Asia and beyond.
Author : Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780199767649
Original publication and copyright date: 2011.
Author : Jan P. Hogendijk,Kim Plofker,Michio Yano,Charles Burnett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047412441
This collection of essays reflects the wide range of David Pingree's expertise in the scientific texts (above all, concerning astronomy and astrology) of Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Persia, and the medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Latin traditions. Both theoretical aspects and the practical applications of the exact sciences-in time keeping, prediction of the future, and the operation of magic-are dealt with. The book includes several critical editions and translations of hitherto unknown or understudied texts, and a particular emphasis is on the diffusion of scientific learning from one culture to another, and through time. Above all, the essays show the variety and sophistication of the exact sciences in non-Western societies in pre-modern times.
Author : David M. Knipe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199397686
"Four generations of ten families speak about their lives, ancestral lineages, choices as pandits, wives, and children, ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. They are virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the last in India who perform the ancient animal and soma sacrifices according to Vedic tradition"--
Author : Guillermo Rodríguez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199089727
In an ocean where myriads of rivers converge, can one sole river lend the ocean its distinct flavour? For someone who is at home with several languages, literary traditions and disciplines, is it possible for one form to criss-cross the landscape of another? In a poet’s world of mirrors, where stream and earth are sky, one may ‘sometimes count every orange on a tree’, but can one count ‘all the trees in a single orange’? In this volume, Guillermo Rodríguez explores these possibilities by analysing the works of one of India’s finest poets, translators, essayists and scholars of the twentieth century, A.K. Ramanujan (1929–1993).
Author : Roland Lardinois
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351403610
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Part I Genesis of a Learned Milieu -- 1. The conquest of scholarly legitimacy -- 2. Orientalism and prophetic discourse -- 3. The struggle for institutional autonomy -- Part II Scholars and Prophets -- 4. The field of production of discourses on India -- 5. Scholarly practice -- 6. Prophetic Logic -- 7. Study of Hinduism as a disciplinary issue -- Part III Social Science and Indigenous Science -- 8. Louis Dumont and the Brahmanical science -- 9. Louis Dumont and the cunning of reason -- 10. The avatars of scholarship on India -- Conclusion: Sociology put to the test of India -- Postscript: Notes on the construction of a research subject -- Postface to the English-Language Edition -- Appendix. Multi Correspondence Analysis -- List of documents, tables and diagrams -- Sources and Bibliography -- General Index -- Names Index
Author : Ashok Kapur
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015052680298
This important and timely volume not only explores the many strands and nuances of the chequered course of Indo-US relations, but offers pragmatic policy recommendations. The original essays by reputed scholars and analysts cover a wide range of fundamental issues affecting bilateral relations. The contributors maintain that the rapidly growing rapprochement between India and the United States could have far-reaching implications for peace and progress throughout Asia.