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Author : Rann Singh Mann
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ladākh (India)
ISBN : 8170998387
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8170495695
Author : Helena Norberg Hodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781448176236
Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land up in the Western Himalayas. It is a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yet for more than a thousand years, it has been home to a thriving culture. Traditions of frugality and cooperation, coupled with an intimate and location-specific knowledge of the environment, enabled the Ladakhis not only to survive, but to prosper. Everyone had enough to eat; families and communities were strong; the status of women was high. Then came 'development'. Now in the modern sector one finds pollution and divisiveness, inflation and unemployment, intolerance and greed. Centuries of ecological balance and social harmony are under threat from pressures of Western consumerism. Ancient Futures is much more than a book about Ladakh. Passionately argued, it raises important questions about the whole notion of progress, and explores the root causes of the malaise of industrial society. At the same time, the story of Ladakh serves as a source of inspiration for our own future. It shows us that another way is possible, and points to some of the first steps towards kinder, gentler patterns of living.
Author : Henry Osmaston,International Association for Ladakh Studies
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 8120814320
The International Association for Ladakh Studies (IALS) was formed to provide contacts between all who are interested in the study of Ladakh to organise colloquia and to publish the proceedings and to issue a newsletter Ladakh Studies.
Author : H. N. Kaul
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ladākh (India)
ISBN : 8173870861
Author : Alex Gillespie
Publisher : IAP
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607527954
The research reported in this book is unapologetically Meadian. While the work of George Herbert Mead has been of widespread significance, and his name is often cited, there are in fact few empirical studies that have sought to rigorously instantiate his ideas. This is in part because his theory is abstruse and in part because there have been so many divergent interpretations of his theory. The point of departure for the present research is a novel interpretation of Mead. Mead’s core problematic, I argue, is how to explain self-reflection, and his answer to this is the theory of the social act. The present research is an attempt to instantiate this reading. This book puts to rest any glorification of postmodernist belief in the local nature of knowledge and context specificity of human cultural acts as a part of the image of fragmented human lives. Human beings are differentiated and hierarchically integrated wholes who regulate their own organization by cultural means. This conceptual deathblow to postmodernist ideologies is done here without denying the reality of context specificity. In fact, all the evidence in this book shows that each and every moment in the touring act is context bound, and hence unique. Yet there is generality operating upon—and creating—that uniqueness. The author’s careful development of theoretical insights George Herbert Mead reached in his self-dialogues almost a century ago is a new step in the development of cultural psychology as a Wissenschaft aiming at making sense of the human conditions in its generic ways. This itself is an exploring act—one that the social sciences need very much at our present time of abundance of fragmented bits and pieces of information about “the others” that lead us to search for our own unified selves through invention of new ways for touring.
Author : Jacqueline H. Fewkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135973087
This book provides an ethno-historical study of the trade system in Ladakh (India), a busy entrepôt for Silk Route trade between Central and South Asia. Previously a part of global networks, Ladakh became an isolated border area as national boundaries were defined and enforced in the mid-20th century. As trade with Central Asia ended, social life in Ladakh was irrevocably altered. The author's research combines anthropological, historical, and archaeological methods of investigation, using data from primary documents, ethnographic interviews and participation-observation fieldwork. The result is a cultural history of South and Central Asia, detailing the social lives of historical Ladakhi traders and identifying their community as a cosmopolitan social group. The relationship between the historical narratives and the modern ethnographic context illustrates how social issues in modern communities are related to those of the past. It is demonstrated that this relationship depends on both memories, narratives about the past constructed within present social contexts, and legacies, ways in which the past continues to shape present social interactions. This book will be of particular interest to anthropologists, historians and specialists in South and Central Asian studies, as well as those interested in historical archaeology, science, sociology, political science and economics.
Author : Andrew Harvey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618056750
Now considered a classic among readers interested in Tibetan Buddhism and pilgrimages of the spirit of all kinds, A Journey in Ladakh is Andrew Harvey's spiritual travelogue of his arduous journey to one of the most remote parts of the world--the highest, least populated region in India, cut off by snow for six months each year. Buddhists have meditated in the mountains of Ladakh since three centuries before Christ, and it is there that the purest form of Tibetan Buddhism is still practiced today.
Author : Yi’En Cheng,Sonia Lam-Knott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000406047
Youth Politics in Urban Asia examines how young people’s political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in a myriad of tangible and intangible ways. The book explores the ways in which urban development and urban governance in Asia enable or constrain young people’s citizenship, aspirations, and responses to a variety of socioeconomic and political issues in the region. Informed by qualitative and ethnographic approaches, featuring locales ranging from Pune to Shanghai, the chapters broadly address three themes: the variegated ways in which youth politics is constituted and has manifested in Asian cities; the role of cities in shaping and mediating youth politics in Asia; and whether it is possible to conceive of youth politics across urban Asia as diverse and specific, but also structurally entangled. In examining how young people’s political performances and social actions are shaped by, and conversely, shape, Asian urban spaces, this collection advances a deeper understanding of the interplay of youth politics and urban environments. It will be an essential text for scholars and students interested in young people’s politics, urban studies, and social change in Asia. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Space and Polity.
Author : All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi
Publisher : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984-06-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 01 JUNE, 1984 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 56 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. LV. No. 11 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 15-52 ARTICLE: 1. Information Technology and Rural Development 2. A letter to Papa 3. The Magnetic Mountain 4. Lie Detection 5. On Being Outspoken AUTHOR: 1. Dr. P. P. Gupta 2. Vanider 3. P. C. Chatterji 4. Debabrata Biswas 5. H. H. Tyab KEYWORDS : 1. Information technology,significant development, directly relevant 2. Mama and meena, you spent all your money,to make money out 3. So far as i can remember,talking about the magnetism, brilliance of nangapar -bat Document ID : -- Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.
Author : Arnold P. Kaminsky,Roger D. Long Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313374630
Containing almost 250 entries written by scholars from around the world, this two-volume resource provides current, accurate, and useful information on the politics, economics, society, and cultures of India since 1947. With more than a billion citizens—almost 18 percent of the world's population—India is a reflection of over 5,000 years of interaction and exchange across a wide spectrum of cultures and civilizations. India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic describes the growth and development of the nation since it achieved independence from the British Raj in 1947. The two-volume work presents an analytical review of India's transition from fledgling state to the world's largest democracy and potential economic superpower. Providing current data and perspective backed by historical context as appropriate, the encyclopedia brings together the latest scholarship on India's diverse cultures, societies, religions, political cultures, and social and economic challenges. It covers such issues as foreign relations, security, and economic and political developments, helping readers understand India's people and appreciate the nation's importance as a political power and economic force, both regionally and globally.
Author : Carl N. McDaniel,John M. Gowdy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520924451
The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and ecological stability. But in 1900 the discovery of phosphate, an absolute requirement for agriculture, catapulted Nauru into the world market. Colonial imperialists who occupied Nauru and mined it for its lucrative phosphate resources devastated the island, which forever changed its native people. In 1968 Nauruans regained rule of their island and immediately faced a conundrum: to pursue a sustainable future that would protect their truly valuable natural resources—the biological and physical integrity of their island—or to mine and sell the remaining forty-year supply of phosphate and in the process make most of their home useless. They did the latter. In a captivating and moving style, the authors describe how the island became one of the richest nations in the world and how its citizens acquired all the ills of modern life: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension. At the same time, Nauru became 80 percent mined-out ruins that contain severely impoverished biological communities of little value in supporting human habitation. This sad tale highlights the dire consequences of a free-market economy, a system in direct conflict with sustaining the environment. In presenting evidence for the current mass extinction, the authors argue that we cannot expect to preserve biodiversity or support sustainable habitation, because our economic operating principles are incompatible with these activities.
Author : August Hermann Francke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Ladākh (India)
ISBN : OCLC:47044725
Author : Ved Mehta
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789351182771
Portrait of India (1970) is a vivid account of 60s’ India and some of its most interesting figures—Indira Gandhi, Jaya Prakash Narayan and Satyajit Ray, among others. Travelling across the country from the Himalayas to Kerala, through its villages and cities, Ved Mehta’s observations of and insights into India remain relevant and thought-provoking even today.
Author : Pradeep Kumar Gautam,Jagannath P. Panda,Zakir Hussain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : MINN:31951D03683518V
