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Author : Vikram Sampath
Publisher : Rupa
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Musicians
ISBN : 8129120585
Biography of Gauhar Jan, 1870-1930, Indian musician
Author : Vikram Sampath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Dancers
ISBN : 8129116189
'My Name is Gauhar Jaan!': The Life and Times of a Musician tries to demystify the myth and mystery around one of the most enigmatic legends in Indian music history - Gauhar Jaan. Vikram Sampath, in this remarkable book, brings forth little known details of this fascinating woman who was known for her melodious voice, her multi-lingual skills, poetic sensibility, irresistible personality and her extravagant lifestyle. From her early days in Azamgarh and Banaras to the glory years in Calcutta when Gauhar ruled the world of Indian music, to her sad fall from grace and end in Mysore, the book takes the reader through the roller-coaster ride of this feisty musician. In the process, the author presents a view of the socio-historical context of Indian music and theatre during that period.
Author : Vikram Sampath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mysore (Princely State)
ISBN : 8129113600
It was the summer of AD 1399 that disaster struck a small principality of southern India. Mahisuru, which later went on to become Mysore, had lost its chieftain and was vulnerable to the machinations of a cunning upstart. At around the same time, two young aspirants left their ancestral home in Dwaraka, Gujarat and proceeded southwards in search of fame. Yaduraya, the elder of the two aspirants, was destiny s chosen man, to lead a valiant attack against the vile upstart, rescue the family in distress, wed the princess and assume the lordship of the place. This event marked the birth of the Wodeyar Dynasty.
Author : Vikram Sampath
Publisher : India Penguin Enterprise
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0670096199
Across India women, mostly from the courtesan community, were the stellar pioneers of recording technology in the early twentieth-century. Yet, their stories have been completely lost in the sands of time. This book revisits their lives & features the indefatigable saga of 25 inspiring Indian women musicians from across the country, from 1902 to 1947. Also, hear their original voices that have been restored & reconstructed in the accompanying CD.
Author : Vikram Sampath
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789353056148
As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century. Accounts of his eventful and stormy life have oscillated from eulogizing hagiographies to disparaging demonization. The truth, as always, lies somewhere in between and has unfortunately never been brought to light. Savarkar and his ideology stood as one of the strongest and most virulent opponents of Gandhi, his pacifist philosophy and the Indian National Congress. An alleged atheist and a staunch rationalist who opposed orthodox Hindu beliefs, encouraged inter-caste marriage and dining, and dismissed cow worship as mere superstition, Savarkar was, arguably, the most vocal political voice for the Hindu community through the entire course of India's freedom struggle. From the heady days of revolution and generating international support for the cause of India's freedom as a law student in London, Savarkar found himself arrested, unfairly tried for sedition, transported and incarcerated at the Cellular Jail, in the Andamans, for over a decade, where he underwent unimaginable torture. From being an optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him in the Cellular Jail to a proponent of 'Hindutva', which viewed Muslims with suspicion? Drawing from a vast range of original archival documents across India and abroad, this biography in two parts-the first focusing on the years leading up to his incarceration and eventual release from the Kalapani-puts Savarkar, his life and philosophy in a new perspective and looks at the man with all his achievements and failings.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789354224430
Akhtaribai Faizabadi, or Begum Akhtar as she was better known, was a legend even during her own lifetime, and one of the last of the great singers from the tawaif community. Akhtari documents her eventful life and her music through essays and reminiscences by some of her closest friends and associates, and by people who knew her work deeply -- including the likes of Bismillah Khan, Lata Mangeshkar, Shubha Mudgal, etc. The volume also includes long interviews with Begum Akhtar herself as well as some of her disciples. A bestseller in the original Hindi -- and now available in English -- this is a volume to treasure for all of Begum Akhtar's fans and lovers of music.
Author : Vikram Sampath
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789354920714
Was Savarkar really a co-conspirator in the Gandhi murder? Was there a pogrom against a particular community after Gandhi's assassination? Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political scenario. An optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him into a proponent of 'Hindutva'? A former president of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha, Savarkar was a severe critic of the Congress's appeasement politics. After Gandhi's murder, Savarkar was charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination. While he was acquitted by the court, Savarkar is still alleged to have played a role in Gandhi's assassination, a topic that is often discussed and debated. In this concluding volume of the Savarkar series, exploring a vast range of original archival documents from across India and outside it, in English and several Indian languages, historian Vikram Sampath brings to light the life and works of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century.
Author : Rohit De
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210384
It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society, and Rohit De looks at how drinkers, smugglers, petty vendors, butchers, and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. The Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence, took recourse to it, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws, and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution. Exploring how the Indian Constitution of 1950 enfranchised the largest population in the world, A People’s Constitution considers the ways that ordinary citizens produced, through litigation, alternative ethical models of citizenship.
Author : Saikat Majumdar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789392099281
Never afraid of taking risks, Saikat Majumdar has taken his place as one the most striking novelists writing today. – SHASHI DESHPANDE In prose of spare elegance and understated precision, Saikat Majumdar explores an ethical conflict around mentorship, as well as a welter of questions around creative compromise, cultural privilege and entitlement, including the insidious pressures on poets to be ‘snarky and snappy’. Here is a storyteller whose language is writerly yet beautifully unmannered, supple enough to combine irony with gentleness, finely-modulated observation with axiomatic ease. – ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIUM A novel of love and friendship, pleasure, pain and jealousy. – R. RAJ RAO What are the ethical boundaries of friendship and intimacy between a student and a teacher? Megha, a young writing lecturer in New Jersey struggles to finish her thesis and find full-time employment even as she begins to find underground fame as a poet. Restless and disenchanted, she lets her professor and friends persuade her to take up a position at a new university in Delhi. Moving continents, resettling in the city she knew as a teenager, she discovers that the university is an island of wealth and privilege, and that her mandate is to teach and train some of the key members of India’s ruling class. But her life as a teacher is disrupted as she makes a new friend who unsettles her and asks for unexpected support. In sharp and lyrical prose, The Middle Finger tells the story of a poet grappling with questions about mentorship and belonging, disrupting boundaries set by society and the hierarchies hidden in the world of education.
Author : Vikram Sampath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Vina players
ISBN : 8129119366
On the life of Sundaram Balachander, 1927-1990, Indian Veena player.
Author : Nabina Das
Publisher : Pustak Mahal
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9788122310993
Struggle. Revolution. Change. Are these words simply meant for chanting or do they emerge as real agents of social justice in a country where the divides stand taller than multistoried shopping malls and sky-licking urban ghettoes? Footprints in the Bajra is a novel about the dark realities that even today hound India, a thriving modern democracy in the eye of the world; about a young Maoist recruit named Muskaan from Bihar who meets Nora, a student-activist from New Delhi. The story of Muskaan's transition in belief and action unfolds in this work that delights readers and travels with ease across idioms and identities to engage with the personal interaction of the author with popular cultures, histories and myths.
Author : Lalita du Perron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134159925
Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. Du Perron examines Thumi Lyrics, a major genre of Hindustani music, from a primarily linguistic perspective.
Author : Saba Dewan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9395073594
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bajakhana
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122242923
A Discography of recordings produced by the International Zonophone Company, and associated concerns in Europe and the Americas from 1901-1903. With a history of the company's international activities and a Supplement on reissues and transferred recordings. With Bibliography and indices. With illustrations in the text.
Author : Michael S. Kinnear
Publisher : Bajakhana
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 0957735545
An encyclopaedia of the 78 rpm record labels produced in India and elsewhere, covering all known record labels and histories of the producing concerns from 1899 through to the late 1960's. With a Supplement on the numerical series of the major labels and an Appendix on the record labels of non-Indian and Asian repertoires made in or associated with India.
