Padmavat

Author : Amaresh Datta
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : 8126011947

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Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature by Amaresh Datta Pdf

A Major Activity Of The Sahitya Akademi Is The Preparation Of An Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature. The Venture, Covering Twenty-Two Languages Of India, Is The First Of Its Kind. Written In English, The Encyclopaedia Gives A Comprehensive Idea Of The Growth And Development Of Indian Literature. The Entries On Authors, Books And General Topics Have Been Tabulated By The Concerned Advisory Boards And Finalised By A Steering Committee. Hundreds Of Writers All Over The Country Contributed Articles On Various Topics. The Encyclopaedia, Planned As A Six-Volume Project, Has Been Brought Out. The Sahitya Akademi Embarked Upon This Project In Right Earnest In 1984. The Efforts Of The Highly Skilled And Professional Editorial Staff Started Showing Results And The First Volume Was Brought Out In 1987. The Second Volume Was Brought Out In 1988, The Third In 1989, The Fourth In 1991, The Fifth In 1992, And The Sixth Volume In 1994. All The Six Volumes Together Include Approximately 7500 Entries On Various Topics, Literary Trends And Movements, Eminent Authors And Significant Works. The First Three Volume Were Edited By Prof. Amaresh Datta, Fourth And Fifth Volume By Mohan Lal And Sixth Volume By Shri K.C.Dutt.

Author : Ramya Sreenivasan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295997858

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The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen by Ramya Sreenivasan Pdf

Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical romance in the sixteenth century to nationalist histories in the late nineteenth century. The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen explores how early modern regional elites, caste groups, and mystical and monastic communities shaped their distinctive versions of the past through the repeated refashioning of the legend of Padmini. Ramya Sreenivasan investigates these legends and traces their subsequent appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist intellectuals, for varying different political ends. Using Padmini as a means of illustrating the power of gender norms in constructing heroic memory, she shows how such narratives about virtuous women changed as they circulated across particular communities in South Asia between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book will interest historians of memory, gender, community, culture, and historywriting in South Asia. Illustrating how enduring legends emerged out of particular precolonial repositories of "tradition," the book also addresses the nature of colonial transitions and precolonial historical consciousness.

Author : Rajat Datta
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : India
ISBN : 8189833367

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Rethinking a Millennium by Rajat Datta Pdf

This book is a collection of essays by eminent historians exploring a millennium of India s history between the eighth and the eighteenth century, conventionally understood as early medieval and medieval India. Though these terms are subjected to critical

Author : Patton E. Burchett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231548830

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A Genealogy of Devotion by Patton E. Burchett Pdf

In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. Beginning in India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” and reaching to the present day, Burchett focuses his analysis on the crucial shifts of the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti communities in North India transformed the religious landscape in ways that would profoundly affect the shape of modern-day Hinduism. A Genealogy of Devotion illuminates the complex historical factors at play in the growth of bhakti in Sultanate and Mughal India through its pivotal interactions with Indic and Persianate traditions of asceticism, monasticism, politics, and literature. Shedding new light on the importance of Persian culture and popular Sufism in the history of devotional Hinduism, Burchett’s work explores the cultural encounters that reshaped early modern North Indian communities. Focusing on the Rāmānandī bhakti community and the tantric Nāth yogīs, Burchett describes the emergence of a new and Sufi-inflected devotional sensibility—an ethical, emotional, and aesthetic disposition—that was often critical of tantric and yogic religiosity. Early modern North Indian devotional critiques of tantric religiosity, he shows, prefigured colonial-era Orientalist depictions of bhakti as “religion” and tantra as “magic.” Providing a broad historical view of bhakti, tantra, and yoga while simultaneously challenging dominant scholarly conceptions of them, A Genealogy of Devotion offers a bold new narrative of the history of religion in India.

Author : Raziuddin Aquil,Tilottama Mukherjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000071801

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An Earthly Paradise by Raziuddin Aquil,Tilottama Mukherjee Pdf

This collection of articles on varied facets of early modern Bengal showcases cutting edge work in the field and hopes to encourage new research. The essays explore the trading networks, religious traditions, artistic and literary patronage, and politico-cultural practices that emerged in roughly sixteenth-eighteenth centuries. Using a wide array of sources, the contributors to this volume, coming from diverse academic affiliations,and including many young researchers, have attempted to address various historiographical ‘black holes’ bringing in new material and interpretations. Early modern Bengal’s history tends to get overshadowed by the later developments of the nineteenth century. What this assortment of articles highlights is that this period needs to be studied afresh, and in depth. The region underwent rapid transformations as it got politically integrated with Northern India and its empires and economically with extensive global economic networks. Combined with its unique geography, the trajectory of this region in all spheres manifest an almost constant interplay of local and extra-local forces – be it in literature, art, economic domain, political and religious cultures – and considerable enterprise and ingenuity. Thus, a variety of themes – including travel accounts, Portuguese and Arakanese presence, early Dutch, French, Ostend companies’ forays into the region, artistic production in the Nizamat and later collections of art and missionaries, the English company state’s intrusions in local economy in salt and raw silk production and indigenous reactions and rebellions, consumption practices related to religious activities, circulation and translation of texts, representation of women in vernacular writings, and organization of religious traditions – have been analysed in this volume, with a wide ranging introduction tying up the themes to the broader historiographical issues and contexts. The collection will be an invaluable reference tool for students and scholars of history, especially of early modern India. Please note: This title is co-published with Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : EduGorilla Prep Experts
Publisher : EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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UPSC EPFO Assistant Prelim Exam 2022 | 10 Full Length Mock Tests (1000+ Solved Questions) by EduGorilla Prep Experts Pdf

• Best Selling Book for EPFO Assistant Prelims Exam with objective-type questions as per the latest syllabus given by the UPSC. • Compare your performance with other students using Smart Answer Sheets in EduGorilla’s EPFO Assistant Prelims Exam Practice Kit. • EPFO Assistant Prelims Exam Preparation Kit comes with 10 Full Length Mock Tests with the best quality content. • Increase your chances of selection by 14X. • EPFO Assistant Prelims Exam Prep Kit comes with well-structured and 100% detailed solutions for all the questions. • Clear exam with good grades using thoroughly Researched Content by experts.

Author : Dr. M. Kanika Priya
Publisher : JEC PUBLICATION
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789357495295

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PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL SEMINAR ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE VOLUME 1 by Dr. M. Kanika Priya Pdf

This Conference Proceedings of the National Seminar entitled “Multidisciplinary Research and Practice” compiled by Dr. M. Kanika Priya records various research papers written by eminent scholars, professors and students. The articles range from English literature to Tamil literature, Arts, Humanities, Social Science, Education, Performing Arts, Information and Communication Technology, Engineering, Technology and Science, Medicine and Pharmaceutical Research, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, Business, Management, Commerce and Accounting, Teacher Education, Higher Education, Primary and Secondary Education, Law, Science (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany), Agriculture and Computer Science. Researchers and faculty members from various disciplines have contributed their research papers. This book contains articles in Three languages, namely: English, Tamil and Hindi. As a editor Dr. M. Kanika Priya has taken up the tedious job of checking the validity and correctness of the research work in bringing out this conference proceedings in a beautiful manner. In its present shape and size, this anthology will, hopefully, find a place on the library shelves and enlighten the academics all round the world.

Author : VD Mahajan
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 8121903645

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History of Medieval India by VD Mahajan Pdf

The book provides a comprehensive account of the social, religious and economic conditions and policies from the Sultanate to the Mughal period in early medieval India. It details the account of the three centuries known for its Islamic influence and rule and the presence of formidable dynasties. The book provides a sound understanding of the history of the period and also evinces the learnings of mutual quarrels and internecine war.

Author : Noveena Chakravorty,Sharmila Kayal,Sayak Pal,K. S. Chithra Lekshmi,Dr. R. Jayaseelan,Dr. S. Kadeswaran,Arpan Paul,Saibal Ray,Nimit Rajesh Sachde,Dr. Ankit Kashyap,Dr. Debastuti Dasgupta,Soumyadeep Sarkar,Gadamsetty Surya,Brindha D,Dr. Jayaseelan R,Samhita S. Mysorae,Sunil Kumar,Md. Nuruddin Pier Shihab,Dr. Suresh Gaur ,Vijay Anand Panigrahi,Pamela Ghosh,Utsha Sarkar,Riddhima Yadav,Dr. Archan Mitra,Sayani Das,Dr. Rakesh Tripathi,Dr. C. Sriram,Dr. V. Mohanasundaram,Subinita Paul,Palak Bisht,Tasha Singh Parihar,Manasa M,Abdul Rasheed A P K,Anju Michael,Arindam Basu,Sonali Jha,Dr. Tamanna M. Shah,Dr. Sheweta Gaur,Manv Sharma,Dr. Ramalakshmi L
Publisher : Adamas Knowledge City, Barasat
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788196340223

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Indian Contemporary Films and Societal Reflection by Noveena Chakravorty,Sharmila Kayal,Sayak Pal,K. S. Chithra Lekshmi,Dr. R. Jayaseelan,Dr. S. Kadeswaran,Arpan Paul,Saibal Ray,Nimit Rajesh Sachde,Dr. Ankit Kashyap,Dr. Debastuti Dasgupta,Soumyadeep Sarkar,Gadamsetty Surya,Brindha D,Dr. Jayaseelan R,Samhita S. Mysorae,Sunil Kumar,Md. Nuruddin Pier Shihab,Dr. Suresh Gaur ,Vijay Anand Panigrahi,Pamela Ghosh,Utsha Sarkar,Riddhima Yadav,Dr. Archan Mitra,Sayani Das,Dr. Rakesh Tripathi,Dr. C. Sriram,Dr. V. Mohanasundaram,Subinita Paul,Palak Bisht,Tasha Singh Parihar,Manasa M,Abdul Rasheed A P K,Anju Michael,Arindam Basu,Sonali Jha,Dr. Tamanna M. Shah,Dr. Sheweta Gaur,Manv Sharma,Dr. Ramalakshmi L Pdf

Film has always acted as a window to the society where it brings out various essences of life. India has always shown prominence in representing its inheritance and rich cultural lineage through different layers of films. Right from “Raja Harishchandra” as a full-length feature film in 1913 to the most contemporary films released on OTT, everything and everyone embedded in any of the films made in India has some level of relevance to the time and society, therefore, they can be called contemporary while projecting some form of social message through their presence. The book “Indian Contemporary Films and Societal Reflection” presents a collection of a list of reviews based on some of the perspectives and concepts portrayed through films like commercialism, gender identity, gender representation, portrayal of power, cinema as a form of art, casteism in cinema, political discourse in cinema, inequality, resilience, relationship, oppression, animation, celluloid reverberations, propaganda and agenda planning, and many more. The twenty-six enthralling chapters from forty-nine authors are collected in this book, which would provide an extensive understanding of different perspectives of films and help identify the societal portrayal of films in various ways.

Author : Vijay Mishra
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438413297

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Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime by Vijay Mishra Pdf

The last two decades of the twentieth century have been marked by an immense revival of interest in the sublime. The sublime has been periodized (and "trans-periodized"), gendered, politicized, and even made into a commodity with specific social and economic effects. Yet past studies have used Western texts as their archives. This book dramatically shifts the focus by examining a major instance of a non-Western sublime: the Hindu Brahman. Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime examines European theories of the sublime, reads them off against contemporary critical uses of the term (notably by Lyotard and Paul de Man), and proposes that the Hindu Brahman constitutes an instance of one of the most fully developed of all sublimes. Mishra argues that the negative aesthetics of Brahman (and the largely decentered rhetoric of Hinduism generally) is part of this massive culture's use of the category of the sublime (and not the beautiful) to speak about a moment when the mind is confronted with an idea too large to be presented to consciousness. The book then examines the case of one of India's dominant literary genres—devotional verse—to show that once the category of the sublime is grasped (or seen as the undertheorized category of Indian aesthetics), it soon becomes clear that this massive genre is also predicated upon Brahman, the Absolute, as the sublime object of (impossible) desire. It is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of both the Indian sublime and Indian devotional verse.

Author : PUBLICATIONS DIVISION
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788123024837

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Cultural Leaders of India - Devotional Poets and Mystics: Part - 2 by PUBLICATIONS DIVISION Pdf

This Volume, the second part, on the Devotional Poets and Mystics, offers another fourteen of them; five from the Hindi speaking areas; three from western India (Gujarat and Maharashtra), one from the east (Bengal), a group of saints, the Hari-dasas of Karnataka; two from Tamil Nadu and one each from Sindh and Andhra Pradesh. The book is edited by Dr. V. Raghavan, an eminent Sanskrit scholar and Indologist.

Author : Shonaleeka Kaul
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000897241

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Myths and Places by Shonaleeka Kaul Pdf

This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of India. Given its ambiguous relationship with ‘facts’ and empirical reality, myth has suffered an uncertain status in the field of professional history, with the latter’s preference for scientifism over more creative orders of representation. Myths and Places rehabilitates myth, not as history’s primeval ‘Other’, nor as an instrument of socio-religious propagation, but as communitarian mechanisms by which societies made sense of themselves and their world. It argues that myths helped communities fashion their identities and their habitat/habitus, and were fashioned by these in turn. This book explores diverse forms of territorial becoming and belonging in a grassroots approach from across India, studying them in culturally sensitive ways to recover local life-worlds and their self-understanding. Further, challenging the stereotypical bracketing of the mythical with the sacred and the material with the historical, the multidisciplinary essays in the book examine myth in relation to not only religion but other historical phenomena such as ecology, ethnicity, urbanism, mercantilism, migration, politics, tourism, art, philosophy, performance, and the everyday. This book will be of interest to scholars and general readers of Indian history, regional studies, cultural geography, mythology, religious studies, and anthropology.

Author : Manjhan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0191587516

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Madhumalati by Manjhan Pdf

The mystical romance Madhumalati tells the story of a prince, Manohar, and his love for the beautiful princess Madhumalati. When they are separated they have to endure suffering, adventure, and transformation before they can be reunited and experience true happiness. A delightful love story, the poem is also rich in mystical symbolism and the story of the two lovers represents the stages on the spiritual path to enlightenment. Madhumalati was written in the sixteenth century and it is an outstanding example of Sufi literature in the Indian Islamic tradition. Originally written in a dialect of Eastern Hindi it is here translated for the first time into English verse, with an introduction and notes that explain the poem's religious significance.

Author : S K Sharma
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Without Hesitation by S K Sharma Pdf

Puzzled problems of Bharatvarsha. Find some of the problems with razor sharp analysis and its possible solution with a Surgeon scalpel. Find out the various actors some visible and large numbers invisible who control the games of Indian Nation. Nobody seems to be free from biases which creates self- interests which are most often crossing the path of truth and service to society and country. Not only actors but large numbers are both actors and directors who control the destiny of society and country. Find these self-interests in an unbiased approach and how our society controllers camouflage their self-interests under falsehood of Nationalism.

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789389645811

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Target SBI Bank PO Preliminary & Main Exam - 20 Practice Sets + Past Papers (2019-15) - 9th Edition by Disha Experts Pdf