Sources Of Indian Tradition

Author : Rachel Fell McDermott,Leonard A. Gordon,Ainslie T. Embree,Frances W. Pritchett,Dennis Dalton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231510929

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Sources of Indian Traditions by Rachel Fell McDermott,Leonard A. Gordon,Ainslie T. Embree,Frances W. Pritchett,Dennis Dalton Pdf

For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company, British colonization, the struggle for liberation, the partition of 1947, and the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and contemporary India. This third edition now begins earlier than the first and second, featuring a new chapter on eighteenth-century intellectual and religious trends that set the stage for India's modern development. The editors have added material on Gandhi and his reception both nationally and abroad and include different perspectives on and approaches to Partition and its aftermath. They expand their portrait of post-1947 India and Pakistan and add perspectives on Bangladesh. The collection continues to be divided thematically, with a section devoted to the drafting of the Indian constitution, the rise of nationalism, the influence of Western thought, the conflict in Kashmir, nuclear proliferation, minority religions, secularism, and the role of the Indian political left. A phenomenal text, Sources of Indian Traditions is more indispensable than ever for courses in philosophy, religion, literature, and intellectual and cultural history.

Author : Ainslie Thomas Embree,Stephen N. Hay,William Theodore De Bary
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0231064144

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Sources of Indian Tradition: Modern India and Pakistan by Ainslie Thomas Embree,Stephen N. Hay,William Theodore De Bary Pdf

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Author : Motilal Banarsidass Publishers (Pvt. Ltd)
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120804678

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Sources of Indian Tradition by Motilal Banarsidass Publishers (Pvt. Ltd) Pdf

Author : Ainslie Thomas Embree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : India
ISBN : 0231066503

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Sources of Indian Tradition: Modern India and Pakistan by Ainslie Thomas Embree Pdf

Author : Knut A. Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136240317

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Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition by Knut A. Jacobsen Pdf

Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to grant salvific rewards. Focusing on religious, historical and sociological questions about the phenomenon, this book investigates the narratives, rituals, history and structures of salvific space, and looks at how it became a central feature of Hinduism. Arguing that salvific power of place became a major dimension of Hinduism through a development in several stages, the book analyses the historical process of how salvific space and pilgrimage in the Hindu tradition developed. It discusses how the traditions of salvific space exemplify the decentred polycentrism that defines Hinduism. The book uses original data from field research, as well as drawing on main textual sources such as Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas, the medieval digests on pilgrimage places (tīrthas), and a number of Sthalapurāṇas and Māhātmyas praising the salvific power of the place. By looking at some of the contradictions in and challenges to the tradition of Hindu salvific space in history and in contemporary India, the book is a useful study on Hinduism and South Asian Studies.

Author : David L. Gosling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134143337

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Science and the Indian Tradition by David L. Gosling Pdf

This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced an intellectual renaissance, which owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. Gosling examines the effects of the introduction of Western science into India, and the relationship between Indian traditions of thought and secular Western scientific doctrine. He charts the early development of science in India, its role in the secularization of Indian society, and the subsequent reassertion, adaptation and rejection of traditional modes of thought. The beliefs of key Indian scientists, including Jagadish Chandra Bose, P.C. Roy and S.N. Bose are explored and the book goes on to reflect upon how individual scientists could still accept particular religious beliefs such as reincarnation, cosmology, miracles and prayer. Science and the Indian Tradition gives an in-depth assessment of results of the introduction of Western science into India, and will be of interest to scholars of Indian history and those interested in the interaction between Western and Indian traditions of intellectual thought.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sources of Indian Tradition by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Theodore De Bary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : India
ISBN : OCLC:760350263

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Sources of Indian Tradition by William Theodore De Bary Pdf

Author : Rachel Fell McDermott,Leonard A Gordon,Ainslie T Embree,Frances W Pritchett,Dennis Dalton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789351188957

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Sources of Indian Tradition by Rachel Fell McDermott,Leonard A Gordon,Ainslie T Embree,Frances W Pritchett,Dennis Dalton Pdf

Sources of Indian Tradition is an indispensable and essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company, British colonization, the struggle for liberation, the partition of 1947, and the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and contemporary India. Divided thematically, it begins with a chapter on eighteenth-century intellectual and religious trends that set the stage for India’s modern development. Nineteenth-century debates over social reform, featuring the leaders of reform and revival movements, follow. Chapters on Gandhi and his reception both nationally and abroad, and different perspectives on and approaches to partition, precede a section devoted to the drafting of the Indian constitution, the rise of nationalism, the influence of Western thought, the conflict in Kashmir, nuclear proliferation, minority religions, secularism, and the role of the Indian political left. The last two sections portray Pakistan and its struggle for national identity, and Bangladesh and the controversies over the fruits of freedom.

Author : David Carpenter,Ian Whicher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135796051

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Yoga by David Carpenter,Ian Whicher Pdf

The popular perception of yoga in the West remains for the most part that of a physical fitness program, largely divorced from its historical and spiritual roots. The essays collected here provide a sense of the historical emergence of the classical system presented by Patañjali, a careful examination of the key elements, overall character and contemporary relevance of that system (as found in the Yoga Sutra) and a glimpse of some of the tradition's many important ramifications in later Indian religious history.

Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8120815513

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The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism by Johannes Bronkhorst Pdf

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Author : Ainslie Thomas Embree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Civilization
ISBN : OCLC:1030089203

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Sources of Indian tradition by Ainslie Thomas Embree Pdf

Author : Karine Schomer,W. H. McLeod
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120802772

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The Sants by Karine Schomer,W. H. McLeod Pdf

Author : Stephen N. Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : India
ISBN : 0140154612

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Sources of Indian Tradition by Stephen N. Hay Pdf

Since 1958 Sources Of Indian Tradition Has Been One Of The Most Important And Widely Used Texts On Civilization In South Asia (Now The Nation-States Of Indian, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, And Nepal). It Has Helped Generations Of Students And Lay Readers Understand How Leading Thinkers There Have Looked At Life, The Traditions Of Their Ancestors, And The World They Lived In. This Second Edition Has Been Extensively Revised, With Much New Material Added. Introductory Essays Explain The Particular Setting In Which These Thinkers Have Expressed Their Ideas About Religious, Social, Political, And Economic Questions. Brief Summaries Precede Each Passage From Their Writings Or Sayings. The Traditions Represented Include Brahmanism, Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam And Sikhism. The Book Includes A Chronology Of Indian History From 3000 Bc To Ad 1858.

Author : D D Kosambi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000653472

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The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in HIstorical Outline by D D Kosambi Pdf

First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the natural outgrowth of historical process. Did the change from food gathering and the pastoral life to agriculture make new religions necessary? Why did the Indian cities vanish with hardly a trace and leave no memory? Who were the Aryans – if any? Why should Buddhism, Jainism, and so many other sects of the same type come into being at one time and in the same region? How could Buddhism spread over so large a part of Asia while dying out completely in the land of its origin? What caused the rise and collapse of the Magadhan empire; was the Gupta empire fundamentally different from its great predecessor, or just one more ‘oriental despotism’? These are some of the many questions handled with great insight, yet in the simplest terms, in this stimulating work. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, South Asian studies and ethnic studies.