The Ni Matnama Manuscript Of The Sultans Of Mandu

Author : Norah M. Titley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781134268078

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The Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu by Norah M. Titley Pdf

"There is only one known copy of the Sultan's Book of Delights in existence and it is held in the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library (BL. Persian 149). The manuscript is illustrated with fifty elegant miniature paintings, most of which show the Sultan, Ghiyath Shahi, observing the women of his court as they prepare and serve him various dishes. The book is fascinating in that the text documents a remarkable stage in the history of Indian cookery whilst the miniatures demonstrate the influence of imported Persian artists on the style of the Indian artists employed in Ghiyath Shahi's academy."--Jacket.

Author : Norah M. Titley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781134268061

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The Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu by Norah M. Titley Pdf

The Ni'matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of the recipes of the eccentric Sultan of Mandu (Madhya Pradesh), Ghiyath Shahi, collected and added to by his son and successor, Nasir Shah. It contains recipes for cooking a variety of delicacies and epicurean delights, as well as providing remedies and aphrodisiacs for the Sultan and his court. It also includes important sections on the preparation of betel leaves as well as advice on the logistics of hunting expeditions and warfare. The text provides a remarkable and tantalizing account of rarified courtly life in a fifteenth-century Indian Sultanate region.

Author : Deborah L. Stein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520968882

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The Hegemony of Heritage by Deborah L. Stein Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how the relationship of architectural objects and societies to the built environment changes over time. Studying two surviving medieval monuments in southern Rajasthan—the Ambika Temple in Jagat and the Ékalingji Temple Complex in Kailaspuri—the author looks beyond their divergent sectarian affiliations and patronage structures to underscore many aspects of common practice. This book offers new and extremely valuable insights into these important monuments, illuminating the entangled politics of antiquity and revealing whether a monument’s ritual record is affirmed as continuous and hence hoary or dismissed as discontinuous or reinvented through various strategies. The Hegemony of Heritage enriches theoretical constructs with ethnographic description and asks us to reexamine notions such as archive and text through the filter of sculpture and mantra.

Author : Nasir Raza Khan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000477573

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Art and Architectural Traditions of India and Iran by Nasir Raza Khan Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the historical and cultural linkages between India and Iran in terms of art and architectural traditions and their commonality and diversity. It addresses themes such as early connections between Iran, India and Central Asia; study of the Qutb Complex in Delhi; the great immigration of Turks from Asia to Anatolia; the collaboration of Indian and Persian painters; design, ornamentation techniques and regional dynamics; women and public spaces in Shahjahanabad and Isfahan; the noble-architects of emperor Shah Jahan's reign; development of Kashmir’s Islamic religious architecture in the medieval period; role of Nur Jahan and her Persian roots in the evolution of the Mughal Garden; synthesis of Indo-Iranian architecture; and confluence of Indo-Persian food culture to showcase the richness of art, architecture, and sociocultural and political exchanges between the two countries. Bringing together a wide array of perspectives, it delves into the roots of connection between India and Iran over centuries to understand its influence and impact on the artistic and cultural genealogy and the shared past of two of the oldest civilizations and regional powers of the world. With its archival sources, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of medieval history, Indian history, international relations, Central Asian history, Islamic studies, Iranian history, art and architecture, heritage studies, cultural studies, regional studies, and South Asian studies as well as those interested in the study of sociocultural and religious exchanges.

Author : Upendra Nath Day
Publisher : Delhi : Munshi Ram Manohar Lal
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Malwa (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, India)
ISBN : UCAL:$B683341

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Medieval Malwa by Upendra Nath Day Pdf

Author : Richard M. Eaton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520974234

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India in the Persianate Age by Richard M. Eaton Pdf

Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world with its own religions, philosophies, and social systems. And yet this ancient land and its varied societies experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultures of East and Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, and especially Central Asia and the Iranian plateau. Richard M. Eaton tells this extraordinary story with relish and originality, as he traces the rise of Persianate culture, a many-faceted transregional world connected by ever-widening networks across much of Asia. Introduced to India in the eleventh century by dynasties based in eastern Afghanistan, this culture would become progressively indigenized in the time of the great Mughals (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries). Eaton brilliantly elaborates the complex encounter between India's Sanskrit culture—an equally rich and transregional complex that continued to flourish and grow throughout this period—and Persian culture, which helped shape the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, and a host of regional states. This long-term process of cultural interaction is profoundly reflected in the languages, literatures, cuisines, attires, religions, styles of rulership and warfare, science, art, music, and architecture—and more—of South Asia.

Author : Mana Kia
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503611962

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Persianate Selves by Mana Kia Pdf

For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and Persians lived in many other lands as well. Thus to be Persian was to be embedded in a set of connections with people we today consider members of different groups. Persianate selfhood encompassed a broader range of possibilities than contemporary nationalist claims to place and origin allow. We cannot grasp these older connections without historicizing our conceptions of difference and affiliation. Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing place, origin, and selfhood through its tradition of proper form: adab. In this shared culture, proximities and similarities constituted a logic that distinguished between people while simultaneously accommodating plurality. Adab was the basis of cohesion for self and community over the turbulent eighteenth century, as populations dispersed and centers of power shifted, disrupting the circulations that linked Persianate regions. Challenging the bases of protonationalist community, Persianate Selves seeks to make sense of an earlier transregional Persianate culture outside the anachronistic shadow of nationalisms.

Author : C. Pieruccini,P. M. Rossi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8867055437

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A World of Nourishment. Reflections on Food in Indian Culture by C. Pieruccini,P. M. Rossi Pdf

Author : Emma J. Flatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481939

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The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates by Emma J. Flatt Pdf

Illuminates the centrality of courtliness in the political and cultural life of the Deccan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Author : Julia A. B. Hegewald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110979855

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Embodied Dependencies and Freedoms by Julia A. B. Hegewald Pdf

Have you ever thought about dependencies in Asian art and architecture? Most people would probably assume that the arts are free and that creativity and ingenuity function outside of such reliances. However, the 13 chapters provided by specialists in the fields of Asian art and architecture in this volume show, that those active in the visual arts and the built environment operate in an area of strict relations of often extreme dependences. Material artefacts and edifices are dependent on the climate in which they have been created, on the availability of resources for their production, on social and religious traditions, which may be oral or written down and on donors, patrons and the art market. Furthermore, gender and labour dependencies play a role in the creation of the arts as well. Despite these strong and in most instances asymmetrical dependencies, artists have at all times found freedoms in expressing their own imagination, vision and originality. This shows that dependencies and freedoms are not necessarily strictly separated binary opposites but that, at least in the area of the history of art and architecture in Asia, the two are interconnected in what are often complex and multifaceted layers.

Author : Dorinda Neave,Lara C. W. Blanchard,Marika Sardar,Miranda Bruce-Mitford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art, Asian
ISBN : 0205837638

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Asian Art by Dorinda Neave,Lara C. W. Blanchard,Marika Sardar,Miranda Bruce-Mitford Pdf

"Asian Art provides students with an accessible introduction to the history of Asian Art. Students will gain an understanding of the emergence and evolution of Asian art in all its diversity. Using a range of analytical skills, readers will learn to recognize patterns of continuity and change between the arts and cultures of various regions comprising Asia. Images set within their broader cultural and religious backgrounds provides students with important contextual information to understand and decode artworks"--Publisher's description.

Author : Colleen Taylor Sen,Sourish Bhattacharyya,Helen Saberi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350128644

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indian Cuisine by Colleen Taylor Sen,Sourish Bhattacharyya,Helen Saberi Pdf

This reference work covers the cuisine and foodways of India in all their diversity and complexity, including regions, personalities, street foods, communities and topics that have been often neglected. The book starts with an overview essay situating the Great Indian Table in relation to its geography, history and agriculture, followed by alphabetically organized entries. The entries, which are between 150 and 1,500 words long, combine facts with history, anecdotes, and legends. They are supplemented by longer entries on key topics such as regional cuisines, spice mixtures, food and medicine, rites of passages, cooking methods, rice, sweets, tea, drinks (alcoholic and soft) and the Indian diaspora. This comprehensive volume illuminates contemporary Indian cooking and cuisine in tradition and practice.

Author : T. Muraoka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X006070686

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Classical Syriac by T. Muraoka Pdf

Author : Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher : Prestel Pub
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 3791312537

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India by Stuart Cary Welch Pdf

India: Art and Culture 1300-1900 is a tribute to the rich and varied culture of India as represented in the later art of the subcontinent, dating from the fourteenth through the nineteenth century. Comprehensive in its conceptual framework, this presentation of three hundred thirty-three works brings together masterpieces of the sacred and court traditions and embraces as well the urban, folk, and tribal heritage. India: Art and Culture 1300-1900 is the catalogue for the exhibition INDIA!, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 14, 1985, through January 5, 1986, the most extensive survey of Indian art ever assembled by a museum in the United States.

Author : Anne Gerritsen,Burton Cleetus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350195905

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Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World by Anne Gerritsen,Burton Cleetus Pdf

Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging existing approaches to knowledge, power and the market, it defines 'therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were understood and engaged with in various settings and for a number of purposes. Offering new spatial realms within which the circulation of commodities created new regimes of meaning, Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World demonstrates how medicinal substances have had immediate and far-reaching economic and political consequences in various capacities. From midwifery and umbilical cords, to the social spaces of soap, perfumes in early modern India and remedies for leprosy, this volume considers a vast range of material culture in medicinal settings to better understand the history of medicine and its role in global connections since the early 17th century.