This book aspires to narrate the story of the revolutionary movement in India from 1900- 1920. The movement had its hectic days from 1907-1917. It traces the movement and its workers-the most repres……続きを見る
This volume contains writings on the 'Royal Period' (1626-1700), as distinguished from the 'Peshwa Period' of Maratha history, and added a long life of Malik Ambar (from original Persian sources) an……続きを見る
"My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true,……続きを見る
The lives of four Victorian gentlewomen are transformed when they leave the cozy confines of England for India to accompany their husbands or a brother who were appointed Viceroys of India, the crow……続きを見る
著者:V. S. Naipaul
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年04月06日
**From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a masterpiece of astonishing insight and candor about a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.
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Indian iconography has chiefly been catalogued by historians; it has not been extensively subjected to the analytical scrutiny that is essential to its use as a source of knowledge about our histori……続きを見る
著者:Isabel Hofmeyr
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2013年03月05日
When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In G……続きを見る
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 ……続きを見る
Here is an authentic account of a brief, momentous event that preceded Indias Independence fifty years ago. This is a personal account by the author, a junior naval officer at the time, caught by ch……続きを見る
The greatest master...the greatest prayer...stop going here and there, just pray to Guru Gautam Swami and see all your dreams fulfilled. This composition contains eight stanzas that extol Guru Gaut……続きを見る
The fiery patriot who first unfurled India's flag at an international assembly. She turned away from a life of luxury and lived an exile - to serve her country. And the mighty British Government gre……続きを見る
This sweeping narrative sketches the political and economic realities of the past fifty years while tracing an eventful life from the turmoil following the partition of India and the creation of Pak……続きを見る
This collection of vignettes was written by Soviet junior officers describing their experiences fighting the Mujahideen guerillas. It is not a history of the Soviet-Afghan war, but snapshots of comb……続きを見る
Lord Parshvanath is the 23rd tirthankar of the jains. He led an exemplary life, full of forbearance. Non violence, self-control and penance are the sterling qualities that he personified. The Śaṅkhē……続きを見る
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provid……続きを見る
RARE COLLECTORS ITEM. FIRST PUBLISHED-1916. In India and the Far East, the story of Rama, Sita and Hanuman is not just an ancient classic; it is a mystique and a myth that has provided inspiration……続きを見る
Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam also known as or Akbar the Great (14 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), was the third Mughal Emperor. He was of Timurid descent; the son of Emperor Humayun, and th……続きを見る
A Global History of the Developing World takes a sweeping look at the historical foundations of the problems of developing world society. Encompassing Asia, Latin America and Africa, the book centra……続きを見る
Akbar, Emperor of India
A Picture of Lfe and Customs from the Sixteenth Century
This edition features
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• a linked List of Illustrations and Footnotes
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Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad’s population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify th……続きを見る
While secularism has been integral to India’s democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and reli……続きを見る
The Jainism has divided the rotations of the wheel of time in two on the basic of their outcome. During the utsarpini period the Joys increase gradually and during avasarpini the woe multiply. Sixty……続きを見る
著者:Susan Seizer
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2005年04月11日
A study of the lives of popular theater artists, Stigmas of the Tamil Stage is the first in-depth analysis of Special Drama, a genre of performance unique to the southernmost Indian state of Tamilna……続きを見る
An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Maj……続きを見る
Crucible of Conflict is an ethnographic and historical study of Hindu castes, matrilineal family structure, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. It is also the first full-length ethnog……続きを見る
Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge “traveled” to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India’s Br……続きを見る
著者:Sangeeta Ray
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2000年06月20日
En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian……続きを見る
著者:S.G.Lokhande
出版社: Data Web Tect LLC
発売日: 2012年09月30日
The mother of Shivaji, who was the protector of the country as well as religion. She was the guide who shaped his mind from his early years. She was the embodiment of self-respect. That great mother……続きを見る
A fascinating look at the myriad religious beliefs from the long history of the Indian subcontinent. Written by eminent American Sanskrit scholar Edward Washburn Hopkins.
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This book described about the true life of India, the land Mr. & Mrs. W.J. Rogers used to travel. There were some amazing angles you should know about India. The contents of this book con……続きを見る