Download or read book The House of Marwar written by Dhananajaya Singh and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first intimate history of the royal Rathores of Jodhpur, whose extravagant, valorous and sometimes shameful deeds are vividly described.
Download or read book India written by Patrick French and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul. Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of history, French exposes the cultural foundations of India’s political, economic and social complexities. He reveals how a nation identified with some of the most wretched poverty on earth has simultaneously developed an envied culture of entrepreneurship (here are stories like that of C. K. Ranganathan, who trudged the streets of Cuddalore in the 1980s selling sample packets of shampoo and now employs more than one thousand people). And even more remarkably, French shows how, despite the ancient and persistent traditions of caste, as well as a mind-boggling number of ethnicities and languages, India has nevertheless managed to cohere, evolving into the world’s largest democracy, largely fulfilling Jawaharlal Nehru’s dream of a secular liberal order. French’s inquiry goes to the heart of all the puzzlements that modern India presents: Is this country actually rich or poor? Why has its Muslim population, the second largest on earth, resisted radicalization to such a considerable extent? Why do so many children of Indians who have succeeded in the West want to return “home,” despite never having lived in India? Will India become a natural ally of the West, a geostrategic counterweight to the illiberal rising powers China and Russia? To find the answers, French seeks out an astonishing range of characters: from Maoist revolutionaries to Mafia dons, from chained quarry laborers to self-made billionaires. And he delves into the personal lives of the political elite, including the Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, one of the most powerful women in the world. With a familiarity and insight few Westerners could approach, Patrick French provides a vital corrective to the many outdated notions about a uniquely dynamic and consequential nation. His India is a thrilling revelation.
Download or read book The Aeroplane and the Making of Modern India written by Aashique Ahmed Iqbal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the Indian state's engagement with aviation, both civil and military, from the Second World War to the nationalization of airlines in 1953, this book argues that aviation played a critical role in state formation in modern South Asia.
Download or read book May the Best Man Win written by P. McDevitt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Britain's great power status came to be increasingly challenged in the decades before the First World War, one by-product of the resultant uncertainty was the weakening of the Victorian, middle-class consensus of what constituted ideal manhood. Britain's empire was not only the source of wealth and power, but it simultaneously provided alternative models of masculinity and nationhood. Consequently, the empire and the commonwealth played an important role in defining imperial gender relations in both Britain and in the colonies and dominions. May the Best Man Win investigates the continual re-assessment and reassertion of various masculine ideals associated with sport in the British empire between 1880 and 1935.
Download or read book Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of India Hindu Buddhist and Brahmanical written by J. Wheeler and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book The History of India from the Earliest Ages Hindu Buddhist Brahmanical revival written by James Talboys Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The History of India written by J. Wheeler and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book The Cyclop dia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia written by Edward Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marwar Painting written by Rosemary Crill and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book : - The Rathore clan of Rajputs who ruled Marwar (Jodhpur) developed a strikingly individual style of painting that was interpreted in a host of different ways by local artists in the many small fiefdoms of the Rathore nobility. Artists trained at Mughal courts brought sophisticated concepts of portraiture and composition to Jodhpur in the 17th and 18th centuries; these ideas were combined with distinctive local styles and bold colour to form a uniquely lively school of painting. The first to feature a wide range of vibrant Marwar paintings in full colour, this book provides a complete survey of the development of this little-known school of Rajasthani painting. About the Author : - Rosemary Crill is Senior Curator in the Asian Department at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Download or read book Royal Umbrellas of Stone Memory Politics and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art written by Melia Belli Bose and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art, Melia Belli Bose provides the first analysis of Rajput chatrīs ("umbrellas"; cenotaphs) built between the sixteenth to early-twentieth centuries. New kings constructed chatrīs for their late fathers as statements of legitimacy. During periods of political upheaval patrons introduced new forms and decorations to respond to current events and evoke a particular past. Offering detailed analyses of individual cenotaphs and engaging with art historical and epigraphic evidence, as well as ethnography and ritual, this book locates the chatrīs within their original social, political, and religious milieux. It also compares the chatrīs to other Rajput arts to understand how arts of different media targeted specific audiences.
Download or read book Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan written by James Tod and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia Commercial Industrial and Scientific written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cyclop dia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia Commercial Industrial and Scientific written by Edward Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annals and Antiquities of Rajast han Or The Central and Western Rajpoot States of India written by James Tod and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annals and Antiquities of Rajast han Or The Central and Western Rajpoot States of India written by James Tod (Lieutenant-Colonel.) and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
