Download or read book The Hindi Classical Tradition written by Rupert Snell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Love Songs of Chandidas written by Deben Bhattacharya and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1967, Love Songs of Chandidās provides an informative introduction which makes vividly clear the importance of Chandidās to the Indian peasant masses. As the author tells us, the traveller through the Birbhum area of Bengal hears Chandidās everywhere, in the villages, in the fields, on the roads. Night after night, the people gather in the temple courtyards or on the village greens to listen to professional ‘Kirtan’ singers sing his songs of the divine love of Radha and Krishna. The influence of Chandidās on contemporary Bengali literature is equally important, his songs having enriched the work of great poets such as Rabindranath Tagore, Govindadas, and many others. The author also discusses the interesting topic of the Sahaja (‘spontaneity’) movement in Indian faith and literature, as manifested in the songs of Chandidās, and the worship of love-making, divine and human, as an important aspect of this faith. This book will be of interest to students of literature, music, history, cultural studies and South Asian studies.
Download or read book Braj written by A. W. Entwistle and published by Groningen Oriental Studies. This book was released on 1987 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive study of the region where Krishna is believed to have spent his early years. Readers will find a survey of the development of the Krishna cult, with reference to the extensive Sanskrit literature, as well as numerous studies written about relevant mythology, theology, archaeology and political history.
Download or read book Maharashtra written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unraveling Misconceptions written by Nirmala Sharma and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both India and E.M.Forster have recently been discovered, so to speak, by the Columbuses of Western popular culture, the makers of British films and television serials. Mrs. Sharmas interest in both these subjects is of much longer standing and is less interested in scenic details than in hard intellectual essences. She has written a thoughtful and a thought-provoking book about the author of A Passage to India, one which givers Forster full credit for his large-minded tolerance but is uncompromising in pointing out where that tolerance fails and what are the short-comings of the background which caused the failure. Mrs. Sharmas book might well be subtitled The Limits of Liberalism, and she is especially illuminating when she traces the sources of this movement of nineteenth-century thought and demonstrates how E.M. Forster, both through his education and his family background, was liberalisms disciple and inheritor. She shows, moreover, how the rational bias of the nineteenth-century political and intellectual mind set kept Forster free of the usual English middle-class prejudices regarding the so-called inferior races and different cultures and how it armed him to oppose the emotionalism of the barely-disguised race-hatred displayed by most of the English who were ruling in India. Mrs. Sharma agrees that Forster deserves much of his reputation as the man who exposed British hypocrisy regarding India and the Indians, especially Muslim Indians. At the same time she demonstrates how Forsters total allegiance to the liberal creed of rationalism blinds him to the whole world of emotionalism and thus renders almost the whole of Hindu India a muddle to him. Forster is himself not entirely unaware of this limitation. He is after all the man who was capable of mustering only Two Cheers for Democracy. But he leaves the impression that the failure to understand India and to make a unity of things Indian is due to the gross size and complexity of the object to be studied and the narrow capabilities of the general Western mind. No Westerner, Forster implies, could ever hope to comprehend all the facets, contradictions, paradoxes, and mysteries of the Sub-Continent. Mrs. Sharma will have none of this. She is well read in English and American literature and can show how what was closed to Forster was perfectly open to such Westerners as John Donne and Walt Whitman. The fault, one begins to understand, is not with the West, but with Western liberalism and its obsessive fear of the irrational. Such a fear may indeed be shown to characterize Forster not only as a social critic but also as an artist. For instance, one of the chapters of his own though provoking book, Aspects of the Novel, deals with what Forster calls a conflict between plot and character. Characters, he recognizes, when fully conceived, sometimes have a way of taking on a life of their own, so to speak, and insist on behaving otherwise than the author had intended in his rationally coherent, preconceived plot. Since the plot carries the intellectual substance of a Forster novel, he advises novice writers, the readers of Aspects of the Novel, to put down these irrational rebellions of his characters with a firm repressive hand, to make them do what they were intended to do. A different sort of writer, one who trusted the irrational which Forster so feared, might have decided that the rebellious character might be leading the author to a new truth, one which the emotionalism of art, a opposed to the rationalism of logic, was capable of discovering. But not Forster, and thus when, returning to A Passage to India, his Mrs. Moore begins to understand what Forster, with his liberal background has pre-decided it is beyond her capacity as a Westerner to understand, he packs her off to England and kills her. The Forster whom Mrs. Sharma has discovered for us is almost as great a paradox as he perceives India to be. He is a consummate artist who does not trust his art. His is a good mind severely limited, a courageous mind when backed by rational thought, but a timid soul when faced by the irrational in others or even by the emotional in himself.
Download or read book Numbers Don t Lie written by Vaclav Smil and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vaclav Smil is my favorite author… Numbers Don't Lie takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down into an easy-to-read format. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes From the author of How the World Really Works, an essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world--exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production. Vaclav Smil's mission is to make facts matter. An environmental scientist, policy analyst, and a hugely prolific author, he is Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world. In Numbers Don't Lie, Smil answers questions such as: What's worse for the environment--your car or your phone? How much do the world's cows weigh (and what does it matter)? And what makes people happy? From data about our societies and populations, through measures of the fuels and foods that energize them, to the impact of transportation and inventions of our modern world--and how all of this affects the planet itself--in Numbers Don't Lie, Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to challenge conventional thinking. Packed with fascinating information and memorable examples, Numbers Don't Lie reveals how the US is leading a rising worldwide trend in chicken consumption, that vaccination yields the best return on investment, and why electric cars aren't as great as we think (yet). Urgent and essential, with a mix of science, history, and wit--all in bite-sized chapters on a broad range of topics--Numbers Don't Lie inspires readers to interrogate what they take to be true.
Download or read book A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF FAIRS AND FESTIVALS IN PUNE DISTRICT written by Dr. MAHADEV D. GURAV and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism has emerged as the fastest rising industry in the world. It accounts for 7 %% of capital investment and about 20 million people around the globe are employed in this industry. Now it is one of the sectors sustaining to national economy. Some countries like Singapore, Hongkong, Switzerland etc. have tourism based economy. Therefore it is very important.
Download or read book The Great Temples of India Ceylon and Burma written by Christian Literature Society for India and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Temples of India Ceylon and Burma written by Asian Educ Service and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1988 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mostly on Hindu temples in India, and Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka and Burma.
Download or read book The Partial Revolution written by Michael Hoffmann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency, critically examining the ways in which revolutionary political mobilization changes social relations—often unexpectedly clashing with the movement’s ideological goals. Focusing primarily on the end of Kailali’s feudal system of bonded labor, Hoffmann explores the connection between politics, labor, and Mao’s legacy, documenting the impact of changing political contexts on labor relations among former debt-bonded laborers.
Download or read book Mathur written by Frederic Salmon Growse and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ritual Matters written by Ute Husken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interaction of rituals and ritualised practices utilising a cross-cultural approach. It discusses whether and why rituals are important today, and why they are possibly even more relevant than before.
Download or read book Emerging Trends in Indian Tourism and Hospitality written by Dr U N Shukla and published by Copal Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book insights into the various issues, aspects, potentials, prospects and challenges of tourism and hospitality sector in India in the age of technological transformation and innovations. It highlights the various cutting edge emerging concepts, practices, policies, marketing strategies of tourism, hospitality and aviation industry in India. The book explores new innovations and key practices in the Indian tourism and hospitality industry. It creates a knowledge base for the students, academicians, researchers and industry practitioners by analyzing the real research gaps and latest developments, trends, and research in the Indian tourism sector. The book also discusses recent initiatives taken by the Government of India to boost this particular sector. The book covers a very important part of syllabus of higher education programs in tourism like MBA (Travel Tourism), MTTM, MTM (IGNOU), MTA, BTS, BTA.
Download or read book Colonial Power Colonial Texts written by M. Keith Booker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the British novel of India from Kipling's Kim to Farrell's The Singapore Grip
Download or read book Kings and Untouchables written by Rosa Maria Perez and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Presents Fieldwork Done On The Vankar A Caste Of Untouchable Weavers In Gujarat. This Book Confronts The Western Perception Of Untouchability With The Notion Of Reversibility, And A Fresh Translation Of Social Norms.
