Download or read book History And Culture Of The Himalaya 3 Vols written by Kuldip Singh Gulia and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume-1. Historical Perspective: This book gives a detailed account of the origin and location of Himalaya. Aeons ago, the region was covered by a shallow Tethys Sea, but as a result of the plates tectonics coming closer and colliding, there emerged the mountain of Himalaya. This is the youngest mountain of the world which is still registering growth in its peaks annually. Besides these fascinating details, it deals with the different ranges of Kashmir, Uttarakhand, and other parts of western and eastern Himalaya, which are diverse ecological, environmental and climatic zones. Volume-2. Demography and Human Geography: Another volume of this book deals with the demography and social structure in various regions of the Himalaya. This includes the people, communities, languages, the aboriginals, and later arrivals. The people of Jaunsar-Bawar are called as the ^relics of Past^, who still preserve their culture dating back to Mahabharata period. There are polyandrous and polygynandrous people in Jaunsar-Bawar, Spiti and Lahaul. This book also deals with kinship and social organisation of India, Bhutan and Nepal. Volume-3. Geological and Physical Perspective: This volume deals with Geology of Nepal, Uttarakhand, Myth, History and Man, and other facts about Nepal. This book in three volumes contains uptodate wealth of information culled from various sources on the subject in fascinating detail.
Download or read book Views in India chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains written by George Francis White and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Francis White made his observations on the Himalayan mountains of India in this work. He discussed the weather conditions, way of living, rivers, and many more of the various towns in the Himalayan range. In addition, a quick scientific survey of the places is included in this work.
Download or read book Perspectives on History and Change in the Karakorum Hindukush and Himalaya written by Irmtraud Stellrecht and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this proceedings volume emerged from an interdisciplinary workshop, held in April 1995, which brought together members of two high-mountain research projects supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society). Regionally, the focus was on northern Pakistan, India and Nepal. The main topic common to all participants was the dynamic aspect of the relationships between highlands and lowlands in the past and the present, and their impact in the high mountain regions on trade, population structure, ethnic and religious identity-forming processes as well as the use of the environment. In addition, this volume discusses the aspects and implementations of policies aimed at sustainable development in the Himalayan regions of Pakistan, India and Nepal.
Download or read book The Himalayas written by Makhan Jha and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume throws light on various dimensions of the Himalayan life and cultrure.There are twelve chaptres in the book Where various facets of the Himalayan culture,viz,the needed ethnographic reseaches,institurions of polyandry,cultural zones and fronties of the Himalayas,the sacred comlexes of the Himalayan,shrines urgent anthropological researches,enviromental studies,reliogion.highland culture,tribal straification,land-holding pattern.etc.have been scientification discussed by the specialists and experts of the Himalayan studies.
Download or read book The Himalayas written by Andrew J. Hund and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Himalayas: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture serves as a convenient and authoritative reference for anyone exploring the region and seeking to better understand the history, events, peoples, and geopolitical details of this unique area of the world. It explores the geography and details of the demographics, discusses relevant historical events, and addresses socioeconomic movements, political intrigues and controversies, and cultural details as to give an overarching impression of the region as a coherent and cohesive whole. Readers will come away with a vastly heightened understanding of the geographical region we recognize as the Himalayas, and grasp the issues of geography, history, and culture that are central to contemporary understandings of the human culture in the region. The alphabetically arranged and succinct entries provide easy access to detailed, authoritative information. Additionally, sidebars throughout the book relate compelling facts that point readers to new and interesting avenues of exploration. The volume also includes a chronological overview of the region, a detailed glossary of non-English terms that are frequently encountered in the readings, ten primary source documents, and a comprehensive bibliography of supporting works."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Garhwal Himalaya written by Ajay Singh Rawat and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstruction of the political and administrative history of Garhwal during the period 1358 to 1947.
Download or read book Himalaya Frontier in Historical Perspective written by Institute of Historical Studies (Calcutta, India) and published by Calcutta : Institute of Historical Studies. This book was released on 1986 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the Seminar on the Himalaya Frontier, Gangtok, 1979, organized by the Institute of Historical Studies.
Download or read book Himalaya written by Ed Douglas and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world’s highest mountains. For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world’s most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Himalaya has been home to a diversity of indigenous and local cultures, a crucible of world religions, a crossroads for trade, and a meeting point and conflict zone for empires past and present. In this landmark work, nearly two decades in the making, Ed Douglas makes a thrilling case for the Himalaya’s importance in global history and offers a soaring account of life at the "roof of the world." Spanning millennia, from the earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya explores history, culture, climate, geography, and politics. Douglas profiles the great kings of Kathmandu and Nepal; he describes the architects who built the towering white Stupas that distinguish Himalayan architecture; and he traces the flourishing evolution of Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism that brought Himalayan spirituality to the world. He also depicts with great drama the story of how the East India Company grappled for dominance with China’s emperors, how India fought Mao’s Communists, and how mass tourism and ecological transformation are obscuring the bloody legacy of the Cold War. Himalaya is history written on the grandest yet also the most human scale—encompassing geology and genetics, botany and art, and bursting with stories of courage and resourcefulness.
Download or read book Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History showcases recent scholarship, photo essays, maps, and translations about hidden lands (sbas yul) across the Himalaya, from historical and contemporary perspectives.
Download or read book Himalayan Frontiers of India written by K. Warikoo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Himalaya, which is a great natural frontier for India, symbolises India’s spiritual and national consciousness. The Himalayan region displays wide diversity of cultural patterns, languages, ethnic identities and religious practices. Along the Himalayas converge the boundaries of South and Central Asian countries, which lend a unique geopolitical and geo-strategic importance to this region. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of historical, geo-political and strategic perspectives on the Himalayan Frontiers of India. Drawing on detailed analyses by academics and area specialists, it explains the developments in and across the Himalayas and their implications for India. Topics such as religious extremism, international and cross border terrorism, insurgency, drugs and arms trafficking are discussed by experts in their respective field. Himalayan Frontiers of India will be of interest to scholars in South and Central Asian studies, International Relations and Security Studies.
Download or read book Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas written by Jacqueline Fewkes and published by Routledge South Asian Religion Series. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores individual perspectives and specific iterations of Muslim community, Muslim practice and experience of Islam in the Himalayan region as well as the concept of the general Islamic community the Ummah. A multidisciplinary analysis of Muslim communities and historical and contemporary Islamicate traditions, the book shows how Muslims understand and mobilize regional identities and religious expressions. Moreover, it assesses regional interactions, the ways in which institutions shape Muslim practices in specific areas and investigates the notion of the Himalayas as an Islamic space. The book suggests that the regional focus on the Himalayas provides a site of both geographic and cultural crossroads where Muslim community is simultaneously constituted at multiple social levels. As a result, chapters document a wide range of local, national, and global interests while maintaining a focus on individual perspectives, moments in time, and localized experiences. This book draws attention to the cultural, social, artistic, and political diversity of the Himalaya beyond the better-understood and frequently documented religio-cultural expressions of the region. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of anthropology, geography, history, religious studies, Asian Studies, and Islamic Studies
Download or read book Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya written by Megan Adamson Sijapati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious traditions of the region in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book presents detailed case studies of lived religion in the Himalaya in this context of rapid change to offer intra-regional perspectives on the ways in which lived religions are being re-configured or re-imagined. Based on original fieldwork, this book documents understudied forms of religion in the region and presents unique perspectives on the phenomenon and experience of religion, discussing why, when, and where practices, discourses, and the category of religion itself, are engaged by varying communities in the region. It yields fruitful insights into both the religious traditions and lived human experiences of Himalayan peoples in the modern era. Presenting new research and perspectives on the Himalayan region, this book should be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Studies, Religious Studies, and Modernity.
Download or read book Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History written by Frances Mary Garrett and published by Brill's Tibetan Studies Librar. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an era of environmental crisis, narratives of 'hidden lands' are resonant. Understood as sanctuaries in times of calamity, Himalayan hidden lands or sbas yul have shaped the lives of many peoples of the region. Sbas yul are described by visionary lamas called 'treasure finders' who located hidden lands and wrote guidebooks to them. Scholarly understandings of sbas yul as places for spiritual cultivation and refuge from war have been complicated recently. Research now explores such themes as the political and economic role of 'treasure finders', the impact of sbas yul on indigenous populations, and the use of sbas yul for environmental protection and tourism. This book showcases recent scholarship on sbas yul from historical and contemporary perspectives"--
Download or read book History and Culture of Himalayan States written by Sukh Dev Singh Charak and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book People of the Himalayas written by Kanak Chandra Mahanta and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume complied under the rubric of people of the Himalayas: Ecology, Culture Development and Change is an ambitious geographic multidisciplinary study concerning the little or scantily explored mountain ranges of Himalayas. The book has six major themes, which are the subject of 42 chapters. The study aims at having systmatic scientific knowledge of the conditions of the habitats, socio-cultural knowledge of the conditions of the habitats, socio-cultural development and change and their impact on the overall environmental situations presently obtaining in the sprawling 2,700 km long Himalayan ranges; extending from the south-east extreme of the Karakorams across Kashmir to Assam. The work covers the Himalayan highland as well as the lowland habitations including those in the plain catchment area in the north-east. Having taken a cursory glance at the Himalayan physiographic features, the study has noted that the age-old ever sustaining subsistence level of livelihood waned following the steady advent of urbanization and westernization among the Himalayan ranges since around the early twentieth century. The volume contains contributions from eminent scholars and researchers having direct first hand enthnographic study of the Himalayan habitations. The papers cover multiple parameters of study. Starting with the conceptual aspects of human ecology and environment, the volume comprises papers dealing with geoenvironmental incompatible situations, biodiversity-cum-eco-development, eco-historical perspectives, material culture and its components and last but not the least, change and its effect. The millennium old pristine tribal life that nestled in the Himalayan heights since perhaps prehistoric times fast came to the metamorphosed, and in this context, though the need of urgent anthropology is long past, the present work is worth being rather late than never.The wide diversity of the subject matter described in 42 chapters will make this book of interest to anthropologists, social scientists (geography, economics, history, sociology, political science etc.).
Download or read book Tales from the Himalaya written by Henry Edmundson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RELIGION. The cultural foundation of life in much of the Himalayas remains Tibetan Buddhism. This esoteric offshoot of the Buddha's teaching developed from the 7th century onwards but was only discovered by explorers and scholars a thousand years later. The first tale is about a remarkably different type of reality, how its mysteries were unravelled, and how it continues to survive despite political repression. SCIENCE, The Himalayas are the highest mountain range in the world, but also the youngest. The peaks continue to grow, and earthquakes remain an ever present danger. The struggle to understand how these giant mountains formed began in the mid-19th century. Now we know that its the plates that do the talking. The second tale is one of intrpid exploration and science discovery. POLITICS, The Chinese takeover of Tibet is the latest power play in the Himalayas region. Long ago, the Tibetans were the empire builders. In the 19th century, strongman Gulab Singh gobbled up parts of the Wester Himalay to create Jammu and Kashmir.
Download or read book Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himalaya Mountains And to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges 1820 written by James Baillie Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
