Download or read book Rajasthan Exploring Painted Shekhawati written by Ilay Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cycling into rarely visited northern Rajasthan's tiny desert towns author discovers impressive buildings, their walls covered with vibrant paintings. Fascinated, he settles nearby and, exploring, finds that the main painted towns lie in the defunct administrative district of Shekhawati. Research reveals the unpublished writings and drawings of Col Lockett and Lt Boileau, who crossed Shekhawati in 1831. Both men are depicted in contemporary murals. Their mission was to enquire into, and record the brigandry then affecting local trade. This led to the founding of a Shekhawati Brigade to suppress robbery and bring security to the local merchants. Peace and prosperity returned, creating ideal conditions for a display of conspicuous wealth. The merchants commissioned fine buildings and, as a final touch, their walls were painted. So a military mission led to an artistic one!
Download or read book The Painted Towns of Shekhawati written by Ilay Cooper and published by Prakash Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Painted Towns of Shekhawati written by Ilay Cooper and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide an insider's guide to this painted world of startling murals.
Download or read book Shekhawati written by Abha Narain Lambah and published by Marg Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles on the architectural splendour of havelis in Shekhawati, India.
Download or read book The Painted Towns of Shekhawati written by Ilay Cooper and published by Map International. This book was released on 1994 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide an insider's guide to this painted world of startling murals.
Download or read book Art and Artists of Rajasthan written by Rādhākr̥shṇa Vaśishṭha and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -----------
Download or read book Havelis written by Shikha Jain and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the forts and palaces, innumerable havelis weave theurban fabric of the medieval towns in Rajasthan. These havelis ofthe nobles and courtiers are unparalleled in architectural beautyand provide an interesting insight into the domestic architectureof Rajasthan.The book is the first comprehensive, regional work on thesemansions of the courtiers spread in the historic towns ofRajasthan. It traces the evolution and transformation of thehavelis in the alternating context of unified Rajasthan and itssub regional diversities. The documentation of several havelisin different regions of Rajasthan is further supported by anexamination of the various determinants of the haveli form toshow how the regional variations arise from social, political andgeographical factors such as occupation, caste, topography, andavailable material.The book draws on information collected from regional texts,fictions and folklore depicting social life, extensive fieldworkincluding of a survey of more than 150 havelis in differenttowns of Rajasthan and interviews with several haveli residents.It covers major cities of Rajasthan such as Jaipur, Jodhpur,Jaisalmer and Udaipur as well as a number of smaller towns andthikanas of earlier times.This book presents a firsthand, detailed and documented versionof the traditional Haveli form of Rajasthan for the exploringtourist who wants to look beyond the obvious destinations andfor the architects, art historians and conservationists looking atvernacular architecture in search for regional roots.
Download or read book Insight Guides Rajasthan Travel Guide eBook written by Insight Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated, major relaunch of Insight Guide Rajasthan will inspire you to visit this most evocative Indian state, the name of which summons up quintessential images of the India of popular imagination: forts, deserts and palaces. Published in 2017, this is a comprehensive full-colour guide to this vibrantly colourful Indian state. Inside Insight Guide Rajasthan: A fully-overhauled, major new edition by our expert Rajasthan author. Stunning new photography that brings this breathtaking region and its people to life. Highlights of the state's top attractions, including tigers at Ranthambore National Park and the camel fair at Pushkar in our Best of Rajasthan. Descriptive region-by-region accounts cover the whole state from the pink city of Jaipur to the romantic white city of Udaipur and the golden desert city of Jaisalmer. Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip.
Download or read book Natural Fashion written by Hans Silvester and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of numerous voyages to Africa's Omo Valley, Hans Silvester became fascinated by the beauty of the Surma, Mursi, Hamer and Kurma tribes, who share a taste for body painting and extravagant decorations borrowed from nature. This collection of photographs captures these accoutrements.
Download or read book Kaavad Tradition of Rajasthan written by Nina Sabnani and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kaavad of Rajasthan is a portable shrine with multiple doors that fold into themselves. The Kaavadiya Bhat or the storyteller journeys with this brightly painted wooden box to the homes of his patrons, to recite their genealogies and regale them with the stories of the pantheon of deities painted on the shrine. It is a tradition that binds communities in common memory and mythology. Exploring a panel at a time of this curious mnemonic device, Nina Sabnani leads us on a journey to uncover the myths and mysteries of this unique oral-storytelling tradition.
Download or read book Crafts Atlas of India written by Jaya Jaitly and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping India's crafts was a mammoth task that took eleven years. During this period, many new crafts were born, skills rejuvenated and some may have languished and faded away. The nature of crafts production in India is both ephemeral and resilient. India's crafts journey resembles the progress of a river from the mountains to the ocean, picking up material, depositing some, changes course, disappearing underground to surface somewhere else. Yet, the tradition continues forever. The Dastkari Haat Samiti, a national association of craftspeople, undertook the enormous task of documenting whatever skills and crafts it could find and created artistic crafts maps of each state of India. Three new states were born during the process. A traditional art form of each state provides the backdrop for information meticulously gathered from first and second hand sources. The maps provide resource material to people working in different disciplines and a source of aesthetic joy to anyone who uses them as wall posters. The vibrant illustrations and academically rich content are recreated as an atlas of India's crafts, handmade textiles and traditional arts, covering India's cultural history. "Crafts Atlas of India" is therefore a unique documentation and a rare visual treat.
Download or read book Shekhawati written by Pankaj Rakesh and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictorial history of painted homes of Shekhawati, Rajasthan, India.
Download or read book A Fantastic State of Ruin written by David Zurick and published by Goff Books. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book portrays the exquisite beauty that is found amid the ruins of a handful of tiny trading towns located along an ancient trade route in Rajasthan, India.
Download or read book Rajasthan the Guide to Painted Towns of Shekhawati Churu written by Ilay Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research grows out of over a 40-year tradition of the triennial International Conferences on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI), initiated to share 'Bhakti in current research.' This volume brings together a selection of contributions from some of the leading scholars as well as emerging researchers in the field originally presented at the 13th ICEMLNI (University of Warsaw, 18-22 July 2018). Considering innovative methodologies and tools, the volume presents the current state of research on early modern sources and offers new inputs into our understanding of this period in the cultural history of India. This collection of essays is in the tradition of 'Bhakti in current research' volumes produced from 1980 onward but reflecting our current understanding of early modern textualities. The book operates on the premises that the centuries preceding the colonial conquest of India, which in scholarship influenced by orientalist concepts, has often been referred to as medieval. However these languages already participated in modernity through increased circulation of ideas, new forms of knowledge, new concepts of the individual, of the community, and of religion. The essays cover multiple languages (Indian vernaculars, Sanskrit, Apabhramsha, Persian), different media (texts, performances, paintings, music) and traditions (Hindu, Jain, Muslim, Sant, Sikh), analyzing them as individual phenomena that function in a wider network of connections at textual, intertextual, and knowledge-system levels.
Download or read book Himalayan Cities written by Pratyush Shankar and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Himalayan Cities: Settlement Patterns, Public Places and Architecture explores the idea of settlements in different areas of the Himalayan region, cutting across national boundaries, from Kashmir via Nepal to the north-eastern parts of the Indian subcontinent, and their relationship with the landscape. By comparing these, the book makes the case for peculiarities of the Himalayan city and succeeds in deducing key principles and general models, typical of the settlement patterns, nature of public places and architecture shaped by this unique mountainous environment. The relationship between natural systems and human ingenuity as projected through its built traditions forms the underlying theme of the book. Lavishly illustrated with stunning photographs and detailed hand drawings by the author and his students, Himalayan Cities not only engages the academia but also the general reader and helps provoke a discourse on this intriguing landscape and its architectural nuances.
