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Book The Siddhanta Deepika Or the Light of Truth

Download or read book The Siddhanta Deepika Or the Light of Truth written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Light Upon Indian Philosophy

Download or read book New Light Upon Indian Philosophy written by D. Gopala Chetti and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ritual  Caste  and Religion in Colonial South India

Download or read book Ritual Caste and Religion in Colonial South India written by Michael Bergunder and published by Primus Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lost Land of Lemuria

Download or read book The Lost Land of Lemuria written by Sumathi Ramaswamy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-09-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating study of Lemuria--a mythical continent which was once believed to bridge the land masses of India and Africa millennia ago before ultimately sinking into the Indian sea.

Book Politics and Social Conflict in South India

Download or read book Politics and Social Conflict in South India written by Eugene F. Irschick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Renewal of the Priesthood

Download or read book The Renewal of the Priesthood written by C. J. Fuller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has changed for the priests at the Minakshi Temple, one of the most famous Hindu temples in India. In The Renewal of the Priesthood, C. J. Fuller traces their improving fortunes over the past 25 years. This fluidly written book is unique in showing that traditionalism and modernity are actually reinforcing each other among these priests, a process in which the state has played a crucial role. Since the mid-1980s, growing urban affluence has seen more people spend more money on rituals in the Minakshi Temple, which is in the southern city of Madurai. The priests have thus become better-off, and some have also found new earnings opportunities in temples as far away as America. During the same period, due partly to growing Hindu nationalism in India, the Tamilnadu state government's religious policies have become more favorable toward Hinduism and Brahman temple priests. More priests' sons now study in religious schools where they learn authoritative Sanskrit ritual texts by heart, and overall educational standards have markedly improved. Fuller shows that the priests have become more "professional" and modern-minded while also insisting on the legitimacy of tradition. He concludes by critiquing the analysis of modernity and tradition in social science. In showing how the priests are authentic representatives of modern India, this book tells a story whose significance extends far beyond the confines of the Minakshi Temple itself.

Book Nation Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy Brook
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2010-08-04
  • ISBN : 0472027247
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Nation Work written by Timothy Brook and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and André Schmid draw together eight essays that use historical examples from Asian countries--China, India, Korea, and Japan--to enrich our understandings of the origin and growth of nations. Asia provides fertile ground for this inquiry, the volume argues, because in Asia the history of the modern nation has been inseparable from global influences in the form of Western imperialism. Yet, while the impetus for building a modern national identity may have come from the need to fashion a favorable place in a world system dominated by Western nations, those engaged in nationalist enterprises found their particular voices more often in relation to tensions within Asia than in relation to more generic tensions between Asia and the West. With topics ranging from public health measures in nineteenth-century Japan through textual scholarship of Tamil intellectuals, the willful division of Korea's history from China's, the development of China's cotton industry, and the meaning of "postnational-ism" for Chinese artists, the essays reveal the fascinating array of sites at which nation work can take place. This will be essential reading for historians and social scientists interested in Asia. Timothy Brook is Professor of History, Stanford University. André Schmid is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto.

Book Handbook of Oriental Studies

Download or read book Handbook of Oriental Studies written by Bertold Spuler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1975 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Asiatic Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Asiatic Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asian Review

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Asian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asiatic Review

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 904 pages

Download or read book Asiatic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.

Book The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record

Download or read book The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.

Book Asiatic Review

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  • Author : Demetrius Charles Boulger
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 906 pages

Download or read book Asiatic Review written by Demetrius Charles Boulger and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.

Book The Transformation of Tamil Religion

Download or read book The Transformation of Tamil Religion written by Srilata Raman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th century and his posthumous reception in the Tamil country and sheds light on the transformation of Tamil religion that both his works and the understanding of him brought about. The book traces the hagiographical and biographical process by which Ramalinga Swamigal is shifted from being considered an exemplary poet-saint of the Tamil Śaivite bhakti tradition to a Dravidian nationalist social reformer. Taking as a starting point Ramalinga’s own writing, the book presents him as inhabiting a border zone between early modernity and modernity, between Hinduism and Christianity, between colonialism and regional nationalism, highlighting the influence of his teachings on politics, particularly within Dravidian cultural and political nationalism. Simultaneously, the book considers the implication of such an hagiographical process for the transformation of Tamil religion in the period between the 19th –mid-20th centuries. The author demonstrates that Ramalinga Swamigal’s ideology of compassion, cīvakāruṇyam, had not only a long genealogy in pre-modern Tamil Śaivism but also that it functioned as a potentially emancipatory ethics of salvation and caste critique not just for him but also for other Tamil and Dalit intellectuals of the 19th century. This book is a path-breaking study that also traces the common grounds between the religious visions of two of the most prominent subaltern figures of Tamil modernity – Iyothee Thass and Ramalingar. It argues that these transformations are one meaningful way for a religious tradition to cope with and come to terms with the implications of historicization and the demands of colonial modernity. It is, therefore, a valuable contribution to the field of religion, South Asian history and literature and Subaltern studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315794518 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book Thinkers of the Indian Renaissance

Download or read book Thinkers of the Indian Renaissance written by S A Abbasi and published by New Age International. This book was released on 1997 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Supplementary Catalogue of Sanskrit  Pali  and Prakrit Books in the Library of the British Museum Acquired During the Years 1892 1928

Download or read book A Supplementary Catalogue of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit Books in the Library of the British Museum Acquired During the Years 1892 1928 written by British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: