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The Satavahanas (Andhra or Andhrajatiya of the historical sections of the Puranas) occupy a pre-eminent position in early Deccanese history comparable only to that of the Kushanas of North India who were almost contemporaries
The Book on Centre-state Relations under the Indian constitution is an attempt to analyze the relations between both Units of Federation during the last about Seventy years of its working. The Articles incorporated in this book have been divided into three categories, viz., History and Development of Federalism, Cooperative Federalism and Harmonious Relations between Centre and States in India.
Scripts for the Stage: Textual Analysis from Shakespeare to Shepard . . . and Beyond is a play-analysis textbook that contains 12 long essays and 4 short ones on a number of geographically diverse, historically significant dramas and dramatists—among them, Phaedra, Buried Child, Antigone, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Hairy Ape, Our Town, The Birthday Party, David Hare, The Glass Menagerie, Death of a Salesman, Old Times, Miss Julie,The Little Foxes, Henry V, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Bernard Shaw, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Of Mice and Men, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Edmund, and Bertolt Brecht.
A Reader’s Guide to Western Avant-Garde Drama is a casebook of ideas and arguments about Western avant-garde drama. The author gathers together here a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original essays whose subjects span most of the twentieth century, reach forward into the twenty-first, and include the avant-garde cinema as well as drama and theater.
VARAHA: In Indian Art, Culture and Literature aims at highlighting the various aspects of Varaha form of Visnu, in the background of the literary as well as the archaeological evidence, available in the country.
This book provides an overview of Deer in Rock art of India and Europe and its representation, through the historic period. A glimpse of a deep and sensitive understanding of the deer in the man’s life and nature in the Indian literary tradition has been presented.
The book “Manipur: The Glorious Past” covers in detail the excavations and includes full analyses of the pottery, the metal work, the objects from the burials, the environmental evidence and all other finds. The profusion of duly annotated illustrations make the text more meaningful and illuminating. It is hoped this book will be able to fill a part of the gap in the history of Manipur.
KRSNA SMRITI contains masterly essays covering Prehistory, Proto-history, Art, Architecture, Epigraphy, Numismatics etc. in commemoration of one of the greatest indologist of recent times, Prof. K.D. Bajpai.
A Gazetteer of Delhi 1883-84: The importance of this Gazetteer lies not only in its being the first such authentic record but also as a benchmark for the changes that followed. History, geography, flora and fauna, sociology, ethnography, legend …. all coalesced to create indelible images of Delhi of that period. The work which has long been out-of-print is being re-issued for the use of historians, planners, conservators, scholars as well as general readers. A must read for all Delhi dwellers, lovers and visitors.
A Gazetteer of Delhi 1912 is a well preserved record of eco-social, cultural, historical and anthropological data of Delhi at the beginning of the twentieth century. It provides a fascinating glimpse into mosaic of life as lived in Delhi at that time.
A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia in two volumes is the English translation of Tarikh-i-Rashidi, written by Mirza Muhammad Haidar, Dulghat. The book brings forth an absorbing and informative history of Central Asia. The Object of the Tarikh-i-Rashidi, as the author tells his readers, is to preserve the memory of Moghuls and their Khans.
The book “A Manual of Historic Ornament” has been prepared with the three-fold objective of giving an elementary knowledge of architecture and historic ornament, of awakening a responsive and sympathetic feeling for the many beautiful and interesting remains of ancient and medieval civilization.
A Gazetteer of Delhi 1883-84: The importance of this Gazetteer lies not only in its being the first such authentic record but also as a benchmark for the changes that followed. History, geography, flora and fauna, sociology, ethnography, legend …. all coalesced to create indelible images of Delhi of that period. The work which has long been out-of-print is being re-issued for the use of historians, planners, conservators, scholars as well as general readers. A must read for all Delhi dwellers, lovers and visitors.
A Gazetteer of Delhi 1912 is a well preserved record of eco-social, cultural, historical and anthropological data of Delhi at the beginning of the twentieth century. It provides a fascinating glimpse into mosaic of life as lived in Delhi at that time.
A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia in two volumes is the English translation of Tarikh-i-Rashidi, written by Mirza Muhammad Haidar, Dulghat. The book brings forth an absorbing and informative history of Central Asia. The Object of the Tarikh-i-Rashidi, as the author tells his readers, is to preserve the memory of Moghuls and their Khans.
The book “A Manual of Historic Ornament” has been prepared with the three-fold objective of giving an elementary knowledge of architecture and historic ornament, of awakening a responsive and sympathetic feeling for the many beautiful and interesting remains of ancient and medieval civilization.
Chhattisgarh Rediscovered: Vedantic Approaches to Folklore is an invitation to scholars to rediscover the past glory of Chhattisgarh-a little known but fascinating part of Middle India. The purpose of this book is to present a new method to explore the “hidden” meaning in the oral traditions of Chhattisgarh. The book then presents a semiotic approach to the oral history of Chhattisgarh.
Profusely illustrated with maps, line drawings and photographs, “Delhi: Threshold of the Orient” presents a detailed cultural spectrum of Delhi right-from prehistoric times to the Anglo-Mughal phase of history and archaeology. The book embodies the latest researches on the subject and will fascinate not only the scholar and serious student but also the lay reader.
The book “Early Man in Eastern Himalayas” gives a vivid pictures of the prehistoric past of North-East India and Nepal. Till recent years the activities of Early Man in Eastern Himalayas were shrouded in mystery due to lack of archaeological investigations but recent discoveries have clearly proved that this difficult cold area was also inhabited by Early Man right from the Early Stone Age onwards.
The book “A Manual of Historic Ornament” has been prepared with the three-fold objective of giving an elementary knowledge of architecture and historic ornament, of awakening a responsive and sympathetic feeling for the many beautiful and interesting remains of ancient and medieval civilization.
This book provides an overview of Deer in Rock art of India and Europe and its representation, through the historic period. A glimpse of a deep and sensitive understanding of the deer in the man’s life and nature in the Indian literary tradition has been presented.
Profusely illustrated with maps, line drawings and photographs, “Delhi: Threshold of the Orient” presents a detailed cultural spectrum of Delhi right-from prehistoric times to the Anglo-Mughal phase of history and archaeology. The book embodies the latest researches on the subject and will fascinate not only the scholar and serious student but also the lay reader.
The book “Early Man in Eastern Himalayas” gives a vivid pictures of the prehistoric past of North-East India and Nepal. Till recent years the activities of Early Man in Eastern Himalayas were shrouded in mystery due to lack of archaeological investigations but recent discoveries have clearly proved that this difficult cold area was also inhabited by Early Man right from the Early Stone Age onwards.
Govindadeva: A Dialogue in Stone is the second in the series of publications relating to the Vraja region conducted jointly with the Sri Caitanya Prema Sansthan, Vrindaban . The results of other aspects are at carious stage of publication, viz. (i) Annotated Multi- lingual Bibliography on Vraja, (ii) Evening Blossams: the Temple Tradition of Sanjhi in Vrindaban, and (iii) an edited and translated edition of Bhaktirasamrta Sindhu.
KRSNA SMRITI contains masterly essays covering Prehistory, Proto-history, Art, Architecture, Epigraphy, Numismatics etc. in commemoration of one of the greatest indologist of recent times, Prof. K.D. Bajpai.
The book “Manipur: The Glorious Past” covers in detail the excavations and includes full analyses of the pottery, the metal work, the objects from the burials, the environmental evidence and all other finds. The profusion of duly annotated illustrations make the text more meaningful and illuminating. It is hoped this book will be able to fill a part of the gap in the history of Manipur.
Govindadeva: A Dialogue in Stone is the second in the series of publications relating to the Vraja region conducted jointly with the Sri Caitanya Prema Sansthan, Vrindaban . The results of other aspects are at carious stage of publication, viz. (i) Annotated Multi- lingual Bibliography on Vraja, (ii) Evening Blossams: the Temple Tradition of Sanjhi in Vrindaban, and (iii) an edited and translated edition of Bhaktirasamrta Sindhu.
This monograph Murals for Goddesses and Gods is a magnificent document of India`s ritual painting, based on systematic study of the osakothi (osa penance, kothi sacred space) murals or Orissa. It explores the rare rich and meaningful and fast disappearing ritual art of mural painting.
The book “Mythologies of the East” makes an attempt to decipher the mythology of Asia, an important pre-requisite to the understanding of art, thought and literature of this land of great religious provinces, each with its own cosmology, philosophy and mythology. The book is an exceptionally clear and accessible presentation of Oriental mythologies including Brahmanism, Buddhism, Lamaism, Islam etc.
The Srimad Bhagavad Gita is a spiritual dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna a dialogue of and on dharma. It comes in the middle portion of the great epic, the Mahabharatha written by the sage Vyasa. Lord Krishna was the avator or the incarnation of the Supreme Being into the form of a human being whereas Arjuna typifies the ordinary man, faced with one of the most difficult problems which any one could conceive-the killing of his own kinsmen.
‘… a welcome addition to the already available introductory works on Islam. The chapters of the book combine depth of analysis and erudition on a wide range of subjects. Thus in a single volume one finds several superbly written papers not only on the foundations of Islam and the manifestations of Islamic culture but also …