Annual Report

Annual Report PDF Author: Archaeological Survey of India. Southern Circle
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Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Annual Report

Annual Report PDF Author: Archaeological Survey of India. Southern Circle
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Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Archaeological Survey of Ceylon, North-Central, Central and North-Western Provinces

Archaeological Survey of Ceylon, North-Central, Central and North-Western Provinces PDF Author: Ceylon. Archaeological Department
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Tipu Sultan

Tipu Sultan PDF Author: Vikram Sampath
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9367900945
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Over two centuries have passed since his death on 4 May 1799, yet Tipu Sultan’s contested legacy continues to perplex India and her contemporary politics. A fascinating and enigmatic figure in India’s military past, he remains a modern historian’s biggest puzzle as he simultaneously means different things to different people, depending on how one chooses to look at his life and its events. Tipu’s ascent to power was accidental. His father Haidar Ali was a beneficiary of the benevolence of the Maharaja of Mysore. But in a series of fascinating events, the Machiavellian Haidar ran with the hare and hunted with the hounds; he ended up overthrowing his own benefactor and usurping the throne of Mysore from the Wodeyars in 1761. In a war-scarred life, father and son led Mysore through four momentous battles against the British, termed the Anglo-Mysore Wars. The first two, led by Haidar, brought the English East India Company to its knees. Chasing the enemy to the very gates of Madras, Haidar made the British sign such humiliating terms of treaties that sent shockwaves back in London. In the hubris of this success, Tipu obtained the kingdom on a platter, unlike his father, who worked up the ranks to achieve glory. In a diabolical war thirst, Tipu launched lethal attacks on Malabar, Mangalore, Travancore, Coorg, and left behind a trail of death, destruction and worse, mass-conversions and the desecration of religious places of worship. While he was an astute administrator and a brave soldier, the strategic tact with opponents and the diplomatic balance that Haidar had sought to maintain with the Hindu majority were both dangerously upset by Tipu’s foolhardiness on matters of faith. The social report card of this eighteenth-century ruler was anything but clean. And yet, one simply cannot deny his position as a renowned military warrior and one of the most powerful rulers of Southern India. Meticulously researched, authoritative and unputdownable, Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore's Interregnum (1760–1799) opens a window to the life and times of one of the most debated figures from India’s history.

Annual Report

Annual Report PDF Author: Ceylon. Archaeological Department
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Reports for 1892-1903-11/12 accompanied by atlas with title: Archæological Survey of Ceylon. Plans and plates ... (varies slightly).

Annual Report

Annual Report PDF Author: Archaeological Survey of India
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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The Making of Southern Karnataka

The Making of Southern Karnataka PDF Author: Malini Adiga
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Southern Karnataka emerged as a regional entity between the fourth and eleventh centuries AD. Although interest in the nature of early medieval states and their social formations has defined much historical research since the 1970s, studies have, until now, been limited to clarifying only the political-dynastic history of the region. In this path-breaking new study, Malini Adiga reveals the political, social and cultural features that characterised the region. Its distinct identity is explored by examining the processes that created this political and cultural entity: the various social strata, the nature of the socio-political structure, the developments in the field of religion, and the manner in which the early medieval state patronised and utilised the various religious cults and sects to legitimise itself. Based on an extensive analysis of the inscriptions from the region and period under study, this book also drwas on the region's literary sources to explain its characteristic social ethos. Exhaustively researched, carefully analysed and richly descriptive, this book is essential reading for all those interested in early medieval Karnataka.

Annual Report

Annual Report PDF Author: Archaeological Survey of Ceylon
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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The Language of History

The Language of History PDF Author: Audrey Truschke
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231551959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India, starting with the Ghurids in the 1190s through the fracturing of the Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth century. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Muslim rule in Sanskrit. These works span the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire and discuss Muslim-led kingdoms in the Deccan and even as far south as Tamil Nadu. They constitute a major archive for understanding significant cultural and political changes that shaped early modern India and the views of those who lived through this crucial period. Audrey Truschke offers a groundbreaking analysis of these Sanskrit texts that sheds light on both historical Muslim political leaders on the subcontinent and how premodern Sanskrit intellectuals perceived the “Muslim Other.” She analyzes and theorizes how Sanskrit historians used the tools of their literary tradition to document Muslim governance and, later, as Muslims became an integral part of Indian cultural and political worlds, Indo-Muslim rule. Truschke demonstrates how this new archive lends insight into formulations and expressions of premodern political, social, cultural, and religious identities. By elaborating the languages and identities at play in premodern Sanskrit historical works, this book expands our historical and conceptual resources for understanding premodern South Asia, Indian intellectual history, and the impact of Muslim peoples on non-Muslim societies. At a time when exclusionary Hindu nationalism, which often grounds its claims on fabricated visions of India’s premodernity, dominates the Indian public sphere, The Language of History shows the complexity and diversity of the subcontinent’s past.

Report

Report PDF Author: Sri Lanka. Purāvidyā Depārtamēntuva
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Rivista degli studi orientali

Rivista degli studi orientali PDF Author:
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Category : Asia
Languages : it
Pages : 1508

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