Author: Arun Kumar Singh
Publisher:
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Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004157190
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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Through a detailed analysis of the available cultural and chronological data, this book overturns traditional ideas about the cultural history of India and proposes a different picture instead. The idea of a unilinear development out of Brahmanism, in particular, is challenged.

Author: Birendra Nath Prasad
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000416739
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 771

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In the religious landscape of early medieval (c. AD 600-1200) Bihar and Bengal, poly-religiosity was generally the norm than an exception, which entailed the evolution of complex patterns of inter-religious equations. Buddhism, Brahmanism and Jainism not only coexisted but also competed for social patronage, forcing them to enter into complex interactions with social institutions and processes. Through an analysis of the published archaeological data, this work explores some aspects of the social history of Buddhist, Brahmanical and Jaina temples and shrines, and Buddhist stūpas and monasteries in early medieval Bihar and Bengal. This archaeological history of religions questions many ‘established’ textual reconstructions, and enriches our understanding of the complex issue of the decline of Buddhism in this area. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author: Dilip K. Chakrabarti
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788178240169
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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This Book Discuses The Ancient Historical Geography Of The Lower And Middle Sections Of The Ganga Plain. Its Basis Is A Field-Study Of The Distribution Of Archaeological Sites In The Region. This Extremely Significant Work Of Scholarship Has Detailed Maps And A Large Plate Section.

Author: Salila Kulshreshtha
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351356097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work examines how these images may have moved during different spates of temple renovation and acquired new identities by being relocated either within sacred precincts or in private collections and museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost. The book highlights contentious issues in Indian archaeology such as renegotiating identities of religious images, reuse and sharing of sacred space by adherents of different faiths, rebuilding of temples and consequent reinvention of these sites. The author also engages with postcolonial debates surrounding history writing and knowledge creation in British India and how colonial archaeology, archival practices, official surveys and institutionalisation of museums has influenced the current understanding of religion, sacred space and religious icons. In doing so it bridges the historiographical divide between the ancient and the modern as well as socio-religious practices and their institutional memory and preservation. Drawn from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of religious sculptures, classical texts, colonial archival records, British travelogues, official correspondences and fieldwork, the book will interest scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South Asian studies and Buddhist studies.

Author: E.J. RAPSON
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 854

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Author: Edward James Rapson
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Author: Edward James Rapson
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 854

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Author: Edward James Rapson
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 832

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