Author: Charles James C. Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India
Author: Charles James C. Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India
Author: C. J. C. Davidson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385111714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385111714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India: From Bareilly, in Rohilcund, to Hurdwar, and Nahun in the Himalaya Mountain
Author: Charles James C . Davidson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385119391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385119391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India
Author: Charles James C. Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Catalogue of Duplicates, &c. of the India Office Library
Author: India Office Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
God's Gateway
Author: James Lochtefeld
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190452641
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A celebrated Hindu pilgrimage site, Hardwar lies on the river Ganges at the edge of the Himalayas. Its identity as a holy place is inextricably tied to the mythology and reality of the Ganges, and traditional sources overwhelmingly stress this connection. Virtually nothing has been written about Hardwar's history and development, although the historical record reveals striking changes of the past few centuries. These changes have usually reflected worldly forces such as shifting trade routes, improved transportation, or political instability. Yet such mundane influences have been ignored in the city's sacred narrative, which presents a fixed, unchanging identity. The city's complex identity, says Lochtefeld, lies in the tension between these differing narratives. In this fieldwork-based study, Lochtefeld analyzes modern Hardwar as a Hindu pilgrimage center. He looks first at various groups of local residents -- businessmen, hereditary priests, and ascetics -- and assesses their differing roles in managing Hardwar as a holy place. He then examines the pilgrims and the factors that bring them to Hardwar. None of these groups is as pious as popularly depicted, but their interactions in upholding their own interest create and maintain Hardwar's religious environment. In conclusion, he addresses the wider context of Indian pilgrimage and the forces shaping it in the present day. He finds that many modern Hindus, like many modern Christians, feel some dissonance between traditional religious symbols and their 21st-century world, and that they are reinterpreting their traditional symbols to make them meaningful for their time.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190452641
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A celebrated Hindu pilgrimage site, Hardwar lies on the river Ganges at the edge of the Himalayas. Its identity as a holy place is inextricably tied to the mythology and reality of the Ganges, and traditional sources overwhelmingly stress this connection. Virtually nothing has been written about Hardwar's history and development, although the historical record reveals striking changes of the past few centuries. These changes have usually reflected worldly forces such as shifting trade routes, improved transportation, or political instability. Yet such mundane influences have been ignored in the city's sacred narrative, which presents a fixed, unchanging identity. The city's complex identity, says Lochtefeld, lies in the tension between these differing narratives. In this fieldwork-based study, Lochtefeld analyzes modern Hardwar as a Hindu pilgrimage center. He looks first at various groups of local residents -- businessmen, hereditary priests, and ascetics -- and assesses their differing roles in managing Hardwar as a holy place. He then examines the pilgrims and the factors that bring them to Hardwar. None of these groups is as pious as popularly depicted, but their interactions in upholding their own interest create and maintain Hardwar's religious environment. In conclusion, he addresses the wider context of Indian pilgrimage and the forces shaping it in the present day. He finds that many modern Hindus, like many modern Christians, feel some dissonance between traditional religious symbols and their 21st-century world, and that they are reinterpreting their traditional symbols to make them meaningful for their time.
English Writing and India, 1600-1920
Author: Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134131496
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India. Looking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift in the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s extreme exotic. English Writing and India provides an important new study of colonial aesthetics, even as it extends current scholarship on the modes of early British representations of new lands and cultures.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134131496
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India. Looking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift in the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s extreme exotic. English Writing and India provides an important new study of colonial aesthetics, even as it extends current scholarship on the modes of early British representations of new lands and cultures.
The British Friend of India Magazine, and Indian Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
THE GAZETTEER OF INDIA Volume 2
Author: Publications Division
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
ISBN: 8123022654
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
This volume of the Gazetteer of India was first published in 1965 and the public response has been very encouraging. Since then, major changes in the political map of India have taken place. The idea is to provide to the general public, especially the university students, low priced publications containing valuable, authentic and objective information on these subjects ( Physiography, People and Languages) by well-known experts in their respective fields.
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
ISBN: 8123022654
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
This volume of the Gazetteer of India was first published in 1965 and the public response has been very encouraging. Since then, major changes in the political map of India have taken place. The idea is to provide to the general public, especially the university students, low priced publications containing valuable, authentic and objective information on these subjects ( Physiography, People and Languages) by well-known experts in their respective fields.
Appletons' Library Manual
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description