Author: Ian Malcolm
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365314370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Excerpt from Indian Pictures and Problems A book of travel Sketches must begin somewhere; and, rather than attempt the dreary task of describ ing the long journey from London to Bombay in all its well-known detail, I prefer to choose mid-ocean for my first scene. Travellers may be divided into two categories - those whose chief interest lies in places, and those Whose attention is fixed upon the manners and customs of people. The reader will not have a far journey before he discovers that I belong to the second of these classes. A voyage to India at the end of the leave season has, therefore, much to recommend it to those who think with me. For the others there Is little interest beyond the Suez Canal and the rock of Aden, whereas we have the promenade deck and the smoking-room always with us. No journey that I have ever made surpasses in human interest the passage from Marseilles to Bombay at the beginning of the cold weather, especially if it be undertaken in some vessel of lesser pre tensions than a P. And O. It matters little that, for the first day or two, one feels an utter stranger on board and to some extent lonely that experience soon wears off in the sunshine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Indian Pictures and Problems (Classic Reprint)
Author: Ian Malcolm
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365314370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Excerpt from Indian Pictures and Problems A book of travel Sketches must begin somewhere; and, rather than attempt the dreary task of describ ing the long journey from London to Bombay in all its well-known detail, I prefer to choose mid-ocean for my first scene. Travellers may be divided into two categories - those whose chief interest lies in places, and those Whose attention is fixed upon the manners and customs of people. The reader will not have a far journey before he discovers that I belong to the second of these classes. A voyage to India at the end of the leave season has, therefore, much to recommend it to those who think with me. For the others there Is little interest beyond the Suez Canal and the rock of Aden, whereas we have the promenade deck and the smoking-room always with us. No journey that I have ever made surpasses in human interest the passage from Marseilles to Bombay at the beginning of the cold weather, especially if it be undertaken in some vessel of lesser pre tensions than a P. And O. It matters little that, for the first day or two, one feels an utter stranger on board and to some extent lonely that experience soon wears off in the sunshine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365314370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Excerpt from Indian Pictures and Problems A book of travel Sketches must begin somewhere; and, rather than attempt the dreary task of describ ing the long journey from London to Bombay in all its well-known detail, I prefer to choose mid-ocean for my first scene. Travellers may be divided into two categories - those whose chief interest lies in places, and those Whose attention is fixed upon the manners and customs of people. The reader will not have a far journey before he discovers that I belong to the second of these classes. A voyage to India at the end of the leave season has, therefore, much to recommend it to those who think with me. For the others there Is little interest beyond the Suez Canal and the rock of Aden, whereas we have the promenade deck and the smoking-room always with us. No journey that I have ever made surpasses in human interest the passage from Marseilles to Bombay at the beginning of the cold weather, especially if it be undertaken in some vessel of lesser pre tensions than a P. And O. It matters little that, for the first day or two, one feels an utter stranger on board and to some extent lonely that experience soon wears off in the sunshine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Indian Problems
Author: Siddha Mohana Mitra
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Indian Days of the Long Ago
Author: Edward S. Curtis
Publisher: Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y. : World Book
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Text, drawings and photographs describe the life of the Salish Indians and other North American tribes before the arrival of white settlers.
Publisher: Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y. : World Book
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Text, drawings and photographs describe the life of the Salish Indians and other North American tribes before the arrival of white settlers.
Sketches of Some Distinguished Indian Women
Author: Mrs. E. F. Chapman
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Image Problems
Author: Robert Daniel DeCaroli
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029580579X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism’s relationship with figural art as an ongoing set of negotiations within the Buddhist community and in society at large. By comparing innovations in Brahmanical, Jain, and royal artistic practice, DeCaroli examines why no image of the Buddha was made until approximately five hundred years after his death and what changed in the centuries surrounding the start of the Common Era to suddenly make those images desirable and acceptable. The textual and archaeological sources reveal that figural likenesses held special importance in South Asia and were seen as having a significant amount of agency and power. Anxiety over image use extended well beyond the Buddhists, helping to explain why images of Vedic gods, Jain teachers, and political elites also are absent from the material record of the centuries BCE. DeCaroli shows how the emergence of powerful dynasties and rulers, who benefited from novel modes of visual authority, was at the root of the changes in attitude toward figural images. However, as DeCaroli demonstrates, a strain of unease with figural art persisted, even after a tradition of images of the Buddha had become established.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029580579X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism’s relationship with figural art as an ongoing set of negotiations within the Buddhist community and in society at large. By comparing innovations in Brahmanical, Jain, and royal artistic practice, DeCaroli examines why no image of the Buddha was made until approximately five hundred years after his death and what changed in the centuries surrounding the start of the Common Era to suddenly make those images desirable and acceptable. The textual and archaeological sources reveal that figural likenesses held special importance in South Asia and were seen as having a significant amount of agency and power. Anxiety over image use extended well beyond the Buddhists, helping to explain why images of Vedic gods, Jain teachers, and political elites also are absent from the material record of the centuries BCE. DeCaroli shows how the emergence of powerful dynasties and rulers, who benefited from novel modes of visual authority, was at the root of the changes in attitude toward figural images. However, as DeCaroli demonstrates, a strain of unease with figural art persisted, even after a tradition of images of the Buddha had become established.
Indian Unrest
Author: Sir Valentine Chirol
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Indian Philosophy
Author: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195638196
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
This Volume, A General Introduction To Indian Philosophy, Covers The Vedic And Epic Periods, Including The Expositions On The Hymns Of The Rig Veda, The Upanishads, Jainism, Buddhism And The Theism Of The Bhagvadgita.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195638196
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
This Volume, A General Introduction To Indian Philosophy, Covers The Vedic And Epic Periods, Including The Expositions On The Hymns Of The Rig Veda, The Upanishads, Jainism, Buddhism And The Theism Of The Bhagvadgita.
The Future of Indian Politics
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Clinical Problem Solving in Dentistry (Indian Reprint)
Author: Edward W. Odell
Publisher: Elsevier India
ISBN: 8131229289
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Publisher: Elsevier India
ISBN: 8131229289
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Life Among the Indians
Author: James Bradley Finley
Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description