Author: Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard
Publisher: Hemkunt Press
ISBN: 9788170103608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
Author: Alice Albinia
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393063226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
“Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393063226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
“Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.
East of Indus
Author: Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard
Publisher: Hemkunt Press
ISBN: 9788170103608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher: Hemkunt Press
ISBN: 9788170103608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Indus
Author: Andrew Robinson
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780235410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and Indian archaeologists. Today, after almost a century of excavation, it is regarded as the beginning of Indian civilization and possibly the origin of Hinduism. The Indus: Lost Civilizations is an accessible introduction to every significant aspect of an extraordinary and tantalizing “lost” civilization, which combined artistic excellence, technological sophistication, and economic vigor with social egalitarianism, political freedom, and religious moderation. The book also discusses the vital legacy of the Indus civilization in India and Pakistan today.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780235410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and Indian archaeologists. Today, after almost a century of excavation, it is regarded as the beginning of Indian civilization and possibly the origin of Hinduism. The Indus: Lost Civilizations is an accessible introduction to every significant aspect of an extraordinary and tantalizing “lost” civilization, which combined artistic excellence, technological sophistication, and economic vigor with social egalitarianism, political freedom, and religious moderation. The book also discusses the vital legacy of the Indus civilization in India and Pakistan today.
Homecoming
Author: Charlene Gilbert
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807009635
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An illustrated history of African-American farmers, Homecoming is a requiem for a way of life that has almost disappeared. Based on the film Homecoming, produced for the Independent Television Service with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The videocassette of Homecoming is available from California Newsreel at www.newsreel.org.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807009635
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An illustrated history of African-American farmers, Homecoming is a requiem for a way of life that has almost disappeared. Based on the film Homecoming, produced for the Independent Television Service with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The videocassette of Homecoming is available from California Newsreel at www.newsreel.org.
Bulletin ...
Author: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories
Author: John T. Chalcraft
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791461433
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Challenges existing views of crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791461433
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Challenges existing views of crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Books in Print Supplement
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1774
Book Description
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1774
Book Description
Deciphering the Indus Script
Author: Asko Parpola
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795661
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Of the writing systems of the ancient world which still await deciphering, the Indus script is the most important. It developed in the Indus or Harappan Civilization, which flourished c. 2500-1900 BC in and around modern Pakistan, collapsing before the earliest historical records of South Asia were composed. Nearly 4,000 samples of the writing survive, mainly on stamp seals and amulets, but no translations. Professor Parpola is the chief editor of the Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. His ideas about the script, the linguistic affinity of the Harappan language, and the nature of the Indus religion are informed by a remarkable command of Aryan, Dravidian, and Mesopotamian sources, archaeological materials, and linguistic methodology. His fascinating study confirms that the Indus script was logo-syllabic, and that the Indus language belonged to the Dravidian family.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795661
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Of the writing systems of the ancient world which still await deciphering, the Indus script is the most important. It developed in the Indus or Harappan Civilization, which flourished c. 2500-1900 BC in and around modern Pakistan, collapsing before the earliest historical records of South Asia were composed. Nearly 4,000 samples of the writing survive, mainly on stamp seals and amulets, but no translations. Professor Parpola is the chief editor of the Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. His ideas about the script, the linguistic affinity of the Harappan language, and the nature of the Indus religion are informed by a remarkable command of Aryan, Dravidian, and Mesopotamian sources, archaeological materials, and linguistic methodology. His fascinating study confirms that the Indus script was logo-syllabic, and that the Indus language belonged to the Dravidian family.
The Indus River
Author: Shane Mountjoy
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438120036
Category : Indus River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Discusses the Indus River, which is the chief river of Pakistan.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438120036
Category : Indus River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Discusses the Indus River, which is the chief river of Pakistan.
The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110875015X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Rudyard Kipling's (1865–1936) work is known and loved the world over by children and adults alike; it has been translated into many languages, and onto the cinema screen. This volume brings together for the first time some 86 uncollected short fictions. Almost all of them will be unfamiliar to readers; some are unrecorded in any bibliography; some are here published for the first time. Most of them come from Kipling's Indian years and show him experimenting with a great variety of forms and tones. We see the young Kipling enjoying the exercise of his craft; yet the voice that emerges throughout is always unmistakably his own, changing the scene every time the curtain is raised.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110875015X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Rudyard Kipling's (1865–1936) work is known and loved the world over by children and adults alike; it has been translated into many languages, and onto the cinema screen. This volume brings together for the first time some 86 uncollected short fictions. Almost all of them will be unfamiliar to readers; some are unrecorded in any bibliography; some are here published for the first time. Most of them come from Kipling's Indian years and show him experimenting with a great variety of forms and tones. We see the young Kipling enjoying the exercise of his craft; yet the voice that emerges throughout is always unmistakably his own, changing the scene every time the curtain is raised.