Author: Nilesh Joshi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788190821278
Category : Motorcycle touring
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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Author's thought and travel accounts of Ladākh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, on motorcycle.

Author: A. K. Narain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Papers presented at the Workshop on "Dr. Ambedkar, Buddhism and Social Change", held at Sarnath during 29-31 March 1991.

Author: Alex R. Furger
Publisher: Librum Publishers & Editors LLC
ISBN: 9783906897066
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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This book celebrates in words and images the traditional metal crafts practised for over a thousand years by the creators of religious Buddhist statues in Nepal. The skills of these artisans are nurtured with deep respect for tradition, regarding religion, iconography and technology. Wax modellers, mould makers, casters, fire-gilders and chasers are among the specialists of the Newar ethnic group, whose work is characterised to this day by a melding of age-old technology, great skill, religious observance and contemplation. There are numerous books and exhibition catalogues dedicated to Buddhist art and iconography but little was available about the craft of the artists who turn the religious imagery into metal casts. This book fills this gap, with a thoroughly documented and historical account of the development of this "archaic" technology. The well-informed text and comprehensive photographic coverage constitute the only up-to-date account and full documentation of an art that is 1300 years old but dying out: the "ritual" production of Buddhist statues in the lost wax casting technique. The author, Dr. Alex Furger, is an archaeologist who has studied ancient metallurgy and metalworking techniques over the past four decades. He spent twenty-five years at the head of the Roman site of Augusta Raurica and lives in Basel (Switzerland). He is the author of over 130 articles in scientific journals and twelve books in the field of culture history. The fieldwork for this book led him repeatedly to Nepal, where he met and interviewed dozens of craftsmen in their workshops. This book is addressed to readers interested in culture history, travellers to Asia, collectors of statues of Buddha, (avocational) metalworkers, historians of technology, Buddhists, ethnologists, archaeologists, art historians, scholars of Asia and to libraries and museums.

Author: Andreas Faber Kaiser
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780349111896
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Tarun K. Saint
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429560001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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This book interrogates representations – fiction, literary motifs and narratives – of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of ‘fictive’ testimony that sought to articulate the inarticulate – the experiences of trauma and violence, of loss and longing, and of diaspora and displacement. The author discusses representational techniques and formal innovations in writing across three generations of twentieth-century writers in India and Pakistan, invoking theoretical debates on history, memory, witnessing and trauma. With a new afterword, the second edition of this volume draws attention to recent developments in Partition studies and sheds new light as regards ongoing debates about an event that still casts a shadow on contemporary South Asian society and culture. A key text, this is essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of literary criticism, South Asian studies, cultural studies and modern history.

Author: Sykes (Colonel, William Henry)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Nundo Lal Dey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Nicolas Notovitch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apocryphal books (New Testament)
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad
Publisher: Islam International
ISBN: 1853728837
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The doctrine of Christianity has acquired its present shape through a process of change that is spread nearly over it's entire history. Rather than venture into the endless debate on the course of this evolutionary process, the author has chosen to examine the current Christian beliefs primarily on the basis of logic and reason. Among others, the subject of 'Sonship' of Jesus Christ, Atonement, Trinity and the second coming of the Messiah have been discussed at length in this book.