Author: Swami Sivapriyananda
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
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Mysore Royal Dasara
Author: Swami Sivapriyananda
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
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Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
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Balarama
Author: Ted Lewin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781600602658
Category : Asiatic elephant
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Elephants, the largest land animals on Earth, have long been part of life throughout India. Some of them are trained to do work, while others perform at public festivals. When Ted and Betsy Lewin arrive in India to see the elephants, they meet Balarama - a lead Royal Elephant about to make his debut in the traditional parade that concludes the celebration of Dasara in the city of Mysore. Features Ted and Betsy Lewin's trademark combination of cartoon sketches and sweeping watercolour paintings.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781600602658
Category : Asiatic elephant
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Elephants, the largest land animals on Earth, have long been part of life throughout India. Some of them are trained to do work, while others perform at public festivals. When Ted and Betsy Lewin arrive in India to see the elephants, they meet Balarama - a lead Royal Elephant about to make his debut in the traditional parade that concludes the celebration of Dasara in the city of Mysore. Features Ted and Betsy Lewin's trademark combination of cartoon sketches and sweeping watercolour paintings.
Nine Nights of the Goddess
Author: Caleb Simmons
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 143847069X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navar?tri festival. Nine Nights of the Goddess explores the festival of Navarātri—alternatively called Navarātra, Mahānavamī, Durgā Pūjā, Dasarā, and/or Dassain—which lasts for nine nights and ends with a celebration called Vijayadaśamī, or "the tenth (day) of victory." Celebrated in both massive public venues and in small, private domestic spaces, Navarātri is one of the most important and ubiquitous festivals in South Asia and wherever South Asians have settled. These festivals share many elements, including the goddess, royal power, the killing of demons, and the worship of young girls and married women, but their interpretation and performance vary widely. This interdisciplinary collection of essays investigates Navarātri in its many manifestations and across historical periods, including celebrations in West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal. Collectively, the essays consider the role of the festival's contextual specificity and continental ubiquity as a central component for understanding South Asian religious life, as well as how it shapes and is shaped by political patronage, economic development, and social status.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 143847069X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navar?tri festival. Nine Nights of the Goddess explores the festival of Navarātri—alternatively called Navarātra, Mahānavamī, Durgā Pūjā, Dasarā, and/or Dassain—which lasts for nine nights and ends with a celebration called Vijayadaśamī, or "the tenth (day) of victory." Celebrated in both massive public venues and in small, private domestic spaces, Navarātri is one of the most important and ubiquitous festivals in South Asia and wherever South Asians have settled. These festivals share many elements, including the goddess, royal power, the killing of demons, and the worship of young girls and married women, but their interpretation and performance vary widely. This interdisciplinary collection of essays investigates Navarātri in its many manifestations and across historical periods, including celebrations in West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal. Collectively, the essays consider the role of the festival's contextual specificity and continental ubiquity as a central component for understanding South Asian religious life, as well as how it shapes and is shaped by political patronage, economic development, and social status.
The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace
Author: N. E. Sjoman
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170173892
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
On the Haṭha Yoga tradition based on age old practice in Mysore Palace, with illustrations of asanas from the Yoga section of Śrītattvanidhi by Kr̥ṣṇarāja Vaḍeyara, III, Maharaja of Mysore, fl. 1799-1868; includes English translation of the text.
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170173892
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
On the Haṭha Yoga tradition based on age old practice in Mysore Palace, with illustrations of asanas from the Yoga section of Śrītattvanidhi by Kr̥ṣṇarāja Vaḍeyara, III, Maharaja of Mysore, fl. 1799-1868; includes English translation of the text.
Balarama's Story
Author: D. K. BHASKAR
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614936022
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Elephants have long been a part of India's culture, religion and the natural environment. Elephants are a "mammoth" presence in India's mythology, and folklore. The divinity in elephants is worshipped in the form of the elephant-headed god, Ganesha. However, it is also true that this gentle giant is now an endangered animal. "Balarama's Story" is the biography of an elephant that was uprooted from its natural home in the forest to later attain iconic status as a "royal elephant" in Dasara festival of the once Royal Mysore. Follow the tale of Balarama in this captivating narration, and learn about the private lives of elephants in the forest and why elephants matter to mankind!!!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614936022
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Elephants have long been a part of India's culture, religion and the natural environment. Elephants are a "mammoth" presence in India's mythology, and folklore. The divinity in elephants is worshipped in the form of the elephant-headed god, Ganesha. However, it is also true that this gentle giant is now an endangered animal. "Balarama's Story" is the biography of an elephant that was uprooted from its natural home in the forest to later attain iconic status as a "royal elephant" in Dasara festival of the once Royal Mysore. Follow the tale of Balarama in this captivating narration, and learn about the private lives of elephants in the forest and why elephants matter to mankind!!!
Subaltern Sovereigns
Author: Peter Berger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110458837
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems - both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110458837
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems - both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Madras Matters
Author:
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435708873
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435708873
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Mysore Modern
Author: Janaki Nair
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816673834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Rethinking modernity in colonial and postcolonial Indian history
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816673834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Rethinking modernity in colonial and postcolonial Indian history
Devotional Sovereignty
Author: Caleb Simmons
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190088893
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore during the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868). Tipu Sultan was a Muslim king famous for resisting British dominance until his death; Krishnaraja III was a Hindu king who succumbed to British political and administrative control. Despite their differences, the courts of both kings dealt with the changing political landscape by turning to the religious and mythical past to construct a royal identity for their kings. Caleb Simmons explores the ways in which these two kings and their courts modified and adapted pre-modern Indian notions of sovereignty and kingship in reaction to British intervention. The religious past provided an idiom through which the Mysore courts could articulate their rulers' claims to kingship in the region, attributing their rule to divine election and employing religious vocabulary in a variety of courtly genres and media. Through critical inquiry into the transitional early colonial period, this study sheds new light on pre-modern and modern India, with implications for our understanding of contemporary politics. It offers a revisionist history of the accepted narrative in which Tipu Sultan is viewed as a radical Muslim reformer and Krishnaraja III as a powerless British puppet. Simmons paints a picture of both rulers in which they work within and from the same understanding of kingship, utilizing devotion to Hindu gods, goddesses, and gurus to perform the duties of the king.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190088893
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore during the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868). Tipu Sultan was a Muslim king famous for resisting British dominance until his death; Krishnaraja III was a Hindu king who succumbed to British political and administrative control. Despite their differences, the courts of both kings dealt with the changing political landscape by turning to the religious and mythical past to construct a royal identity for their kings. Caleb Simmons explores the ways in which these two kings and their courts modified and adapted pre-modern Indian notions of sovereignty and kingship in reaction to British intervention. The religious past provided an idiom through which the Mysore courts could articulate their rulers' claims to kingship in the region, attributing their rule to divine election and employing religious vocabulary in a variety of courtly genres and media. Through critical inquiry into the transitional early colonial period, this study sheds new light on pre-modern and modern India, with implications for our understanding of contemporary politics. It offers a revisionist history of the accepted narrative in which Tipu Sultan is viewed as a radical Muslim reformer and Krishnaraja III as a powerless British puppet. Simmons paints a picture of both rulers in which they work within and from the same understanding of kingship, utilizing devotion to Hindu gods, goddesses, and gurus to perform the duties of the king.
Building Solidarity
Author:
Publisher: ISPCK
ISBN: 9788184580631
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Papers presented at the FOIM Biannual Mission Studies Research Seminar, held at Srinagar during 8-23 October 2007.
Publisher: ISPCK
ISBN: 9788184580631
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Papers presented at the FOIM Biannual Mission Studies Research Seminar, held at Srinagar during 8-23 October 2007.