Author: Ellison Banks Findly
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195074882
Category : Empresses
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
"Nur Jahan was one of the most powerful and influential women in Indian history, and Ellison Findly's biography is an intriguing, elegantly written account of her life and times. Findly's work not only revises the legends that portray Nur Jahan as a power-hungry and malicious woman, but also investigates the paths to power available to women in Islam and Hinduism, providing a fascinating picture of life inside the 'mahal' (harem)"--Publisher's website.
Nur Jahan, Empress of Mughal India
Author: Ellison Banks Findly
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195074882
Category : Empresses
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
"Nur Jahan was one of the most powerful and influential women in Indian history, and Ellison Findly's biography is an intriguing, elegantly written account of her life and times. Findly's work not only revises the legends that portray Nur Jahan as a power-hungry and malicious woman, but also investigates the paths to power available to women in Islam and Hinduism, providing a fascinating picture of life inside the 'mahal' (harem)"--Publisher's website.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195074882
Category : Empresses
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
"Nur Jahan was one of the most powerful and influential women in Indian history, and Ellison Findly's biography is an intriguing, elegantly written account of her life and times. Findly's work not only revises the legends that portray Nur Jahan as a power-hungry and malicious woman, but also investigates the paths to power available to women in Islam and Hinduism, providing a fascinating picture of life inside the 'mahal' (harem)"--Publisher's website.
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World
Author: Ruby Lal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521850223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This 2005 book looks at domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521850223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This 2005 book looks at domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century.
The Babur-Nama in English (Memoirs of Babur): Translated from the Original Turki Text of Zahiru'd-Din Muhammad Babur Padshah Ghazi
Author: Annette Susannah Beveridge
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353297602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353297602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Vagabond Princess
Author: Ruby Lal
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300251270
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
A captivating biography of one of the world's greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir "Finally, a serious consideration of Gulbadan's achievement.'"--Kirkus Reviews Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a walled harem established by her nephew Akbar to showcase his authority as the Great Emperor. Gulbadan longed for the exuberant itinerant lifestyle she'd known. With Akbar's blessing, she led an unprecedented sailing and overland voyage and guided harem women on an extended pilgrimage in Arabia. Amid increasing political tensions, the women's "un-Islamic" behavior forced their return, lengthened by a dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea. Gulbadan wrote a book upon her return, the only extant work of prose by a woman of the age. A portion of it is missing, either lost to history or redacted by officials who did not want the princess to have her say. Vagabond Princess contemplates the story of the missing pages and breathes new life into a daring historical figure. It offers a portal to a richly complex world, rife with movement and migration, where women's conviviality, adventure, and autonomies shine through.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300251270
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
A captivating biography of one of the world's greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir "Finally, a serious consideration of Gulbadan's achievement.'"--Kirkus Reviews Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a walled harem established by her nephew Akbar to showcase his authority as the Great Emperor. Gulbadan longed for the exuberant itinerant lifestyle she'd known. With Akbar's blessing, she led an unprecedented sailing and overland voyage and guided harem women on an extended pilgrimage in Arabia. Amid increasing political tensions, the women's "un-Islamic" behavior forced their return, lengthened by a dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea. Gulbadan wrote a book upon her return, the only extant work of prose by a woman of the age. A portion of it is missing, either lost to history or redacted by officials who did not want the princess to have her say. Vagabond Princess contemplates the story of the missing pages and breathes new life into a daring historical figure. It offers a portal to a richly complex world, rife with movement and migration, where women's conviviality, adventure, and autonomies shine through.
Inventing the Sarod
Author: Adrian McNeil
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This is a major musical and cultural history of the sarod, a leading stringed instrument in Hindustani classical music, which documents the cultural origins, historical development and music styles of this instrumental tradition over the last three centuries. It documents the history of its musicians, their social organization, patron groups, modes of patronage, musical and aesthetic developments, instrument design and construction, narratives, musical terminology, and conception of musical sound over this period. In so doing it provides a detailed account of how this community of musicians devised and implemented strategies to deal with the major challenges generated by a succession of political economies from premodern times to the present. It highlights the cultural syncretism and diversity that has underpinned the development of the tradition to date. The book also sets out to construct a methodology that historicizes sound and makes it an object of study. A primary aim of the book is to address the current climate of contestation over the cultural ownership of the tradition and its history which is argued to be one of the cultural consequences of globalization and part of a wider tendency of re-imagining the past. Informing this study are the rich oral histories and narratives that pervade the tradition; Sanskrit texts on music; primary materials and studies in vernacular languages; studies in Indian anthropological and sociological studies; colonial records; ethnographies; sound recordings and the author s fieldwork and rigorous training in sarod over the last two decades. Adrian McNeil researches and writes on Indian classical music. Currently Senior Research Fellow, Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, he has published widely on various aspects of Indian classical music. He is a trained sarod player with several performances to his credit.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This is a major musical and cultural history of the sarod, a leading stringed instrument in Hindustani classical music, which documents the cultural origins, historical development and music styles of this instrumental tradition over the last three centuries. It documents the history of its musicians, their social organization, patron groups, modes of patronage, musical and aesthetic developments, instrument design and construction, narratives, musical terminology, and conception of musical sound over this period. In so doing it provides a detailed account of how this community of musicians devised and implemented strategies to deal with the major challenges generated by a succession of political economies from premodern times to the present. It highlights the cultural syncretism and diversity that has underpinned the development of the tradition to date. The book also sets out to construct a methodology that historicizes sound and makes it an object of study. A primary aim of the book is to address the current climate of contestation over the cultural ownership of the tradition and its history which is argued to be one of the cultural consequences of globalization and part of a wider tendency of re-imagining the past. Informing this study are the rich oral histories and narratives that pervade the tradition; Sanskrit texts on music; primary materials and studies in vernacular languages; studies in Indian anthropological and sociological studies; colonial records; ethnographies; sound recordings and the author s fieldwork and rigorous training in sarod over the last two decades. Adrian McNeil researches and writes on Indian classical music. Currently Senior Research Fellow, Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, he has published widely on various aspects of Indian classical music. He is a trained sarod player with several performances to his credit.
The Bābur-nama in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
Author: Babur (Emperor of Hindustan)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Akbar, the Greatest Mogul
Author: S. M. Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Indian Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
Oriental Splendour
Author: Claus-Peter Haase
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record
Author:
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
Book Description
Here's quick access to more than 490,000 titles published from 1970 to 1984 arranged in Dewey sequence with sections for Adult and Juvenile Fiction. Author and Title indexes are included, and a Subject Guide correlates primary subjects with Dewey and LC classification numbers. These cumulative records are available in three separate sets.
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
Book Description
Here's quick access to more than 490,000 titles published from 1970 to 1984 arranged in Dewey sequence with sections for Adult and Juvenile Fiction. Author and Title indexes are included, and a Subject Guide correlates primary subjects with Dewey and LC classification numbers. These cumulative records are available in three separate sets.