Author: Gulvadi Venkata Rao
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199096635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Indira Bai, born in an orthodox Saraswat Brahmin family in the small town of Kamalapura, is married and widowed as a child. The bright, curious girl resists forces of social conservatism—the mindless chores and cruel rituals of widowhood. To reform her, the head of the religious mutt is brought in. When he tries to seduce her, a distraught Indira runs away to eminent lawyer Amrita Raya’s house. Encouraged in her pursuit of knowledge and freedom, Indira acquires a matriculation degree and later chooses to marry Assistant Collector Bhaskara Rao. This novel, laced with feminist intent, traces Indira’s self-fashioning into a modern, educated, and assertive woman. Published in 1899, Indira Bai documents the transformation of the Saraswat Brahmin community based in the erstwhile South Canara region of Karnataka due to the encounter between the Kannada social world and colonial modernity. Simultaneously, this text of social history represents the pan-Indian churning provoked by the reform movement in the nineteenth century, with its central focus on the condition of women.
Indira Bai
Author: Gulvadi Venkata Rao
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199096635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Indira Bai, born in an orthodox Saraswat Brahmin family in the small town of Kamalapura, is married and widowed as a child. The bright, curious girl resists forces of social conservatism—the mindless chores and cruel rituals of widowhood. To reform her, the head of the religious mutt is brought in. When he tries to seduce her, a distraught Indira runs away to eminent lawyer Amrita Raya’s house. Encouraged in her pursuit of knowledge and freedom, Indira acquires a matriculation degree and later chooses to marry Assistant Collector Bhaskara Rao. This novel, laced with feminist intent, traces Indira’s self-fashioning into a modern, educated, and assertive woman. Published in 1899, Indira Bai documents the transformation of the Saraswat Brahmin community based in the erstwhile South Canara region of Karnataka due to the encounter between the Kannada social world and colonial modernity. Simultaneously, this text of social history represents the pan-Indian churning provoked by the reform movement in the nineteenth century, with its central focus on the condition of women.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199096635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Indira Bai, born in an orthodox Saraswat Brahmin family in the small town of Kamalapura, is married and widowed as a child. The bright, curious girl resists forces of social conservatism—the mindless chores and cruel rituals of widowhood. To reform her, the head of the religious mutt is brought in. When he tries to seduce her, a distraught Indira runs away to eminent lawyer Amrita Raya’s house. Encouraged in her pursuit of knowledge and freedom, Indira acquires a matriculation degree and later chooses to marry Assistant Collector Bhaskara Rao. This novel, laced with feminist intent, traces Indira’s self-fashioning into a modern, educated, and assertive woman. Published in 1899, Indira Bai documents the transformation of the Saraswat Brahmin community based in the erstwhile South Canara region of Karnataka due to the encounter between the Kannada social world and colonial modernity. Simultaneously, this text of social history represents the pan-Indian churning provoked by the reform movement in the nineteenth century, with its central focus on the condition of women.
Wondrous Truths
Author: J.D. Trout
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199385092
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science. Good explanations are what provide accurate causal accounts of the things we wonder at, but explanation's earthly origins haven't grounded it: we have used it to account for the grandest and most wondrous mysteries in the natural world. Explanations give us a sense of understanding, but an explanation that feels right doesn't mean it is true. For every true explanation, there is a false one that feels just as good. A good theory's explanations, though, have a much easier path to truth. This push for good explanations elevated science from medieval alchemy to electro-chemistry, or a pre-inertial physics to the forces underlying nanoparticles. And though the attempt to explain has existed as long as we have been able to wonder, a science timeline from pre-history to the present will reveal a steep curve of theoretical discovery that explodes around 1600, primarily in the West. Ranging over neuroscience, psychology, history, and policy, Wondrous Truths answers two fundamental questions-Why did science progress in the West? And why so quickly? J.D. Trout's answers are surprising. His central idea is that Western science rose above all others because it hit upon successive theories that were approximately true through an awkward assortment of accident and luck, geography and personal idiosyncrasy. Of course, intellectual ingenuity partially accounts for this persistent drive forward. But so too does the persistence of the objects of wonder. Wondrous Truths recovers the majesty of science, and provides a startling new look at the grand sweep of its biggest ideas.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199385092
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science. Good explanations are what provide accurate causal accounts of the things we wonder at, but explanation's earthly origins haven't grounded it: we have used it to account for the grandest and most wondrous mysteries in the natural world. Explanations give us a sense of understanding, but an explanation that feels right doesn't mean it is true. For every true explanation, there is a false one that feels just as good. A good theory's explanations, though, have a much easier path to truth. This push for good explanations elevated science from medieval alchemy to electro-chemistry, or a pre-inertial physics to the forces underlying nanoparticles. And though the attempt to explain has existed as long as we have been able to wonder, a science timeline from pre-history to the present will reveal a steep curve of theoretical discovery that explodes around 1600, primarily in the West. Ranging over neuroscience, psychology, history, and policy, Wondrous Truths answers two fundamental questions-Why did science progress in the West? And why so quickly? J.D. Trout's answers are surprising. His central idea is that Western science rose above all others because it hit upon successive theories that were approximately true through an awkward assortment of accident and luck, geography and personal idiosyncrasy. Of course, intellectual ingenuity partially accounts for this persistent drive forward. But so too does the persistence of the objects of wonder. Wondrous Truths recovers the majesty of science, and provides a startling new look at the grand sweep of its biggest ideas.
The Triumph of Truth
Author: Charles Giles
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336894522X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336894522X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
The Triumph of Truth
Author: Charles Giles
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Lure and the Truth of Painting
Author: Yves Bonnefoy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226064444
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Always fascinated in his poetry by the nature of color and light and the power of the image, Bonnefoy continues to pursue these themes in his discussion of the lure and truth of representation. He sees the painter as a poet whose language is visual, and he seeks to find out what visual artists can teach those who work with words.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226064444
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Always fascinated in his poetry by the nature of color and light and the power of the image, Bonnefoy continues to pursue these themes in his discussion of the lure and truth of representation. He sees the painter as a poet whose language is visual, and he seeks to find out what visual artists can teach those who work with words.
The Triumph of Truth; Or, The Vindication of Divine Providence
Author: Charles Giles
Publisher:
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Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Triumph of Truth; or, The Vindication of Divine Providence
Author: Charles Giles
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385126207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385126207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Evening devotions; or, The worship of God in spirit and in truth for every day in the year, tr. by R. Huish
Author: Christoph Christian Sturm
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Languages : en
Pages : 970
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The Open Court
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Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The Doom of Dogma and the Triumph of Truth
Author: Henry Frank
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description