Author: John Renton Denning
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Shantha N. Nair
Publisher: Pustak Mahal
ISBN: 8122310206
Category : Hindu philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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The echoes of ancient Indian wisdom can be heard from the oldest of scriptures that existed many years ago. Even thousands of years before they were written down on palm leaves, the teachings were passed on from generations to generations, from the teachers to the disciples in their oral form. These works are amongst the oldest of humanity. They laid the foundation of one of the most tolerant and diverse religions in the world, the Sanatan Dharma or Hinduism, which is marked by a wide range of ethos and philosophical approaches. Covering the vastness and immensity of the ancient Indian scriptures is akin to capturing a gigantic ocean in a small pitcher. Thus, in this book, the author has tried to catch a few 'echoes' resonating with age-old wisdom and has presented them to the readers. the book unravels the knowledge hidden inside the Samhitas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads of the Shruti that form the Vedas, and in the Smriti like Agamas, Dharma Shastras and so on. In short, it provides a glimpse, or rather a macro view of the ancient treasure of India.

Author: Vinay Rajagopal Iyer
Publisher: Prowess Publishing
ISBN: 154575733X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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In the timeless expanse of truth, eternal and boundless, lies a wisdom that transcends human grasp. Its divine origin eludes even the most brilliant minds, floating far above our earthly realm, beyond the tumultuous skies where thunder and lightning are born, and even farther than the cosmic sea where celestial bodies dance in the vast ether. This truth, originating from the Infinite, the Unmanifest, the Great Silence, is where all creation stirs, and all harmony breathes. It is from this profound depth that Truth takes its pure and unblemished form. While the entirety of this wisdom is beyond human perception, the aspiring soul catches glimpses of its glory, like fleeting sparks of perfection. Those who are attuned to this cosmic source receive inspirations, divine insights that shed light on the shadows of our mortal existence. Throughout history, such enlightened souls have illuminated the world with their wisdom. Their divine messages, transcending time and space, have been gathered in sacred texts across civilizations – be it the Vedas, Upanishads, the Quran, or the Bible. No single culture or sage holds exclusive rights to this universal wisdom. The Eternal Source is a fountain with innumerable streams, and even if these were all merged, the vast reservoir of Divine Truth would remain largely untapped. As humanity evolves, shedding materialistic tendencies and embracing spiritual illumination, the soul's thirst for higher truth grows. Such earnest yearnings are always answered. Pure-hearted messengers, shaped by life's trials and tribulations, are chosen to convey these profound truths to mankind.

Author: Dr. Chandan Kumar Jha
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Partition is an enduring subject of Indian writers in English. The event was an unparalleled catastrophe of recent history which ravaged Indian and Pakistani and affected the Sikhs, Sindhis, Hindus, Punjabis and Bengal is in particular many hart rending stories and accounts of partition continue to be written and discussed and the blame game is still not over. It has been a favourite topic of many authors, artists, journalists, film makers and even writers of memoirs. The present Book discusses the highly complex subject of partition which deals with politics of greed, the abdication of the authorities and the sufferings of males and females during and after Partition. Numerous books have been written on the subject in regional and English language. For the purposes of present book entitled only four novels written in different decades, say 50s, 70s, 80s and 90s have been taken up and the novels like Train to Pakistan, Azadi, The Ice Candy Man and What the Body Remembers have been taken up for serious critical discussion in order to highlight the similarities and dissimilarities of approach and view points from both male and female points of view.

Author: Lisa K. Neuman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149620932X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421

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When Indian University--now Bacone College--opened its doors in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1880, it was a small Baptist institution designed to train young Native Americans to be teachers and Christian missionaries among their own people and to act as agents of cultural assimilation. From 1927 to 1957, however, Bacone College changed course and pursued a new strategy of emphasizing the Indian identities of its students and projecting often-romanticized images of Indianness to the non-Indian public in its fund-raising campaigns. Money was funneled back into the school as administrators hired Native American faculty who in turn created innovative curricular programs in music and the arts that encouraged their students to explore and develop their Native identities. Through their frequent use of humor and inventive wordplay to reference Indianness--"Indian play"--students articulated the (often contradictory) implications of being educated Indians in mid-twentieth-century America. In this supportive and creative culture, Bacone became an "Indian school," rather than just another "school for Indians." In examining how and why this transformation occurred, Lisa K. Neuman situates the students' Indian play within larger theoretical frameworks of cultural creativity, ideologies of authenticity, and counterhegemonic practices that are central to the fields of Native American and indigenous studies today.

Author: Seema Sohi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199390444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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How did thousands of Indians who migrated to the Pacific Coast of North America during the early twentieth century come to forge an anticolonial movement that British authorities claimed nearly toppled their rule in India during the First World War? Seema Sohi traces how Indian labor migrants, students, and intellectual activists who journeyed across the globe seeking to escape the exploitative and politically repressive policies of the British Raj, linked restrictive immigration policies and political repression in North America to colonial subjugation at home. In the process, they developed an international anticolonial consciousness that boldly confronted the British and American empires. Hoping to become an important symbol for those battling against racial oppression and colonial subjugation across the world, Indian anticolonialists also provoked a global inter-imperial collaboration between U.S. and British officials to repress anticolonial revolt. They symbolized the hope of the world's racialized subjects and the fears of those who worried about the global disorder they could portend. Echoes of Mutiny provides an in-depth and transnational look at the deeply intertwined relationship between anti-Asian racism, Indian anticolonialism, and state antiradicalism in early twentieth century U.S. and global history. Through extensive archival research, Sohi uncovers the dialectical relationship between the rise of Indian anticolonialism and state repression in North America and demonstrates how Indian anticolonialists served as catalysts for the implementation of restrictive U.S. immigration and antiradical laws as well as the expansion of state power in early twentieth century India and America. Indian migrants came to understand their struggles against racial exclusion and political repression in North America as part of a broader movement against white supremacy and colonialism and articulated radical visions of anticolonialism that called not only for the end of British rule in India but the forging of democracies across the world.

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Category : Play
Languages : en
Pages : 834

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Author: Sobhag Mathur
Publisher:
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Category : East Indian diaspora
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Radhika Singha
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019752558X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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A spectacular history of the hundreds of thousands of unacknowledged Indian laborers who kept the Allied supply lines flowing in the First World War.

Author: R. Crane
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230380085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Working at the interface of historical and fictional writing, Ralph Crane considers the history of India from the Revolt of 1857 to the Emergency of 1975 as it is presented in the works of twentieth-century novelists, both Indian and British, who have written about particular periods of Indian history from within various periods of literary history. A constant thread in the book is the exploration of the use of paintings as iconography and allegory, used in the novels to reveal aspects of British-Indian relationships.