AIIS Quarterly Newsletter
Author : American Institute of Indian Studies
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : American Institute of Indian Studies
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Anand Vivek Taneja
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1503603954
In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand Vivek Taneja's Jinnealogy provides a fresh vision of religion, identity, and sacrality that runs counter to state-sanctioned history. The ruin, Firoz Shah Kotla, is an unusually democratic religious space, characterized by freewheeling theological conversations, DIY rituals, and the sanctification of animals. Taneja observes the visitors, who come mainly from the Muslim and Dalit neighborhoods of Delhi, and uses their conversations and letters to the jinns as an archive of voices so often silenced. He finds that their veneration of the jinns recalls pre-modern religious traditions in which spiritual experience was inextricably tied to ecological surroundings. In this enchanted space, Taneja encounters a form of popular Islam that is not a relic of bygone days, but a vibrant form of resistance to state repression and post-colonial visions of India.
Author : Dipti Khera
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : ART
ISBN : 0691201846
"India retains one of the richest painting traditions in the history of global visual culture, one that both parallels aspects of European traditions and also diverges from it. While European artists venerated the landscape and landscape paintings, it is rare in the Indian tradition to find depictions of landscapes for their sheer beauty and mood, without religious or courtly significance. There is one glorious exception: Painters from the city of Udaipur in Northwestern India specialized in depicting places, including the courtly worlds and cities of rajas, sacred landscapes of many gods, and bazaars bustling with merchants, pilgrims, and craftsmen. Their court paintings and painted invitation scrolls displayed rich geographic information, notions of territory, and the bhāva, or feel, emotion, and mood of a place. This is the first book to use artistic representations of place to trace the major aesthetic, intellectual, and political shifts in South Asia over the long eighteenth century. While James Tod, the first British colonial agent based in Udaipur, established the region's reputation as a principality in a state of political and cultural deterioration, author Dipti Khera uses these paintings to suggest a counter-narrative of a prosperous region with beautiful and bountiful cities, and plentiful rains and lakes. She explores the perspectives of courtly communities, merchants, pilgrims, monks, laypeople, and officers, and the British East India Company's officers, explorers, and artists. Throughout, she draws new conclusions about the region's intellectual and artistic practices, and its shifts in political authority, mobility, and urbanity"--
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Page : 2106 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Periodicals
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Author : Michael W. Meister
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
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Author : India International Centre
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 1985
Category : India
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Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Indic newspapers
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Reports for 1958-1970 include catalogues of newspapers published in each state and Union Territory.
Author : Daniel M. Cobb
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Page : 336 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
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Broadens the scope and meaning of American Indian political activism by focusing on the movement's early--and largely neglected--struggles, revealing how early activists exploited Cold War tensions in ways that brought national attention to their issues.
Author : Cecilia Coale Van Hollen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0520386531
History and hospitals -- Poverty and chemicals -- Women and work -- Screening and morality -- Disclosure and care -- Biomedicine and bodies -- Sorcery and religion.
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Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2013
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