Encyclopaedia Indica
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File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 1997
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ISBN : 9788170418597
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 1997
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ISBN : 9788170418597
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Bangladesh
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Author : Padmashri S. S. Shashi
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 1997
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ISBN : 9788170418597
Author : K.S. Krishna Rao
Publisher : Global Vision Pub House
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Brahmans
ISBN : 9788182202085
The sole objective of this Encyclopaedia is to present ethnographical descriptions of the Brahmana s castes and sub-castes of India. The task which we have performed here is, no doubt, beset with difficulties but we shall consider our labour amply rewarded if this monumental work is found useful by scholars and readers of ethnic study of the Brahman communities of India. We are highly grateful to all those scholars whose works have been producedin this encyclopaedia. We are also thankful to the scholars and staff of Anthropological Survey of India for their moral and intellectual support in compilation of this monumental work.
Author : Govind Prasad Upadhyay
Publisher : New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Brahmanas
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Description: Based on a rigorous analysis of the source material, the present work is the first systematic study of the history of Brahmanas in the post-Maurya and the Gupta periods. An attempt has been made to determine and assess their role in the religious, social, and political life of the times. As the custodians of the Vedic tradition, Brahmanas aimed at a socio-religious transformation by trying to grasp both the sources of stability and seeds of change. The author has convincingly argued that the Brahmanas could meet the forces partly by remaining close to the political power and partly through their ingenious acceptance of the psycho-cultural dictates of the Indian masses, whose active involvement in the economic life was vital for the maintenance of social order. He has demonstrated that the institutionalization of a vast body of theoretical provisions and mythologically evolved doctrines helped them in acculturation of the various peoples. The penetrating analysis of the rituals and myths throws welcome light on the socio-economic levels of the patrons of major religious sects, and on the Brahmanical techniques of the social control. The author has made good use of various sociological concept-tools relevant to the study of the social roles and activities of Brahmanas during the period under review. He has also drawn upon the pioneering anthropological researches and field work to lay bare the role of the Brahmanas in the process of acculturation.
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Bangladesh
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Author : K. S. MacDonald
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2015-08-23
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ISBN : 9781340060794
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Bangladesh
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Brahmanas
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Samavedic rituals, according to the Kauthama recension.
Author : Kenneth Somerled Macdonald
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Page : 211 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Brahmanas
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