Meera, Sanga and Mewar
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9788186939840
Meera, Sanga and Mewar: The Remarkable Story of A Brave Rajput Princess and Her Legendary Devotion
Author : Jyoti Jafa
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 8186939857
Book Description
A prolific journalist, Jyoti Jafa is an aristocrat by birth, a diplomat by training and a writer by inclination. She infuses her writing with her own joie de vivre and an artist’s sensitivity to ambience. She is also the author of three of our bestsellers, Nurjahan, Really, Your Highness! and Royal Rajasthan.
Upholding the Common Life
Author : Parita Mukta
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Bhakti
ISBN : 9780195643732
Book Description
Drawing on extensive oral recordings of devotional songs, the book contextualises the figure of the sixteenth century Rajput princess Mirabai, who became a devotee of Krishna, within the lived reality of the lives of poorer women and men in Rajasthan and Gujarat. It analyses in detail thecommunities which have formed around the figure of Mirabai.
Mewar Saga
Author : D. R. Mankekar
Publisher : New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Udaipur (Princely State)
ISBN :
Book Description
On the place of Mewar, a former princely state of Rajasthan, in Indian history.
Mirabai
Author : Robert Bly
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780807063866
Book Description
A stunning collection of poems by Mirabai, the fifteenth-century female Indian ecstatic poet. Like Coleman Barks's translations of Rumi, this collection of poems by Mirabai will appeal to anyone interested in spiritual poetry.
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan
Author : James Tod
Publisher :
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Rajasthan (India)
ISBN :
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema
Author : Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3189 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135943257
Book Description
The largest film industry in the world after Hollywood is celebrated in this updated and expanded edition of a now classic work of reference. Covering the full range of Indian film, this new revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema includes vastly expanded coverage of mainstream productions from the 1970s to the 1990s and, for the first time, a comprehensive name index. Illustrated throughout, there is no comparable guide to the incredible vitality and diversity of historical and contemporary Indian film.
The Vachanamrut
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Publisher :
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religious life
ISBN :
Book Description
Vacanāmr̥ta of Swami Sahajānanda, 1781-1830, work on Swaminarayan.
Cuckold
Author : Kiran Nagarkar
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9351770109
Book Description
The time is early 16th century. The Rajput kingdom of Mewar is at the height of its power. It is locked in war with the Sultanates of Delhi, Gujarat and Malwa. But there is another deadly battle being waged within Mewar itself. who will inherit the throne after the death of the Maharana? The course of history, not just of Mewar but of the whole of India, is about to be changed forever.At the centre of Cuckold is the narrator, heir apparent of Mewar, who questions the codes, conventions and underlying assumptions of the feudal world of which he is a part, a world in which political and personal conduct are dictated by values of courage, valour and courtesy; and death is preferable to dishonour.A quintessentially Indian story, Cuckold has an immediacy and appeal that are truely universal.
No Margin for Error
Author : Tanushree Podder
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8186939830
Book Description
Tanushree is a self-confessed word-a-holic and a traveller. When not reading or writing books, she’s sure to be packing her bags and boots to zip around the world. A true maverick, she stumbled through many career choices before settling on writing. A chocolate addict with a penchant for the unusual, she has collected dozens of interesting certificates that range from a wine-master’s assistant at Australia, an international reindeer driving licence from Lapland, to one from ‘The School of Hard Knocks’ at Royal Selangor. No Margin for Error is her ninth novel. After leading a nomadic life for several decades, thanks to the Indian Army, she has finally grown roots at Pune. Tanushree can be contacted on her website – http://www. tanushreepodder.com.
