Phulmat of the Hills
Author : Verrier Elwin
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Verrier Elwin
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 1999-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226310473
"Described by his contemporaries as a cross between Albert Schweitzer and Paul Gauguin, Elwin was a man of contradictions, at times taking on the role of evangelist, social worker, political activist, poet, government worker, and more. Intensely political, the Oxford-trained scholar tirelessly defended the rights of the indigenous and despite the deep religious influences of St.
Author : Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231128100
Annotation This volume surveys 200 years of Indian literature in English. Written by Indian scholars and critics, many of the 24 contributions examine the work of individual authors, such as Rabindranath Tagore, R.K. Narayan, and Salman Rushdie. Others consider a particular genre, such as post-independence poetry or drama. The volume is illustrated with b&w photographs of writers along with drawings and popular prints. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Tanka Bahadur Subba
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788125028123
Between Ethnography and Fiction brings together essays by sixteen scholars of various disciplines to re-examine the work of Verrier Elwin in the fields of tribal literature, tribe and non-tribe relationship, tribal development policies, missionaries and conversion, myths and legends, art and craft, etc. Elwin is undoubtedly one of the most controversial as well as influential anthropologists of the twentieth century. The essays included here are therefore both appreciative and critical.
Author : Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9360168874
As a first venture of the author into the English poetry, the book contains a collection of short poems. Although short the poems convey a lot, which will make the readers pause before passing form one poem on to the next one. The brevity of the poems makes them comparable to the Buqalas, a type peculiar to Algerian Muslim women who recite them after breaking fast during the holy month of Ramadan. To know more on the Buqala the readers have to swim through the pages of this short book. At the end there are some poems on the theme of the ongoing Ukrainian war.
Author : Sir John Collings Squire
Publisher :
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 1937-05
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : M. Islam
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Tales
ISBN :
Author : Verrier Elwin
Publisher : I.S.P.C.K.
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Anthropologists
ISBN :
This Book Seaks To Span Verrier Elwin`S Entire Indian Life From The Perspective Of Religion.
Author : Museum of Mankind
Publisher : London : British Museum
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN :