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This book A Study of Coins covers Numismatic studies of South Asia from earliest time to modern period. The Ancient South Asian coinages have a very long and varied historical tradition providing a rich source of information. This part on Punch marked to Gupta Peri...
The Indian sub-continent, particularly the Peninsular India, is recognised as one of the richest areas of Acheulian occupation in the Old World. This research work is a detailed study of the Acheulian Culture system in India --...
Explain in a simple and interesting manner the basic concepts of air traffic control and how it is exercised in the present day seenario. It also traces the genesis and development of this profession through its early times. The ICAO sponsored CNS, ATM (Communicati...
The book documents India's rich tradition of ornamentation as reflected in its numerous and varied collection of amulets and pendants recovered from archaeological excavations in Maharashtra. It studies the significance of ...
This book is a study of the people of nomadic groups or clans of Central Asia from about 6000 bce to the last millennium bce to explore why cultures and history developed the way they did in Central Asia by taking up the Indo-E...
This is a fresh look at the history of Ancient India, centering on the Law Code of Manu (Manusmriti / Manu Dharmashastra), and its relationship to Rigveda and its possible relationship to the Indus/Harappan...
Money is unmistakably a landmark invention -- considering its indispensable role in economics and, more specially, in the commercial sphere of man's existence anywhere in the world. However, we have...
Money is unmistakably a landmark invention -- considering its indispensable role in economics and, more specially, in the commercial sphere of man's existence anywhere in the world. However, we have yet to have final answer...
In ancient India, learning and literature flourished at different levels and concerned almost all broad disciplines of knowledge. One such stream was historiography as we find a rich tradition of history-writing maintained ...
In an attempt to explore the ancient history of Central Asia and of the movement of ancient peoples, the work examines the affinities and interactions of the people who called themselves "Arya," that is, the Indo-Arya...
Rooted in an earlier field-study (1999-2002) of the routes which linked the Ganga plain with the Deccan, this volume, based on a subsequent field-study (2004-2006), studies on the ground the network of routes which linked the Konkan coast and its Maharashtra and Ka...
Brahman in Ramanuja's philosophy is not a non-relational and non-differentiated bare being, but a living reality, a relational whole, who is inseparably related with the order of individual self cit and of matter acit. Thus the relation of inseparability aprtha...
Mayurbhanj, the leading princely state of Orissa in the pre-independence days, heroically encountered the twists and turns of history under the peacock-emblemed Bhanjas and continued to flourish for many centuries as an indepen...
This book is devoted to a study of the architectural, sculptural and iconographical wealth of the temples at Pushpagiri in Andhra Pradesh, India and gives exhaustive descriptions ranging from 11th to 16th centuries A D. These temples abound in narrative sculptures ...
Attempt to study more than 30 temples systematically in 25 sites of the Pakanadu region, south-eastern costal tracts of Andhra Pradesh, and search into the historical background to the various religious trends and identification, description and intrepretation of v...
This work is a masterpiece on archaeological material related to Harappan sites, belonging to both Indian and Pakistan. It provides an exclusive documentation of Harappan artifacts and other articles as found in various sites of one of the most ancient civilization...
The art of war, as generally considered, consists of five purely military branches,-viz.: Strategy, Grand Tactics, Logistics, Engineering, and Tactics. A sixth and essential branch, hitherto unrecognized, might be termed Diplomacy in its relation to War. Although t...
The basic aim of the book is to expose the major contributions of artisans and craftsmen in portraying the society in different perspectives. These artisans and craftsmen, were...
History is a very potent subject. Politics can be, and very often is, based on it. A nation which forgets, or falsifies, or wilfully ignores, or glosses over the lessons of its history is a nation heading towards doom. And, conversely, when a nation is intend...
This book is a collection of twenty articles on various aspects of Indian history and culture contributed by mostly young teachers of different colleges and universities of West Bengal. These are the results of their scholarly researches in the field of their respe...
This book is a compilation of seventeen research papers contributed by the noted scholars, which inspire readers to dwell into their-self and enjoy being with their-self. An attempt has been made in the book to facilitate the readers towards the subject of Spiritua...
Ayodhya, situated on the banks of Sarayu river, for some, may just be a piece of land, but millions of Hindus living across the world consider it, being the birthplace of Lord Rama, the gate of the paradise from which the Lord ...
Rajiv Gandhi's assassination remains the most mysterious political murder in the history of independent India. Was it the handiwork of a group of fall guys who executed the conspiracy without knowing who their general was? It seems to be the case. It is just no...
Fresh excavations, new dating techniques and ever-growing conceptual frameworks since 1950 have greatly reshaped our perspective on Prehistory and Protohistory of the Indian subcontinent. This monograph, which is primarily aime...
Respecting of women was prevalent in Indian culture ever since the Vedic period. The life values of women were considered holy and pure in those times. In the literature pertaining to Ramayana, Mahabharata...
Borobudur was constructed during the eighth century as a guide to the Noble Path of the Buddha. Born from silence and unfolding into the serenity of the other shore, it expresses the glory of Indonesia's awareness and creat...
With the revival of Brahmanical Hinduism sometime around the fifth century ad, Buddhism had been dying out in India. But, paradoxically perhaps, in Bengal and Orissa, it saw not only its resurgence, but also a spell of its clim...
India is a land of communities, and Kashmiri Pandits are one of them. Though they are the original inhabitants of the Kashmir valley famous the world over for its beauty and learning, they are living in their own country as ref...
This book is a compilation of existence of intelligence and law machinery in India in Vedas, Samritis, Arthashastra and subsequent historical works with a view to dismantle the British belief that they have given the concept of CBI and policing to India, whereas it...
A Ksatriya hero of little-known antecedents, Chandragupta Maurya was unmistakably a born leader of men, who within twentyfour years of his reign: 317 bc-293 bc, established a gigantic empire by not only unifying the countless f...
Attempt to record the latest history of an Indian province - Orissa, in the context of national political changes depicting sordid drama of steady alround degradation, the unhealthy nexus between greed and power and the lonely crusade od a subaltern leader to redee...
The book traces the British Government's policy towards the aboriginal people of Orissa, particularly the Kandhs, and the reaction it caused in the people. The study of the British tribal policy is worthwhile because the main problem faced by the administration...
This work is a deep study of Chitrakoot form archaeo-religious aspects and highlights the personality and historicity of the region. It consists six chapters with the various aspects of geographical, historical, archaeo- religious history in a new perspective. Topi...
This book dealing directly with the historical development of modern citizenship and its social and political consequences, offers a distinctive interpretation and critique of T.H. Marshall's theory, and makes a modest contribution to the debate generated by Ma...
This book dealing directly with the historical development of modern citizenship and its social and political consequences, offers a distinctive interpretation and critique of T.H. Marshall's theory, and makes a modest contribution to the debate generated by Ma...
This book is based on the systematic and extensive fieldwork carried out in Goa, which brought to light numerous sites ranging from the Lower Paleolithic to the Early historic period. Taking into consideration the evidences collected during the present survey, the ...
Delhi is a symbol of India’s city building. It is the nerve centre of heritage and modernity, conflicts and contradictions, and richness and poverty. In 1911, King George V announced the shifting of India’s Capital from Calcutta and New Delhi was planne...
This the first historical work of the combined intelligence of Orissa giving a complete and connected story of her culture and civilisation through the ages. Being encyclopaedic in scope, it is one of the most notable enterprises of its kind yet attempted. Designed...
Gayatri is the most popular meter in the ancient Vedic literature which through the passage of time assumed the distinction of a prominent deity in the later literature, especially in the Puranas. Besides the meter, Gayatri as a mantra itself which occurs in the Rg...
Cultural History of Uttarakhand is an out-come of many years of keen observation of the linguistic and cultural phenomena of the whole Himalayan region,...
The reality of the Indian presence in Asian cultures is undeniable. Recent scholarship in the field of Asian cultural studies has laid much stress on the essential oneness of the substratum that defines what may be termed as an...
The book is a detailed exploration of various facets of Indian thought and life that make it a popular cultural tourist site for visitors from all over the world. It presents an account of India's people, history, national ...
The book is a detailed exploration of various facets of Indian thought and life that make it a popular cultural tourist site for visitors from all over the world. It presents an account of India's people, history, national ...
The volume is a study of the importance of upamana (knowledge by analogy) in Indian epistemology. The two stalwart schools of Nyaya and Mimamsa admit the relevance of upamana but differ with regard to many things ...
In mankind's history, India's is the longest literary tradition -- "so ancient that it cannot be illustrated either by con- temporary books or from monuments". The Rigveda, indisputably the oldest liter...
Early village farming cultural phase is a significant chapter of world archaeology. In India, recent discoveries and researches have contributed significantly towards the development of knowledge about this momentous cultural interlude. The present work is concentr...
Ecclesia Divina offers a selection of hymns from the four Vedas - the Rg, Yajur, Sama and Atharva, aiming at an authentic interpretation of the subject matter of the Vedas, particularly the Vedic ideas and thoughts related to the providence of God, creation and sus...
Mitali Chatterjee's study of education in ancient India focusses chiefly on over two hundred years: ad 319-550, of the reign of Imperial Guptas, which has been variantly described as the Golden Age, Periclean Age, or even t...
The book is a study of the fundamental principles of ancient Indian art and architecture, dealing with essentials of Hindu thinking and practice of art like the Hindu view of Godhead, iconography and iconometry, and symbols and...
The book is a study of the fundamental principles of ancient Indian art and architecture, dealing with essentials of Hindu thinking and practice of art like the Hindu view of Godhead, iconography and iconometry, and symbols and...
Facets of Ancient Indian History and Culture: New Perception is an attempt to study various phases of ancient Indian history and culture in a new light and present fresh approaches to understanding and interpreting his...
The book is an in-depth study of the socio-cultural life of the Mising tribe of Assam, the second largest among the plain tribes of Assam. Studying their oral narratives, it deals with the factors that influence the material cu...
India, for many millennia, was the diamond capital of the world and controlled the global diamond business. Indians were the first to discover, mine, curate and market diamonds in the world, and were the first to discover that diamond can be cut only by diamond, an...
The importance of the gompa or the Buddhist monastery in Tibetan history cannot be overemphasized: it was the institution that enabled continuity of Buddhism in Tibetan history by performing multifarious functions and in...
From the Vedas to Sutra and Smriti texts, from the time honoured epics to the foreigners' travelogues and literary classics -- leave alone Kautilya's far-famed Arthashastra and other treatises of its genre, ancie...
The book is a detailed study (in two volumes) of the traditional concept of Hindu marriage as a sacrament, analysing the validity of the reasons for incorporating the provision of divorce in the Hindu Law. Relying on a variety ...
The region of Orissa, from the point of view of studies in historical geography, has always remained a challenging area, not least owing to its vast and complicated history, varied geography and intriguing sources. Though the h...
This monograph is a research-based disquisition on the historicity of Rama and Krishna. Their historicity has been proved on the combined testimony of literature, history, archaeology and science.
Inscriptions are the most authentic and vital source for reconstructing the history of India. Epigraphs were composed in Sanskrit in various parts of India and the ancient Tamil country was no ex...
Inscriptions are the most authentic and vital source for reconstructing the history of India. Epigraphs were composed in Sanskrit in various parts of India and the ancient Tamil country was no ex...
Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, has played a very important role in reconstructing the history of India. Tamil Nadu in particular has a very large number of epigraphs, which have been of...
Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, has played a very important role in reconstructing the history of India. Tamil Nadu in particular has a very large number of epigraphs, which have been of...
It is important to reassess, formulate and develop India's civilizational and cultural imperatives in an increasingly globalised world. The nation’s perception of its ancient history plays a major role in this. The present series on the history of ancient...
It is important to reassess, formulate and develop India's civilizational and cultural imperatives in an increasingly globalised world. The nation’s perception of its ancient history plays a major role in this. The present series on the history of ancient...
It is important to reassess, formulate and develop India's civilizational and cultural imperatives in an increasingly globalised world. The nation’s perception of its ancient history plays a major role in this. The present series on the history of ancient...
It is important to reassess, formulate and develop India's civilizational and cultural imperatives in an increasingly globalised world. The nation’s perception of its ancient history plays a major role in this. The present series on the history of ancient...
It is important to reassess, formulate and develop India's civilizational and cultural imperatives in an increasingly globalised world. The nation’s perception of its ancient history plays a major role in this. The present series on the history of ancient...
As one of the world's major religions, founded on the spiritual principles of ahimsa (non-violence), truth, and righteous conduct, Jainism has today 2,600 years of a splendid living tradition -- with a well-defined w...
History of Jainism has been presented here in three parts. The first part tries to prove through the archaeological and literary sources the historicity of Tirthankara, Parshvanatha and Mahavira, explaining their life and educa...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to history, historical archaeology, studies of manuscripts, education, literature, linguistics, etc.
The present volume, bein...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Cultural Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to History, Historical Archaeology, Studies of Manuscripts, Education, Literature, Linguistics...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to history, historical archaeology, studies of manuscripts, education, literature, linguistics,...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to history, historical archaeology, studies of manuscripts, education, literature, linguistics, etc.
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to history, historical archaeology, studies of manuscripts, education, literature, linguistics, etc.
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to history, historical archaeology, studies of manuscripts, education, literature, linguistics, etc.
The present volume, bein...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to history, historical archaeology, studies of manuscripts, education, literature, linguistics, etc.
The present volume, bein...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to history, historical archaeology, studies of manuscripts, education, literature, linguistics,...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to history, historical archaeology, studies of manuscripts, education, literature, linguistics,...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to histor...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to history, historical archaeology, studies of manuscripts, education, literature, linguistics,...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to history, historical archaeology, studies of manuscripts, education, literature, linguistics,...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to histor...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to histor...
History Today is an official organ of the Indian History and Culture Society that is sincerely and single-mindedly devoted to history, historical archaeology, studies of manuscripts, education, literature, linguistics,...
Buddhism is an ancient religion that spread across Asia in a matter of centuries and had a rare kind of influence on the social and religious life of the Asian peoples.
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Vedas aren't just the scriptural texts, but the earliest record of Indo, Aryan civilisation. On the basis of this corpus of mankind's oldest literature, together with his indepth analyses of the later-day Pura...
JNANA-PRAVAHA
Jnana-Pravaha, the Centre for Cultural Studies & Research at Varanasi represents the vision of its founders, Bimla Poddar an...
India has continuous and cumulative intellectual traditions in many domains of knowledge. This tradition has its beginning in the Rigveda, the first attested Indo-European document, and continues to be alive in the life,...
Brahmanism and Buddhism adopted symbol and image worship almost simultaneously in the pre and early centuries of the Christian era. With the passage of time, the forms and plethora evolved and despite several distinctive featur...
Varanasi/Kashi has been a confluence of several religious and philosophical thoughts including Jainism. Four pontiffs (Tirthankara) viz. Suparshvanatha, Shreyamsanatha, Chandraprabha and Parshvanatha are supposed to have been born in th...
History of Jainism has been presented here in three parts. The first part tries to prove through the archaeological and literary sources the historicity of Tirthamkara, Parsvanatha and Mahavira, explaining their life and educat...
History of Jainism has been presented here in three parts. The first part tries to prove through the archaeological and literary sources the historicity of Tirthamkara, Parsvanatha and Mahavira, explaining their life and educat...
History of Jainism has been presented here in three parts. The first part tries to prove through the archaeological and literary sources the historicity of Tirthamkara, Parsvanatha and Mahavira, explaining their life and educat...
History of Jainism has been presented here in three parts. The first part tries to prove through the archaeological and literary sources the historicity of Tirthamkara, Parsvanatha and Mahavira, explaining their life and educat...
This book concentrates on the origin of Jainism in north India and its evolution during 800 bc to ce 526 when, not yet crystallised into a set structure and codified into religious books, it retained a genuineness.
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The book is on the development of Jainism in southern Karnataka from the time of its emergence in the region after the fourth century ad to ad 1565. Examining numerous inscriptions and literary works of the time, studying Jain historical monuments, it reconstru...
Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology was launched in 2003 by one of India’s leading academic institutions, the Centre for Research & Training in History, Archaeology and Palaeo-environment, New Delhi. The second issue is in the Press. The Journal is an out...
Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology was launched in 2003 by one of India’s leading academic institutions, the Centre for Research & Training in History, Archaeology and Palaeo-environment, New Delhi. The second issue is in the Press. The Journal is an outc...
Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology was launched in 2003 by one of India’s leading academic institutions, the Centre for Research & Training in History, Archaeology and Palaeo-environment, New Delhi. The second issue is in the Press. The Journal is an out...
This is a comprehensive work on the Kamakhya temple complex in Assam: the complex processes of the deity's sanskritization and the temple's role in integrating the people of this region with the mainland. Incorporating details from int...
Kampil (Farrukhabad District, U.P.) is a typical Indian village in the fertile terrain of the Ganga-Yamuna Doab. Known for its long, glorious past, the village has, since A. Cunningham's visit here in 1878, compelled increa...
One of the greatest treasures of Indian Temple architecture and on the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites, The Sun Temple of Konarka on the East coast of Orissa stands as a witness to the cult o...
The scions of a Central Asia's nomadic tribe, (called Yueh-chi), KUSHANAS descended upon the plains of northern India -- sometime around the first century after Christ. And gradually built a great, vastly extensive empire i...
The life of the Buddha has been a great source of perennial inspiration to scholars, artists and poets since the early times. Many events from the life of the Buddha have inspi...
Based on a deep analysis of the Vedic literature, the book deals with aspects of everyday life of the Vedic people: their housing, mode of production and occupations, social organisation, education, food and drink, entertainmen...
The Land of Kashmir, celebrated as paradise on earth for its scenic beauty, has an equally enchanting historical and cultural past: this is the place symbolising India's cultural unity, where different cultures have prosper...
Matrimonial alliances between royal families to further the power, prestige and influence were a prominent feature of politics in ancient India. This volume examines the matrimonial alliances among the ruling dynasties of ancie...
In two volumes, the book tells the fascinating, coherentlywoven story of the Minerals and Metals -- from across the entire sub-continental sprawl of the old-world India (including Pakistan and Ba...
This volume presents the plans of temples, tombs, palaces and pavilions found in the Indian subcontinent and the Indianised states of Java, the Khmer, Pagan, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. They ...
Yama, in Hindu mythology, is the eschatologist and god of death. And is, thus, dreaded. Even in today's India, there is a fearful hesitancy, if not conscious avoidance, of any talk about him. Yet, paradoxically, the phenome...
Yama, in Hindu mythology, is the eschatologist and god of death. And is, thus, dreaded. Even in today's India, there is a fearful hesitancy, if not conscious avoidance, of any talk about him. Yet, paradoxically, the phenome...
This beautifully written and illustrated book is the fourth publication of the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, whose collection of paintings, drawings and other types of Indian art is of such exceptional quality that it has long commanded the attenti...
The book explores various ground realities of the ancient historical and archaeological research in India through some essays and reviews. These realities turn out to be harsh and often demeaning to the nation, but the Indian archaeologists and ancient ...
India's civilization has had a long existence that is documented in a huge amount and variety of literature, its scientific advancements over the centuries, its continuing cultural practices and preservation of art and musi...
Lying on India's eastern coast, Orissa is the legendary old-world Kalinga. Which, conquered by Ashoka, metamorphosed this 'terrible' triumphant emperor into a 'compassionate', remorse-stricken votary of the ...
The book studies the palaeography of Orissa from the third to the seventeenth century ad. It focuses on the evolution of the regional script of Orissa from the Brahmi script to the advent of the modern Oriya script through vari...
Theatre in ancient India or natya incorporated various aspects of art and different branches of knowledge in its very definition -- not only histrionics but also dance, music and fine arts and branches of learning like h...
The volume is a collection of papers on certain aspects of Indian history, historiography and culture. The papers are fundamental, insightful and path-breaking to some extent. Combining literary, archaeological, scientific and ...
The earliest Indian inscriptions date from the third century before Christ. Arch-aeological and palaeo-anthropological evidence, as well as the Indian oral tradition, consistently point to the ‘continuity’ of the Indian Civilization back to ...
Ancient Indians were a highly organized polity, with a well-established worldview of the Rajya (the State). And also of its seven distinct organs: svamin (the king), amatyas (the ministers), janapada/ras...
Fresh excavations, new dating techniques and ever-growing conceptual frameworks since 1950 have greatly reshaped our perspective on Prehistory and Protohistory of the Indian subcontinent. This monograph, which is primarily aime...
Fresh excavations, new dating techniques and ever-growing conceptual frameworks since 1950 have greatly reshaped our perspective on Prehistory and Protohistory of the Indian subcontinent. This monograph, which is primarily aime...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publish...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publish...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the results of the latest archaeological discoveries made in In...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the re...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the re...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the re...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publish...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the results ...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the results ...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publish...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the results ...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, ins...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, ins...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publish...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, ins...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, ins...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, ins...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, ins...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, ins...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, ins...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publish...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, inscriptions, temples, mos...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, inscriptions, temples, mos...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, inscriptions, temples, mosques, iconic sy...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, inscriptions, temples, mosques, iconic sy...
An annual bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, has been offering for the last 33 years valuable informations, full with rich insights and innovative viewpoints, on the Indian archaeology that includes excavations, inscriptions, temples, mosques, iconic sy...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
Puratattva is the annual bulletin of one of the world's most prestigious academic organisation, the Indian Archaeological Society which was founded as early as 1967. From the very beginning, the Society has aimed at publishing the r...
This catalogue presents the Mittal Museum's holdings of drawings from Rajasthan, which are among the finest of their kind in the world. The collection was formed with the superb eye and discriminating taste of Jagdish Mittal and his wife, Kamla. As trained arti...
This catalogue of Rajasthani paintings in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art features many unpublished works by the best-known artists working in different states and thikanas of Rajasthan from the early 16th to the mid 19th century. Five leading sch...
The volume deals with the civilizational dimensions of religion and culture in India. It underlines the point that religion and culture are important elements of all civilizations but it is their in...
Ancient Indian polity took a new turn with the emergence of republics in the post-Vedic age. The history of republics covers the period from the age of the Mahabharata to the fourth century AD. Dr. G.P. Singh here comprehensively, yet i...
Did Rama banish his wife Sita? Did Krishna have Radha for his companion? Was Shakuntala Vishvamitra's daughter? Could Bhagiratha bring about the Ganga's descent from heaven? Or, was Vyasa really the author of the tradit...
The book brings out the outstanding features of the palaces, pavilions and residences of the ruling class in medieval India -- from the 13th
This multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural collection explores the idea of sacred Australia. It has seventeen chapters written by some of the best-known academics in this field, drawn from diverse areas such as literary and post-colonial studies, ...
An anthropologist of wide repute here profiles Ujjain: a millennia-old, pilgrim centre that has been celebrated in history, legend and mythology. ...
The present volume is a tribute to Dr. Bettina Baumer, an eminent scholar of Indology and Religious Studies in general and of Kashmir Shaivism in particular, and one of the important exponents of interreligious dialogue....
Education, especially Vedic and Vedantic, along with allied subjects, was a prime focus of the rulers of the Tamil kingdoms. This book highlights the educational initiatives during the reigns of the Pallava, Pandya, Cola, Vijayanagara, Nayaka and ot...
Education, especially Vedic and Vedantic, along with allied subjects, was a prime focus of the rulers of the Tamil kingdoms. This book highlights the educational initiatives during the reigns of the Pallava, Pandya, Cola, Vijayanagara, Nayaka and ot...
The worship of Saptamatrika; the seven Mother Goddesses (or the seven Saktis, the divine feminine powers), is over a millennia and half old, pan-Indian phenomenon. And, over the centuries, the Matrika conce...
The volume comprises seminar presentations by experts from India and abroad involved in the study of development of the natural sciences in ancient India. It offers eighteen papers from the seminar that showcase and project the Vedic literature as a ...
The Amaravati sculptures are famous throughout the world for their special features and they form a distinct school of art called Amaravati school of art. Though Amaravati art pieces take the pride of place in India's best museums, the scu...
Among the Indian scripts the Sharada script has a pride of place. Though an alphabet of Kashmir par excellence it remained for several centuries a popular script of an extensiv...
Ayodhya has been at the centre of controversy and agitation over the past few years, the focus of tensions being the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi issue. As things stand, all are aware that the structure called 'Babri Masjid' go...
The work explores the physical and emotional interaction between Shiva and Parvati as represented in sculptural works in the Indian subcontinent. In two volumes, it examines a host of images supported by classifications of Shiv...
It is a fascinating, meticulously documented study unveiling, for the first time, the ancient Indian society in all its variegated evolutionary expressions across about two-and-a-half millennia: since the Vedic times (c....
Of the Vedas the Atharvaveda, the Veda of the masses, is unique. Unlike the Rig, Sama and Yajur Vedas, the Atharvaveda delineates the life of the common man in the ancient Indian village community --...
The emergence of Tantrism and Shaktism in the sixth-seventh centuries in ancient India symbolised a belief in fertility worship, worship of the female principle with the Devi/Goddess supreme as the Energy/Power -- the substance...
The book is a comprehensive study of different aspects of Thai political life, religion, art and literature with the emphasis on the role of Buddhism in influencing the Thai culture and way of life. Showing how Thailand has a u...
One of the major centres of Buddhist art in ancient times, Kausambi provides evidence of an uninterrupted art tradition spanning centuries. Pointing to the scant attention Kausambi has received from scholars in the past, this w...
The book The Central Narmada Valley: A Study in Quaternary Palaeontology and Allied Aspects is the first attempt at studying a small stretch of the valley from a multidisciplinary point of view incorporating the results ...
Ayodhya has been at the centre of controversy and agitation over the past few years, the focus of tensions being the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi issue. As things stand, all are aware that the structure called 'Babri Masjid' go...
Our planet seems to be getting smaller and smaller. We now interact all the time with our once-distant neighbours around the globe. Yet our cultures remain almost as different as ever. Civilizations are the largest widely recognized units of this diversity. Over th...
War makes life miserable for both the parties involved, the invader and the invaded. No war is fought without losing men and material, stripping off societal life and political order. Simultaneously it contributes to the progress of the society and preserves the li...
India has a millennia-long, glorious past. In mankind's history, it is unmistakably a rich chapter: splendid in expression and awe-inspiring in immensity. Recognised world-wide for the sublimity of its thought that transcen...
Ever since its discovery in AD1825, Kharavela's Hathigumpha Inscription has had a fascinating course. It is not a royal panegyric merely; it is an epitome of history, specially of the so-called dark period -- unveiling, as ...
This work is a well-researched attempt to analyse the Vaishnava iconography of Orissa which is unique in that there are to be found an overwhelming number of Vishnu images in the region despite paucity of Vishnu temples and ins...
The present m'onograph is unique in that it, for the first time, extensively treats the subject of Indian temple j alas or grilles together with an in depth discussion in the light of relevant medieval vastusastra passages ...
A vexed question is taken up in all its details and an answer elaborated with unconventional results. Many of our pet ideas are shown to be baseless and the current division of "Aryan" and "Dravidian" which has caused a good de...
The Rigveda is the oldest and most important source of material for India, Indo-Aryan, and even Indo-European history. It is a text which has been part of a hoary and widespread living tradition thousands of years old. Naturally, a text which has remained alive, as...
The location of the Original Homeland of the Indo-European family of languages is the single most significant unresolved problem in the study of World History today. This is because it is the most important family of languages in terms of the numb...
A descriptive account of nearly 300 temples belonging to different periods of Indian history in Himachal Pradesh.
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The present work discusses in depth the subject of toranas (arched portals or festoons) in the ancient and medieval architecture of South- and South-east Asia, with spec...
Mainstream art historical writing on Indian art has remained focused on identifying and defining stylistic schools, understanding evolutionary patterns and regional styles as well as understanding iconographic and narrative con...
Despite two centuries of their multifarious, critical studies in India and the Western world, Vedic writings unveil myriad questions that have either baffled scholars or have led to serious controversies. A distinguished Indolo...
This book "Vedic Science and Technology" contains, in its ten chapters, the significant aspects of science and scientific thoughts of the Vedic bards reflected in their hymns and the mo...
This book "Vedic Science and Technology" contains, in its ten chapters, the significant aspects of science and scientific thoughts of the Vedic bards reflected in their hymns and the mo...
Vedas are indisputably the oldest of mankind's documents. Which not just magnificently articulate the early civilized man's wonderment about the cosmos and his yearnings for the divine, but also unfold the foundations of...
A well-known geographical site on the banks of the Yamuna, about 150 kilometers from Delhi, VRINDAVANA is the holiest of the pilgrimages for the worshippers of Krishna. However, in the devotional Sanskrit and Braj Bhasha litera...
Differing from the existing studies on the warfare of ancient India; Warfare in Ancient India: In Historical Outline is a comprehensive study of the defence policies, construction of forts, arms and ammunitions, commissariat, the espionage system, the rule...
