The Concept Of Bharatavarsha And Other Essays
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Author | : Braja Dulal Chattopadhyaya |
Publisher | : Suny Hindu Studies |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781438471747 |
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This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time.
Author | : B. D. Chattopadhyaya |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438471750 |
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This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time. This collection explores what may be called the idea of India in ancient times. Its undeclared objective is to identify key concepts which show early Indian civilization as distinct and differently oriented from other formations. The essays focus on ancient Indian texts within a variety of genres. They identify certain key termssuch as janapada, desa, var?a, dharma, bh?vain their empirical contexts to suggest that neither the ideas embedded in these terms nor the idea of Bharatavarsha as a whole are given entities, but that they evolved historically. Professor Chattopadhyaya examines these texts to unveil historical processes. Without denying comparative history, he stresses that the internal dynamics of a society are best decoded via its own texts. His approach bears very effectively on understanding ongoing interactions between Indias Great Tradition and Little Traditions. As a whole, this book is critical of the notion of overarching Indian unity in the ancient period. It punctures the retrospective thrust of hegemonic nationalism as an ideology that has obscured the diverse textures of Indian civilization. Renowned for his scholarship on the ancient Indian past, Professor Chattopadhyayas latest collection only consolidates his high international reputation.
Author | : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788178245164 |
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Author | : Gregory Maertz |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998-02-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780791435601 |
Download Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Charts the interactive contours of European culture of the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, extending the chronological limits of Romanticism by identifying fresh links among works, authors, contexts, and institutions across national and linguistic borders.
Author | : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Making of Early Medieval India Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
These essays explore the processes of change in Indian society over the period from about the seventh to the thirteenth century. Departing radically from the current historiography on the period, the author posits change as represented by processes of progressive transformation, not by the breakdown of an earlier social order. Within this framework, he discusses such diverse themes as irrigation, urbanization, the formation of a dominant ruling caste, and the structure of polity in general.
Author | : Filippo Marsili |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 143847203X |
Download Heaven Is Empty Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires. Heaven Is Empty offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE) and shows how the unification of the Central States was possible without a unitary and universalistic conception of religion. The cohesive function of the ancient Mediterranean cult of the divinized ruler was crucial for the legitimization of Rome’s empire across geographical and social boundaries. Eventually reelaborated in Christian terms, it came to embody the timelessness and universality of Western conceptions of legitimate authority, while representing an analytical template for studying other ancient empires. Filippo Marsili challenges such approaches in his examination of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han (141–87 BCE). Wu purposely drew from regional traditions and tried to gain the support of local communities through his patronage of local cults. He was interested in rituals that envisioned the monarch as a military leader, who directly controlled the land and its resources, as a means for legitimizing radical administrative and economic centralization. In reconstructing this imperial model, Marsili reinterprets fragmentary official accounts in light of material evidence and noncanonical and recently excavated texts. In bringing to life the courts, battlefields, markets, shrines, and pleasure quarters of early imperial China, Heaven Is Empty provides a postmodern and postcolonial reassessment of “religion” before the arrival of Buddhism and challenges the application of Greco-Roman and Abrahamic systemic, identitary, and exclusionary notions of the “sacred” to the analysis of pre-Christian and non-Western realities. Filippo Marsili is Associate Professor of History at Saint Louis University.
Author | : Swarupa Gupta |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004349766 |
Download Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927, Swarupa Gupta outlines a fresh paradigm moving beyond stereotypical representations of eastern India as a site of ethnic fragmentation. The book traces unities by exploring intersections between (1) cultural constellations; (2) place-making and (3) ethnicity. Centralising place-making, it tells the story of how people made places, mediating caste / religious / linguistic contestations. It offers new meanings of ‘region’ in Eastern Indian and global contexts by showing how an interregional arena comprising Bengal, Assam and Orissa was forged. Using historical tracts, novels, poetry and travelogues, the book argues that commonalities in Eastern India were linked to imaginings of Indian nationhood. The analysis contains interpretive strategies for mediating federalist separatisms and fragmentation in contemporary India.
Author | : Étienne de la Vaissière |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2018-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047406990 |
Download Sogdian Traders Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Sogdian were the main traders of Central Asia from the fifth to the eighth century. Their diaspora is attested in India, China, Iran, the Turkish Steppe, but also Byzantium. This is the first attempt to describe their trade.
Author | : Catherine Benton |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2006-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791482618 |
Download God of Desire Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
God of Desire presents Sanskrit tales of the Indian deity Kāmadeva as he battles the ascetic god Śiva, assists the powerful goddess Devī, and incarnates as the charming son of Kṛṣṇa. Exploring the imagery and symbolism of the god of desire in art and ritual, Catherine Benton reflects on the connection of Kāmadeva to parrots, makaras (gharials), and apsarases (celestial nymphs), and to playful devotional rituals designed to win his favor. In addition to examining the Hindu literature, Benton also highlights two Buddhist forms of Kamadeva, the demonic Māra, who tries to persuade the Buddha to trade enlightenment for the delights of a woman, and the ever-youthful Mañjuśri, who cuts through ignorance with the bodhisattva sword of wisdom. Tales of Kāmadeva from the Hindu and Buddhist traditions present desire as a powerful force continually redefining the boundaries of chaos and order and gently pulling beyond the ephemeral lure of passionate longings.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788182903951 |
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