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Encyclopedia of Ancient Indian Culture

History

Asia

Manohar Pubns

The present volume of 16 essays, drawn from the files of 'Contributions to Indian Sociology (1972-99)', is offered to interested readers in the hope that it will stimulate research and prove useful in the classroom. Contributed mainly by sociologists and social anthropologists, and also by historians, the volume is a noteworthy interdisciplinary effort. It also represents international collaboration in scholarship, with nine contributors from South Asia and seven others from England, France and the USA. This is the 3rd Enlarged Edition.

Muslim Communities of South Asia: Culture, Society, And Power

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project (POI) on 2 OCtober 1985 to generate an anthropological profile of all communities of India, the impact on them of change and development process and the links that bring them together. As part of this study, this ethnographic survey of all communities of present day Punjab (95) was taken up in collaboration with local scholars. The results of this survey were discussed at the workshops held at Dehradun in November 1985 and October 1987 and at Patiala in August 1989, and published here.

People Of India: Punjab (People Of India National Series)

Singh, K. S.

Trade between Europe, USA and Asia gave rise to need for loans to finance financial arrangements through banking. Emergence of Fuggers as important industrialists, merchants and financiers controlling even the elections to the Roman empire against the backdrop of Indo-Portuguese trade during the sixteenth century is a case in point. Deals with such cases and maritime history of regions and its impact on trade, politics and society.

Indo-Portuguese Trage & the Fuggers of Germany: Sixteenth Century

K.S. Mathew

Seeks to prove that the consciousness of the individual and individuality, which at the empirical level involves the rise of private property, family and the state finds its most sophisticated and rational expression in early Buddhism. It also rationalised individualism and gave it a human face by curbing the wayward, infantile and egocentric tendencies both at theoretical and empirical levels.

Early Buddhist World Outlook in Historical Perspective

Business & Money

Upreti, G. B.

Economics

Bhattacharyya(1897-1964) is acknowledged as an outstanding pioneer in the field of Tantric Buddhism and this volume is a centennial tribute to this scholar. 26 papers contributed by a generation of scholars address different aspects of Tantric Buddhism in particular and Tantrism in general. These significantly add to our understanding of Tantric Buddhism in India and abroad.

Tantric Buddhism; Centennial Tribute to Dr. Benoytosh Bhattacharyya

Religion & Spirituality

Ghosh, Amartya

Buddhism

The 16 essays that make up this volume were originally presented at a seminar 'The Evolution of Medieval Indian Culture: the Indo-Persian Context', held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli on 14-16 February 1994. The first part on 'Political Institutions and Ideas', is a reflection on the political ideology of Indo-Persian empires. The second part of the book is on 'Religious Traditions'. The third part on 'Painting' contains three papers on the formative phase of Mughal painting and book-illustration. There are two papers on 'Music'. The five articles in the fifth and final part of the volume on 'Literature, Historiography and Archives', analyse some Indo-Persian texts, survey sources and also endeavour to examine issues relating to Persian literary culture in India.

The Making of Indo Persian Culture: Indian and French Studies

Alam, Muzaffar

Delvoye, Francoise Nalmi

Gaborieau, Marc

Substantially enlarged edition of Coomaraswamy's Essays on Hinduism and Buddhism orig. published in 1943. Incorporates author's authentic revisions. States that Hinduism is the oldest of the surviving mystery religions whose formulations are essentially the same as those of Platoism, Christianity, Taoism and other traditional doctrines. States Buddhism is not a 'New' religion, but rather a reiteration, with different emphasis of teachings in ancient Vedas.

Hinduism and Buddhism

Hinduism

Contributed papers presented at a seminar held on August 29-31, 1996.

Sikh Identity- Continuity and Change

Singh, Pashaura

Barrier

Ways of Dying: Death and Its Meaning in South Asia

Zoller, Claus Peter

Schombucher, Elisabeth

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