Kailas Histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kailas Histories write by Alex McKay. This book was released on 2015-10-27. Kailas Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tibet’s Mount Kailas is one of the world’s great pilgrimage centres, renowned as an ancient sacred site that embodies a universal sacrality. But Kailas Histories: Renunciate Traditions and the Construction of Himalayan Sacred Geography demonstrates that this understanding is a recent construction by British colonial, Hindu modernist, and New Age interests. Using multiple sources, including fieldwork, Alex McKay describes how the early Indic vision of a heavenly mountain named Kailas became identified with actual mountains. He emphasises renunciate agency in demonstrating how local beliefs were subsumed as Kailas developed within Hindu, Buddhist, and Bön traditions, how five mountains in the Indian Himalayan are also named Kailas, and how Kailas sacred geography constructions and a sacred Ganges source region were related.
Science on the Roof of the World
Science on the Roof of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science on the Roof of the World write by Lachlan Fleetwood. This book was released on 2022-05-12. Science on the Roof of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world's highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, imaginative, and political remaking needed to fit the Himalaya into a new global scientific and environmental order. Lachlan Fleetwood traces untold stories of scientific measurement and collecting, indigenous labour and expertise, and frontier-making to provide the first comprehensive account of the East India Company's imperial entanglements with the Himalaya. To make the Himalaya knowable and globally comparable, he demonstrates that it was necessary to erase both dependence on indigenous networks and scientific uncertainties, offering an innovative way of understanding science's global history, and showing how geographical features like mountains can serve as scales for new histories of empire.
Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains
Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains write by Nachiket Chanchani. This book was released on 2019-04-01. Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of pilgrimage. Nachiket Chanchani’s innovative study explores scores of stone edifices and steles that were erected in this landscape. Through their forms, locations, interactions with the natural environment, and sociopolitical context, these lithic ensembles evoked legendary worlds, embedded historical memories in the topography, changed the mountain range’s appearance, and shifted its semiotic effect. Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains also alters our understanding of the transmission of architectural knowledge and provides new evidence of how an enduring idea of India emerged in the subcontinent. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/mountain-temples-and-temple-mountains
A Prehistory of Hinduism
A Prehistory of Hinduism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Prehistory of Hinduism write by Manu V. Devadevan. This book was released on 2016-01-01. A Prehistory of Hinduism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a pioneering attempt to understand the prehistory of Hinduism in South Asia. Exploring religious processes in the Deccan region between the eleventh and the nineteenth century with class relations as its point of focus, it throws new light on the making of religious communities, monastic institutions, legends, lineages, and the ethics that governed them. In the light of this prehistory, a compelling framework is suggested for a revision of existing perspectives on the making of Hinduism in the nineteenth and the twentieth century.
South Asian Borderlands
South Asian Borderlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South Asian Borderlands write by Farhana Ibrahim. This book was released on 2021-10-31. South Asian Borderlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an interdisciplinary volume exploring a range of historical, anthropological and literary ideas and issues in South Asian Borderlands. Going beyond the territorial and geo-political imaginaries of contemporary borderlands in South Asia, chapters in this book engage with the questions of sovereignty, control, policing as well as continuing affections across politically divided borderlands. Modern conceptions of nationhood have created categories of legality and illegality among historically, socially, economically and emotionally connected residents of South Asian borderlands. This volume provides unique insights into the interconnected lives and histories of these borderland spaces and communities.
