South Asian Texts in History - 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 Texts in History write by Yigal Bronner. This book was released on 2011. South Asian Texts in History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. South Asian Texts in History charts the contours of a reenvisioned and revitalized field of Indology in the light of the groundbreaking research of Sheldon Pollock. One of the many exciting aspects of Pollock's work is its unprecedented combination of classical textual study with cutting edge theoretical and social scientific inquiry--a combination which this book sets out to emulate. Pollock has trained and inspired a new generation of scholars, many of whom have contributed to this volume. The essays are organized into five groups that reflect the major domains of Pollock's immense contributions to the field: the epic Ramayana, Sanskrit literature and literary theory, systematic thought in premodern South Asia, the birth of a new vernacular cultural order in the subcontinent during the second millennium CE, and India's early modernity. Most of the essays concentrate on materials in Sanskrit, but there are also considerable contributions to the history of Hindi, Tamil, and Persian literatures. The book presents for the first time an overview of the groundbreaking contributions of Sheldon Pollock to South Asia scholarship over the past three decades, while offering a set of critiques of key elements of his theories.
Men and Masculinities in South India
Men and Masculinities in South India - 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 Men and Masculinities in South India write by Caroline Osella. This book was released on 2006-09-01. Men and Masculinities in South India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Men and Masculinities in South India' aims to increase understanding of gender within South Asia and especially South Asian masculinities, a topic whose analysis and ethnographising in the region has had a very sketchy beginning and is ripe for more thorough examination.
Making Kantha, Making Home
Making Kantha, Making Home - 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 Making Kantha, Making Home write by Pika Ghosh. This book was released on 2020-07-15. Making Kantha, Making Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats. Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds shaped by the Bengali kantha that survive from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the first study of colonial-period women’s embroidery that situates these objects historically and socially, Pika Ghosh brings technique and aesthetic choices into discussion with iconography and regional culture. Ghosh uses ethnographic and archival research, inscriptions, and images to locate embroiderers’ work within domestic networks and to show how imagery from poetry, drama, prints, and watercolors expresses kantha artists’ visual literacy. Affinities with older textile practices include the region’s lucrative maritime trade in embroideries with Europe, Africa, and China. This appraisal of individual objects alongside the people and stories behind the objects’ creation elevates kantha beyond consideration as mere handcraft to recognition as art.
Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape
Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape - 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 Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape write by Elizabeth A. Cecil. This book was released on 2020-03-09. Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape: Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India, Elizabeth A. Cecil explores the sacred geography of the earliest community of Śiva devotees called the Pāśupatas. This book brings the narrative cartography of the Skandapurāṇa into conversation with physical landscapes, inscriptions, monuments, and icons in order to examine the ways in which Pāśupatas were emplaced in regional landscapes and to emphasize the use of material culture as media through which notions of belonging and identity were expressed. By exploring the ties between the formation of early Pāśupata communities and the locales in which they were embedded, this study reflects critically upon the ways in which community building was coincident with place-making in Early Medieval India.
The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia
The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia - 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 The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia write by George Erdosy. This book was released on 2012-10-25. The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
