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The well-known Russian Indologist, Ivan Minayev's work on Voyage Beyond the Three Seas, a 15 {+t} {+h} century travelogue by Afanasy Nikitin (a Russian merchant and adventurer), developed the original so beautifully as to reflect contemporary India in all its diverse, but integrated, economic, social and cultural facets.
The book starts with two notes: one by Irina Chelysheva on Minayev's contributions to Indian studies, and the other by Minayev himself, ...
This collection of essays was compiled to offer the readers an insight into the present state of Indian history studies in Russia. The contributors represent the national school of Indian studies which has worked out certain traditions, views and methods that may be close or similar to the approaches of the Indian or Western scholars and at the same time be somewhat different from them. The book is divided into three thematic parts. Part I discusses various ...
Urban Crafts and Craftsmen in Medieval India (Thirteenth-eighteenth Centuries) discusses the development of non-agricultural production in pre-colonial Indian cities. The author's purpose is two fold: firstly, to analyse the technological, organisational and social evolution of urban crafts in medieval India along with the economic and socio-political atmosphere in which this sphere of production existed and, secondly, to compare the above-mentioned processes ...
The formal study of Indian history has been part of scholarly pursuit in many parts of the world for nearly two centuries. This book, a new edition of the work published by the well known Russian historian, Eugenia Vanina, discusses the history of ideas in medieval India from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. While ancient India has been the focus of much comparative history, medieval India is an area that still lends itself to scrutiny in a comparative ...