Neeru Misra
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Several illustrious poets, litterateurs, mystics, thinkers and social reformers flourished in the thirteenth-century India and Persia. Ferishta, Jalaluddin Rumi, Amir Khusrau and Sheikh Sa'adi are some of the great contemporaneous names. Gulistan or Garden of Roses, is the most popular composition of Sa'adi, and has been translated in several languages. Gulistan is not a book of morals alone. It has been considered a treatise on good ...
Sufism, particularly in pluralistic Indian social context connotes syncretism and tolerance. Emerging simultaneously during the early centuries of Islam, it travelled to Indian subcontinent with profound impact. With devotionalism and cloistered hermeticism already an integral part of the life cycle, India offered a very fertile ground for the evolution of the principles that guided the path of the Sufi saints. The evolution of Sufism in medieval India also ...
Venerated by Akbar, admired by Jahangir, adopted as a model by Shahjahan for his celebrated Taj Mahal, the final resting place for many a prince and princess of the house of the Mughals including Dara Shikoh, the later Mughal Emperors including Jahandar Shah, FarrukhSiyar, Rafi ud Darjat, Rafi ud Daula and Alamgir II, and the refuge for the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar in 1858 before his banishment to Burma, the Garden Tomb of Humayun has inspired the ...
Mapping Connections: Indo-Thai Historical and Cultural Linkages, a collection of incisive essays by some of the best-known names from India and Thailand, is an important initiative in the growth of civilizational relations between the two countries. This book emerges from a seminar, “Indo-Thai Historical and Cultural Linkages,†co-hosted by the Royal Thai Embassy and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. The Seminar was visualized as an academic ...
This volume brings together papers which were presented at a seminar to explore Indo-Thai historical and cultural linkages and the age old relationship between the two countries, its historical contribution to the formation of global Asian Civilization and consciousness in today's world. The topics discussed include the Buddhism in Thailand, Trade Contacts between the two countries from ancient time, Artefacts and Heritage sites, The Theory of Mind in early ...