This Maqta series, presented by Sanjay Garg, seeks to bridge the gap between the poetry of the Great Urdu Masters and the milieu of its lovers, who are separated by the language, or the script barrier. In this book Sanjay Garg presents a selection of one hundred Maqta’s of Mirza Ghalib chosen from his choicest ghazals. In this unique anthology, Ghalib could be seen addressing himself occasionally as a critic, sometimes as a sympathizer and a counselor, and ...
India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India in the Century Preceding the Portuguese Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian Sources
Records of The Intelligence Department of The Government of The North-West Provinces of India During The Mutiny of 1857, Including Correspondence with The Supreme Government Dehli, Cawnpore and Other Places (In 2 Volumes)
The study of howculture and landscape influence and shape each other is an emerging field of scholarly enquiry. The author defines landscape as open spaces and structures ranging in scale from a grove of trees to a region, from a single building to a whole city. The book explains the interface between nature, culture, and built landscape by introducing readers to significant sacred and secular landscapes in India and exposing the audience to a generalized ...
Imperial India: An Artists Journals, 1876-1877: Illustrated by Numerous Sketches Taken at the Courts of the Principal Chiefs of India
The author, Valentine C. Princep, was an artist of the Victorian age. He was commissioned by queen Victoria to paint an Indian scene. In preparation for which he then came to India, in 1876, and embarked on an extensive 16 month tour that took him to the main princely states in the west, north, and the south of the Indian sub-continent, to make studies for his painting. This book is his journal, and sketch book, that he kept during his travels. As the name ...
On the Original Inhabitants of Bharatavarsa, or India: The Dravidians
This work was written to prove, mainly on philological grounds, the antiquity of the Dravidian race in India. The work aims to point out a connection existing between the several tribes that apparently are widely different from each other he has also tried to indentity the so called Pariahs of Southern India with old Dravidian mountaineers and to establish their relation to the Bhars, Brahuis, Mhars, Mahars, Paharias, Paravari, Paradas and others, these formed ...
Narrative of a Journey Overland from England by the Continent of Europe, Egypt, and the Red Sea to India: 1825, 1826, 1827 and 1828 (In 2 Volumes)
It is a pleasure and a privilege to be asked to write a Foreword for such a scholarly treatise as that of Prof. Das Gupta’s on Paper Currency in India. The literature of Indian Currency is already rich and has been of late increasing in volume as well as maintanining its quality. The days are gone by when the late Prof. Marshall could say "There are five thousand pages of able reports for the students of India Econommics but no good text books." ...
Essays and Lectures on the Religion of the Hindus (In 2 Volumes)
