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The Kodavas are a patrilineal ethno-lingual group today inhabiting the rugged hills of Kodagu or Coorg – a region in the Karnataka state of southern India. They are the native speakers of Kodava language. And by faith, they are the Hindus, who believe more in reverence towards nature and their ancestors than in the strict following of the Vedic Hindu principles. They are believed to have been once land-owning agriculturists with martial traditions. But ...
Text by John M. Fritz and George Michell. Photographs by Noshir Gobhai, Eminence Designs Pvt Ltd, 2009, 196 p, 166 col. photos, maps, ISBN : 8190382160, $125.00 (Includes free airmail shipping) The ruins of Vijayanagara, The City of Victory, known better today as Hampi, on the right bank of the Tungabhadra River in Northern Karnataka, constitute one of the most extensive and spectacular historical sites to be found anywhere in India.Capital of the largest of all ...
Classicist by sensibility, contemplative by temperament, Jehangir Sabavala has enjoyed the fulfilling destiny of a painter who never ceases from exploration. At the age of seventy-five, he can look back over a distinguished career that spans five eventful decades. Sabavala has had no patience with the fluctuations of fashion, ideology and political necessity. He has always stood apart from schools and movements, not from arrogance so much as from the desire to ...