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This book is a culmination of Encyclopaedia Britannica's effort to write anew, the history of Indian visual art. It includes not only a narrative tracing of the history but also briefer articles on specific sites and individuals. Histories of art occarionally fail to recognize a dynamic present. That is all the more the case with Asian art, which is too often deemed to have lost its Asianness when it becomes part of a global contemporary art movement, forgetting, ...
Indian history does not tell just one story. On the one hand, it tells the very different stories of "Punjab, Sindhu, Gujarat, Maratha, Dravida, Utkala, and Banga" - the very distinct linguistic and cultural regions of India. On the other, it tells the story of the arrival and establishment of the Aryas, Hunas, Afghans, Turks, and Mughals, Parsis, Christians, and Jews. It would be misleading to try to construct a master narrative out of all of these ...
Indian history does not tell just one story. On the one hand, it tells the very different stories of "Punjab, Sindhu, Gujarat, Maratha, Dravida, Utkala, and Banga" – the very distinct linguistic and cultural regions of India. On the other, it tells the story of the arrival and establishment of the Aryas, Hunas, Afghans, Turks, and Mughals, Parsis, Christians, and Jews. It would be misleading to try to construct a master narrative out of all of these ...
Comprehensive coverage: up-to-date facts, figures and images from the realms of geography, politics, culture, technology, demographics, entertainment, sports, arts, science and more, reflecting India in the twenty-first century. Spotlight on the fields of art, aesthetics, flora, fauna, and academics through special essays by expert contributors. Contemporary design, reader-friendly layout, dynamic text-graphic interface, exhaustive index, easy-to-use alphabetical ...
Earth's Changing Environment pulls together several article titles from Compton's Encyclopedia that have some relationship to the topic of climate change. These articles have been expanded and given new treatment expressly for the purposes of this book. Several of the title are new and do not yet appear within Compton's Encyclopedia. The material is presented in four parts with each part having a specific focus or common theme. Part one presents a focus on ...