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This book is a fascinating visual record of the faraway western corner of India, obscure Kachchh, which is the last frontier of a fading way of life. Kachchh is a mystery land, not easy to comprehend. Its vast length and breadth cannot easily be covered, and it is greater in area than some states of India. The evocative photographs take the reader to its wide horizons and remote settlements, inhabited by people of diverse races and religions. It is a land that ...
Little is known about the Jain faith outside India, for the small Jain community has formed a gentle stream within the strong currents of the Indian mainstream. Though it shares many of its tenets with Hinduism, and is a contemporary of Buddhism, Jainism preaches an austere lifestyle, and has a philosophy all its own. However, Jain extravagance is unleashed when its temples where the architectural excellence and the sculptures are rendered as paeans of design ...
This volume brings to light, besides an elaborate textual part viewing the entire material from a fresh angle, some rare unpublished masterpieces of Mugal and Deccani art-schools, such as the Hamzanama folio and the portrait of Abdulla Qutb Shah, which the National Museum, New Delhi, has in its collection. The publication, though basically a catalogue, is different in it's approach to the most of books available on the subject. Besides evaluating each painting ...
This second book of New Rules and Combinations in Hindu Astrology cover planetary combinations which the author came across during his crareer as an astrologer. . These Combinations generally do not fail and can be successfully applied to the native and other relations of the native also. As such they can be used for checking the correctness of the natal chart as well.These combinations will be particularly useful in cases where the Ascendent is falling almost in ...
A beautifully illustrated book describing the customs and traditions which govern the celebrations of marriage in different parts of India. Marriage, perhaps one of the oldest institution in the world, bring into play much of the country's cultural and social life.. In India Vivah, a formal marriage is not an individual rite of passage and a religious sacrament, it is also a socio-economic transaction between families and clans. It is a great occasion for ...
The book is illustrated with color plates, photographs taken by naturalists and conservators who have spent several occasions in the wilderness recording these events. This super book is not only a tribute to the natural wealth of Rajasthan but will also go a long way in helping those people for whom the country side holds so much enchantment. Rajasthan is already well known for its history and its magnificent forts and palaces, its ritual celebrations, its ...
A beautifully illustrated book giving the history of Khajuraho temples and the Various legends connected with them. The medieval centuries saw some of the greatest and finest temple building activity in India. Though there are elements of similarity between them in different parts of the country, the temples of khajuraho are one of the most refined and finished manifestations of Indian Architecture in the Indo-Aryan style. Designed by Yogesh Gajwani and Suraksha ...
Written by leading experts in Sikh history, religion, and the arts of the period, the book is a lavish tribute to the rich cultural splendors of the Sikhs. This authoritative and sumptuous study of the cultural heritage of the Sikhs is published to coincide with the 300th anniversary of a p[pivotal event in Sikh history, when Guru Gibing Singh- the last of the ten Sikh Gurus - initiated five of his followers to create the Khalsa, or 'Order of the Pure'. Following ...
Mughal romance is Mughal history fictionalized. The book is the formidable collection of erotica which in itself is a great revelation. This erotically appealing love treatise is replete with unnerving, and at the same time, entertaining stories which will leave you enraptured and enthralled. It is like a multicoloured tapestry woven thick with liaisons of emperors, princes, queens, princesses and commoners alike, based on the accounts of the contemporary ...