The natural versus social origin of language controversy perpetuated two distinct traditions of linguistic reflection in India. Bhartrhari stated in no uncertain terms that the correspondence between the word and what it designates is fixed for all times and no human intervention can change this relationship. Panini’s great treatise, astadhyaya, and Bhartrhari’s sphota continued to be the main tradition of formal linguistics in Inida. The Buddhist ...
Siwaliks At A Glance: Present Status and Future Strategies
The Punjab Revisited: Social Order, Economic Life, Cultural Articulation, Politics, and Partition (18th-20th Centuries): Essays in Honour of Dr Kirpal Singh
This volume seeks to apply an ethnomuscicological approach to the study of Sikh Sabad Kirtan that includes oth a detailed nalysis of the musical system as well s exploring the dimension of contedt in the analysis of the musical sound. The performance of devotional music in India has been an active, sonic conduit where spiritual indentities are shaped and forged; where both history and mythology are out and remembered daily. For the followers of Sikhism, Sabad ...
