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Indian Classical Music, also known as Hindustani Classical Music has two branches, Vocal and Instrumental Music. Instrumental Music has gained in popularity over the years in India and gainde in [popularity over the years in India and Abroad. There are many students across the world, who have learnt and are also learning this art, the numbers of whom are growing day by day. Indian Classical Music is based on a Raga system.
A Raga is a melodic structure, which has ...
Indian Classical Music, also known as Hindustani Classical Music, is one of the richest music found all over the world due to its versatility and the system being dollowed, which givers one the freedom to create remaining within a framework of rules. This husic is basde on the system of a Raga. A Raga is the bane of Indian classical Music. A Raga can be defined as a melodic structure with the certain rules and the freedom given for creativity within the same, ...
Position of women in India has remained a topic of concern since ancient times. They can be the perfect example of home makers. With their incomparable quality of calmnes of mind, they can easily handle even toughest situations. Indian women are completely devoted to their families. They're preached in the names of Goddess Saraswati, Goddess Durga, Parvati and Goddess Kali.
Their condition remains unchanged even during the modern times with only little changes. ...
This book covers the textual creation of Anglo-Indian fiction-writers, who endeavoured to charter and carve out their own cultural and literary identity in their literary works. By using extensive archival source-material, this work ofers a new dimension to the study of Anglo-Indian literature.
A close analysis of some of the works of leading and obscure Anglo-Indian women writers, this study demonstrates the convergence of sociological and historical processes, ...
The Post-Civil War America ushered in a period when social and historical processes redefined the woman's role and choices. This work explores the process of negotiation between individual liberty and social convertions in the patriarchial and transitional American society of the nineteenth-century. The study focuses on the female protagonists in The Portrait of Lady and The Bostoniams which demonstrates that Heny James Placed women in the centre-stage in his ...
The volume comprises some 100 panegyrics, articles and research papers that deal with various aspects of Sanskrit, Indology and Musicology. The eulogical and laudatory poems, memoirs and tributes to Prof. J. S. Kulshreshtha bring out characteristics of his personality and his contribution to Sanskrit, Indology and Musicology. The papers in English and Hindi discuss Vedic, sociological, education, religious, linguistic and literary aspects of Indian society and ...
Research in Education like any other field requires a great deal of patience, endurance and study. Keeping in mind the importance of educational research the investigator has attempted to do justice to her study. Since the topic of her study, 'A critical study of the Educational and Philosophical thoughts of Manu in their socio-cultural context' was based on 'Manusmriti', the base book of Indian values and the whole social set-up of India consisting of the ...
During the author's research work on the curriculum of various universities, it was observed that music students, scholars, researchers and even faculty members are confused about their respective syllabi. Although U.G.C. has provided guidelines for the university level syllabus of different courses and updated them according to the need of the time, but very few universities have followed them thoroughly in their curriculum.This book is a balanced attempt to ...
Music has been termed as a very strong source of inspiration behind inculcating human values in an individual. It not only softens the hardliness but also instills the attributes of tolerance, love, and a sence of brotherhood among human beings. Keeping these factors in view, university, as perceived by our first Prime Minister, Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, a university could render a yeoman's service to music education in India.The present work is based on ...
The present work aims at understanding the nature and features of ancient Indian society during different historical phases. The evolutionary approach has been applied in order to analyse the changes took place in various social institutions and refutes the claim of those who see the ancient Indian society as unchanging. Alongwith various internal and external factors responsible for the occurrence of numerous social changes, the economic developments, the role ...
The present book is a collection of research papers which were written on various topics from time to time. This book includes papers written on literary criticism. Some deal with the knotty problems of Sanskrit poetics. Such as number of Rasas and Arthopaksepakas in Bharata, while some deal with the works written in Sanskrit in modern times which defy the set patterns of the old. All the papers have been written keeping in view the tenets of Sanskrit poetics and ...
Theory and practice of international relations in the new millennium could well be seen as a confluence of different streams of thought and action that have evolved in this context since the creation of modern state system in the 17 century. Beginning with the Westpahalian system established in 1648, and continuing in the twentieth century with the onset of Cold War, emergence of the Third World, spread of globalization, and the rise of civil society, the ...
The present book exhaustively deals with the origin and development, system of the Upanishads. In brief it propagates the fundamentals of philosophy found in Upanishads. Upanishads are termed as Vedanta. They are the height of Indian culture and philosophy. The book highlights how there is a system in the philosophy of Upanishads. First, there developed the doctrine of Brahman and Atman giving rise to idealism. When the empirical knowledge asserted them it ...
Two of the leading departments of Sanskrit scientific literature, the legal and the grammatical, have been already sufficiently noticed; of those remaining, the most important by far is the philosophical. The beginnings of philosophical speculation are seen already in some of the later hymns of the Veda, more abundantly in the Brahmanas and Aranyakas, and then especially in the Upanisads. The evolution and historic relation of the systems of philosophy, and the ...
Taken in conjunction with my Sanskrit Drama, published in 1924, this work covers the field of Classical Sanskrit Literature, as opposed to the Vedic Literature, the epics, and the Puranas. To bring the subject-matter within the limits of a single volume has rendered it necessary to treat the scientific literature briefly, and to avoid discussions of its subject-matter which appertain rather to the historian of grammar, philosophy, law, medicine, astronomy, or ...
The present work is an analytical study of the political and social history of the Jats. Second half of the 17 century witnessed the rise of Jat power in the vicinity of Delhi and Agra, i.e. in the very heartland of the Mughal Empire. By the first half of the 18 century the Jats were not only able to carve out an independent state for themselves but also emerged as a political force to reckon with. The rise and consolidation of the Jat state is a significant ...