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Violence Denied
Violence, Non-Violence and the Rationalization of Violence in South Asian Cultural History
Av Jan Houben
Inbunden, 1999
3734 kr
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In the course of millennia of dealing with problems of violence, South Asia has not only elaborated the ideal of total avoidance of violence in a unique manner, it also developed arguments justifying and rationalizing its employment under certain circumstances. Some of these arguments seemingly …
Maṇḍalas and Yantras in the Hindu Traditions
Inbunden, 2003
2179 kr
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In recent years maṇḍalas have attracted much interest among a wider public. The main focus of such interest has been directed toward Tibetan maṇḍalas, specimens of which have been included in numerous publications. But maṇḍalas are found across a wide spectrum of South Asian religious …
Circumambulations in South Asian History
Essays in Honour of Dirk H.A. Kolff
Inbunden, 2003
3322 kr
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This exciting and thought-provoking volume, written by a small number of outstanding scholars on colonial and medieval Indian history, ethnohistory and the new military history of South Asia forms the best tribute thinkable to one of the leading scholars in the field of Indian History, Professor …
Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India
The Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata
Av Adam Bowles
Inbunden, 2007
2944 kr
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The Āpaddharmaparvan, 'the book on conduct in times of distress', is an important section of the great Sanskrit epic the Mahābhārata which, despite its significance for Mahābhārata studies and for the history of Indian social and political thought, has received little attention in scholarly …
From Coffee to Tea Cultivation in Ceylon, 1880-1900
An Economic and Social History
Inbunden, 2008
2734 kr
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In the early 1880s a disastrous plant disease diminished the yields of the hitherto flourishing coffee plantation of Ceylon. Coincidentally, world market conditions for coffee were becoming increasingly unfavourable. The combination of these factors brought a swift end to coffee cultivation in the …
Western Himalayan Temple Records
State, Pilgrimage, Ritual and Legality in Chambā
Inbunden, 2009
2948 kr
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While numerous studies exist on major South-Asian temples, surprisingly little is known about ‘minor shrines’ and ‘lesser states’. Here fifty-five new documents, in a western-Himalayan script and language, and belonging to a small Siddha shrine, redress this remarkable gap in our knowledge. The …
Tracing the Boundaries between Hindi and Urdu
Lost and Added in Translation between 20th Century Short Stories
Inbunden, 2009
3029 kr
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This book sheds light on the complex relationship between Hindi and Urdu. Through a detailed reading of a representative set of 20th century short stories in both languages, the author leads the reader towards a clear definition of the differences between Hindi and Urdu. The full translations of …
Grass in their Mouths: The Upper Doab of India under the Company's Magna Charta, 1793-1830
Inbunden, 2010
4338 kr
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Scholarship on the pre-Bentinck period of Indian history has taken little notice of the inevitable dilemmas of colonial rule as they became visible in the districts. This book argues that the disdain the eighteenth-century Westminster parliaments expressed both for Indians and the East India …
Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion
Inbunden, 2010
2570 kr
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This is a study that focuses on the art and architecture of a group of Buddhist rock-cut monuments excavated on the western edge of the Deccan Plateau in India. It analyses the various cultural, historical and religious phenomena that shaped the caves at Aurangabad through the first seven centuries …
Language and Reality
On an Episode in Indian Thought
Inbunden, 2011
2114 kr
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For a number of centuries Indian philosophers of all persuasions were convinced that there was a particularly close connection between language and reality, also, or even primarily, between sentences and the situations they describe. This shared conviction was responsible for a perceived problem. …
Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition
Inbunden, 2011
2296 kr
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The authors in this volume explore Indo-Muslim cultures developing in South Asia from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries, sharing central themes but showing significant contextual variations by time and place. They focus a much-needed analytical gaze on the rich layers of circulation and …
Yoga Powers
Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration
Inbunden, 2011
3300 kr
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A neglected topic in the research on yoga and meditation traditions, the extraordinary capacities called yoga powers are at the core of the religious imagination in the history of religions in South Asia. Yoga powers explained the divine, the highest gods were thought of as great yogins, and since …
Rise of Mahāsena
The Transformation of Skanda-Kārttikeya in North India from the Kuṣāṇa to Gupta Empires
Inbunden, 2011
2387 kr
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This book studies the early development of Skanda-Kārttikeya’s Hindu cult from its earliest textual and material sources to the end of the Gupta Empire in the north of India. The text argues that Skanda’s early ‘popular’ cult is found in Graha and Mātṛ traditions oriented towards appeasing …
Aspects of Manuscript Culture in South India
Av Saraju Rath
Inbunden, 2012
3076 kr
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This volume, the outcome of a seminar organized at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, marks an important advancement in the study of South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts which are predominantly on palm leaf and rarely older than three to four centuries. Nevertheless, they continued …
Narmadāparikramā - Circumambulation of the Narmadā River
On the Tradition of a Unique Hindu Pilgrimage
Av Jürgen Neuß
Inbunden, 2012
3052 kr
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In Narmadāparikramā. Circumambulation of the Narmadā River Jürgen Neuss offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the Narmadāparikramā, a singular Hindu pilgrimage, which comprises the complete circumambulation of the Central Indian river Narmadā. Following a brief general introduction, …
Early Buddhist Architecture in Context
The Great Stūpa at Amarāvatī (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE)
Inbunden, 2012
2323 kr
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Since the dramatic discovery and tragic destruction of the monument in the 19th century, the Amarāvatī stūpa in the south-east Deccan has attracted many scholars but has also left many unanswered questions. Akira Shimada's Early Buddhist Architecture in Context provides an updated and comprehensive …
Beyond Caste
Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present
Av Sumit Guha
Inbunden, 2013
2153 kr
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'Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and …
Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī
Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr vānī Poems from Rājasthān
Inbunden, 2013
3246 kr
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With Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī scholars and students of medieval Hindī literature acquire an essential tool for learning one of its important but difficult dialects, the so called sadhukkarī bhāshā. Based on an early Rājasthānī manuscript, the volume includes a commented edition of one …
Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres
Inbunden, 2017
1986 kr
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Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres, is a collection on the subject of Urdu poetics, Dastan, translation studies in Urdu, and Indo-Persian. The essays employ interdisciplinary perspectives for exploring the dynamic literary landscape of the South Asian subcontinent since the …
Culture and Circulation
Literature in Motion in Early Modern India
Inbunden, 2014
3014 kr
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Culture and Circulation reflects an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of literary genres and social milieus, capturing elements that have eluded traditional literary history. In this book, jointly edited by Thomas de Bruijn and …
Dharmakīrti on the Cessation of Suffering
A Critical Edition with Translation and Comments of Manorathanandinʼs Vṛtti and Vibhūticandraʼs Glosses on Pramāṇavārttika II.190-216
Inbunden, 2015
2221 kr
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Liberation is a fundamental subject in South Asian doctrinal and philosophical reflection. This book is a study of the discussion of liberation from suffering presented by Dharmakīrti, one of the most influential Indian philosophers. It includes an edition and translation of the section on the …
Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art
Inbunden, 2015
2288 kr
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In Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art, Melia Belli Bose provides the first analysis of Rajput chatrīs ("umbrellas"; cenotaphs) built between the sixteenth to early-twentieth centuries. New kings constructed chatrīs for their late fathers as …
Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata
Inbunden, 2016
3403 kr
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Argument and Design features fifteen essays by leading scholars of the Sanskrit epics, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa, discussing the Mahābhārata’s upākhyānas, subtales that branch off from the central storyline and provide vantage points for reflecting on it. Contributors include: Vishwa Adluri, …
Text, History, and Philosophy
Abhidharma across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions
Av Bart Dessein
Inbunden, 2016
2505 kr
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Text, History, and Philosophy. Abhidharma Across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions discusses Abhidhamma / Abhidharma as a specific exegetical method. In the first part of the volume, the development of the Buddhist argumentative technique is discussed. The second part investigates the importance of …
Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2020
2461 kr
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In Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Samarpita Mitra studies literary periodicals as a particular print form, and reveals how their production and circulation were critical to the formation of a Bengali public sphere during …
Turkish History and Culture in India
Identity, Art and Transregional Connections
Inbunden, 2020
2351 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume addresses the history, literature and material culture of peoples of Turkish origins in India over the eleventh to eighteenth centuries. Although many ruling dynasties and members of the elite in this period claimed Turkish descent, this aspect of their identity has …
Haribhaktivilāsa of Sanātana Gosvāmin, Volume One
Mantras, Initiation and Preparing for Worship (Chapters 1–5). Critical Edition and Annotated Translation
Av Måns Broo
Inbunden, 2023
1723 kr
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Sanātana Gosvāmin’s Haribhaktivilāsa (ca. 1540) describes the normative ritual life of a Vaiṣṇava devotee. As it is one of the first Sanskrit texts of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition begun by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486–1533) it presents a fascinating meeting between this ecstatic new religious movement …
South Indian Digest of Commentaries on the Nyāyasūtra
Gambhīravaṃśaja’s Nyāyasūtravivaraṇa—First Adhyāya
Inbunden, 2022
1698 kr
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The Nyāyasūtravivaraṇa, written in the first centuries of the 2nd millennium CE, provides the most accessible introduction to the core teachings of old Nyāya. Excerpting from the two earliest and most important treatises of this tradition—the Nyāyabhāṣya and Nyāyavārttika—Gambhīravaṃśaja created a …
Devotion, Religious Authority, and Social Structures in Sindh
Khojas, Vanyos, and Faqirs
Inbunden, 2024
1749 kr
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In a context of rigidification of religious boundaries, especially between Hinduism and Islam, the book argues that many physical and non-physical sites of religious encountering are still at work, both in Pakistan and in India. In India, the Hindu Sindhis worshipped a god, Jhulelal, who is also …
Building of Vṛndāvana
Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town
Av Kiyokazu Okita, Rembert Lutjeharms
Inbunden, 2024
1647 kr
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The small town of Vṛndāvana is today one of the most vibrant places of pilgrimage in northern India. Throngs of pilgrims travel there each year to honour the sacred land of Kṛṣṇa’s youth and to visit many of its temples. The Building of Vṛndāvana explores the complex history of this town’s early …
