Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia – serie
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Greater Magadha
Studies in the Culture of Early India
Inbunden, 2007
3248 kr
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Greater Magadha, roughly the eastern part of the Gangetic plain of northern India, has so far been looked upon as deeply indebted to Brahmanical culture. Religions such as Buddhism and Jainism are thought of as derived, in one way or another, from Vedic religion. This belief is defective in various …
Buddhist Architecture of Gandhāra
Inbunden, 2003
3117 kr
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Gandhara, with its wide variety of architectural remains and sculptures, has for many decades perplexed students of South and Central Asia. Kurt Behrendt in this volume for the first time and convincingly offers a description of the development of 2nd century B.C.E. to 8th century C.E. Buddhist …
Animals in Stone
Indian Mammals Sculptured Through Time
Inbunden, 2008
4350 kr
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The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of motifs and imagery in different regions and …
ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index
Volume Three – South Asia
Inbunden, 2010
4877 kr
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Volume Three contains 1643 records on South Asia selected from the ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index database at www.abia.net. Volume Three has been compiled by specialists of the ABIA Project stationed at Leiden, Colombo, New Delhi, Dhaka, Kathmandu and Peshawar. It features …
Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism
Inbunden, 2011
2844 kr
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For many centuries Buddhism and Brahmanism coexisted in the Indian subcontinent. This book concentrates on the way in which the two, after an initial period of relative independence, confronted each other, both in and around the royal courts and in society at large. In this confrontation, Buddhism …
Portraiture in Early India
Between Transience and Eternity
Inbunden, 2011
2393 kr
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In the study of Indian art prior to the Mughal period, portraiture has so far been much neglected, when its existence has not simply been denied. This book is an attempt to reassess this issue, by showing that portraits have existed in great number in early India, since probably the first artistic …
India's Railway History
A Research Handbook
Inbunden, 2012
2620 kr
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India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and …
Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences
Av John Siudmak
Inbunden, 2013
3519 kr
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The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences is primarily based on the study of the largely unpublished corpus of sculpture, mostly of stone, in the Sri Pratap Singh Museum in Srinagar, and of other examples in situ elsewhere in the valley. The disparate nature and fragmentary …
Les enfers indiens
Histoire multiple d’un lieu commun
Inbunden, 2017
2270 kr
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In the present work, the first of its kind in the field of Indian philology, Marc Tiefenauer outlines the history of representations of hell in Indian religious traditions. His study is based on primary sources in Sanskrit, Pali, Ardhamagadhi, Chinese, Braj, Persian and Hindi, extending over three …
Islam in South Asia
Revised, Enlarged and Updated Second Edition
Av Jamal Malik
Inbunden, 2020
3145 kr
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Islam in South Asia: Revised, Enlarged and Updated Second Edition traces the roots and development of Muslim presence in South Asia. Trajectories of normative notions of state-building and the management of diversity are elaborated in four clusters, augmented by topical subjects in excursuses and …
Reading Śiva
An Illustrated Selection from the ABIA Online Bibliography on the Arts and Material Culture of South and Southeast Asia
Av Ellen Raven, Gerda Theuns-de Boer
Inbunden, 2022
2527 kr
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Reading Śiva is an illustrated bibliography on the Hindu god Śiva in the arts, crafts, coins, seals and inscriptions from South and Southeast Asia. It results from a century of ABIA bibliographic work and covers over 1500 academic publications since 1672. This scholarly and multi-disciplinary …
Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800
Inbunden, 2023
2244 kr
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Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South Asian Muslim audiences has remained hidden in plain view. This book situates manuscript illustrations and album paintings within cultures of devotion …
