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  • Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes

    Seeing South Asian Art Anew

    Edited by Pika Ghosh, Pushkar Sohoni ...
    Series series Visual and Media Histories
    Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice, applied to the study of material and visual culture, offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings, sculptures, found objects, fragments, built environments, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Taming the Oriental Bazaar

    Architecture of the Market-Halls of Colonial India

    by Pushkar Sohoni ...
    Taming the Oriental Bazaar examines the public market-hall as a key architectural feature of colonial South Asia. Representing a transition in the architectural programme, these buildings were meant to be monuments and markers of modernity in South Asia.The book:Explores how market-halls became an essential feature of colonial settlements from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Non-Shia Practices of Muḥarram in South Asia and the Diaspora

    Beyond Mourning

    Edited by Pushkar Sohoni, Torsten Tschacher ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian Religion Series
    This book analyses engagements with non-Shia practices of Muḥarram celebrations in the past and present, in South Asia and within a larger diaspora. Breaking new ground by bringing together a variety of regional perspectives (the Deccan, the Punjab, Singapore, South Africa, and Trinidad and Tobago) and linguistic backgrounds (Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu), the chapters discuss ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate

    Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India

    by Pushkar Sohoni ...
    The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy. They commissioned palaces, mosques, gardens and tombs as well as decorative paintings and coins. Of these sultanates, the Nizam Shahs (r. 1490-1636) were particularly significant, being one of the first to emerge from the crumbling edifice of the Bahmani Empire (c. 1347-1527). Yet their rich material record remains largely ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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    A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology

    by Shaila Bhatti ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series
    Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the dominant museological model to date. This examination of the Lahore Museum's objects, staff, and ... Read more

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  • Banaras Reconstructed

    Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City

    by Madhuri Desai ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras’s refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps ... Read more

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  • The Hindus

    An Alternative History

    by Wendy Doniger ...
    From one of the world?s foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its historyAn engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world?s oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds.Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions

    Edited by John R. Hinnells ...
    Comprehensive, informative and authoritative, The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions is compiled by a team of leading international scholars, and is the definitive guide to the religious belief systems and practices of the world today. This in-depth survey of active religions has now been fully updated to include modern developments and the most recent scholarship. It explains the ... Read more

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  • Zen Culture

    by Thomas Hoover ...
    Anyone who examines the Zen arts is immediately struck by how modern they seem. The ceramics of 16th-century Zen artists could be interchanged with the rugged pots of our own contemporary crafts movement; ancient calligraphies suggest the monochromes of Franz Kline or Willem de Kooning; the apparent nonsense and illogic of Zen parables (and No theater and Haiku poetry) established the limitations ... Read more

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    One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences from his many years in the city—exploring in the process the rich history of Kathmandu and its many instances of self-reinvention.Closed to the outside world until 1951 and trapped in a medieval ... Read more

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  • India, Bharat and Pakistan

    The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation

    by Mr J Sai Deepak ...
    India, Bharat and Pakistan, the second book of the Bharat Trilogy, takes the discussion forward from its bestselling predecessor, India That Is Bharat. It explores the combined influence of European and Middle Eastern colonialities on Bharat as the successor state to the Indic civilisation, and on the origins of the Indian Constitution. To this end, the book traces the thought continuum of Middle ... Read more

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  • India

    A Sacred Geography

    by Diana L Eck ...
    In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged.No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, rivers, forests, and ... Read more

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