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Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia

Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800

by Sumit Guha, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Sunjay Subrahmanyam ...

In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed South Asian cultures, particularly how Western modes of thought became dominant, requires knowing ... Read more

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In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed South Asian cultures, particularly how Western modes of thought became dominant, requires knowing
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The Bhagavad Gita

by Eknath Easwaran ...

Series Book 1 - Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality
The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions clarify key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.Easwaran ... Read more

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The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions clarify key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.Easwaran
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India

A Sacred Geography

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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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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
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Gandhi

A Spiritual Biography

by Arvind Sharma ...

In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve—what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years—is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end." While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869–1948), nearly all ... Read more

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In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve—what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years—is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end." While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869–1948), nearly all
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Mahabharata Adiparva

Mahabharata, #1

by Srinivasa Prasad Pillutla ...

Series Book 1 - Mahabharata
Mahabharata is history of India, an epic war that ended one era and ushered in the current era. It is a story of what is Dharma, what is right or wrong. Characters of all shades of human psychology and emotions appear in this book. It is a case study of all types of personalities and situations. This book is the first chapter 'Adiparva' of Mahabharata a.k.a Jayakavya. Mahabharata was originally ... Read more

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Mahabharata is history of India, an epic war that ended one era and ushered in the current era. It is a story of what is Dharma, what is right or wrong. Characters of all shades of human psychology and emotions appear in this book. It is a case study of all types of personalities and situations. This book is the first chapter 'Adiparva' of Mahabharata a.k.a Jayakavya. Mahabharata was originally
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Shiva

Stories and Teachings from the Shiva Mahapurana

by Vanamali ...

The traditional understanding of Shiva told through stories and teachings from the Shiva Mahapurana• Explains Shiva’s contradictory forms, such as destroyer or benefactor, and how his form depends on the needs of the devotee• Reveals how Shiva’s teachings allow one to see through the illusions at the root of all grief and alienation in human life• Explores Shiva’s relationships with Durga, Shakti, ... Read more

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The traditional understanding of Shiva told through stories and teachings from the Shiva Mahapurana• Explains Shiva’s contradictory forms, such as destroyer or benefactor, and how his form depends on the needs of the devotee• Reveals how Shiva’s teachings allow one to see through the illusions at the root of all grief and alienation in human life• Explores Shiva’s relationships with Durga, Shakti,
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Searching for Vedic India

by Devamrita Swami ...

Deep in lost history, did high civilizations and advanced knowledge thrive? The ancient Vedic literatures of India describe a worldwide civilization that flourished at a time when modern historians insist that humans like us existed simply as hunter-gatherers. This Vedic civilization, centered in India, employed technologies based on a scientific understanding of the physical elements and forces ... Read more

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Deep in lost history, did high civilizations and advanced knowledge thrive? The ancient Vedic literatures of India describe a worldwide civilization that flourished at a time when modern historians insist that humans like us existed simply as hunter-gatherers. This Vedic civilization, centered in India, employed technologies based on a scientific understanding of the physical elements and forces
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Mahabharata Sabhaparva

Mahabharata, #2

by Srinivasa Prasad Pillutla ...

Series Book 2 - Mahabharata
In this book Pandavas are cheated by Kauravas in a game of dice and take all their wealth and banish them to forest for 14 years.I have recorded my study of Mahabharata second chapter Sabhaparva in this ebook.Mahabharata is history of India, an epic war that ended one era and ushered in the current era. It is a story of what is Dharma, what is right or wrong. Characters of all shades of human ... Read more

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In this book Pandavas are cheated by Kauravas in a game of dice and take all their wealth and banish them to forest for 14 years.I have recorded my study of Mahabharata second chapter Sabhaparva in this ebook.Mahabharata is history of India, an epic war that ended one era and ushered in the current era. It is a story of what is Dharma, what is right or wrong. Characters of all shades of human
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Annihilation of Caste

The Annotated Critical Edition

by B.R. Ambedkar ...

**“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of CasteThe classic work of Indian Dalit politics, reframed with an extensive introduction by Arundathi Roy**B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an ... Read more

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**“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of CasteThe classic work of Indian Dalit politics, reframed with an extensive introduction by Arundathi Roy**B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an
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An Essay on the East India Trade

by Charles Davenant ...

Charles Davenant (16561714) was an English economist and the eldest son of Sir William Davenant, a renowned poet. He held the post of commissioner of excise from 1683 to 1689, and that of inspector-general of exports and imports from 1705 till his death in 1714. He was also secretary to the commission appointed to treat for the union with Scotland. As an economist, he was a strong supporter of the ... Read more

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Charles Davenant (16561714) was an English economist and the eldest son of Sir William Davenant, a renowned poet. He held the post of commissioner of excise from 1683 to 1689, and that of inspector-general of exports and imports from 1705 till his death in 1714. He was also secretary to the commission appointed to treat for the union with Scotland. As an economist, he was a strong supporter of the
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The Roots of Hinduism

The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization

by Asko Parpola ...

Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten ... Read more

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Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten
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Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

New Perspectives

Edited by Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook ...

Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious patronage, while new sectarian centres of doctrinal and spiritual authority emerged beyond the confines of ... Read more

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Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious patronage, while new sectarian centres of doctrinal and spiritual authority emerged beyond the confines of
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