Balarama Microform Change And Continuity In An Early Indian Cult

Author : Lavanya Vemsani
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780494042847
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balarama [microform] : Change and Continuity in an Early Indian Cult written by Lavanya Vemsani and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I also demonstrate that the early supremacy and personality of Balarama is reflected in the depiction of this deity in select Jain texts: the Vasudevahind & dotbelow;i (VH), the Harivamsapurana (HVP), the Cauppannamahapurisacariyam & dotbelow; (CMC), and the Trisastisalakapurusacaritra (TSP). A comparison of Hindu and Jain purana stories of Balarama also reveal that the Jain Balarama stories are derived from independent sources other than the Hindu puranas.

Author : Lavanya Vemsani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hindu and Jain Mythology of Balarāma written by Lavanya Vemsani and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the evolution of Balarama in Vaisnavism through comparative analysis of Balarama stories from selected Hindu puranas, asserting that Balarama was a multifaceted deity of considerable importance in early Vaisnavism. The analysis of Balarama stories provides insight into the long process of the development of Vaisnavism.

Author : Siegfried Lienhard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change and Continuity written by Siegfried Lienhard and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jayeeta Sharma
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350491
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire's Garden written by Jayeeta Sharma and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape.

Author : Samta P. Pandya
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811328234
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith Movements and Social Transformation written by Samta P. Pandya and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of Hindu-inspired faith movements (HIFMs) in contemporary India as actors in social transformation. It further situates these movements in the context of the global political economy where such movements cross national boundaries to locate believers among the Hindu diaspora and others. In contemporary neoliberal India, HIFMs have become important actors, and they realize themselves by making public assertions through service. The four pillars of the contemporary presence of such movements are: gurus, sociality, hegemony and social transformation. Gurus, who spearhead these movements, create a matrix of possible meanings in their public discourses which their followers pick up to create messages of personal and social change. Sociality is a core strategy of proliferation across such movements and implies social service, which is qualified by memories of the guru and what they are believed to embody. Hegemony is reflected in the fact that social service in such movements often ominously imbibes right-wing or far-right Hinduism. They propose a model of Hindu-inspired social transformation, involving faith building into and transforming the civil society. The book discusses in a nuanced way several Hindu-inspired faith movements of various hues which have made national and international impact. This topical book is of interest to students and researchers in the fields of sociology, anthropology, social work, and social psychology, with a special interest in the study of religious movements.

Author : Luis González Reimann
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mahābhārata and the Yugas written by Luis González Reimann and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions the conventional wisdom that a fully matured theory of the yugas - Hinduism's ages of the world - is integral to the Mahābhārata, and it illustrates how traditional commentators and modern scholars have read the later Purāṇic yuga theory into the Mahābhārata, in particular when it comes to placing the action at the beginning of the current terrible Kali Yuga. Luis González-Reiman discusses the meaning of key terms in the epic by examining the text and early Buddhist sources. This book also traces the sectarian appropriation of the yuga system in later literature and documents how modern religious movements have used the system to proclaim the arrival of a new, prosperous Kṛta Yuga, a phenomenon that coincides with New Age expectations.

Author : P. Mohammed
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403914168
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad 1917–1947 written by P. Mohammed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-01-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the struggles of female and male descendants of Indian indentured migrants in Trinidad in the first half of the twentieth century, each desiring to preserve some aspects of the gender system brought from India between 1845 and 1917, which were important to their continued definition of ethnic identity and community in Trinidad. At the same time the situation of migration allows for challenges to the caste system of Hinduism and, for women and some men, new opportunities to confront the more restricting aspect of Indian patriarchy which followed them across the seas from India.

Author : Andrew Ollett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520968816
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language of the Snakes written by Andrew Ollett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.

Author : Vincent A. Smith
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788171566181
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early History of India written by Vincent A. Smith and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1999 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Narrates The Early History Of India Beginning From 600 B.C. To The Muhammadan Conquest Including The Invasion Of Alexander The Great. It Is A Highly Analytical Work. The Book Would Be Highly Interesting And Of Great Value For The Students, Teachers And Researchers Of Indian History.

Author : Gopal Chowdhary
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482819252
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Farce of History written by Gopal Chowdhary and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book seeks to analyse the faultlines and subversion in the ancient history of India in the praxis of social domination and systematic marginalization and obliteration of traditional political elites or traditional Kshatriya that social elites (Priestly class or caste) of ancient India achieved, just to maintain their socio-political domination and hegemony. This rather myopic act led to the balkanization of socio-political scape of mediaeval Indiaresulting into subjugation, plunder and foreign invasions and rule for one thousand years. Through the case study of Krishna and Mahabharata period, the book tries to illuminate the so called Dark Age of the Indian history. Despite the numerous archaeological proves found in the form of Painted Grey Ware (PGW) associated with Mahabharata period and Black Red Ware (BRW) with different shades, associated with Krishna and Yadavas which tally with details of different scriptures and epic, nothing seems to be happening in this regard. This very fact seems to underline the continued saga of subversion and domination that seemed to have been ingrained in the post-Krishna-and-Mahabharata period. Once the deification and mystification of great historical personality and period such as Krishna and Mahabharata was started just to negate the socio-political revolutions ushered into, it seems to have continued and institutionalized.