Cultural Encounters In India

Author : Audrey Truschke
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540973
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture of Encounters written by Audrey Truschke and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain intellectuals to King Akbar's court in the 1560s, then details the numerous Mughal-backed texts they and their Mughal interlocutors produced under emperors Akbar, Jahangir (1605–1627), and Shah Jahan (1628–1658). Many works, including Sanskrit epics and historical texts, were translated into Persian, elevating the political position of Brahmans and Jains and cultivating a voracious appetite for Indian writings throughout the Mughal world. The first book to read these Sanskrit and Persian works in tandem, Culture of Encounters recasts the Mughal Empire as a polyglot polity that collaborated with its Indian subjects to envision its sovereignty. The work also reframes the development of Brahman and Jain communities under Mughal rule, which coalesced around carefully selected, politically salient memories of imperial interaction. Along with its groundbreaking findings, Culture of Encounters certifies the critical role of the sociology of empire in building the Mughal polity, which came to irrevocably shape the literary and ruling cultures of early modern India.

Author : Keith E. Yandell Keith E. Yandell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136818081
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Public Culture written by Keith E. Yandell Keith E. Yandell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two centuries have witnessed profound changes in the nature of public consciousness. Nowhere has this been more true than in India, especially in relation to changing cultures of public life and religious tradition in South India. Essays in this collection attempt to explore the intricacies of what is perhaps the single most complex socio-religious environment in the world. The essays consider the evolution of the notion of Hinduism as a distinct and singular separate religion; the relationship between this kind of formulation and various European or western influences in India; and differences which the formation of this idea and its acceptance have made upon wider public consciousness. Each essay also considers certain general issues - such as the passing along of religious authority from one generation to the next, and the rise of disputes over matters both ideological (or doctrinal) and institutional, disputes that are fundamental to the traditions concerned and yet have unmistakable cross-cultural references.

Author : Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136289992
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Encounters written by Elizabeth Hallam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Encounters examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media including film, TV, advertisements, video, photographs, painting, novels, poetry, newspapers and material objects, the contributors, who include Ludmilla Jordanova and Ivan Karp, explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa, examining the ways in which visual and textual art forms operate in their treatment of cultural difference.

Author : Heike Liebau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351470655
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Encounters in India written by Heike Liebau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an English translation of an award winning German book. The history of social and religious encounter in 18th century South India is narrated through fascinating biographies and day to day lives of Indian workers in the Tranquebar Mission (1706-1845). The book challenges the notion that Christianity in colonial India was basically imposed from the outside. Liebau maintains that significant contributions were made by the local converts and mission co-workers who played an important role in the Tranquebar Mission.

Author : Heike Liebau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788187358725
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Encounters in India written by Heike Liebau and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kalpana Sahni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136704620
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multi-stories written by Kalpana Sahni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work explores, through personal narratives, the overlapping and intermingling of cultures as well as the immense cultural diversity across the world. This exploration inevitably questions notions of higher or lower cultures, and civilized or uncivilized peoples. Indeed it questions the very concept of superiority amongst peoples. Apart from cross-cultural encounters, this work also discusses how various democratic and non-democratic governments and organizations have attempted to conceal cross-cultural influences by inventing superiority, purity, and authenticity of cultures and civilizations to the detriment of others. Yet cross-culture pollination, an ongoing process, always reveals itself through the ignored cracks of history. The book shows that India is no exception and has been and continues to be porous. The numerous examples of cross-pollination — with Algeria, Indonesia, Cambodia, to mention a few — force us to re-look cultural constructs and indeed the very meaning of culture.

Author : Jeffery Paine
Publisher : HarperCol
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Father India written by Jeffery Paine and published by HarperCol. This book was released on 1998-10-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paine presents several mini-biographies of 20th-century Westerners whose lives and thoughts were radically transformed by their experience of India: E.M. Forster, Carl Jung, W.B. Yeats, Christopher Isherwood, V.S. Naipaul, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Author : Susan S. Bean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2H/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yankee India written by Susan S. Bean and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Mariners Logs, Journals, Letters, Business Papers And Indian Commodities And Curiosities Brought Home As Gifts And Mementos, Susan Bean Presents A Readable, Scholarly And Visually Opulent Study Of Material And Cultural Exchange. It Is A Beautifully

Author : M. D. David
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missions written by M. D. David and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive account of the cross-cultural impact of Christianity in Maharashtra up to the period 1940.

Author : Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and Culture
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1615301496
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of India written by Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and Culture and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the culture of India, covering such topics as languages and writing systems, the caste-system, Hinduism, philosophy, music, the visual and performing arts, and architecture.