Heart Like A Fakir

Author : Chris Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538169584
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart Like a Fakir written by Chris Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart Like a Fakir is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessed by General Sir James Abbott (1807–1896), the man for whom the Pakistani town of Abbottabad is named. Based on extensive research into primary source documents, the book uses the life of General Sir James Abbott as a narrative thread to explore the troubled period between William Dalrymple’s White Moghuls and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. General Sir James Abbott was one of the most remarkable characters in British colonial history, becoming Great Britain’s first guerilla leader, the first Briton to reach the fabled Central Asian city of Khiva, and a British Deputy Commissioner who became the King of Hazara. He may have also been the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King and the character of Mr. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. This book chronicles the remarkable collapse of the social contract between Britons and the peoples of India in the first half of the nineteenth century, taking a fresh look at British perceptions of race, gender, and the nature of social and sexual relationships between them, leading up to the Great Rebellion of 1857— the cataclysm that ended British East India Company rule.

Author : Omar Kasmani
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478022655
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Companions written by Omar Kasmani and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan’s most important site of Sufi pilgrimage. Conjoining queer theory and the anthropology of Islam, Kasmani outlines the felt and enfleshed ways in which saintly affections bind individuals, society, and the state in Pakistan through a public architecture of intimacy. Islamic saints become lovers and queer companions just as a religious universe is made valuable to critical and queer forms of thinking. Focusing on the lives of ascetics known as fakirs in Pakistan, Kasmani shows how the affective bonds with the place’s patron saint, a thirteenth-century antinomian mystic, foster unstraight modes of living in the present. In a national context where religious shrines are entangled in the state’s infrastructures of governance, coming close to saints further entails a drawing near to more-than-official histories and public forms of affect. Through various fakir life stories, Kasmani contends that this intimacy offers a form of queer world making with saints.

Author : Romain Puertolas
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385352964
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe written by Romain Puertolas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the major motion picture The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir A charmingly exuberant comic debut, The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe is the globetrotting story of a trickster from rural India and his adventure of a lifetime. When the fakir—a professional con artist—arrives in Paris, he has just one goal: to get to Ikea. Armed with only a counterfeit hundred-euro note in the pocket of his silk trousers, he is confident that he has all he needs to thrive. But his plan goes horribly awry when he hides inside a wardrobe at the iconic Swedish retailer—the first in a series of accidents that will send him on a whirlwind tour across Europe. Pursued across the continent by a swindled taxi driver dead set on revenge, our fakir soon finds unlikely friends—from movie stars to illegal immigrants—in even unlikelier places. And, much to his own surprise, his heart begins to open to those around him as he comes to understand the universal desire to seek a better life in an often dangerous world. Channeling the manic energy of the Marx Brothers and the biting social commentary of Candide,Romain Puértolas has crafted an unforgettable comic romp around Europe that is propelled by laughter, love, and, ultimately, redemption. (Meatballs not included but highly recommended.)

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Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1676 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr. Siddhartha Ganguli
Publisher : Allied Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9390951763
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Moons in the Human Body written by Dr. Siddhartha Ganguli and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bauls & Fakirs of Bengal and Bangladesh certainly constitute a breed, different from other ethnic religious sects. They do not believe in worshipping in any citadel of religion like a temple, a mosque, or a church. They have the conviction that the body itself is the habitat of cosmic energy and also that the entire cosmos is present in a living body. They compare the body with a cage and the soul with an unknown bird which has come to stay for some time only. Most of the Bauls, who are not just singers but serious followers of the Baul path, do not believe in replication—creating any future progeny. They adopt special procedures for sexual union with menstruated female partners to retain the semen without losing it. To learn this very special technique which they do not share with any one, they have to take the help of learned and experienced Gurus who also teach them weird rituals like ‘Chari Chandra Bhed’ which involves consumption of semen, menstrual blood, urine and faeces. These folk medicine practices help them to keep diseases away and maintain good health. There have been lot of surveys and studies on the Bauls & Fakirs—primarily of historical, religious and sociological nature. This book goes a little deep to look at their songs, lifestyle, philosophy & practices from biological, psychological & management angles to establish that the Baulsphere is based on concepts and practices that have been proven scientific from modern research studies.

Author : Eliakim Littell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by Eliakim Littell and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ayyappappanikkar
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
ISBN 13 : 9788126003655
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections written by Ayyappappanikkar and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Has Two Parts, Surveys Of All The Languages And Selections From Three Languages Assamese, Bengali And Dogri.

Author : Bill Plotkin
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577313577
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soulcraft written by Bill Plotkin and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1980, depth psychologist Bill Plotkin has been guiding women and men into the wilderness — the redrock canyons and snow-crested mountains of the American West — but also into the wilds of the soul. He calls this work soulcraft. There’s a great longing in all people to uncover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find the unique gift we were born to bring to our communities, and to experience our full membership in the more-than-human world. This journey to soul is a descent into layers of the self much deeper than personality, a journey meant for each one of us, not just for the heroes and heroines of mythology. A modern handbook for the journey, Soulcraft is not an imitation of indigenous ways, but a contemporary nature-based approach born from wilderness experience, the traditions of Western culture, and the cross-cultural heritage of all humanity. Filled with stories, poems, and guidelines, Soulcraft introduces over 40 practices that facilitate the descent to soul, including dreamwork, wilderness vision fasts, talking across the species boundaries, council, self-designed ceremony, nature-based shadow work, and the arts of romance, being lost, and storytelling.