Sawai Man Singh Ii Of Jaipur Life And Legend

Author : R.P. Singh
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9351940586
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur: Life and Legend written by R.P. Singh and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur: Life and Legend is the story of how fate catapulted Kanwar Mor Mukut Singh of Isarda to the throne of Jaipur, a state that he ruled as Sawai Man Singh II for twenty-seven years before its merger with independent India. From being a ruler to serving as India's ambassador in Spain, he lived through a period of Indian history marked with glory and upheavals. Flamboyant, debonair and elegant, he had two overriding passions - polo and his third wife, Maharani Gayatri Devi. His polo team ravaged England in 1933, winning all major tournaments - a feat yet unparalleled. His romance with Gayatri Devi, the stunningly beautiful princess from Cooch Behar, is the stuff of legend. Sawai Man Singh's dream was to die 'in a polo field, in the midst of a chukka, with my friends around me, my pony under me, my polo stick in my hand, and my boots on'. On 24 June 1970 at Cirencester, England, his dream was fulfilled, plunging the world in grief.

Author : Quentin Crewe
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Maharaja written by Quentin Crewe and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1985 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A Biography Of Are Who Enjoyed The Powers Of An Autocratic Before Autocrat Who Also Presided Long Before Independence Required It, Over The Dismantling Of His Own Position And Maharaja And The Passage Of Power From His Hands To His People. Accompanied By A Remakable Set Of Photographs.

Author : D.K. Taknet
Publisher : IntegralDMS
ISBN 13 : 1942322054
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jaipur: Gem of India written by D.K. Taknet and published by IntegralDMS. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaipur, the glorious Pink City of India, sets many a hearts aflutter with visions of grandeur, valour, romance and beauty. This heritage city’s inherent historic charm has always been a major source of attraction. Travellers, poets and philosophers have lavished praise on it, and perhaps no other place is imbued with the richness of ritual and ceremony across the country, as Jaipur is. Among its numerous architectural wonders, the city’s Jantar Mantar (observatory) and Amber Fort have been included in United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s list of world heritage sites. The book elaborates on the lesser known aspects that have contributed to its coveted status of a heritage city. It also offers a glimpse into the lives of people, who have made a difference to this city through their contributions and have aided in making this wonderful city what it is today. The city is an integral element on the itinerary of any global traveller and a worthy venue for a ‘destination wedding’ in one of its numerous forts or palaces. Also in focus is Jaipur’s everevolving image as a new economic hub and a well-equipped modern metropolis. In this well-researched and meticulously documented book, the author presents a comprehensive picture of the city, bringing to light many hitherto unexplored facts that will interest those with a penchant for urban histories, their origin and their evolution. The book has been abundantly illustrated with more than 500 rare, coloured photographs and paintings, and 154 unseen black and white photographs and illustrations, to capture the imagination of a discerning reader.

Author : Amarjit Kaur
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8174369120
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Punjab Story written by Amarjit Kaur and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 June 1984: The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Called Operation Bluestar, the historic and unprecedented event ended the growing spectre of terrorism perpetrated by the extremist Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers once and for all. But it left in its wake unsolved political questions that continued to threaten Punjab's stability for years to come. How, in a brief span of three years, did India's dynamic frontier state become a national problem? Who was to blame: the central government for allowing the crisis to drift despite warnings, or the long-drawn-out Akali agitation, or the notorious gang of militants who transformed a holy shrine into a sanctuary for terrorists? First published two months after Operation Bluestar, The Punjab Story pieces together the complex Punjab jigsaw through the eyes of some of India's most eminent public figures and journalists. Writing with the passion and conviction of those who were involved with the drama, they present a wide-ranging perspective on the past, present and future of the Punjab tangle; and the truth of many of their'conclusions having been borne out by time.

Author : Vir Sanghvi
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8174368256
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men of Steel written by Vir Sanghvi and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vir Sanghvi is probably the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. Founder editor of Bombay, his career has included editorship of Imprint, Sunday and The Hindustan Times. Sanghvi also has a parallel career as an award-winning TV interviewer and has hosted various successful shows on the Star TV network and on the NDTV news channel. One of India's premier food writer, his book Rude Food won the Cointreau Award, the international food business's Oscar, for Best Food Literature Book in the world. He is the author (along with Rudranghshu Mukherjee) of India Then and Now, also published by Roli Books. Madhavrao Scindia: A Life, a biography co-authored with Namita Bhandare is his latest publication.

Author : Melia Belli Bose
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004300562
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art written by Melia Belli Bose and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art, Melia Belli Bose provides a detailed analysis of Rajput cenotaphs known as chatrīs (Lit: "umbrellas").

Author : Vera Luboshinsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192889702
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky (1938-1945) written by Vera Luboshinsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky narrates life at the Indian princely court of Bhopal, during the 1940s. Vera was the daughter of Professor M. J. Herzenstein, a member of the State Duma in pre-revolutionary Russia, and married to Count Mark Luboshinsky. After the Bolshevik revolution, they emigrated to Czechoslovakia where they met Hamidullah Khan, Nawab of Bhopal, an important political figure during the last decades of the British Empire and India's fight for independence. Impressed by Mark Luboshinsky's managerial abilities, the Nawab invited him to come to India to manage his estates. The couple spent seven years in India (winter 1938 - winter 1945). They stayed in and around Bhopal taking part in palace business or travelling across India accompanying the Nawab's family on long journeys. The Diary is a unique and completely unknown text to the Anglophone world: a rich primary source for historians of India's princely states, providing an interesting and uncommon depiction of the Nawab, his family, acquaintances, associates, and more generally, the life of Indians and foreigners in India during World War II. With literary flair, Vera describes not only her life in India, but also her intimate relationship with the Begum and British residents of Bhopal as well as meetings with well-known people like Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, Fatima Jinnah, or Anandamayi Ma, and Paul Brunton. Importantly, the Diary also offers an extremely rare Eastern European female voice in late colonial India: a voice that both submits to and transgresses the Orientalist moods of its time.

Author : M.J. Akbar
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8174369309
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Brothers written by M.J. Akbar and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood Brothers is M.J. Akbar's amazing story of three generations of a Muslim family - based on his own - and how they deal with the fluctuating contours of Hindu-Muslim relations. Telinipara, a small jute mill town some 30 miles north of Kolkata along the Hooghly, is a complex Rubik's Cube of migrant Bihari workers, Hindus and Muslims; Bengalis poor and 'bhadralok'; and Sahibs who live in the safe, 'foreign'world of the Victoria Jute Mill. Into this scattered inhabitation enters a child on the verge of starvation, Prayaag, who is saved and adopted by a Muslim family, converts to Islam and takes on the name of Rahmatullah. As Rahmatullah knits Telinipara into a community, friendship, love trust and faith are continually tested by the cancer of riots. Incidents - conversion, circumcision, the arrival of the plague of electricity - and a fascinating array of characters - the ultimate Brahmin, Rahmatullah's friend Girija Maharaj; the worker's leader, Bauna Sardar; the storyteller, Talat Mian; the poet- teacher, Syed Ashfaque; the smiling mendicant, Burha Deewana; the sincere Sahib, Simon Hogg; and then the questioning, demanding third generation of the author and his friend Kamala - interlink into a narrative of social history as well as a powerful memoir. Blood Brothers is a chronicle of its age, its canvas as enchanting as its narrative, a personal journey through change as tensions build, stretching the bonds of a lifetime to breaking point and demanding, in the end, the greatest sacrifice. Its last chapters, written in a bare-bones, unemotional style, are the most moving as the author searches for hope amid raw wounds with a surgeon's scalpel.

Author : Maharaja of Jaipur Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum written by Maharaja of Jaipur Museum and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
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Download or read book Treasures of Indian Painting from the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, Jaipur written by Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: