Aadab Lucknow Fond Memories
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Aadab Lucknow Fond Memories
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Author : Kamlesh Tripathi
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Release Date : 2013-10-11
Aadab Lucknow Fond Memories written by Kamlesh Tripathi and has been published by Partridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Fiction categories.
See the simplicity of Lucknow in the form of a dozen insignia as described by Shaukat Tangewala (a horse-buggy driver). Imambara-to-see . . . Evening-in-Ganj-Hazratganj . . . Kababs-to-eat . . . Chikan-to-wear . . . Attar-for-fragrance . . . Ikka-buggy-to-roam . . . Kite-to-fly . . . Cocks-to-fight . . . Pigeons-to-fly . . . Hospitality-by-leaf-Betel-Leaf . . . Sweet-tongue . . . And the great Lakhnawi (Lucknow) pride . . . After-you-after-you. Aadab-Lucknow . . . Fond Memories is a unique fiction on homecoming in the backdrop of Lucknow, the city of Nawabs. It describes Lucknow in detail in terms of its seamless culture, folklore, facades, monuments, institutions, cuisines, Tehzeeb, and its greatest assetHindu-Muslim amity.
Awadh Assam And Dalai Lama The Kalachakra
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Author : Kamlesh Tripathi
language : en
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Release Date : 2022-09-21
Awadh Assam And Dalai Lama The Kalachakra written by Kamlesh Tripathi and has been published by Blue Rose Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-21 with Self-Help categories.
THE STORY BEHIND THE MAN WHO RECEIVED HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA IN 1959 1857, coerced by the East India Company, Ram, a young low- profile astrologer, flees Awadh because he dares to predict about a Gora Sahib and the East India Company. He struggles hard to reach Assam. Takes the humongous river route, largely in a row boat from Allahabad to Tezpur via Chittagong, sailing across, the mighty Ganges-Padma-Brahmaputra-Meghna, the Bay of Bengal and then to Tezpur, again via the Bay of Bengal, Meghana, Padma and the Brahmaputra changing a dozen row boats. Later, Kalachakra … the wheel of time settles the karmic scores in this ‘Root to Karma-Bhoomi’ story by giving his progeny Kamakhya Prasad Tripathi, then a minister in the Assam Cabinet, the lifetime opportunity to receive the Dalai Lama on behalf of the Government of India when he flees Tibet with his retinue on 18th April 1959. The narration unfolds the golden conversation between Dalai Lama and Kamakhya Prasad Tripathi hitherto not told.
The Scattered Court
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Author : Richard David Williams
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-04-24
The Scattered Court written by Richard David Williams and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-24 with History categories.
"How far did colonialism transform north Indian art music? In the period between the Mughal empire and the British Raj, did the political landscape bleed into aesthetics, music, dance, and poetry? The Scattered Court presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century. Examining musical culture through a diverse and multilingual archive, primarily using sources in Urdu, Bengali, and Hindi that have not been translated or critically examined before, challenges our assumptions about the period. The book presents a longer history of interactions between northern India and Bengal, with a core focus on the two courts of Wajid Ali Shah (1822-1887), the last ruler of the kingdom of Awadh. Wajid Ali Shah was one of the most colorful and controversial characters of the nineteenth century and has had a polarizing legacy. According to political histories and popular memory, he was a failure of a king, who was forced to surrender his kingdom to the East India Company, on the eve of the Indian Uprising of 1857. On the other hand, in musical histories, he is remembered either as a decadent aesthete or a path-breaking genius. The Scattered Court excavates the place of music in his court in Lucknow and his court-in-exile at Matiyaburj, Calcutta (1856-1887). The book charts the movement of musicians and dancers between these courts, as well as the transregional circulation of intellectual traditions and musical genres, and demonstrates the importance of the exile period for the rise of Calcutta as a celebrated center of Hindustani classical music. Since Lucknow is associated with late Mughal or Nawabi society, and Calcutta with colonial modernity, examining the relationship between the two cities sheds light on forms of continuity and transition over the nineteenth century, as artists and their patrons navigated political ruptures and social transformations. The Scattered Court challenges the existing historiography of Hindustani music and Indian culture under colonialism, by arguing that our focus on Anglophone sources and modernizing impulses has directed us away from the aesthetic subtleties, historical continuities, and emotional dimensions of nineteenth-century music"--
Gloom Behind The Smile
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Author : Kamlesh Tripathi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Gloom Behind The Smile written by Kamlesh Tripathi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Cancer categories.
Narrates the brain cancer for fourteen years of the author's son.
Reliving Karbala
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Author : Syed Akbar Hyder
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-09-01
Reliving Karbala written by Syed Akbar Hyder and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with Religion categories.
In 680 C.E., a small band of the Prophet Muhammads family and their followers, led by his grandson, Husain, rose up in a rebellion against the ruling caliph, Yazid. The family and its supporters, hopelessly outnumbered, were massacred at Karbala, in modern-day Iraq. The story of Karbala is the cornerstone of institutionalized devotion and mourning for millions of Shii Muslims. Apart from its appeal to the Shii community, invocations of Karbala have also come to govern mystical and reformist discourses in the larger Muslim world. Indeed, Karbala even serves as the archetypal resistance and devotional symbol for many non-Muslims. Until now, though, little scholarly attention has been given to the widespread and varied employment of the Karbala event. In Reliving Karbala, Syed Akbar Hyder examines the myriad ways that the Karbala symbol has provided inspiration in South Asia, home to the worlds largest Muslim population. Rather than a unified reading of Islam, Hyder reveals multiple, sometimes conflicting, understandings of the meaning of Islamic religious symbols like Karbala. He ventures beyond traditional, scriptural interpretations to discuss the ways in which millions of very human adherents express and practice their beliefs. By using a panoramic array of sources, including musical performances, interviews, nationalist drama, and other literary forms, Hyder traces the evolution of this story from its earliest historical origins to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Today, Karbala serves as a celebration of martyrdom, a source of personal and communal identity, and even a tool for political protest and struggle. Hyder explores how issues related to gender, genre, popular culture, class, and migrancy bear on the cultivation of religious symbols. He assesses the manner in which religious language and identities are negotiated across contexts and continents. At a time when words like martyrdom, jihad, and Shiism are being used and misused for political reasons, this book provides much-needed scholarly redress. Through his multifaceted examination of this seminal event in Islamic history, Hyder offers an original, complex, and nuanced view of religious symbols.
Superstar India
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Author : Shobhaa De
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-08-15
Superstar India written by Shobhaa De and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-15 with Literary Collections categories.
Vintage Shobhaa Dé, with scathing take-offs on everything, from the caste system to male chauvinism, from sex to social pretension . . . in other words, it's all great fun'-Economic Times Watching the preparations for independent India's 60th birthday in 2007, Dé-poised then to enter her own sixth decade-was struck by the thought, 'Surely my life has taken the same trajectory as the country's!' While she reflected on this, many more questions arose: Does India really deserve to congratulate itself? Has it lived up to the early promises it made to its people? Does Dé herself believe in India? In Superstar India, an intimate confession to her readers, Dé answers these questions and discovers a jawan-young-India, ready to find its place in today's world. Witty, passionate and gloriously opinionated, Superstar India celebrates the spirit of a nation that is certainly not about to lose its glow.
Captain Young S Ghost
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Author : Ruskin Bond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-10-10
Captain Young S Ghost written by Ruskin Bond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-10 with Fiction categories.
'If you live in the hills of India, it is only a matter of time before you meet a ghost...' Vintage storyteller Ruskin Bond has created some unforgettable characters in his novels and stories, but perhaps the most memorable and unusual among them are the ghosts and spirits he has encountered. These ghosts are not always horrific; they are mysterious and often benevolent, or lonely creatures looking for company among humans. Collected in these pages are new stories written specifically for this volume--including Captain Young's Ghost--and classics such as A Face in the Dark and The Haunted Bicycle. Here you will find the spirit of a captain from the British army who returns to the town he founded and rues the lack of Irish whisky; a little boy, long dead, who continues to guide passers-by on treacherous mountain routes; a heartbroken young girl of long ago who seduces young men with her song, and another who longs for a family and some friends. Set in the hills and foothills of North India--the perfect haunt for ghosts and spirits--this collection by the master storyteller will leave you spellbound.
Gender Sex And The City
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Author : R. Vanita
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-02-14
Gender Sex And The City written by R. Vanita and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with Social Science categories.
Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal.
Queering India
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Author : Ruth Vanita
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Queering India written by Ruth Vanita and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Social Science categories.
Queering India is the first book to provide an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial gay and lesbian life in India to provide a comprehensive look at a much neglected topic. The topics are wide-ranging, considering film, literature, popular culture, historical and religious texts, law and other aspects of life in India. Specifically, the essays cover such issues as Deepa Mehta's recent and controversial film, Fire, which focused on lesbian relationships in India; the Indian penal code which outlaws homosexual acts; a case of same-sex love and murder in colonial India; homophobic fiction and homoerotic advertising in current day India; and lesbian subtext in Hindu scripture. All of the essays are original to the collection. Queering India promises to change the way we understand India as well as gay and lesbian life and sexuality around the world.
Urdu Hindi An Artificial Divide
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Author : Abdul Jamil Khan
language : en
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Urdu Hindi An Artificial Divide written by Abdul Jamil Khan and has been published by Algora Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Foreign Language Study categories.
In a blow against the British Empire, Khan suggests that London artificially divided India's Hindu and Muslim populations by splitting their one language in two, then burying the evidence in obscure scholarly works outside the public view. All language is political -- and so is the boundary between one language and another. The author analyzes the origins of Urdu, one of the earliest known languages, and propounds the iconoclastic views that Hindi came from pre-Aryan Dravidian and Austric-Munda, not from Aryan's Sanskrit (which, like the Indo-European languages, Greek and Latin, etc., are rooted in the Middle East/Mesopotamia, not in Europe). Hindi's script came from the Aramaic system, similar to Greek, and in the 1800s, the British initiated the divisive game of splitting one language in two, Hindi (for the Hindus) and Urdu (for the Muslims). These facts, he says, have been buried and nearly lost in turgid academic works. Khan bolsters his hypothesis with copious technical linguistic examples. This may spark a revolution in linguistic history! Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide integrates the out of Africa linguistic evolution theory with the fossil linguistics of Middle East, and discards the theory that Sanskrit descended from a hypothetical proto-IndoEuropean language and by degeneration created dialects, Urdu/Hindi and others. It shows that several tribes from the Middle East created the hybrid by cumulative evolution. The oldest groups, Austric and Dravidian, starting 8000 B.C. provided the grammar/syntax plus about 60% of vocabulary, S.K.T. added 10% after 1500 B.C. and Arabic/Persian 20-30% after A.D. 800. The book reveals Mesopotamia as the linguistic melting pot of Sumerian, Babylonian, Elamite, Hittite-Hurrian-Mitanni, etc., with a common script and vocabularies shared mutually and passed on to I.E., S.K.T., D.R., Arabic and then to Hindi/Urdu; in fact the author locates oldest evidence of S.K.T. in Syria. The book also exposes the myths of a revealed S.K.T. or Hebrew and the fiction of linguistic races, i.e. Aryan, Semitic, etc. The book supports the one world concept and reveals the potential of Urdu/Hindi to unite all genetic elements, races and regions of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. This is important reading not only for those interested to understand the divisive exploitation of languages in British-led India's partition, but for those interested in: - The science and history of origin of Urdu/Hindi (and other languages) - The false claims of linguistic races and creation - History of Languages and Scripts - Language, Mythology and Racism - Ancient History and Fossil Languages - British Rule and India's Partition.