Himalayas At A Crossroads
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Himalayas At A Crossroads
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Author : Deepak Shimkhada
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Himalayas At A Crossroads written by Deepak Shimkhada and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
Himalayas At A Crossroads
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Author : Deepak Shimkhada
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Himalayas At A Crossroads written by Deepak Shimkhada and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Art categories.
Nature Culture And Religion At The Crossroads Of Asia
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Author : Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-03
Nature Culture And Religion At The Crossroads Of Asia written by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-03 with Social Science categories.
This book explores how ethnic groups living in the Himalayan regions understand nature and culture. The first part addresses the opposition between nature and culture in Asia’s major religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Shamanism. The second part brings together specialists of different representative groups living in the heterogeneous Himalayan region. They examine how these indigenous groups perceive their world. This includes understanding their mythic past, in particular, the place of animals and spirits in the world of humans as they see it and the role of ritual in the everyday lives of these people. The book takes into account how these various perceptions of the Himalayan peoples are shaped by a globalized world. The volume thus provides new ways of viewing the relationship between humans and their environment.
Crossroads And The Himalayan Crystals
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Author : C. Toni Graham
language : en
Publisher: BalboaPress
Release Date : 2012-09-20
Crossroads And The Himalayan Crystals written by C. Toni Graham and has been published by BalboaPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
An ordinary school day in Middlefield turns into a mystical tale filled with endless adventures of magic, fairies, flying horses, and danger. A modern-day saga of four young teens who find themselves trapped in another realm—“The Otherworld”—where they must abide by an evil druid’s bidding or risk endangering the lives of their loved ones and the magical beings they have befriended.
Ladakh
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Author : Janet Rizvi
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1996
Ladakh written by Janet Rizvi and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
This authoritatively written book is the first to study Ladakh, the celebrated last outpost of Tibetan civilization. Janet Rizvi shows how Buddhism and Islam met at this high-altitude crossroads to form a unique culture, and discusses the region's history, rich oral tradition, economy, literature, and artifacts.
Ladakh
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Author : Monisha Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: Marg Publications
Release Date : 2005
Ladakh written by Monisha Ahmed and has been published by Marg Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
This is the first book to combine essays on the history and ongoing production of art in Ladakh and to recognize both Buddhist and Islamic contributions to the cultural environment. Drawing on recent research in the region, Ladakh: Cultu re at the Crossroads covers subjects ranging from the analysis of key sites and prominent
Where China Meets India
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Author : Thant Myint-U
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2011-09-13
Where China Meets India written by Thant Myint-U and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-13 with Political Science categories.
Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world. From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms stretching a thousand miles from Calcutta across Burma to the upper Yangtze River. Soon this last great frontier will vanish—the forests cut down, dirt roads replaced by superhighways, insurgencies crushed—leaving China and India exposed to each other as never before. This basic shift in geography—as sudden and profound as the opening of the Suez Canal—will lead to unprecedented connections among the three billion people of Southeast Asia and the Far East. What will this change mean? Thant Myint-U is in a unique position to know. Over the past few years he has traveled extensively across this vast territory, where high-speed trains and gleaming new shopping malls are now coming within striking distance of the last far-flung rebellions and impoverished mountain communities. And he has explored the new strategic centrality of Burma, where Asia's two rising, giant powers appear to be vying for supremacy. At once a travelogue, a work of history, and an informed look into the future, Where China Meets India takes us across the fast-changing Asian frontier, giving us a masterful account of the region's long and rich history and its sudden significance for the rest of the world.
Kashmir At The Crossroads
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Author : Sumantra Bose
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2021
Kashmir At The Crossroads written by Sumantra Bose and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with HISTORY categories.
An authoritative, fresh, and vividly written account of the Kashmir conflict--from 1947 to the present The India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir is one of the world's incendiary conflicts. Since 1990, at least 60,000 people have been killed--insurgents, civilians, and military and police personnel. In 2019, the conflict entered a dangerous new phase. India's Hindu nationalist government, under Narendra Modi, repealed Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir's autonomous status and divided it into two territories subject to New Delhi's direct rule. The drastic move was accompanied by mass arrests and lengthy suspension of mobile and internet services. In this definitive account, Sumantra Bose examines the conflict in Kashmir from its origins to the present volatile juncture. He explores the global context of the current situation, including China's growing role, as well as the human tragedy of the people caught in the bitter dispute. Drawing on three decades of field experience in Kashmir, Bose asks whether a compromise settlement is still possible given the ascendancy of Hindu nationalism in India and the complex geopolitical context.
Himalayan Architecture
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Author : Ronald M. Bernier
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1997
Himalayan Architecture written by Ronald M. Bernier and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Architecture categories.
This broad treatment of architecture throughout the region of the Himalaya mountains is the first book of its kind. The author has based this study on many years of research in Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, and the Darjeeling area of northeast India, northern Pakistan, and Himachal Pradesh in India's northwest. These areas make up an artistic and, to some degree, a cultural unit. It is unique and definable for its design qualities as well as its use of materials. Dramatic and lofty structures rise as towering palaces and as temples dedicated to Hindu and Buddhist ideals. The impact of neighboring Tibet and India is often evident in the art, but other influences are found as well. The area has not been isolated, as some studies suggest, but was in fact always linked to the rest of Asia and to the West by means of the Silk Road, at least since the second century B.C. This study progresses from east to west, beginning in the foothills of India's Assam. It is richly illustrated with photographs, most of which are the author's or his wife's, and many of the photographs are published here for the first time. The archives of the Archaeological Survey of India and the Department of Archaeology of His Majesty's Government of Nepal are also used here.
Himalayan Bronzes
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Author : Chandra L. Reedy
language : en
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Release Date : 1997
Himalayan Bronzes written by Chandra L. Reedy and has been published by Associated University Presse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Art categories.
Himalayan Bronzes focuses on a complete study of 340 medieval-period copper alloy sculptures from the Himalayan regions of Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, and Tibet. For more than 1,500 years, artists in isolated valleys in and adjacent to the mountains of the Himalayas have created magnificent copper-based statues representing deities and spiritual leaders of the Hindu, Buddhist and Bon-Po religions. Author Chandra L. Reedy's multidisciplinary approach to the study of these statues integrates methods and techniques from art history, art conservation, geology, chemistry, statistics, archaeology, and ethnography to answer art historical and anthropological questions. Her guiding premise is that gathering and combining several types of information will result in more and better answers than any one type alone.