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The Burning Pyre
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Author : Devendra Punse
language : en
Publisher: PartridgeIndia
Release Date : 2016-11-28
The Burning Pyre written by Devendra Punse and has been published by PartridgeIndia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-28 with categories.
The Burning Pyre records the real events of eleven hours in the life of Ajay, a thirty-three year old post-graduate, who journeys to appear for an interview. A self-assured, self-possessed, and self-confident boy aims of getting a job on the dint of his own mettle. Through his participation and observation of contrasting human activities and rigorous present life-style, he gets inspired to go the accustomed mile of his aim. His arduous journey to achieve his aim sans deviating own principles, and submitting to the corruptive practices in the educational employment system - is the crux of this story. Ajay is the competitive face in the portrait-gallery of present society, yet despite his efforts he remains in the quandary - the right or the wrong. Yes, he is passing through the acid test - here is a story for each one of you to know the secret that lies in his act --
The Burning Pyre
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Author : Devendra Punse
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-28
The Burning Pyre written by Devendra Punse and has been published by Partridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-28 with Fiction categories.
The Burning Pyre records the real events of eleven hours in the life of Ajay, a thirty-three year old post-graduate, who journeys to appear for an interview. A self-assured, self-possessed, and self-confident boy aims of getting a job on the dint of his own mettle. Through his participation and observation of contrasting human activities and rigorous present life-style, he gets inspired to go the accustomed mile of his aim. His arduous journey to achieve his aim sans deviating own principles, and submitting to the corruptive practices in the educational employment system - is the crux of this story. Ajay is the competitive face in the portrait-gallery of present society, yet despite his efforts he remains in the quandary the right or the wrong. Yes, he is passing through the acid test - here is a story for each one of you to know the secret that lies in his act --
Ashes Of Immortality
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Author : Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999
Ashes Of Immortality written by Catherine Weinberger-Thomas 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 1999 with History categories.
"At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank . . . and, with her hands crossed over her chest, falls straight downward, suspended for a moment in the air before being devoured by the burning pit that awaits her. . . ." This grisly 1829 account by Pierre Dubois demonstrates the usual European response to the Hindu custom of satis sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands—horror and revulsion. Yet to those of the Hindu faith, not least the satis themselves, this act signals the sati's sacredness and spiritual power. Ashes of Immortality attempts to see the satis through Hindu eyes, providing an extensive experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of sati reemerged in the 1970s, as well as extensive textual analysis, Weinberger-Thomas constructs a radically new interpretation of satis. She shows that their self-immolation transcends gender, caste and class, region and history, representing for the Hindus a path to immortality.
Sati The Blessing And The Curse
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Author : John Stratton Hawley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1994-09-08
Sati The Blessing And The Curse written by John Stratton Hawley 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 1994-09-08 with Religion categories.
Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to guard her family and clan for many generations, and curses to prevent anyone from thwarting her desire to die. Sati also means blessing and curse in a broader sense. To those who revere it, sati symbolizes ultimate loyalty and self-sacrifice. It often figures near the core of a Hindu identity that feels embattled in a modern world. Yet to those who deplore it, sati is a curse, a violation of every woman's womanhood. It is murder mystified, and as such, the symbol of precisely what Hinduism should not be. In this volume a group of leading scholars consider the many meanings of sati: in India and the West; in literature, art, and opera; in religion, psychology, economics, and politics. With contributors who are both Indian and American, this is a genuinely binational, postcolonial discussion. Contributors include Karen Brown, Paul Courtright, Vidya Dehejia, Ainslie Embree, Dorothy Figueira, Lindsey Harlan, John Hawley, Robin Lewis, Ashis Nandy, and Veena Talwar Oldenburg.
Burning The Dead
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Author : David Arnold
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2021-02-02
Burning The Dead written by David Arnold and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-02 with History categories.
Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity, and affect, it examines how the so-called traditional practice of Hindu cremation on an open-air funeral pyre was culturally transformed and materially refashioned under British rule, following intense Western hostility, colonial sanitary acceptance, and Indian adaptation. David Arnold examines the critical reception of Hindu cremation abroad, particularly in Britain, where India formed a primary reference point for the cremation debates of the late nineteenth century, and explores the struggle for official recognition of cremation among Hindu and Sikh communities around the globe. Above all, Arnold foregrounds the growing public presence and assertive political use made of Hindu cremation, its increasing social inclusivity, and its close identification with Hindu reform movements and modern Indian nationhood.
The Last Suttee
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Author : Madhu Bazaz Wangu
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-08-28
The Last Suttee written by Madhu Bazaz Wangu and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-28 with India categories.
"As a nine-year-old, Kumud witnesses the brutal and horrifying suttee ritual when her beloved aunt immolates herself on the burning pyre of her dead husband. Years later, Kumud summons the courage to escape the isolated and primitive blue town to start a new life in Ambayu, a metropolitan city. She begins as an office help at Save Girls Soul Orphanage Center and progresses to become its director. At SGSO center she becomes warrior for women’s education and equal rights. She teaches young women to protect themselves from outmoded practices and rituals that victimize women. The phone call informs Kumud that a suttee of a sixteen-year-old is inevitable. She has vowed that she will never let it happen again. Still haunted by her aunt’s suttee, she leaves everything behind, including her love, Shekhar Roy, to end the barbaric custom that scarred her for life, and to save the young bride from committing suttee."--
Dreams Of The Burning Child
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Author : David Lee Miller
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
Dreams Of The Burning Child written by David Lee Miller and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Dreams of the Burning Child, David Lee Miller explores the uncanny persistence of filial sacrifice as a motif in English literature and its classical and biblical antecedents. He combines strikingly original reinterpretations of the Aeneid, Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, and Dombey and Son with perceptive accounts of dreams found in memoirs, poems, and psychoanalytic texts. Miller looks closely at the grisly fantasy of the sacrifice of sons as it is depicted in classical epic, early modern drama, the nineteenth-century novel, the postcolonial novel, the lyric, the funeral elegy, sacred scriptures, and psychoanalytic theory. He also draws examples from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture into a witty and engaging discussion that ranges from the binding of Isaac to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and from questions of literary history to the dilemmas of patriarchal masculinity.
The Burning Tide George Sansi 3
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Author : Paul Mann
language : en
Publisher: Momentum
Release Date : 2013-11-01
The Burning Tide George Sansi 3 written by Paul Mann and has been published by Momentum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with Fiction categories.
There was another scream and another and then a terrible cry went up all along the ghats ... panic spread along the riverbank as people rushed to get out of the water. A lethal chemical spill kills thousands of pilgrims worshipping at a sacred Indian river. George Sansi is enticed by a dangerously seductive Government Minister to investigate the atrocity. An unscrupulous industrial tycoon will stop at nothing to cover his tracks ... The enigmatic George Sansi returns in a spellbinding novel of political intrigue, corporate greed and fierce passions.
Pyre Of Queens
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Author : David Hair
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2010
Pyre Of Queens written by David Hair and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
Mandore, Rajasthan, 769 AD: Ravindra-Raj, the evil sorcerer-king, devises a deadly secret ritual, where he and his seven queens will burn on his pyre, and he will rise again with the powers of Ravana, demon-king of the epic Ramayana. But things go wrong when one queen, the beautiful, spirited Darya, escapes with the help of Aram Dhoop, the court poet. Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 2010: At the site of ancient Mandore, teenagers Vikram, Amanjit, Deepika and Rasita meet and realize that the deathless king and his ghostly brides are hunting them down. As vicious forces from the past come alive, they need to unlock truths that have been hidden for centuries, and fight an ancient battle . . . one more time.
The Pyre
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Author : David Hair
language : en
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Release Date : 2019-03-19
The Pyre written by David Hair and has been published by Quercus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Mandore, Rajasthan, 769 AD: Ravindra-Raj, the evil sorcerer-king, devises a deadly secret ritual, where he and his seven queens will burn on his pyre, and he will rise again with the powers of Ravana, demon-king of the epic Ramayana. But things go wrong when one queen, the beautiful, spirited Darya, escapes with the help of Aram Dhoop, the court poet. Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 2010: At the site of ancient Mandore, teenagers Vikram, Amanjit, Deepika and Rasita meet and realize that the deathless king and his ghostly brides are hunting them down. As vicious forces from the past come alive, they need to unlock truths that have been hidden for centuries, and fight an ancient battle . . . one more time.