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Uprising of 1857 (Hardcover)
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones; Contributions by Shahid Amin, Zahid R. Chaudhary, Susan Gole, Mahmood Farooqui, …
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R1,737
Discovery Miles 17 370
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Using rare archival material from the Alkazi Collection, together
with supplementary visuals, these essays re-evaluate the official
reading of the Uprising. Linked accounts negotiate Mutiny
landscapes and architecture: the internal dynamic of the rebellion
decoded through topography and monuments. Along with rebels,
British troops and their determined generals, and various
professional and amateur photographers, the dramatic vista of the
Uprising in these essays is also inhabited by a range of
significant characters central to the action, including the warrior
queen Lakshmi Bai, the exiled last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah
Zafar and the poet Mirza Ghalib. Published in association with the
Alkazi Collection of Photography.
This book interleaves the history of post- Independence archaeology
in India with the life and times of Madhukar Narhar Deshpande
(1920-2008), a leading Indian archaeologist who went on to become
the director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India.
Spanning nearly a century, this is a tale told through a main
character-Deshpande himself-some of whose writings have been
included in the volume. We explore the circumstances which brought
men like Deshpande to this career path; what it was like to grow up
in a family devoted to India's freedom; the watershed moment that
created a large cohort that was trained by Mortimer Wheeler, the
doyen of British archaeology; the unknown conservation stories
around the Gol Gumbad in Bijapur and the Qutb Minar in Delhi; the
forgotten story of how the fabric of a historic Hindu shrine, the
Badrinath temple, was saved; the chemistry shared by the prime
minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the archaeologist, Deshpande, at
the Ajanta and Ellora cave shrines, and; the political and
administrative challenges faced by director generals of
archaeology. The book is a must read for anyone interested in
India's past in general and the history of Indian archaeology in
particular.
The birth of Buddhism goes back to the sixth century BCE and, over
the centuries, there has been considerable variety as well as
considerable change in its doctrines, practices and propagation
across the different parts of Asia. This volume showcases the
expansion in the religion's contours and popularity in Asia in
modern times. Focusing on India, Sri Lanka and China, the essays in
the book highlight the cross-fertilization between Buddhism and
contemporary discourses which makes the phenomenon of Buddhist
revival in Asia unambiguously modern. They also show how this
resurgence assumed a great variety of forms depending on the
specificities of the historical and cultural context, including
Buddhism's encounter with other religious traditions. Continuities
with the past are not absent, and revivalist movements have been
characterized and propelled by a strong sense of history and yet
this, in effect, involved crafting new interpretations of a distant
past, and the introduction of new ideas and practices. The term
reinvention seems to capture this aspect of dynamic change better
than revival. At the same time, as this volume reveals, the choice
of terms is not as important as tracing the trajectories of the
phenomenon and the awareness that its impact extended far beyond
the religious domain into many spheres, including those of cultural
practice, national identity and international relations. This is a
historically rich and readable volume which will interest general
readers as well as students and scholars of history and of
Buddhism.
Just a century ago, scholars believed that civilization in the
Indus Valley began three thousand years ago during the Vedic Age.
But in the autumn of 1924, John Marshall made an announcement that
rocked the understanding of the ancient world and pushed back the
boundaries of Indian history by two thousand years more: the
discovery of the civilization at Harappa, located in present-day
Sindh and Punjab, Pakistan. A sophisticated culture dating back to
2600 BC, this ancient city was notable for its well-planned streets
and for having the oldest known urban sanitation system. Based on
previously unknown archival materials, "Finding Forgotten Cities"
not only details an archaeological discovery on the same scale as
Troy, but introduces us to the colorful cast of characters who made
it possible and overcame the challenges and travails of this
colossal excavation. Nayanjot Lahiri's fascinating history includes
tales of self-taught archaeologists like Charles Masson, the
collector who first described an ancient Indus Valley culture, as
well as Alexander Cunningham, the archaeological pioneer who first
excavated Harappa with diggers Daya Ram Sahni, Rakhaldas Banerji,
and Madho Sarup Vats in the 1850s. And at the center of Lahiri's
story is John Marshall, a Cambridge classicist brought by Lord
Curzon to India to lead the Archaeological Survey of India and the
man who finally pieced together the truth about this long-forgotten
civilization. Spanning nearly a century, "Finding Forgotten Cities"
presents a powerful narrative history of one of the key sites of
the ancient world that offers interesting insight into the origins
of modern civilization.
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