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  • - Poetry of the Pre-Mongol Period (Volume V)
    av Francois (School of Oriental and African Studies De Blois
    1 938,-

  • - Moderation and its Discontents
    av Arndt-Walter Emmerich
    582 - 1 840,-

  • av A. J. Cameron
    1 214,-

  • av Mohammad Ali Kazembeyki
    634 - 2 155,-

    This is the first major study of provincial history in the Qajar period. It examines in detail the transformation of the Mazandaran traditional provincial community and economy in the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

  • - Britain, The Netherlands and the Indonesian Revolution
    av Richard McMillan
    789 - 2 108,-

  • - Original Text, Translation and Notes Vol. 1. 33-1763 CE
    av Saroj N Arambam Parratt
    1 673,-

    Including explanatory notes and a glossary, this book contains a copy of the original text of the "Cheitharon Kumpapa", the Court Chronicle of the Kings of Manipur which is authorized by the Palace. It presents the English translation from the original composed in archaic Manipuri script ("Meetei Mayek").

  • - Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling
    av UK) Waterhouse & David (The Royal Asiatic Society
    593 - 2 265,-

  • - Material Culture and Kingship
    av UK) Howes & Jennifer (British Library
    609 - 2 020,-

    An investigation of how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space.

  • - The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan
    av UK) Daechsel & Markus (University of Edinburgh
    569 - 2 315,-

  • - Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company
    av Ludo Rocher & Professor Rosane Rocher
    529 - 2 343,-

    Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an East India Company civil servant who became the father of modern Indology. He embodies the significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on eighteenth century colonial expansion. This biography traces, explains, and evaluates Colebrooke's importance.

  • av Francois (School of Oriental and African Studies De Blois
    1 869,-

  • - A Critical Re-evaluation of their Uses and Interpretations
    av New York, USA) Nardi & Isabella (The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    612 - 2 090,-

    The study of technical treatises in Indian art has attracted interest. This work puts forward a critical re-examination of the key Indian concepts of painting described in the Sanskrit treatises, called "citrasutras". It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the interlinkages between textual sources and the practice of Indian painting.

  • av UK) Sherman & Taylor C. (Royal Holloway University of London
    634 - 2 395,-

    Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book presents a study of the ways in which governments in India used collective coercion and state violence against the population, and a cultural history of how acts of state violence were interpreted by the population.

  • - Historical Perspectives
     
    2 315,-

    Discarding categories like Islamic, Indian, or Chinese medicine as the myths invented by modern historiography in the aftermath of the colonial and post colonial periods, this book proposes to bridge the gap between Western and 'non-Western' medicines.

  • av Gerard Clauson
    660 - 2 155,-

    This book, now back in print having been unavailable for many years, is one of the most important contributions to Turkic and Mongolic linguistics, and to the contentious 'Altaic theory'.

  • - Qur'anic Literature;History (Volume I Part 1)
    av C. A. Storey
    1 869,-

  • - A. Lexicography. B. Grammar. C. Prosody and Poetics. (Volume III Part 1)
    av C. A. Storey
    1 078,-

    First Published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

  • - E. Medicine. (Volume II Part 2)
    av C. A. Storey
    1 122,-

    First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

  • - Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal
    av UK) Lambert-Hurley & Siobhan (Nottingham Trent University
    606 - 782,-

    Examines the emergence of a Muslim women's movement in India. This book puts forward the importance for early Muslim female activists to balance continuity and innovation. It analyzes the role of the 'daughters of reform,' the first generation of Muslim women who contributed to the reformist discourse, particularly at the regional level.

  • - Studies in the History of Turkey, thirteenth-fifteenth Centuries
    av Paul Wittek
    634 - 2 395,-

    Includes chapters on the History of Rum, The Sultan of Rum, Religious Warriors in the early Ottoman State and From the Defeat at Ankara to the Conquest of Constantinople that were originally delivered in French (in one case German) at seminars or conferences in non-Nazi Europe in the mid to late 1930s.

  • - Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations
    av New Delhi, India) Sikand & Yoginder (Formerly Hamdard University
    710 - 2 155,-

    Muslims in India are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organizations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation.

  • av Mirza Husayn, E. Elder & W. McE. Miller
    697 - 1 942,-

    Facsimilie of: London: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1961.

  • - Ahmedabad 1900-2000
    av Italy.) Bobbio & Tommaso (University of Turin
    634 - 2 265,-

  • av Kuoch Haksrea
    2 095,-

    First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

  • av John Okell
    769,-

    This work covers the three methods of Romanization: transliteration (Duroiselle's system); transcription (early, conventional, IPA and typewritten types); and the combined method (Minn Latt's system).

  • av Sarah Ansari & Vanessa Martin
    588 - 1 881,-

  • - An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan
    av UK) Cox & Rupert (University of Manchester
    644 - 2 090,-

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    1 256,-

    Provides a comparative analysis of the Hindu, Jain and Buddhist traditions and their history in relation to questions of power, legitimacy, leadership and asceticism throughout contemporary Asia. This book shows that asceticism in these traditions is conceived not only as a means of world-renunciation but also as a means of world-transformation.

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