Books
Art & Aesthetics
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AESTHETICS AND MOTIVATIONS IN ARTS AND SCIENCE
ISBN : 81-224-0746-3Edited By :KIRAN C. GUPTA
(1996, xvi+183pp.)
Rs.350.00This volume is a collection of twelve papers invited for a National Seminar based on the seminal work, “Truth and Beauty; Aesthetics and Motivations in Science” by the Nobel Laureate S. Chandrasekhar. The contributions are by experts in arts, fine arts and science,…Read More
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SELECTED LETTERS OF ROMAIN ROLLAND
ISBN : 0-19-562551-xEdited By :FRANCIS DORE and MARIE-LAURE PREVOST
(1990, 139pp., index,)
Rs.125.00This selection of letters of Romain Rolland, many of which are published here for the first time, was presented on the occasion of the Festival of France in India. They recall the privileged dialogue between India and the French writer. Attentive to the messages of other cultures,…Read More
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TIME AND ETERNAL CHANGE
ISBN : 81-207-1288-9Edited By :J. Mckim Malville
(1990, xi+112pp., bibl.)
Rs.150.00Time and change are inseparable partners. Without the rhythm (time) of the changing seasons, the slow death of our sun or the outward movements of galaxies there would be no flow of time. As an astro physicist and a student of myth and archaeoastronomy the author guides the reader through…Read More
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Art as Dialogue – Essays in Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience
ISBN : 81-246-0043-0Edited By :Goutam Biswas
(1995, 155pp., index,)
Rs.200.00It focuses on a totally new methodology for understanding the concept of aesthetic experience, a dialogue between the subject and the object, I and Thou. Most significantly, the conception of…Read More
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ART EXPERIENCE
ISBN : 81-7304-180-6Edited By :M. Hiriyanna
(1997, xiii+113pp.)
Rs.250.00For decades, Prof. Hiriyanna’s Art Experience has been a lamp which has provided illumination to many a serious student of Indian aesthetic. The volume carries fifteen contributions on topics of Indian aesthetics…Read More
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Banarsidas Chaturvedi Ke Chuninda Patra
ISBN : 81-267-1109-4Edited By :Narayan Dutt
(2006, (in 2 vols.))
Rs.650.00बीसवीं सदी के पूर्वार्द्ध में नए हिन्दी समाज के निर्माण में साहित्य की भूमिका इतनी निर्णायक थी कि तब के हमारे सभी महत्त्वपूर्ण साहित्यकार नए समाज के निर्माता के रूप में भी जाने जाते हैं। बनारसीदास चतुर्वेदी भी उन्हीं में से एक थे। हिन्दी की जातीय संस्कृति तथा मनीषा के विकास के लिए उन्होंने सबसे अलग और मौलिक राह चुनी थी।…Read More
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CONVERSATION WITH PANDIT AMARNATH
ISBN : 81-85503-07-9Edited By :Bindu Chawla
(2004, xiii+171pp., Index)
Rs.435.00This work lays bare the inner wisdom of Hindustani music through the intimate reflections of Pandit Amarnath, who, voted as one of the four great genius musicians of the twentieth century, came to be widely acknowledged as a musicians’ musician, a legend of his times…Read More
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Crafting Traditions – Documenting Trades & Crafts in Early 19th Century North India
ISBN : 81-7305-249-2Edited By :Mehr Afshan Farooqi
(2005, xxxix+127+38pp., appen., gloss., index)
Rs.525.00Our knowledge of Indian society during British rule in the nineteenth century has rested primarily on the voluminous records of the East India Company, the works of various Europeans, the writings of many civil servants of the Company and the accounts of Indians writing in this period…Read More
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CULTURAL HISTORY OF UTTARAKHAND
ISBN : 81-246-0434-7Edited By :D. D. Sharma
(2009, xxxi+417pp. Index, bibl., folded Maps 1, 75 coloured, 7 blw photo.)
Rs.1,500.00Cultural history of Uttarakhand is an outcome of many years of keen observation of the linguistic and cultural phenomena of the whole Himalayan region, right from Ladakh in the west to Bhutan in the east and an intensive study of ancient Indian literature and of the historical incidents that have taken place in the central Himalayan regions, particularly in the land termed as Uttarakhand…Read More
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DICTIONARY OF INDO-PERSIAN LITERATURE
ISBN : 81-7017-311-6Edited By :Nabi Hadi
(1995, xiv+757pp., indexes)
Rs.750.00Since the eleventh century Indian subcontinent had been producing a galaxy of authors who wrote in Persian. Their mastery over diverse fields of knowledge is evident from the range and variety of books produced by them. Their works deal with such varied subjects as Sufism,…Read More