Books
Loka Parampara: Life-Style Study Series
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IN THE COMPANY OF GODS:ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF GUNTHER-DIETZ SONTHEIMER
ISBN : 81-7304-591-7Edited By :ADITYA MALIK, ANNE FELDHAUS, HEIDRUN BRUCKNER
(2005, 409pp.)
Rs.995.00When Gunther Sontheimer passed away at the early age of fifty-eight on 1June 1992, he had done a good thirty years of research and teaching on a variety of subjects including traditional Indian law and ethics, contemporary literature in Marathi, Hinduism and folk religion in Maharasthra…Read More
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KING OF HUNTERS, WARRIORS AND SHEPHERDS :ESSAYS ON KHANDOBA BY GUNTHER-DIETZ SONTHEIMER
ISBN : 81-7304-018-4Edited By :Anne Feldhaus, Aditya Malik, Heidrun Bruckner
(1997, 353pp. b&w illus., bibl. index)
Rs.600.00The volume brings together Sontheimer’s English-language articles on Khaṇḍobā, the Maharashtrian deity and the equivalent gods Mallaṇṇa in Andhra Pradesh and Mailāra in Karnataka. The articles take into account the differing traditions of the wide variety of castes and tribes for whose members Khal).qoba…Read More
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LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY : The Writings of Delhi Prasanna Pattanayak Vol. I
ISBN : 978-81-250-5394-1Edited By :Debi Prasanna Pattanayak
(2014, pp. xxix+881 )
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Maukhik Mahakavya
ISBN : 81-246-0176-3Edited By :Manoj Kumar Misra
(2001, ix+145pp)
Rs.260.00यह प्रकाशन क्षेत्रीय मौखिक महाकाव्य से संबन्धित 6 लेखों का संग्रह है जो कथावाचन एवं कथावाचक – एक्सप्लेनिंग इंडियाज चैन्टेड नैरेटिव्य विषय पर आधारित एक अंतर्राष्ट्रीय संगोष्ठी में प्रस्तुत किए गए थे। इन महाकाव्यों के अंतर्गत मौखिक परम्परा में क्षेत्र व जाति विशेष से जुड़ी ऐतिहासिक व अनैतिहासिक कथाओं का एक विशाल सागर है जिसमें महान् चरित्र,…Read More
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MURALS FOR GODDESSES AND GODS:THE TRADITION OF OSAKOTHI RITUAL PAINTING IN ORISSA
ISBN : 81-7305-095-3Edited By :Eberhard Fischer and Dinanath Pathy
(1996, 224pp., col. and b&w plates)
Rs.2,250.00This monograph is a magnificent document of India’s ritual painting based on systematic study of the osakoṭhī ( osa: penance, koṭhī: sacred space) murals of Orissa. It explores the rare rich and meaningful and fast disappearing ritual art of mural painting…Read More
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PROVERBS AND FOLKLORE OF KUMAUN AND GARHWAL
ISBN : 81-7022-894-8Edited By :GANGA DATT UPRETI
(2003, xxviii+400pp.)
Rs.600.00Proverbs and folklore of Kumaun and Garhwal is the first of its kind. The book is gifted with a rich collection of proverbs, axioms, sayings and phrases for particular occasions as well as the customs and manners out of which they arise. Clustering more…Read More
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THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE TRANS-HIMALAYA (KINNAUR)
ISBN : 13: 978-81-246-0811-1Edited By : P.S. NEGI LOKTUS
(2015, VII + 409 pp., map, glossary, bib., index, plates: 20.10)
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UNDERSTANDING KUCHIPUDI
ISBN :Edited By :Guru C. R. Acharya and Mallika Sarabhai
(1992, 212pp., line drawings, b&w illus., gloss., bibl., index)
Rs.200.00Kuchipuḍī’s codified language of gestures and the techniques of human movement are known to different regions of lndia. No one treatise can be considered as the base for the grammar of the dance style. Nevertheless, there is great relevance of the texts, such as the Nṛtta Ratnāvalī for Kuchipuḍī…Read More
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WRITING IDENTITIES:FOLKLORE AND PERFORMATIVE ARTS OF PURULIA, BENGAL
ISBN : 978-81-7305-378-8Edited By :ROMA CHATTERJI
(2009, xxii+125pp., biblo., index, appen.)
Rs.450.00This work attempts a historiographic exploration of Bengali folkloristics through some of the performative traditions of Purulia. Positioned outside the mainstream of Bengal’s culture and society, Purulia has traditionally been characterized as her “primitive” alter…Read More
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YAKSAGANA
ISBN : 81-7017-357-4Edited By :K. Shivarama Karanth
(1997, 252pp., line drawings, col. illus., appen., index)
Rs.450.00One of the theatre forms of Karnataka generally described as folk but processing a strong classical connection, is the Yaksagana. Although the name signifies the music of celestial beings, Yaksagana is an amalgam of the sky with the earth…Read More