susanta kumar biswas (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. The time is 9 century A.D. The place Pala Empire's Capital Gour. Mahendrapala is the all powerful emperor. His territory stretches from Brahmaputra River in the East to Ayodhya in the West and Bhutan in the North to the Deltaic regions of Bengal in the South. But a dangerous palace conspiracy is brewing up. The Emperor's own stepbrother Shuropala whose uncontrollable imperialistic zeal has found support from a greedy and unscrupulous army chief Bhattarak and the notorious vajrayanis a break away faction of the Mahayana Buddhists under the sectarian chief Jalarka. Together the three stitch one of the most heinous plans of coup detat to change the course of history. But there is one man Samudrasena whose exceptionally gifted skills of warfare diplomacy and navigational perception complemented with a touch of humaneness and religious commitment throws up a matching challenge. With intricate detailing of the topography society economy and even the fauna and flora this book portrays a gripping celluloidic reflection of the time and people amidst the twists and turns of events that has all the ingredients to change the history of Buddhism in ancient India. With fact and fiction intermingling in all effortless narration Susanta Kumar Biswas generates one of the most absorbing saga of a time that existed right here just twelve hundred years ago. 264 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Copper the invincible. 2. Perfume A concoction of mystery, antiquity and reality. 3. Gold, the industry of ultimate allurement. 4. Steel production in ancient India. 5. Iron and Steel industry in 19th century India and their role in Indian industrial revolution. 6. The insatiable thirst for tea. 7. British capital investment in India and Andrew Yule Co. Index.

24 plates (illustrator). Contents Foreward 1 Introduction 2 The millieu and the mosaic 3 Those immortal structures 4 The Bhangima and symbolism 5 The close up In the end Index Rarely has so much effort been packed into one macro level study of Indian iconography Travelling extensively throughout the length and breath of six eastern Indian States of Bengal Bihar Jharkhand Orissa Assam and Tripura over a period of five years defying extreme climates ignoring extremist threats and braving the inhospitable right outs on unknown roads historians Malaysankar Bhattacharyya and Susanta Kumar Biswas have managed to put together some of the rarest stone sculptures and terracotta figurines of eastern India Some of these might have already been relocated in museums or archaeological galleries and catalogued others not so fortunately placed in obscure private collections but almost none were classified under a specific subject heading eroticism And not just innumerable exquisite plates of erotic sculptures the  authors have succeeded in putting forward an exhaustive study of the contemporary society economy polity religion and even food or dress habits to recreate the perspective that inspired these bold and wonderful creations In doing so they have brought to fore the age old debate of aesthetics versus evangelicalism artistic expression versus profanity and human instincts versus conservatism Instead of making it a heavy academic exercise alone the free flowing language and unencumbered expressions of the authors makes the book a thoroughly readable one 76 pp.