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  • af Hannah K. Bartos
    451,95 - 1.770,95 kr.

  • - Race, Boundary Making and Communal Nationalism
    af Uther Charlton-Stevens
    449,95 - 1.770,95 kr.

  • - Thumri Lyrics
    af USA) du Perron & Lalita (University of Wisconsin - Madison
    522,95 - 1.770,95 kr.

    Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences. This work examines Thumri Lyrics, a major genre of Hindustani music, from a linguistic perspective. It discusses the interface between devotional and secular poetry, and it also explains the impact of social and political change on the musical life on North India.

  • af Shot'ha Rust'haveli Rusthaveli & M. S. Wardrop
    822,95 - 1.166,95 kr.

    This epic by the Georgian poet Rust'haveli has been the book of a nation for 700 years. It was expected that the text, based on a Persian original and reflecting Georgia's position as a crossroads between east and west, would be memorized by all female members of the country's aristocracy.

  • af J. H. Elfenbein
    588,95 - 2.063,95 kr.

  • af H. E. Richardson
    670,95 - 2.137,95 kr.

  • - Studies in the History of Turkey, thirteenth-fifteenth Centuries
    af Paul Wittek
    522,95 - 1.770,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Social History of Qajar Tehran
    af Japan) Kondo & Nobuaki (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    522,95 - 1.466,95 kr.

  • - Ahmedabad 1900-2000
    af Italy.) Bobbio & Tommaso (University of Turin
    475,95 - 1.528,95 kr.

  • af Mohammad Ali Kazembeyki
    522,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling
    af UK) Waterhouse & David (The Royal Asiatic Society
    522,95 - 1.711,95 kr.

  • - Britain, The Netherlands and the Indonesian Revolution
    af Richard McMillan
    712,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

  • - Material Culture and Kingship
    af UK) Howes & Jennifer (British Library
    522,95 - 1.709,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company
    af Ludo Rocher & Professor Rosane Rocher
    449,95 - 1.770,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941
    af UK) Cronin & Stephanie (University of Oxford
    571,95 - 1.709,95 kr.

  • af Gerard Clauson
    547,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

    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'.

  • - A Critical Re-evaluation of their Uses and Interpretations
    af New York, USA) Nardi & Isabella (The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    522,95 - 1.770,95 kr.

    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.

  • af UK) Sherman & Taylor C. (Royal Holloway University of London
    522,95 - 1.589,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan
    af UK) Daechsel & Markus (University of Edinburgh
    473,95 - 1.528,95 kr.

  • af Mirza Husayn, E. Elder & W. McE. Miller
    643,95 - 1.650,95 kr.

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

  • - Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal
    af UK) Lambert-Hurley & Siobhan (Nottingham Trent University
    277,95 - 449,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations
    af New Delhi, India) Sikand & Yoginder (Formerly Hamdard University
    533,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Sarah Ansari & Vanessa Martin
    485,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

  • - An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan
    af UK) Cox & Rupert (University of Manchester
    588,95 - 1.770,95 kr.

  • - Moderation and its Discontents
    af Arndt-Walter Emmerich
    475,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

  • - Royal Asiatic Society Classics of Islam
     
    10.665,95 kr.

    A collection of classic works on Islam, originally published under the auspices of the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

  • af J Hansman
    387,95 kr.

  • af Ahmed ibn Mohammed al Makkari
    5.127,95 kr.

    This is the original History of the Modammedan Dynasties of Spain reprinted from the first edition of 1840-1843. It represents the foundations of our modern understanding of a great civilisation.

  • - A Collection of Buddhistic Legends
    af Hans Jorgensen
    424,95 kr.

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

  • - Biography; Additions & Corrections; Indexes (Volume I Part 2)
    af C. A. Storey
    1.587,95 kr.

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