Vikas Arya (27 results)

Condition: New. pp. 138.

Condition: New. pp. 138 First Edition.

Condition: New. pp. 138.

Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9788173057434.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9788173057427.

N.A. Condition: New. ISBN:9788173057328.

Condition: New. pp. 216.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9788173057397.

Condition: New. pp. 216.

Condition: New. pp. 216.

Condition: New. pp. 216.

Condition: New. pp. 216.

Condition: New. pp. 216.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents: Introduction Vikas Arya. 1. India: The Land of Dreams and Romance. 2. Bombay as a Kaleidoscope. 3. The Towers of Silence. 4. Nautch Dancers. 5. A Hindoo Betrothal. 6. India First in Everything. 7. Official Thug Book. 8. Elephant Riding. 9. The Thugs. 10. A Joy of Hunting. 11. The Suttee. 12. Pyjamas. 13. On the Road to Benares. 14. Benares: A Religious Temple. 15. The Banks of the Ganges. 16. Dancing in a Sepulchre. 17. The "City of Palaces". 18. The Plains of India. 19. Nightingales and Cue Owls. 20. India: The Land of Wonders. 21. The Great Mutiny. 22. The Taj Mahal. 23. In Rajputana. 24. A Little Book from Calcutta. It was in 1896-97, that Mark Twain travelled to India, at the height of the British Raj, and wrote about what he saw here.One hundred twenty-five years have followed since Twain undertook the tour of India. Yet, it remains historically significant, courtesy of its unfiltered, firsthand experience-based account of the country. To commemorate 125 years of Twain's travel to India, the present book has specifically excerpted his reminiscences of India from his work Following the Equator. Though, it becomes almost immediately apparent how dated the language is and how some observations may be totally inappropriate in today's times, but no attempt (barring some minor editing including providing chapter-headings) has been made here to alter Twain's words in any way, believing that it is important not to alter a written document that provides the interested reader with a fascinating account of those times. Twain doesn't always looks kindly on the country that fascinated him but also intrigued him so much and some scholars have questioned his objectivity. Some of the tales of his encounter with India and Hinduism are surely exaggerated and cynical. Yet, being an exceptionally gifted writer (with a keen eye for the non-obvious and a subtle if at times acerbic sense of humour), he makes India come alive in a way that few writers have done. He is also skilled at revealing the ordinary in the midst of all the gala and pageantry. Reading Twain one gets a deeper feeling for all the multi-layered contradictions of human life. In any case, the reader is surely in for a treat, even if he or she may not agree with all of Twain's descriptions and insights. As he admitted honestly that India - as unique and marvellous as she was - was a country that was simply "hard to understand".…

Condition: New. pp. 184.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9788173057618,188pp.

Condition: New. pp. 184 First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Step into the vibrant landscapes of 19th-century India through the eyes of one of the Victorian era's most extraordinary women. Leaves from a Beautiful Life traces the remarkable journey of Marianne North - a fearless botanical painter whose solo travels across India in the 1870s produced some of the most vivid and enduring images of the subcontinent's natural and cultural beauty. From the foothills of the Himalayas to the temples of the South, Marianne painted what she saw with unsparing detail and passionate curiosity - towering trees, rare flowers, bustling bazaars, sacred shrines, and majestic architecture. Her paintings, created in oil rather than the typical watercolour, broke convention and captured India's life and landscape with uncommon immediacy. Drawing from her journals, letters, and paintings, this book offers a rich portrait of an artist in motion - defying expectations, chronicling the vanishing wild, and recording an India at once ancient and ever-changing. Part art book, part travelogue, and part biography, Leaves from a Beautiful Life invites readers into the living world of a pioneering woman whose legacy still blooms in the galleries of Kew Gardens and the pages of botanical history. Vikas Arya is Founder & Publisher, Aryan Books International. He has edited/curated several books including The Costume of Hindostan (Balt. Solvyns), India: The Land of Dreams and Romance (Mark Twain), 'No Horse No Aryans'? Horse, Spoked Wheel and Harappans (B.B. Lal et al.) and Sketches of Native Life in India (Charles Richard Francis).…

Condition: New. pp. 184.

Condition: New. pp. 282.

Condition: New. pp. 282.

Condition: New. pp. 282.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9788173057601,252pp.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Few monuments in the world have inspired as much admiration, scholarship and artistic devotion as the Buddhist cave temples of Ajanta. Hidden for centuries within the secluded Waghora valley of Maharashtra, these extraordinary caves preserve one of humanity's greatest achievements in architecture, sculpture and mural painting. Yet the survival of their artistic legacy owes as much to the dedication of nineteenth-century artists and scholars as it does to the anonymous masters who created them more than fifteen hundred years ago. First published in two magnificent elephant-folio volumes in 1896 and 1897, John Griffiths' The Paintings in the Buddhist Cave-Temples of Ajanta remains one of the greatest illustrated books ever produced on Indian art. Created after thirteen years of painstaking seasonal labour, the work was the achievement of Griffiths together with his students at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art in Bombay - among them Pestonji Bomanji, who led the Ajanta copying team by 1880, and M.V. Dhurandhar, later the School's first Indian Director. At a time when photography could not faithfully reproduce colour, the team copied the murals by hand, preserving countless details that have since faded or disappeared from the cave walls themselves. More than a century later, Griffiths' publication has acquired an importance its creator could scarcely have imagined. It is no longer simply an illustrated record of Ajanta - it has become one of the primary historical sources through which the monument itself is studied. The chromolithographic plates preserve invaluable evidence of paintings that have continued to deteriorate with the passage of time, making this work indispensable to art historians, archaeologists, conservators and students of Indian civilisation. This landmark edition presents a faithful reproduction of Griffiths' original publication, enriched by an extensive editorial introduction that places the work within the broader history of Ajanta's rediscovery, preservation and interpretation. Drawing on archival sources and modern scholarship, the introduction traces more than two centuries of Ajanta studies. Central to this edition is a long-overdue restoration of credit to the Indian artists of the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art whose skill and perseverance made Griffiths' achievement possible. Essential for libraries, museums, universities, researchers, collectors and lovers of Indian art, this edition restores one of the foundational works of Ajanta scholarship to its rightful place - both as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century publishing and as an enduring document in the history of world art.…

Condition: New. pp. 238.

Condition: New. pp. 238.

Condition: New. pp. 238.