• July 16, 2019
• By Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and Gopala Kristnayya Duggirala

Published by Harvard University Press - 1917

• July 15, 2019
• By Raniero Gnoli

Published by Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, Varanasi - 1968 and Book extract: The Natyashastra

• August 24, 2018
• By A.S.P. Ayyar

Bhasa is one of the earliest and most celebrated Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kalidasa.

• 10 August 2016
• By StoryLTD

This spectacular collection includes rare books from the 1700s to the early 20th century.

• 25 July 2012
• By Harry Lyman Koopman

The Boston Book Company, Boston - 1917.

• 10 August 2016
• By StoryLTD

This spectacular collection includes rare books from the 1700s to the early 20th century.

• 28 Nov 2020
• by Mr. Home & Robert Home

Robert Home was a British oil portrait painter who travelled to the Indian subcontinent in 1791. During his travels he also painted historic scenes and landscapes

• 28 Nov 2020
• By A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami (1 September 1896 to 14 November 1977) or Srila Prabhupada, born Abhay Charan De, was an Indian spiritual teacher and the founder-acharya (preceptor) of the International Society

• 26 Nov 2020
• By Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak

The ancient Indian literature is divided into two sections-Vedic and post-Vedic -and the chronological sequence of events in the latter can now be pretty accurately determined by referring to the date of Buddha.

• 26 Nov 2020
• By Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak

SOME explanation may be necessary for the publication of an essay on the antiquity of the Vedas by one whose professional work lies in a different direction

• 26 Nov 2020
• By B.P. Sinha

Devis was the son of Arthur Devis, a successful portrait painter. Devis enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools at the age of twelve and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1775

• 26 Nov 2020
• By S.V. Puntambekar and N.S. Varadachari

Devis was the son of Arthur Devis, a successful portrait painter. Devis enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools at the age of twelve and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1775.

• 26 Nov 2020
• By Krishivala

COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND EFFECTIVE ORGANISATIONS FOR OPTIMJM PRODUCTION, REGULAR COLLECTION AND EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE AND OTHER FOOD STUFFS

• 26 Nov 2020
• By Rev. Lal Behari Day

• 26 Nov 2020
• By Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak

The present volume is a sequel to my Orion or Researches into the antiquity of the Vedas, published in 1893. The estimate of Vedic antiquity then generally current amongst Vedic scholars was based on the assignment of arbitrary period of time to the different strata into which the Vedic literature is divided

• 26 Nov 2020
• By Mrs. J. Haldar

The romance of Bengali sweets,In the wide realm of confectionery Bengal has attained the same unique position with regard to the whole of India as Italy appears to hold on the Continent of Europe

• 26 Nov 2020
• By Henry Davison Love

• 26 Nov 2020
• By Henry Davison Love

A settlement had, in 1611, been formed at Masulipatam, chief port of the state of Golconda, one of the five independent Muhammadan kingdoms of the Deccan. The English possessed no territory there, but they had been permitted by the Kutb Shah Abdullah to build a factory or trade-house, and transact business on the coast

• 26 Nov 2020
• By Henry Davison Love

The principal features of Pittas term of office were the creation of the New East India Company and its subsequent amalgamation with the older association ; the permanent fortification of Black Town; the blockade of Madras and other British settlements by Nawab Da,ud Khan ; the acquisition by the English of additional suburban villages; and a serious dispute between the Right and Left hand castes

• 24 Nov 2020
• By Henry Davison Love

Though not the earliest British settlement in the Indian Peninsula, Madras possesses a peculiar interest as constituting, with the exception of the insignificant site at Armagon , the first territorial acquisition by the English in Hindustan

• 23 Nov 2020
• By Fanny Emily Penny

A SADHU,One who has lived under vows, performed ascetic ceremonies, and become a sanyasi. He has thus acquired sufficient merit to take upon himself the sins of the people, who give him alms as their privilege, not as a charity

• 23 Nov 2020
• By W.H. Adams Davenport

What is really necessary and desirable is, that the recently-awakened popular interest in India should be confirmed and extended by the diffusion of trustworthy information respecting it

• 23 Nov 2020
• By Lieut. William Edwards and Charles Haghe

The only color-plate book devoted to Sindh. It was produced shortly after its invasion and annexation by the dedicatee, Sir Charles Napier. Edwards was serving as Napier's aide-de-camp, a lieutenant in the 86th or Royal County Down Regiment

• 23 Nov 2020
• By Captain George Francklin Atkinson

George Francklin Atkinson(1822-1859) Curry & Rice was a satirical work that critiqued the lives and behaviors of British colonialists in India. Atkinson served with the Bengal Engineers between 1840 and 1859

• 23 Nov 2020
• By Maria Graham

Maria Graham (1785-1842) (in later life, Maria, Lady Callcott) was a travel writer, producing accounts of her travels to India, Italy, Chile, and Brazil. Graham went to India from England in 1808 with her father, a naval officer. It was there that she met and married her husband Thomas Graham, also a naval officer

• 23 Nov 2020
• By Emma Roberts

Emma Roberts (1794 to 1840) was an English poet and travel writer. After the death of her mother left her with limited means, Roberts accompanied her married sister to Bengal where her brother- in-law was stationed. After her sister's death, Roberts relocated to Calcutta and began writing for the Oriental Observer

• 23 Nov 2020
• By Emma Roberts

Emma Roberts (1794 to 1840) was an English poet and travel writer. After the death of her mother left her with limited means, Roberts accompanied her married sister to Bengal where her brother- in-law was stationed. After her sister's death, Roberts relocated to Calcutta and began writing for the Oriental Observer

• 23 Nov 2020
• By Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest (1750-1827) was an amateur artist who also served in the army from 1802-1827. While in India he served with the 3rd East Kent Regiment from 1802-14. By the time he produced his collection of images the conventions of the Indian picturesque had been codified

• 22 Nov 2020
• By Willam Whitelock Llyod

Consists of 18 chromolithographic plates and full-page illustrations, with captions depicting village and street scenes, native servants, sports and off-duty pursuits of a British Officer in India

• 22 Nov 2020
• By Martin Hurlimann

Martin Hurlimann (12 November 1897 to 4 March 1984) was a Swiss publisher, better known in the English speaking world as a photographer.

• 22 Nov 2020
• By Martin Hurlimann

• 19 Nov 2020
• By V.R. Ramachandra Dikshitar

The Matsya Purana is one of the eighteen major Puranas (Mahapurana), and among the oldest and better preserved in the Puranic genre of Sanskrit literature in Hinduism. The text is a Vaishnavism text named after the half-human and half-fish avatar of Vishnu

• 19 Nov 2020
• By K.A.Nilakanta Sastri

The Chola dynasty was a Tamil thalassocratic empire of southern India, one of the longest-ruling dynasties in the world's history. The earliest datable references to the Chola are in inscriptions from the 3rd century BCE left by Ashoka, of the Maurya Empire

• 19 Nov 2020
• By E. Hultzsch

Rajaraja Chola I (985-1014) aka Rajajaja the Great, was an emperor of the Chola Empire. Rajaraja Chola invaded Lanka in 990 AD and conquered the northern half. After ruining Anuradhapura, he made Polonnaruwa his capital on the island. Rajendra Chola (1014-1044) succeeded in extending Chola occupation over the whole island of Lanka in 1018

• 19 Nov 2020
• By E. Hultzsch

Rajaraja Chola I (985-1014) aka Rajajaja the Great, was an emperor of the Chola Empire. Rajaraja Chola invaded Lanka in 990 AD and conquered the northern half. After ruining Anuradhapura, he made Polonnaruwa his capital on the island. Rajendra Chola (1014-1044) succeeded in extending Chola occupation over the whole island of Lanka in 1018

• 19 Nov 2020
• By Rev. H. Heras

Vijayanagara, the City of Victory, was the most powerful Hindu kingdom in Southern India from 1336 until 1565. It was founded on the bank of the Tungabhadra River by two brothers, Harihara and Bukka, formerly chieftains with the Delhi Sultanate

• 19 Nov 2020
• By Rev. H. Heras

The Foundation of the City of Vijayanagara

• 16 July 2019
• By Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and Gopala Kristnayya Duggirala

Certain of the dance poses possess not merely a general linguistic, but also a special hieratic significance. These poses, chiefly of the hands, are spoken of as mudras (seals), and are more or less familiar to students of Hindu iconography

• 15 July 2019
• By Raniero Gnoli

In India, the study of aesthetics, which was at first restricted to the drama draws its origin from no abstract or disinterested desire for knowledge but from motives of a purely empirical order

• 14 July 2019
• By M.(Mahendra) a son of the lord and disciple

Many many many many thanks for your second leflet. It is indeed wonderful. The move is quite original, and never was the life of a great teacher brought before the public untarnished by the writer's mind as you are doing.

• 13 July 2019
• By John Henry Barrows

The Parliament of the World's Religions opened on 11 September 1893 at the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the World's Columbian Exposition. On this day, Vivekananda gave a brief speech representing India and Hinduism

• 13 July 2019
• By Rev. Dr. Ferdinand Kittel

• 12 July 2019
• By Ferdinand Kittel

Ferdinand Kittel was a priest and indologist with the Basel Mission in south India and worked in Mangalore, Madikeri and Dharwad in Karnataka. His father's name is Gottfried Christian Kittel and his mother's name is Helen Hubert. He is most famous for his studies of the Kannada language and for producing a Kannada-English dictionary of about 70,000 words in 1894

• 11 July 2019
• By Surendran Nath Sen

• 10 July 2019
• By Surendran Nath Sen

The Marathas were the last indigenous empire builders of India. They leapt into prominence suddenly and swiftly; in the third decade of the seventeenth century the Maratha name was unknown to the world outside; three decades later it had become a terror to the rulers of the land

• 09 July 2019
• By Stephen Meredyth Edwardes

IN the heart of the great palm-groves to the north west of Dadar lies an "oart" known as Borkar's Wadi. shaded by tall well tended trees whose densely foliaged summits ward off the noon-day sun and form a glistening screen at nights.

• 05 July 2019
• By Manmohan Ghosh

Bharata Muni was an ancient Indian theatrologist and musicologist who wrote the Natya Shastra, a theoretical treatise on ancient Indian dramaturgy and histrionics, especially Sanskrit theatre

• 06 July 2019
• By Manmohan Ghosh

Bharata Muni was an ancient Indian theatrologist and musicologist who wrote the Natya Shastra, a theoretical treatise on ancient Indian dramaturgy and histrionics, especially Sanskrit theatre

• 04 July 2019
• By Manjul Gupta

In the field of Sanskrit dramaturgy the place of Bharata Natyasastra is unique by its antiquity (not later than 3rd cent. A.D.) by being pioneer work in the field as well as by the thoroughness with which the subject is mooted out in it. But unfortunately many commentaries written thereupon are lost as is seen from the first extent commentary called Abhinavabharatt by the famous Kashmirian polymath, Abhinavagupta (between 975-1015)

• 03 July 2019
• By G.T. Deshpande

Abhinavagupta (950 to 1016 AD[1][2]) was a philosopher, mystic and aesthetician from Kashmir. He was also considered an influential musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician – a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.

• 03 July 2019
• By Gajanan K. Shrigondekar

The Manasollasa, also known as Abhilashitartha Chintamani, is an early 12th-century Sanskrit text composed by the Kalyani Chalukya king Someshvara III, who ruled in present-day South India. It is an encyclopedic work covering topics such as polity, governance, ethics, economics, astronomy, astrology, rhetoric, veterinary medicine, horticulture, perfumes, food, architecture, sports, painting, poetry and music. The text is a valuable source of socio-cultural information on 11th- and 12th-century India.

• 02 July 2019
• By Gajanan K. Shrigondekar

The Manasollasa, also known as Abhilashitartha Chintamani, is an early 12th-century Sanskrit text composed by the Kalyani Chalukya king Someshvara III, who ruled in present-day South India. It is an encyclopedic work covering topics such as polity, governance, ethics, economics, astronomy, astrology, rhetoric, veterinary medicine, horticulture, perfumes, food, architecture, sports, painting, poetry and music. The text is a valuable source of socio-cultural information on 11th- and 12th-century India.

• 30 June 2019
• By Otto Rothfeld

Many generations have passed and other races to Hunas and Gujjars and Mongols to have invaded India. And asceticism has squeezed the people in its dry hand, and there has been war and bigotry and pestilence. Yet even now the teachings are not quite forgotten.

• 29 June 2019
• By Pandit S. Subrahmanya Sastri

This reference book these scribes referred to was most probably the Samgraha Chudamani written by one Govindacharaya

• 28 June 2019
• By Dr. Kunhan Raja

• 27 June 2019
• By Sarngadeva With Kalanidhi of Kallinatha and Sudhakara of Simhabhupala

Sarangadeva Sangita-ratnakara (first half of 13th century) is of particular importance, because it was written just before influence of the Muslim conquest began to assert itself on Indian culture. The Music discussed in Sangita-ratnakara is free from Persian influence.

• 26 June 2019
• By Sarngadeva With Kalanidhi of Kallinatha and Sudhakara of Simhabhupala

The Sangita-Ratnakara, literally "Ocean of Music and Dance", is one of the most important Sanskrit musicological texts from India. Composed by Sarngadeva in the 13th century, both Hindustani music and Carnatic music traditions of Indian classical music regard it as a definitive text.

• 25 June 2019
• By Sarngadeva With Kalanidhi of Kallinatha and Sudhakara of Simhabhupala

The Sangita-Ratnakara of Sharngadeva (the 13th century) is one of the most important musicological texts from India, which both Hindustani music and Carnatic music regard as a definitive text.

• 28 June 2019
• By Swami Pranavananda

The book consists of two parts. In the first part, the author after giving a general description of the area deals with the various phenomena that he observed during the freezing and the melting of the lakes to Manasarovar and Rakshas Tal.

• 17 June 2019
• By A.K. Ramanujan

Kannada is a Dravidian language, spoken today in the south Indian state of Mysore by nearly 20 million people. Of the four major Dravidian languages, Kannada is second only to Tamil in antiquity of literary tradition. There is evidence for at least fifteen centuries of literary work in Kannada.

• 16 June 2019
• By M.V. Krishna Rao

It was Purandara Dasa who devised a learning regimen. Also, he gave Karnataka Sangeetham a strong foundation and a clear sense of direction.

• 15 June 2019
• By Sripati

Lingayatism is a Shaivite Hindu religious tradition in India. Initially known as Veerashaivas, since the 18th century adherents of this faith are known as Lingayats. The terms Lingayatism and Veerashaivism have been used synonymously, but Veerashaivism may refer to the broader Veerashaiva philosophy which predates Lingayatism, to the historical community now called Lingayats, and to a contemporary (sub)tradition within Lingayatism with Vedic influences.

• 15 June 2019
• By S.S. Basawanai and K.R. Sreenivasa Iyengar

In presenting our free rendering" of Basava's vachanas we deem it necessary to give the reader an account of the life and times of Basava, his philosophy and his teachings. A mystic, a religious and social reformer, Basava was also an adept in statecraft; in sum, a unique personality.

• 14 June 2019
• By Edward P. Rice

Fifty years ago very few, even of the Kanarese people themselves, had any idea of the range of Kanarese literature or of the relative age of the books which constitute it. Our present knowledge is the fruit of patient work on the part of a small number of painstaking scholars, who have laboriously pieced together the scattered information contained in inscriptions on stone and copper and in the colophons and text of palm leaf manuscripts.

• 13 June 2019
• By Nilakant Sadashiv Takakhav

AT a time when the whole of the Indian Continent is entering upon a new phase of political life and bold schemes of social and political re-construction are being daily pressed for acceptance, no apology would seem to be necessary for the publication of a new life of Shivaji. For among the glittering multitude of mighty kings whose names adorn the pages of Indian History, the name of Shivaji stands forth in bold relief as the author of a momentous national revival that changed the destinies of India.

• 12 June 2019
• By W.S. Caine

• 12 June 2019
• By Surendra Nath Sen

"Kanhoji Angria was a diplomat of uncommon ability. He was regarded as the second Founder of the Maratha navy. He undoubtedly re-established Maratha prestige at sea.

• 10 June 2019
• By Kavi Bhushan

Bhushan originally resided in the Tikwapur village in present-day Ghatampur tehsil, Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. He was the brother of the poets Chintamani and Matiram. Bhushan's original name is unknown. Kavi Bhushan ("Precious Poet") was a title given to him by the Rudra Pratap of Chitrakoot.