Digital Rare Book:
A catalogue of Indian medicinal plants and drugs, with their names in the Hindustani and Sanscrit languages
By John Fleming
Published by J. Cuthell, London - 1812
New Book Review:
On The Trail Of The Idol Thief: A True Story
by Aravindan Neelakandan
Swarajya - Sep 23, 2018
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- S Vijay Kumar and his team of volunteers are part of a feverish initiative to get India’s stolen idols back, with some successes and some rever...
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Gouache painting on paper from an album of eighty-two paintings of Hindu deities. Viṣṇu, shown here as Kūrma, supports Mount Mandara on his shell, around which the five-headed serpent Vásuki is coiled. At the summit of the mountain is a temple topped by a golden roof on which are four golde...
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Digital Rare Book:
Daya Satakam Of Vedanta Desika
A hymn in praise and mercy of Lord Venkateshwara
By D. Ramaswamy Ayyangar
Published by Tirumala-Tirupati Press, Tirupati - 1961
Brihadeeswarar Temple is 1000 years old and is located in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. The amazing architecture of this temple makes it unique and stupendous. Watch this video and know the facts of how this magnificent temple was built.
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'North view of Miaveram Choultry in the Tanjore Country' - 1788
Uncoloured aquatint by John Wells (fl.1792-1809) after a drawing on the spot by Captain Elisha Trapaud (1750-1828) of the 'North view of Miaveram Choultry in the Tanjore Country' in Tamil Nadu, part of a set of his twenty views publ...
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Essay:
Revisiting ‘Chatrams’: The Indic Dormitories That Were More Than Just That
By Aravindan Neelakandan
Published in Swarajya - Jan 01, 2018
It is time to realise the cultural capital, actively pursue the cause of the endangered cultural assets that Chatrams are and if possible make them ...
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Plate 14 from the third set of Thomas and William Daniells' 'Oriental Scenery.' Hosur was one of the forts established by Tipu Sultan in the dry rocky country southwards from Bangalore for his military campaigns into the Tamil country, as it commanded the rout...
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Essay:
The study of cultural encounters in Tharangampadi (Tranquebar) and Other Essays
By Esther Fihl and Stine Simonsen Puri
Published in Review of Development & Change - 2009
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The present volume of Review of Development and Change takes the reader to t...
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Digital Rare Book:
History of the Tranquebar mission worked out from the original papers by J. Ferd. Fenger
Published in Danish and translated into English from the German of Emil Francke
Published by Evangelical Lutheran Mission Press, Tranquebar, - 1863
Digital Rare Book:
A Catalogue of South Indian Sanskrit Manuscripts : Especially those of the Whish collection belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Compiled by Moriz Winternitz (1863-1937)
Appendix by Frederick William Thomas (1867-1956)
Published by Royal Asiatic S...
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The first ever translation of the Lord's Prayer into the Tamil language by Philippus Baldaeus - 1620
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A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel
As also of the isle of Ceylon; with all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provi...
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Digital Rare Book:
Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van MALABAR en COROMANDEL, der zelver aangrenzende ryken, en het machtige eyland CEYLON
Nevens een omstandige en grondigh doorzochte ontdekking en wederlegginge van de afgoderye der Oost-Indische heydenen
By Philippus Baldaeus (1632-1672);
Published b...
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Digital Rare Book:
A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel
As also of the isle of Ceylon; with all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products, and living creatures: the manne...
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Digital Rare Book:
An Alphabetical list of the Feasts and Holidays of the Hindus and Muhammadans
By Imperial Record Department
Printed by Superintendent, Government Printing, Calcutta - 1914
Page from an album of sketches of costumes of South India (opaque watercolour with letterpress). Company School, on European paper watermarked Moreley & Saunders 1842 depicting Brahmins. The man, with his hair gathered in kudumi at the back of his head, wears a dhoti and an angav...
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