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 9 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Folk-Tales of Kashmir
By J.Hinton Knowles
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1888

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Photograph of a Kashmiri family group in the modern-day state of Jammu and Kashmir, taken... Read More
 9 Jul 2012
Temple of Jyeshteswara, on the Takht-i-Suliman Hill (Shankaracharya Hill), near Srinagar. Probable date 220 B.C. - 1868

Photograph of the Shankaracharya Temple on the summit of Takht-i-Suleiman (Throne of Solomon), near Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, taken by John Burke in 1868. This view was ... Read More
 9 Jul 2012
The Manasbal Lake, Kashmir - 1846

Pencil and wash drawing heightened with white of the Manasbal lake, Kashmir by Charles Stewart Hardinge (1822-1894), dated 1846. Inscribed on the front is: 'Manasa Bal. May/46. Cashmere. Hardinge,' and on the reverse: 'Manasa Lake. The most beautiful lake in C... Read More
 9 Jul 2012
Temple of Martand or the Sun, Kashmir.
Probable date A.D. 490-555

Photograph of a frontal view of the entrance of the Surya Temple at Martand in Jammu and Kashmir, taken by John Burke in 1868. This photograph is reproduced in Henry Hardy Cole's Archaeological Survey of India report, 'Illustratio... Read More
 9 Jul 2012 Rare Paintings
Source of the River Jhelum in octagonal tank, Verinag (Kashmir) - 1 June 1886

Water-colour painting of the source of the River Jhelum in an octagonal tank at Verinag (Kashmir) by Charles J. Cramer-Roberts (1834-1895), 1 June 1886. Inscribed on the front in water-colour is: 'Kashmir. Vernag. June... Read More
 9 Jul 2012
Birch bark manuscript from Kashmir of the Rupavatra, a grammatical textbook based on the Sanskrit grammar of Panini. It was compossed by Dharmakirti, a Buddhist monk from Ceylon. The manuscript was transcribed in 1663
c. 1663

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 9 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Valley of Kashmir
By Sir Walter Roper Lawrence
Published by Henry Frowde, London - 1895

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Kashmir, View in Scinde Valley
Photograph By: Samuel Bourne
From: Views in Kashmir
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 9 Jul 2012
Bhattia turban folders at work - 1873

Photograph of turban folders at work in India, taken by Shivashanker Narayen in c. 1873, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. This image, of a group of workers folding turbans on wooden model heads, was probably shown at the Vienna Universa... Read More
 8 Jul 2012
Country shoe makers, probably in Western India - 1873

Photograph of country shoe makers, probably from Western India, taken by an unknown photographer in c. 1873, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. This image of a group of shoemakers seated at work on the verandah of a worksh... Read More
 8 Jul 2012
The story of the Rodi: Sri Lanka's`untouchables'
By Asiff Hussein

No Sinhalese caste has aroused so much wonder and curiosity as the Rodi once the `untouchables' of Sri Lanka.

Indeed there is something mysterious about this people who claim descent from Sinhalese royalty but who have for centur... Read More
 8 Jul 2012
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 8 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
MANU-SMRTI
The Laws of Manu with Bhasya of Medhatithi
Translated by Ganga Natha Jha
Published by The University of Calcutta - 1922

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 8 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Mânava Dharma-Sâstra - The Code of Manu
Original Sanskrit text critically edited according to the standard Sanskrit commentaries, with critical notes.
By Julius Jolly
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1887

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 8 Jul 2012
A truly BRILLIANT documentary!!... Outdated rules that have gone totally out of hand.

Video:
`India untouched'

It's a film with a difference. "India Untouched: Stories of a People Apart'' is a documentary that journeys across eight States and four religions and depicts the continued exclusion a... Read More
 8 Jul 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Castes In India - Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
By Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar
Published by Patrika Publications, Jullundur - 1945

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 8 Jul 2012
Golas. Salt makers - 1863

Photograph of Golas, salt makers, in Rajasthan in India, taken by Shepherd and Robertson in c.1863. This image shows a group of four men, three seated, one standing, gathered round a basket of salt. John Forbes Watson wrote in 'The People of India', 1869-72, Volume IV... Read More
 8 Jul 2012
Chathan Kovil, Trivandrum - 1900

Photograph taken about 1900 by the Government photographer, Zacharias D'Cruz of the Chathan Kovil in Trivandrum. It is one of 76 prints in an album entitled 'Album of South Indian Views' of the Curzon Collection. George Nathaniel Curzon was Under Secretary of S... Read More
 8 Jul 2012
The Flemish artist François Balthazar Solvyns (1760-1824), who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, is little known, but his collection of etchings of the Hindus provide a rich and compelling portrait of India two hundred years ago. These prints, depicting the people of Bengal in their occupation... Read More
 8 Jul 2012
A domestics couple of low caste.
Gouache drawing.

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 8 Jul 2012
The mahatmya of the 13th adhyaya. An adulterous woman from the city of Harinam goes to the forest with her husband and is attacked by a tiger who only eats those who commit immoral acts. Reborn as a low-caste Chandala, the woman hears the 13th adhyaya of the Bhagvadgita from the holy man and asks... Read More