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 26 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Potteries in Ancient India
By B.P. Sinha
Published by Patna University, Patna - 1969

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 26 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
History of Hand-spinning and Hand-weaving in India
By S.V. Puntambekar and N.S. Varadachari
Introduction by M.K.Gandhi
Published by The All India Spinners Association, Ahmedabad - 1926

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 26 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Food and Diet in the Mouryan Empire
Based on a study of Kautilya's Arthashastra by 'Krishivala'
Published by Madras Chamber of Agriculture - 1946

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 26 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Bengal Peasant Life
By Rev. Lal Behari Day
Published by Macmillan and Co., London - 1916

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Native Women from Bengal
By Arthur William Devis
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 26 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Bengal Sweets
By Mrs. J. Haldar
Published by Industry Publishers Ltd, Calcutta - 1948

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The romance of Bengali sweets

In the wide realm of confectionery Bengal... Read More
 22 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Sketches of Indian Life
By Willam Whitelock Llyod
Published by Chapman and Hall, London - 1890

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 22 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
INDIA- The landscape, the monuments and the people
By Martin Hurlimann
Published by D.B. Taraporevala and Sons, Bombay - 1932

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Martin Hürlimann (12 November 1897 in Zürich – ... Read More
 30 Jun 2019 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Women Of India
By Otto Rothfeld
With 48 full page illustrations by Rao Bahadur M.V. Dhurandhar
Published by D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co., Bombay - 1920

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 14 Jun 2019
Digital Rare Book:
A Grammar of the Oldest Kanarese Inscriptions
By A.N. Narasimhia
Published by University of Mysore, Mysore - 1941

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 14 Jun 2019 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A History of Kanarese Literature
By Edward P. Rice
Published by Association Press, Calcutta - 1915

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Fifty years ago very few, even of the Kanarese people themselves, had any idea of t... Read More
 5 Jul 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Jews In India And Far East
By J. Henry Lord
First published by Mission Press, Kolhapur - 1907

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 5 Jul 2017 Rare Photographs
An Armenian Jewess - 1870

Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of a young lady wearing an exotici mixture of eastern and European clothes. The inscripiton indicates that she comes from a Jewish merchant community which felt happier in the business environment of the day in adopting a Christian v... Read More
 16 Apr 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare book:
Annihilation of Caste with a Reply to Mahatma Gandhi
By B.R. Ambedkar
First published by Banasthali Press - 1936

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 16 Apr 2017 Rare BOOKS
Who Were The Shudras?
By B.R. Ambedkar
Published by Thacker & Co., Bombay - 1946

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 29 Mar 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Child in Ancient India
By Kamalabai Deshpande
Foreword by Moritz Winternitz
Published by The Author in Poona - 1936

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 14 Mar 2017 Video
Isn't this wonderful, even if it is in just one school? The India we look forward to. We are many religions but we are also one people. Read More
 12 Mar 2017 Rare Paintings
Holi festival, Musrshidabad or Calcutta, ca. 1795 - ca. 1805.

The Holi festival : men daubed with red powder proceed, dancing, singing and drumming towards a tank. In the centre, a man is being carried on a litter. Bystanders include ascetics and sweetmeat sellers. One of nine drawings depicting... Read More
 12 Mar 2017 Article/Essay
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Exploring the history of Hindu festivals: the ancient strands of Holākā
By By Manasatarangini T
Published in Indiafacts.org

In Hindu tradition there is a clear demarcation of at least three distinct classes of ritual observances: 1) The most conservative of these are the śrauta rituals... Read More
 11 Mar 2017 Rare Paintings
A Muslim wedding, Calcutta, ca. 1795 - ca. 1805.

A Muslim wedding; the bridegroom's procession going to the bride's house by night. A gateway at left and elephants at right of the procession.

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 11 Mar 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Indian Muslims
By Mohammad Mujeeb
Published by Allen & Unwin, London - 1967

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This is an attempt to portray the life of Indian Muslims in all its aspects, beginning with the advent of the Muslim and ending with the present... Read More
 25 Feb 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Studies in the Puranic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs
By R.C.Hazra
Published by University of Dacca - 1936

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Painting, Bhagavata Purana, Krishna revealing his nature as Vishnu, opaque watercolour on paper, Malwa, ca. 1730.

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