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ISBN: 9781138366220
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
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Author: ANTHEA TAYLOR
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| Weight | 0.48 kg |
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| ISBN | 9781138366220 |
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| Publication Date | 2021 |
| Pages | 227 |
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A lot of excellent research exists in the West on the roots of the Indo – European group of languages. But no attempt has been made in Urdu and Persian to compile etymologies. However, Sanskrit dictionaries, like Arabic ones, are based on roots.
Therefore it is possible in some cases to relate Western Indo-European roots to Sanskrit ones. That is what Khaled Ahmed has done in this book.
It is different from other works on etymology in that it enlists words common to Eastern and Western language groups. Barring early philologists like Muller and Jones, no one has so far tried to look at this shared aspect.
This is the unexplored field of discovery and consequent excitement that this book wishes to share with readers. For instance, kana is “reed” in Punjabi; so is it in Greek. In the Western group, Greekkana has given rise to words like “canal”, “channel’, “Canon”, etc. In Skand Gupt, which is the name of an Indian king, skand means “jump” in Persian, skand means the same; in English “ascend”, the root skand means “jump”.
In Harsha, another Indian king, the root hr means “hair” rising under a sensation of joy; in Persianharas, it means “hair” rising under a sensation of fear; in English, “horror” means “hair” rising under a sensation of terror. This is the kind of verbal adventure the book promises.
This book will be of use to specialists in search of more shared words across the East-West divide of the Indo-European languages. It is also guaranteed to excite the common reader of language.
ISBN: 9694023475
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
Subtitle: BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Author: KHALED AHMED
ISBN: 9789351362661
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Subtitle: THEIR SKEWED RISE
Author: DILIP HIRO
This authoritative work sheds light on the religious world of the Kalasha people of the Birir valley of the Pakistani district of Chitral, focusing on their winter feasts which culminate in a great winter solstice festival. The Kalasha represent the last example of the pre-Islamic cultures of the Hindu Kush/Karakorum, but are also the only observable example, worldwide, of an archaic Indo-European religion. Cacopardo addresses the historical and cultural context of the area and, referencing an array of relevant literature, offers comparisons with the Indian world and the religious folklore of Europe. Interdisciplinary and based on extensive field research, Pagan Christmas is the first extended ethnographic study devoted to this little known Kalasha community and represents a standard international reference source on the anthropology, ethnography and history of religions of Pakistan and Central South Asia. Augusto S. Cacopardo has conducted anthropological research in Pakistan under the aegis of the Institute Italianoper l’Africa e l’Oriente and is Professor of Ethnography at the University of Florence. His publications include the monograph Gates of Perstian: History, Religion and Society in the Hindu Kush (2001), co-authored with his brother Alberto M.
Cacopardo.
ISBN: 9781909942844
Publisher: GINGKO LIBRARY
Subtitle: WINTER FEASTS OF THE KALASHA OF THE HINDU KUSH
Author: AUGUSTO S. CACOPARDO
From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted ‘Return of a King’, the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa – ‘Most Excellent among Women’ – the great-niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad. He fell in love with her and overcame many obstacles to marry her, converting to Islam and, according to Indian sources, becoming a double-agent working against the East India Company. It is a remarkable story, but such things were not unknown: from the early sixteenth century to the eve of the Indian Mutiny, the ‘white Mughals’ who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations. Dalrymple unearths such colourful figures as ‘Hindoo Stuart’, who travelled with his own team of Brahmins to maintain his temple of idols, and Sir David Auchterlony, who took all 13 of his Indian wives out for evening promenades, each on the back of her own elephant. In ‘White Mughals’, William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history, and places at its centre a compelling tale of seduction and betrayal.
Author: William Dalrymple
ISBN: 9780006550969
ISBN: 9780006550969
Publisher: HARPER PRESS
Subtitle: LOVE & BETRAYAL IN EIGHTEENTH- CENTURY INDIA
Author: WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
ISBN: 0415343089
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle: MELANCHLIA OR COVIVIAL CULTURE
Author: PAUL GILROY
ISBN: 1856278522
Publisher: GRANGE BOOKS
Subtitle:
Author: IAN BENNET
ISBN: 0415288908
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle: FANS, SPORT AND CULTURE
Author: GARRY CRAWFORD
