Madhaviah, a man ahead of his time nationalism and the career of industrialist G.D. The volume includes a biographical introduction and a bibliographic essay on SarDesai’s major writings and contains new and cutting-edge essays on the design of imperial Vijayanagara famine policy in colonial India and how European imperialist policies created, or exacerbated the impact of, famines the relatively unknown chapter of ‘Chinese Gordon’s’ brief Indian career reflections on the Tamil humanist A. He has served as Chair of the History Department at UCLA as well as Bombay University and President of the Asiatic Society of Bombay. His work for over fifty years at UCLA has been an inspiration to generations of students, and he has made major contributions to the world of learning, and in his chosen areas of specialization of India, especially its foreign policy with regard to Southeast Asia, imperialism and the history of the modern European empires and Southeast Asia. 1931), Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where all of the contributors received their Ph.D as did SarDesai himself. This volume is a festschrift for Damodar Ramaji SarDesai (b. Sri G.Vanmikanathan who has rendered the highlights of the original epic from Tamil to English with a racy running commentary is an experienced litterateur who has a number of other devotional works to his credit.ĭownload Nationalism and Imperialism in South and Southeast Asia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle To pursue their stories is to inhale the air of sanctity and blessedness. The trials and tribulations they cheerfully undergo and the incredible sacrifices they make for the Lord’s sake take our breath away. Caste, community, wealth, and status do not count with them even as they do not with the Lord. These Nayanmars consists of devoted men and women of all ages and range from tribal hunters to emperors of vast domains. Lord Shiva whom these Saiva-Siddhantins worshiped is not a sectarian deity but the supreme creator preserver and destroyer of the Universe who comes in human form from time to time and ‘plays’ with these servitors when their devotion gets incandescent. The Tamil Devotional Classic Periya Puranam or “The Great Epic” by Sekkizhaar is the saga of the sixty-three Nayanmars or servitors of the Lord who not only lived for Him, on the other hand, adored Him in delightfully distinct ways. Download Periya Puranam Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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