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Today children learn their birthday only on the Christian calendar, because colonial education, being church education, teaches that calendar as its first lesson. That Gregorian calendar is inferior and unscientific, e.g. with haphazard months of 28, 29, 30, and 31 days, unrelated to any natural cycle. But children are NOT taught any alternative, on the “blinkered horse” strategy, to prevent a comparison, and force them to accept that inferior but propagandist calendar. This book explains how the Indian calendar provides a superior and scientific alternative, on which children can learn their जन्मतिथि, and why तिथि ≠ day. Children will also learn how to determin...
The Practical difficulties in calculating dates mentioned in inscriptions or in the colophons to manuscripts are considerable. Among the books offering help to historians and editors alike, in the works of R. Sewell stand out as excellent introductions to this intricate subject. The book reprinted here was first published in 1897. However, in spite of its age, The Indian Calendar has retained its usefulness for the benefit of scholars working on the chronology of Ancient India.
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Calendars are created by civilisations to give meaning to the continuous flow of time according to their world-views. Over the past millennia, India has developed it's own unique collection of many calendars for regulating it's religious and cultural life. The current book presents a comprehensive account of their structure and relative importance at the present time and places them in the context of other calendars prevalent outside India. Suggestions have also been made for making some changes to bring them in line with our current astronomical knowledge. This book will be very useful to students and anyone who is curious about calendars.
Being A Continuation Of The Author`S Indian Chronograph, With An Article By The Late Dr. J.F. Fleet On The Mean Place Of The Planet Satum.
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DIVA theoretically informed cultural study of the design, production, and circulation of Indian calendar art./div