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Hyderabad (OIP)
Starting with the period prior to the city's birth in 1591, the book presents an unbroken and colourful chronicle of Hyderabad, one of contemporary India's most important cities. Retaining the basic information from the original, this paperback edition includes a new chapter and updated information.
Hyderabad
Envisioned By Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah As A Replica Of Heaven On Earth, Hyderabad Bore The Brunt Of Aurangzeb S Fury And After A Long Period Of Neglect, Rose To Be The Capital Of The Expansive Deccan Province. The City Witnessed The Phenomenal Expansion Of The Province Under Asaf Jah I, As Also The Dissipation Of His Legacy. Pampered During Her Childhood, Glamorous When Young, The City Changed Utterly Over The Years And Now Recounts Her Moments Of Excitement And Bouts Of Depression. This Fascinating Book, Combines The Sweep Of Popular History, With The Rigour Of Historiography.
Hyderabad
Starting with the period prior to the city's birth in 1591, the book presentsan unbroken and colourful chronicle of Hyderabad, one of contemporaryIndia's most important cities. Charting the city's fascinating march fromBhagnagar to Hyderabad to 'Cyberabad', this story is replete with diverseengaging, eccentric, and often daring characters, some of whose lives arestranger than fi ction. With a new chapter and updated information, thisedition will appeal to anybody keen on learning more about the city,including scholars, researchers, journalists, and historians.
Locating Home
This multisite ethnography examines the construction of personal and group identity in the diaspora by emigrants from Hyderabad, India, settling in Pakistan, the UK, Canada, the US, Australia, and the Gulf states of the Middle East at the end of the 20th century.
Lashkar
Pictorial representation of the history and history makers from Secunderābād, India.
A Bonsai Tree
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Prince;Poet;Lover;Builder: Mohd. Quli Qutb Shah - The founder of Hyderabad
This book is an essay on Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah's life and works.
Remaking History
With evidence from the oral histories of various sections and a wide variety of written sources and historical documents, this book captures an intense moment in the history of the state of Hyderabad and the production its own tools of cultural renaissance and modernity.
Jewels of the Nizams
About the Book : - The first-ever study of one of the most outstanding collections of gemstones and jewellery of a fabulously wealthy dynasty of India that ruled the Deccan for seven generations. Sometimes worn but never shown, these jewels belonged to the Nizams of Hyderabad, once reputed to be the richest men in the world. Finely crafted from gold and silver and exquisitely enamelled, the jewels are set with Colombian emeralds, Golconda diamonds, Burmese rubies and spinels, and pearls from Basra and India. About the Author : - Usha R Bala Krishnan is a jewellery historian, lecturer and fine arts consultant based in Mumbai.Bharath Ramamrutham is internationally recognised as one of the foremost photographers in India of the built, human and natural environment.
Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past
In a wide-ranging exploration of the creation and use of Buddhist art in Andhra Pradesh, India, from the second and third centuries of the Common Era to the present, Catherine Becker shows how material remains and visual experiences shape and reveal essential human concerns. Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past begins with an analysis of the ornamentation of Andhra's ancient Buddhist sites, such as the lavish limestone reliefs depicting scenes of devotion and lively narratives on the main stupa at Amaravati. As many such monuments have fallen into disrepair, it is temping to view them as ruins; however, through an examination of recent state-sponsored tourism campaigns and new devotional activi...
