Books

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Justine Hardy (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2009
• Pages :  336 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8184950267
  

DESCRIPTION:

You should be writing on one of our great Indian papers, then you will really be starting to understand us'. A chance conversation with her greengrocer about the media's portrayal of India inspired journalist Justine Hardy to leave London and following in the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling, spend a year reporting for an Indian newspaper. Following the direction of her eccentric landlord -an erstwhile Rajput prince and an editor at The Indian Express, her new life takes her across the Himalayas, Assam tea gardens and city slums, exploring marriage, spirituality and the remnants of Empire in the heart of modern India.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Tamalyan Dallal (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2008
• Pages :  336 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  8179928527
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8179928523

DESCRIPTION:

Simplistic perceptions of the Islamic world quickly dissolve in 40 Days and 1001 Nights as globetrotting American dancer, author and filmmaker Tamalyn Dallal takes you on an unforgettable journey. Without an agenda or expectations, Ms. Dallal sets out to live in five Islamic cultures for 40 days each. She finds herself in the tsunami-ravaged city of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, then ventures deep into the Egyptian Sahara to the Siwa Oasis, where donkey carts are the main form of transport. She follows a beautiful song to the forgotten island of Zanzibar, where sun and surf crash against a tumultuous past. Next, she lands in Jordan, a peaceful kingdom and haven for refugees from strife-torn lands and finally spends 40 days in China's largest province, the predominantly Muslim Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Join the adventure, release your fears and gain a new perspective on a wide slice of our world that we hear so much and know so little about. You will be surprised, delighted and sometimes shocked at the fascinating web of true-life tales told by this 21st century Scheherazade.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Paul Smith (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2011
• Pages :  336 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8179929490
  

DESCRIPTION:

The five rules of a Twitch hiker

 You can only accept offers of travel and accommodation from people on Twitter.

• You can't make any travel plans further than three days in advance.
• You can only spend money on food, drink and anything that fits in your suitcase.
• If there is more than one offer, you choose. If there is only one, you have to take it within 48 hours.
• If you are unable to move on from a location within 48 hours, the challenge is over and you go home.

 Bored in the supermarket one day, Paul wonders how far he can get in 30 days through the goodwill of fellow 'Twittering social networkers. He sets his sights on Campbell Island near New Zealand -the point on the planet opposite to his home in Newcastle. In an adventure wrapped in nonsense, he travels by car, bus, boat, plane and train, sleeps in five-star luxury and on no-star sofas, resorts to the hair of the dog in multiple time zones and schmoozes with Hollywood A-listers -all the while wearing the same pair of underpants.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  J. Dey (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2010
• Pages :  212 pages
• Size : :14 x 1.1 x 21.6 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 8184950829
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8184950823

DESCRIPTION:

Three informers. Murky bylanes that hold the key to deadly terror plots. The chase for India's most wanted terrorist. The lives of three of Mumbai Police's best informers collide in this shady underworld. It's a bad, bad world. A world of crime, sex, drugs, murder and betrayal. He who lies, lives to see the light of another day... a day replete with even greater risks. From shady underworld dealings to switching gang loyalties, the men graduate to selling information on terrorism. Then begins the chase, to catch India's most wanted terrorist: Riyaz Bhatkal, the man with an ominous track record of masterminding twenty-two blasts across the country since 2005. The search takes them to the most unassuming yet dangerous terror hubs across India. With trust in short supply, time ticking away and the sword of Damocles over their heads, the men can only hope that they are not on a wild goose chase

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  J. Dey (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2008
• Pages :  224 pages
• Size : :14 x 1.2 x 21.6 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  8179928500 
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8179928509

DESCRIPTION:

As a journalist on the crime beat, the author has spent long hours talking to those in uniform, those in the underworld and those in the grey zone -people who work as police informers. Much of what he has seen, heard and observed in over a decade of covering crime has found its way into print. But there's a lot that's spoken of in hushed tones or buried in underworld lore. The underworld speaks its own language and words are invented on the spur of the moment. A shooter is referred to as an "artist", an informer is simply "zero dial", Dubai is "Delhi", while arrest is "get admitted". Most of these are aimed at sending the police or adversaries on a wild goose chase. It's a world that thrives on the spirit of enterprise, actively courts power and danger and has conquered fear. The rules are straight and the ethics sacrosanct. The principles of 'dhanda' apply equally here -risk, profit and competition are at the very core. An informer will think nothing of selling precious information on a rival if it can earn him extra bucks or goodwill from the police.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Mark Bourrie  (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2016
• Pages :  284 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8184959031
  

DESCRIPTION:

Martyrdom, Murder and the Lure of ISIS

on January 21, 2015, a pro-ISIS Twitter account reported that John Maguire, a 23-year-old university drop-out from the Ottawa Valley town of Kempt Ville, had been killed fighting Kurds in the Syrian city of Kobani. A few weeks before, Maguire had starred in a YouTube video threatening Canada for bombing ISIS forces in Iraq. He is one of several young people from the West who have chosen to fight in a vicious conflict that really had little to do with them.

Why do young people choose to fight in other people’s wars, especially one as bloody and cruel as this one? Why has ISIS become so good at attracting foreign fighters?

This book examines the lure of this radical Islamist movement: its religious beliefs, sophisticated propaganda and vast social media networks. ISIS is now a go-to cause for alienated young people in the Islamic World and the West. Does it offer answers to troubled young people? Are ISIS’s crimes – slavery, murder, rape, repression and the destruction of heritage sites – an attraction in and of themselves? What do we do about the people who take up ISIS’s cause but stay in their home country? What do we do with the ISIS recruits who come home?

The Killing Game examines what draws young men and women to join violent social/political movements. It looks at the psychology of young men and women today and the propaganda used by all sides in the Middle East conflicts, as well as the security laws and the political initiatives that have been designed to stop people from being radicalized.

Mark Bourrie is quickly emerging as the country’s leading expert and author on propaganda and censorship. He is also an award-winning writer and a respected military historian with a PhD in history. A National Magazine Award–winning journalist. Bourrie lectures on propaganda and censorship and periodically teaches courses on media history, censorship and propaganda.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Mosab Hassan Yousef  (Author), Ron Brackin  (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2011
• Pages :  300 pages
• Size : :21.8 x 1.8 x 14.4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 8184952899
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8184952896

DESCRIPTION:

The shocking true story of a Hamas insider who rejected his violent destiny -and is now risking everything to expose closely guarded secrets and show the world a way to peace. Son of Hamas is now available in paperback with an all-new chapter about events since the book's release such as the revelation of Mosab's Israeli intelligence handler's true identity and Homeland Security's effort to deport the author. Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status and power. But everything changed when Mosab turned away from terror and violence and embraced instead the teachings of another famous Middle East leader. In Son of Hamas, Mosab reveals new information about the world's most dangerous terrorist organization and unveils the truth about his own role, his agonizing separation from family and home land the dangerous decision to make his newfound faith public and his belief that the Christian mandate to "love your enemies" is the only way to peace in the Middle East.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Michael Bar-Zohar (Author), Nissim Mishal (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2017
• Pages :  384 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  9386867168
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9386867162

DESCRIPTION:

The death-defying missions of the Israeli special forces.

Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal return with the intensely absorbing, fast-paced story of thirty of the boldest missions of the Israeli Special Forces. Packed with electrifying battles, raids in enemy territory and death-defying commando missions, Commando follows the lives and accomplishments of some of Israel’s most prominent figures.

Captivating and eye-opening, it offers an opportunity to understand how these crucial missions shaped Israel and the world at large.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Gad Shimron (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2019
• Pages :  304 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9387944689
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9387944688

DESCRIPTION:

The daring undercover rescue of the lost Jewish tribe the subject of the movie red sea diving resort the amazing story told first-hand by Gad shimron in Mossad exodus is now the subject of a new movie called red sea diving resort. In 1977, Israel’s Mossad spy agency was given an assignment far different from its usual cloak and Dagger activities. It was ordered by then prime Minister menachem begin to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan. No stranger to action in enemy countries, The agency established a covert forward base in a deserted holiday village in Sudan, and deployed a handful of operatives to launch and oversee the exodus of the refugees to the promised land, by sea and by air, in the early 1980s. This book offers a thrilling first-hand account of how the operation was put in place, and how the Mossad team in Sudan brought it off, despite great personal risk, running a partying vacation spot, arous holiday village, for wealthy tourists by day as they stole through the Sudanese desert to rescue desperate refugees by night. Author Gad shimron was one of the agents based at arous. Enhanced by his wide-ranging historical observations and his crisp, incisive prose, this is at once an entertaining read and a powerful tale of idealistic heroism.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Leo Murray (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2019
• Pages :  304 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9387944689
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9387944688

DESCRIPTION:

The psychology of combat learn the secrets of tactical psychology the human brain is hard-wired with a primal aversion to killing. Amid the horror of war even the best-trained soldiers can forget their training. Vast effort and countless sums have been spent in the attempt to keep our men fighting. Military psychologist Leo Murray argues that the real question is: how do we make the enemy stop fighting? Weaving together intense first-hand accounts of combat with the hard Science of tactical psychology, Murray offers a compelling insight into how war affects the human mind. War games is both a powerful glimpse through the eyes of our soldiers and an urgent reminder that the future of modern warfare lies in understanding how the enemy thinks. Fascinating and often chilling, this is the story of how psychology wins Wars.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Alan J Whiticker (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2010
• Pages :  296 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8184950847
  

DESCRIPTION:

Speeches That Changed The World (With CD): Speeches That Shaped The Modern World is a collection of powerful speeches given by important world leaders, since the start of the twentieth century. These speeches have influenced the minds of the people, changing the course of history.

Inspirational speeches by political icons like, Winston Churchill, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Barack Obama along with brief biographies of the orators have been included in the book. The importance of their words and the lasting impact that they had on the world, is discussed in detail.

Speeches That Changed The World (With CD): Speeches That Shaped The Modern World includes speeches that spread the message of hope, freedom, equality, justice, peace and humanity. They help readers gain an insight into the contemporary world, through the speeches that formed it. The first edition of this book was published by Jaico Publishing House in 2010 and is available in paperback.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Alan J Whiticker (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2018
• Pages :  296 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9386867803
  

DESCRIPTION:

53 Speeches from great leaders M. K. GANDHI, NELSON MANDELA, STEVE JOBS, STEPHEN HAWKING, MALALA YOUSAFZAI, BARACK OBAMA and others

The passing of time allows many speeches to take on a deeper meaning and poignancy.
Others have become an iconic part of our times.

Alan J. Whiticker’s Speeches that Shaped the World is a collection of the most potent and memorable speeches throughout history. These speeches highlight recurring themes such as politics and power, war and peace, civil rights and human rights. What they all have in common is the power to inspire—emotionally, politically and socially.

In this brilliant collection, many of history’s greatest orators and pivotal moments are featured. These speeches shaped and changed the world. Different eras and many nations are represented, with several speeches from famous women—speeches of clarity and hope. Along with famous names like John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher and Hillary Clinton there are also lesser known orators who are remembered for making their mark on history.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Karl Marx (Author), Friedrich Engels (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2018
• Pages :  80 pages
• Size : :11.1 x 0.4 x 17.8 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9387944204
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9387944206

DESCRIPTION:

Celebrating Karl Marx’s 200th Birth Anniversary
The Communist Manifesto has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League’s purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism’s potential future forms. The book contains Marx and Engels’ theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism and then eventually communism. Born in Westphalia in 1820, Friedrich Engels was the son of a textile manufacturer. After military training in Berlin and already a convert to communism, Engels went to Manchester in 1842 to represent the family firm. A relationship with a mill-hand, Mary Bums and friendship with local Owenites and Chartists helped to inspire his famous early work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  S. Hariharan (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2015
• Pages :  208 pages
• Size : :11.1 x 1.1 x 17.8 cm
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8184956900
  

DESCRIPTION:

This book is for all the sorry street-bound children of our world, vulnerable, struggling to get by on a few rupees and embraced only by despair. As citizens and as humans, we must pull them out from this state, educate them, give them homes and above all, their lost childhood.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Nirad C. Chaudhur
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2009
• Pages :  196 pages
• Size : :21.6 x 14 x 5 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  8179928934
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8179928936

DESCRIPTION:

Culture in the Vanity Bag is an informal but ecological study of Indian clothing and adornment. It is mainly about the historical evolution of costumes and seeks to illustrate their relationship with different cultures that have been seen in India.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Nirad C. Chaudhur
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2008
• Pages :  1008 pages
• Size : :21.6 x 14 x 5 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  8179928306
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8179928301

DESCRIPTION:

Anyone who wishes to understand what has happened in India in the twentieth century politically and culturally must read Nirad C. Chaudhuri. Among her men of letters he is unique, for the fertility of his mind and the polymathic range of his interests, as well as for the lucidity of his prose and his sheer integrity. Geoffrey Moor house (Chaudhuri) has spent a lifetime kicking against the myths and shibboleths held by the majority of his fellow countrymen, he has ridiculed the pacifism of Mahatma Gandhi. He has castigated Indian nationalism for being corrupt, self-seeking and destructive, (he has) vented his spleen at the stupidity and philistinism of the British in India. His latest (book) is almost a thousand pages long. It testifies to (his) eloquence, wit and intellectual brilliance that he can go on at such length without once becoming a bore. - Ian Buruma, the New York Review of Books.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Nirad C. Chaudhuri  (Author), Joe Cameron (Editor)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 1964
• Pages :  580 pages
• Size : :14 x 3.2 x 21.6 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  8172242875
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8172242879

DESCRIPTION:

Written by a self-confessed Anglophile, Autobiography of An Unknown Indian is a witty and endearing account of Nirad C. Chaudhuri's life. The book delves into the mind of the author as he takes his readers down memory lane to a pre-independence India. Written in a sarcastic manner that takes potshots at both Indian as well as British cultures, this book is one of the early works of Indian literature written in English.

The book offers an authentic peek into the way India functioned during the last days of British rule. It draws various incidents from the author's life and lets us understand his views on life gained from his different experiences. Born into an educated Bengali household, the author led a life where the majority of his influences were from the western part of the world.

The book starts off with a dedication to the British rule meant in a witty and sarcastic way. However, since the book was published post independence, when nationalist sentiments were at an all-time high, his dedication was misinterpreted and led to a personal ordeal. While his book was praised unanimously in the West, he was awarded with criticism back in India.

Autobiography of An Unknown Indian is the memoir of an ordinary Indian who was well-educated in the British way of life. The first edition of this book was published by Jaico Publishing House in 1964. It is available in paperback format.

Key Features

 Self-written account of a Bengali-English writer who was also a cultural commentator.

Gives an authentic overview into the quality of a Bengali-Indian's life during the pre-independence era.

Written by an educated person who was adept in the British ways of living.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Irene Harand (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2010
• Pages :  284 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  8184950705
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8184950700

DESCRIPTION:

First published in Vienna in 1935, Hitler's Lies by Irene Harand is a challenge to the arguments, assumptions and actions of the German dictator, Adolf Hitler. The original German language version of the book was called Sein Kampf -Antwort an Hitler von Irene Harand (His Struggle -The Answer to Hitler from Irene Harand). In this book Harand explodes the myth of racial and national superiority. She deals with lies about the Jews which formed the basis for Hitler's propaganda and attacks the persecution of the Jews on the ground that Anti-Semitism debases Christianity. In her own words: The ruthless force of the Nazis has been directed against the Jewish and Catholic minorities. Their main attack, however, has been launched against German Jewry, which has had to bear unspeakable torture and humiliation in the Third Reich. They foster and unleash hatred against the Jews and commit wholesale murder to maintain a power they have wrested from others. It, therefore, lies in the interest of truth to make public answer to the Nazi Bible, Mein Kampf, (Hitler's autobiography) and to ascertain whether the main doctrines of this book, upon which the Nazi political state is founded, can bear critical examination before the civilized world. As the first publishers of Mein Kampf in India, Jaico is proud to revive Harand's work, which was largely forgotten since the 1950's in both her native Austria and her new home land America.

SPECIFICATION:

Publisher : R R Sheth
By : Gunvant Shah
Cover : Paperback
Language : Gujarati
Edition : 2014
Pages : 392
Weight : 453 gm.
Size : 7.9 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
ISBN-10 : 9380868685
ISBN-13 : 978-9380868684

DESCRIPTION:

Krishna Sharan Gachchami Gunwant Shah has talked about going to Krishna Sharan and living life in a very beautiful way.

SPECIFICATION :

• Publisher : Chaukhamba Surbharati Prakashan
• By : Dr. Ramakant Mishra
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Sanskrit
• Edition : 2016
• Pages : 624
• Weight : 835 gm.
• Size : 9.5 X 7.75 X 1.25 inches
• ISBN-13 : 978-9380326429
• ASIN : B074CK6HG6

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : George Michell (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2014
• Pages :  160 pages
• Size : :14.4 x 1.1 x 19.6 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  8184956002
  
• ISBN-13 :  : 978-8184956009

DESCRIPTION:

The town of Badami, the nearby villages of Aihole and Pattadakal and the pilgrimage site of Mahakuta, in the Malprabha valley of central Karnataka, are celebrated for their magnificent rock-cut shrines and structural temples. These Hindu and Jain monuments are associated with the Early Chalukyas who reigned over this part of the Deccan during the 6th–8th centuries. Together with a profusion of magnificent sculptures, mostly found in situ, these shrines and temples may be considered among the earliest, best preserved vestiges of temple art in India.

This guidebook, the first ever for the Badami region, is authored by a scholar whose PhD was on Early Chalukya architecture. The text is illustrated with regional and town maps, building plans and more than 130 splendid coloured photographs.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Helen Philon (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2014
• Pages :  144 pages
• Size : :14.4 x 1 x 19.4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :   8184956010
  
• ISBN-13 :   978-8184956016

DESCRIPTION:

The magnificent monuments of Gulbarga, Bidar and Bijapur in northern Karnataka are manifestations of a vibrant culture that flourished under the rule of the Bahmani and Adil Shahi sultans during the 14th to 17th centuries. The wealth of these rulers derived from the lucrative trade routes that traversed the Deccan plateau, while the splendour of their courts owed much to an open immigration policy by which gifted individuals from other parts of India, as well as from the Middle East and Central Asia, were encouraged to settle.

Though the Bahmanis were supplanted partly by the Adil Shahis at the turn of the 16th century and the latter were annihilated by the Mughal invasion of the Deccan in the 1680s, their capital cities preserve many splendid buildings. These include the imposing fortresses of Gulbarga and Bidar, the grand audience halls and ornate residential apartments in Bidar and Bijapur, the mosques and Sufi shrines in Gulbarga and the beautifully decorated royal tombs on the outskirts of Bidar and Bijapur. For more adventurous travellers there are the abandoned ruins of Firuzabad and the decaying pleasure resort at Kumatgi.All these monuments and sites are described and profusely illustrated in this guidebook, the first ever to be published for this region.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : John M Fritz & George Michell (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2014
• Pages :  160 pages
• Size : : 14.3 x 1.1 x 19.5 cm
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8184956023
  

DESCRIPTION:

Hampi is one of the most beautiful and evocative of all historical sites in south India. Austere yet grandiose, it was established as the seat of the Vijayanagara empire in the mid-14th century, a time when art and architecture flourished. Contemporary chroniclers from Persia, Italy, Portugal and Russia visited the empire during this period and left glowing accounts of a city that was conquered by Sultanate troops in AD 1565, pillaged for six months and abandoned.

Hampi Vijayanagara examines the temples renowned for their florid ornamentation, intricate carvings, magnificent pavilions, stately pillars and a wealth of iconographic and traditional depictions. The book also includes site plans and three-dimensional reconstructions.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : George Michell (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2014
• Pages :  144 pages
• Size : : 14.5 x 1.1 x 19.3 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  8184956037
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8184956030

DESCRIPTION:

The 6th-century rock-cut cave temple on Elephanta island, in the middle of Mumbai harbour, is the home of Shiva, the greatest of all Hindu gods. Elephanta leads the reader through this magnificent cave temple, examining its overall architectural scheme and interpreting the myths of Shiva that are depicted so forcefully in the extraordinary stone sculptures. The outstanding photographs capture the beauty and magic of the cave.

This book also contains fascinating accounts of European travellers, documenting their discovery of Elephanta from the 17th century onwards and includes information on the ongoing efforts to preserve this monument that was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987.