Bamiyan, hariti and kindred iconics

Sharma, Nirmala

ISBN: 9788177421033, 8177421034

The book begins with the sunyata of Bamiyan, discusses its international nexus, the tragic history of its destruction where Hazara tribals once lit an occasional lamp to the glory of their ancestors, its influence on the Buddhist sculptural tradition, the failure of all efforts to prevent iconoclasm, or the positive comment of an Afghan: interest in Afghanistan's past gives hope for Afghanistan...

Bards, ballads and boundaries: an ethnographic atlas of music traditions in West Rajasthan, by Daniel Neuman et al

ISBN: 9781905422074, 1905422075

Based on extensive statistical and cultural data, it provides an ethnographic survey of muscial tradition organized on the basis of specific communities of music specialists, their patrons and the music they produce.

Bombay talkies: an unseen history of Indian Cinema, foreword by Georg Wirsching,

ISBN: 9789385360787, 9385360787

Ever since cinema became a popular medium of mass entertainment, audiences have been intensely curious about life and work on a film set. The essays in this volume help us to understand the historical and imaginative value of the photographs in the Wirsching Archive.

Music: its form, function and value

xiv,210p., (47)pls.(8 col.), bibl., ind., 22cm.

Musical instruments of India: their history and development

224p.

music of India

The

Reprint of 1995: vii,288p., (5)b&w pls., several tables & figs., 22cm.

Begum Akhtar: the story of my ammi

Hiranand, Shanti

ISBN: 9788130901725, 8130901722

Biography of Begum Akhtar, 1914-1974, a legend in her lifetime and a pioneer in the field of Indian light classical music, thumri and ghazal gayaki.

Music as history in Tamilnadu

The

Behind the scenes: contemporary Bollywood directors and their cinema, ed. by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, et al

ISBN: 9789386062390, 9386062399

Music and musical thought in early Indias

Bengal Foundation, 2 vols., ed. by Abul Hasnat et al

Bengal Foundation, a private trust, began its journey in the late eighties. Foundation has been abetted by an enlightened body of creative thinkers, and its work encompasses different forms of the arts, crafts and letters. Music, literature and painting, however, remain its central concerns. A series of initiatives centering on the visual arts, music, literature and theatre form the backbone of...

Beyond Apu: 20 favourite films of Soumitra Chatterjee

Nag, Amitava

ISBN: 9789350298619, 9350298619

Beyond bollywood: the cinemas of South India

Raghavendra, M.K.

ISBN: 9789352645695, 9352645693

This book is about the largest and most intriguing popular cinema which comes from South India. This anthology is an attempt to do justice to the bewildering variety there is in the body as a whole and addresses this diversity in the only way deemed possible, which is to open out the study to different approaches, at the same time to get a comprehensive look at South Indian cinemas as never bef...

Beyond destiny: the life and times of Sabbudu

Singh, Lada Guruden

ISBN: 9788172763695, 8172763697

Put into place through scores of interviews with country's top musicians, dancers and critics. The book captures Sabbudu's rise as a critic incisively by juxtaposing it with the way Indian performing arts have shaped up post-Independence.

Nandikesvara's Abhinayadarpanam: a manual of gesture and posture used in Hindu dance and drama (Eng. tr., notes and the text critically edited for the first time from original....

Ghosh, Manomohan

ISBN: 9788189580476, 8189580477

manuscripts with introd. and illustrations.

Beyond music: maestros in conversation

Sahai, Geeta et al.

Beyond national frames: South Asian pasts and the world, ed. by Rila Mukheree

Beyond the apsara: celebrating dance in Cambodia

Burridge, Stephanie et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9780415564458, 041556445X

This volume documents and celebrates the resurgence of dance in Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge.

Bhagavata Mela: my tryst with tradition, foreword by Shanta Gokhale

Raman, Indumati

ISBN: 9789385509087, 938550908X

There is very little historical material published on Bhagavata Mela. This book is a compilation of research during the author's ten-year association with the gurus, artists, musicians and pandits of the Melattur Bhagavatha Mela Natya Vidya Sangam. This is the first step to document all aspects of the tradition in one book. It scans the history and evolution of the Bhagavata Mela tradition.;

Bhand pather: the folk theatre of Kashmir, ed. by Sushma Jatoo et al

ISBN: 9789350502464, 9350502461

The present illustrated monograph is an attempt to encapsulate the spirit of the said theatre art-form through the event and present a visual treat to the general readers and connoisseurs alike.

Bharatakosah: a dictionary of technical terms with definitions collected from the works on music and dramaturgy by Bharata and others in Sanskrit by M. Ramakrishan Rao

ISBN: 9788121501316, 8121501318