Ancient History
A Day in Kashi
Banaras a city with many mysteries, exquisitely depicted in colour. A selection of one hundred and eight photographs depicting a day in Kashi a day out of this world. Kashi, Banaras, Varanasi one of the most ancient of living cities. One can still trace its ancient background through the face it presents today. It is a city that unfolds its deepest secrets to only a few. A few who through dedication and love come time and time again to document the most inner and hidden secrets of this ancient city.
Living, dying and transformation in Banaras : The crossing project
Death in Banaras
This book is primaryly about the priests and other kinds of 'sacred specialist' who serve them:about the way in which they organise their business,and about their representations of death and understanding of the rituals over which they preside.all three levels are informed by a common ideoligical preoccupation with controlling chaos and contingency.the anthro pologist who writes about death inevitably writes about the world of the living,and Dr Parry is centrally concerned with concepts of the body and the person in contemporary hinduism,with ideas about hierarchy,renunciation and sacrifice,and with the relationship between hierarchy and notions of complementarity and holism.
KASI THE SACRED CITY OF LORD SIVA
काशी रहस्यम (हिंदी अनुवाद सहित) एवं सूक्ति रत्नावली हिंदी व्याख्या सहित
स्कन्द पुराणीय 'काशीखण्ड ' इस ग्रन्थ से जैसे कशी स्थित विभिन्न तीर्थों, देवालयों, वापी, कूप अदि के भूगोल एवं इतिहास इन दोनों के ज्ञान के साथ उनके आध्यात्मिक एवं धार्मिक महत्व का परिचय प्राप्त होता है वैसे ही 'काशी रहस्य' के अनुशीलन से कशी से सम्बंधित गूढ़ तत्त्वों रहस्यों का ज्ञान होता है. काशीरहस्य यह प्राचीन ब्रह्मवैवर्त का तृतीय खंड है ऐसा उसकी अध्याय के अंत में दी गयी पुष्पिका से ज्ञात होता है.
Ambivalent Encounters
Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful.
The Sacred Complex of Kashi
हंस : काशी अंक
Wonderland Banaras
Banaras is the wonderland of the first sight. Banaras is the historical city of temples, trade and traditions. This is the sacred city of Siva and salvation with historical exigencies having moral, migrational and material significance. It is also the land of the great Ganga ghats whose first encounter excites a sense of admiration or wonder for their delicate beauty and fascinating charm.