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geosciences --- earth sciences --- regional geology --- Asian continent --- asian continent --- Earth sciences --- Sciences de la terre --- Asia

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Dissertations, Academic --- Bibliography. --- South Asia --- Bibliography --- Asia, South --- Asia, Southern --- Indian Sub-continent --- Indian Subcontinent --- Southern Asia --- Orient

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The contributions to this book address a series of 'confrontations'-debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain-and explore the ways in which the legacy of these encounters, and the human responses to them, conditioned cultural production in early South Asia (c. 4th-7th centuries CE). Rather than an agonistic term, the book uses 'confrontation' as a heuristic to examine historical moments within this pivotal period in which individuals and communities were confronted with new ideas and material expressions. The first half of the volume addresses the intersections of textual, material, and visual forms of cultural production by focusing on three primary modes of confrontation: the relation of inscribed texts to material media, the visual articulation of literary images and, finally, the literary interpretation and reception of built landscapes. The second part of the volume focuses on confrontations both within and between intellectual communities. The articles address the dynamics between peripheral and dominant movements in the history of Indian philosophy.

RELIGION / Comparative Religion. --- Gupta period. --- Indian philosophy. --- lived spaces. --- material culture. --- South Asia --- Intellectual life --- History. --- Asia, South --- Asia, Southern --- Indian Sub-continent --- Indian Subcontinent --- Southern Asia --- Orient

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Daniel Schlumberger, archaeologist and art historian, worked from 1925 to 1972 from Lebanon and Syria to Afghanistan. He revealed the depth of the impact of Greek civilization and art in the East, from the Mediterranean to India, and brought to light the greatness of the Kushan civilization. He was successively member of the service of Antiquities of Syria and Lebanon, director of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan, professor at the University of Strasbourg then director of the French Institute of Archeology in Beirut. Some of his most important writings are republished here, accompanied by a presentation and a bibliography of the researcher, an inventory of the main sites on which he has worked, all illustrated with extracts from letters from his hand, photographs and plans. Through this volume of a collection intended to present some great figures of research in the East, the French Institute of the Proche-Orient today pays tribute to one of its most eminent members.

Islamic civilization --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Greek influences --- South Asia --- Antiquities. --- Asia, South --- Asia, Southern --- Indian Sub-continent --- Indian Subcontinent --- Southern Asia --- Orient --- Classical Greek archaeology and art --- Asia

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This book engages with the concept, true value, and function of democracy in South Asia against the background of real social conditions for the promotion of peaceful development in the region. In the book, the issue of peaceful social development is defined as the conditions under which the maintenance of social order and social development is achieved - not by violent compulsion but through the negotiation of intentions or interests among members of society. The book assesses the issue of peaceful social development and demonstrates that the maintenance of such conditions for long periods is a necessary requirement for the political, economic, and cultural development of a society and state. Chapters argue that, through the post-colonial historical trajectory of South Asia, it has become commonly understood that democracy is the better, if not the best, political system and value for that purpose. Additionally, the book claims that, while democratization and the deepening of democracy have been broadly discussed in the region, the peace that democracy is supposed to promote has been in serious danger, especially in the 21st century. A timely survey and re-evaluation of democracy and peaceful development in South Asia, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of South Asian Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies and Asian Politics and Security.

Democracy --- Social movements --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- South Asia --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Asia, South --- Asia, Southern --- Indian Sub-continent --- Indian Subcontinent --- Southern Asia --- Orient --- Conflict --- Peace