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Srimad Bhagavatam Hardcover - 1 Jan 2014 by Kamala Subramaniam Author

335pp.This Volume brings together the scholarly attention of different specialists on the history of art, visual culture, furniture, carpets and textiles, and paintings of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Their chapters provide an illuminating political and cultural history of the interior designed by sir Edwin Lutyens to be the house for the British viceroy. The book also provides a detailed catalogue of select artwork kept in the house . Rich illustrations reveal how the interiors stand now, and they are contrasted with archival Photographs that show how the house has evolved over the past 90 years. The Book also contains previously unpublished plans and sketches for the decor of the interiors of the house some of which date back to as early as 1914-these provide a rare glimpse into how it was originally intended.While the architecture of the actual edifice of the Rashtrapati Bhavan may be Lutyens?s most enduring legacy, the interiors of the building preserve a much more versatile history. This Volume traces how Lutyens achieved a stylish interior that accommodated the tastes and needs if various British aristocratic residents, politicians and bureaucrats, but equally had to impress an Indian public-for which, it needed also to incorporate a vocabulary of Indian design ornament.This volume is one in a series that documents different aspects of the rich cultural , social and historical legacy of the Rashtrapati Bhavan as a national institution.

With Museum Bhavan, Dayanita Singh (born 1961) forges a new space between publishing and the museum, an experience where books have the same--if not greater--artistic value as prints hanging on a gallery wall. Consisting of 10 individual “museums” in book form, Museum Bhavan is a miniature version of Singh’s eponymous traveling exhibition, with prints placed in folding expanding wooden structures.The images in Museum Bhavan have been intuitively grouped into lyrical chapters in a visual story such as “Little Ladies Museum” and “Ongoing Museum,” as well as more specific series such as “Museum of Machines.” As in Singh’s first project, Sent a Letter (2008), the books are housed in a handmade box and fold out into accordion-like strips which the artist encourages viewers to install and curate as they wish in their own homes. The exhibition thus becomes a book, and the book an exhibition.

How did a nation of over 600 million people bow down to the whims and fancies of a Prime Minister s pampered son? In this carefully researched book, Vinod Mehta makes the first complete appraisal of the Sanjay Gandhi phenomenon and its impact on the national scene. It begins at Anand Bhavan, the Nehru mansion in Allahabad, and Feroze Gandhi s relationship with the Nehrus particularly Kamala and Indira. This gives the background to an understanding of Sanjay s volatile personality as it developed through his early years and his obsession with cars that led to the establishment of the Maruti factory. Writing in a style that is both compelling and honest, Vinod Mehta sifts the facts from the rumours and gets to the core of Sanjay s dramatic emergence after the declaration of the Emergency. His capturing of the Youth Congress and the excesses of the sterilization campaign (which he thought would ensure his place in history) are brought out in telling detail, as is the use of the media to build the cult of Sanjay. With a new introduction, The Sanjay Story allows readers to look with the benefit of hindsight on the rise and fall of one of independent India s most controversial figures. What emerges from the text is not only an understanding of Sanjay and his times, but an understanding of India s current political scenario. Vinod Mehta confirms the truth of history writing that to engage intelligently with the present, you must come to terms with the past, even a past as inglorious and bewildering as the Emergency.

Contents: Preface. Introduction/Narayani Gupta. I. Genealogy. 1. Architecture as power 1803-1912/Amar Farooqui. 2. The struggle with modernity 1870s-1920s/Amit Srivastava. II. The House. 3. The architect-A singular clarity 1912-31/Rajiv Narain. 4. The craftspeople's moment 1912-13/Anisha Shekhar Mukherji. III. The Setting. 5. The house in its garden/A.G.K. Menon and M. Shaheer. 6. The city on the plain/Narayani Gupta. 7. Some reflections/Benjamin Tindall. Bibliography. Demystifying 'Styles'. Chronology. Acknowledgements. Index. This exhaustive volume documents the entire landscape around and architecture of the Rashtrapati Bhavan estate, starting from its construction as Government House, after the capital of British India shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911.

270pp.The Rashtrapati Bhavan is part of the narrative of international architecture and town-planning, which entered a new phase at the beginning of the 20th century. It is the last of many ?places? built in Delhi over centuries. It is also the last of the palatial residences built by the British in India. The designing of the Viceroy?s House marked a crucial moment in the balance between Indian and British builders, an issue touching the question of style and substance, as well as of the relation between western and indigenous skills. Edwin Lutyens stood away from the suggestions that he was offered, and delineated a structure balanced against designed open spaces, which has until now defied definition. Its setting in symmetrical estate conveyed a sense of a Garden City adapted to the north Indian climate.The same symmetry and verdure continued beyond, to the city extending from the Ridge to the river, with its own ecological harmony. The building, the estate and the city should be seen as a whole. an intervention in the history of India?s monuments and towns. New Delhi was first and last completely planned city in British India.

255pp.Renowned across the world, the Mughal Garden of the Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi attracts millions of visitors. Less well known is the fact that the President?s Estate also contains hundreds of acres of jungle, orchards, cultivated fields and open grounds, all teeming with a wealth of plant and animal life that did not exist 85 years ago. How was this miracle achieved? What keeps it going today?This book is a comprehensive survey of nature on the President?s Estate. It shows how, in the last days of empire, the British transformed the once-barren hilltop of Raisina into a lush landscape designed to display colonial power and style. After Independence, this imperial legacy was reshaped to serve the public purpose. As a result, an oasis of ecological diversity flourishes in the heart of urban Delhi.First Garden of the Republic documents the flora and fauna of the Estate across the seasons. It shows how human agency creates and curates this habitat, looking particularly at the quiet yet constant work done by the malis (gardeners). It traces the history of the formal gardens and forests, highlighting the role of sentiment, status and taste in designing the landscape. Cultural designs and intents are, however, made and unmade by the dynamics of nature. This book explores how plants and animals make the President?s Estate their own, adapting it to their ends, and the challenges these living creatures and their habitats face today. This book is part of a series of volumes documenting different aspects of the rich cultural, social and historical legacy of the Rashtrapati Bhavan as a national institution

An inciteful and exciting series of edited talks (satsangs) given by the Advaita master and devotee of Ramana Maharshi, HWL POONJA, affectionately called PAPAJi, in his home and at Satsang Bhavan in Lucknow, India, in the early 1990's.

Clem Alford, British by birth, spent many years in India studying the sitar under Sachindra Nath Saha, one of that sub-continent's foremost teachers. He was a member of the London Music Fusions and was professor of sitar at the Bharatiya Bhavan, School of Indian Music in London as well as professor of sitar at the Birmingham Conservatoire and private individual teacher to many aspiring sitar players. Amongst others, he played with Indo Jazz Fusions and the 1970s 'psych prog folk' Anglo-Indian Ma