Tag: South

January 19, 2024

Sheridan’s Secret Mission How the South Won the War After the Civil War

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Free Download Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War by Robert Cwiklik
English | January 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 0062950649 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 4.61 MB
A deeply researched, narrative history recounting the little-known late-Reconstruction era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union Army hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black citizens, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League intent on erasing their postwar gains.

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January 19, 2024

Buddhist Learning in South Asia Education, Religion, and Culture at the Ancient Sri Nalanda Mahavihara

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Free Download Pintu Kumar, "Buddhist Learning in South Asia: Education, Religion, and Culture at the Ancient Sri Nalanda Mahavihara"
English | ISBN: 149855492X | 2018 | 338 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This interdisciplinary study is the first book to provide a complete survey of Śrī Nālandā Mahāvihāra from the perspective of its educational curricula as well as its religious influence. It provides detailed descriptions of the origin, growth, management, and academic and cultural life of Nālandā, with particular attention to its pedagogy, curriculum, teachers, and students. It also presents an alternative interpretation of nationalist and popular notions about Śrī Nālandā as an international university and proves that it was, at its core, a Buddhist monastery and an institution of Buddhist learning focused on the study and promotion of Buddhism.

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January 16, 2024

Exploring the Syntax and Semantics of South Asian Languages

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Free Download Usha Udaar Reena Ashem, Gurmeet Kaur, "Exploring the Syntax and Semantics of South Asian Languages"
English | ISBN: 1443873209 | 2017 | 157 pages | PDF | 741 KB
This collection offers fresh perspectives on the syntax and semantics of South Asian languages, drawing on novel data from Meiteilon, Haryanavi, Punjabi, Kannada, Malayalam, and Bangla. It covers three major grammatical aspects: namely, the status of primitive categories, clausal and nominal structure, and case/phi-agreement. All the contributions here provide comprehensive descriptive discussions followed by analyses couched within the generative paradigm, thereby offering detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of important issues in South Asian languages.

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