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| harems of indian kings: Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph Calder Miller, 2007 The particular experience of enslaved women, across different cultures and many different eras is the focus of this work. |
| harems of indian kings: The Mughal Harem Kishori Saran Lal, 1988 This work is a maiden attempt at research in the hitherto overlooked area of social history of medieval India.It attempts to recapitulate the day-to-day life of the ladies of the seraglio.The delicate and delightful task has been deftly handled and it is hoped that scholars and laymen both will enjoy. |
| harems of indian kings: The Art of Ajanta and Sopoćani Om Datt Upadhya, 1994 Pauranic Prana-aesthetics, a finer shade different from that of vitalistic aesthetics )the earlier having breathing-rhythm of Ksaya-Vrddhi --diminuation and augmentation--other than the latter`s emphasis only on the rhythm of augmentation), has been delineated in this study with examples from the world`s two of the best art-monuments: Ajanta (India), now not remaining unknown even to the most casual connoisseur, and Sopocani (Yugoslavia), the most significant and monumentally beautiful work of Byzantine art. Tracing Prana-aesthetics as the aesthetics of inner-light coded in the creeper-motif by the artists of Ajanta, this work emphasises decoding of the creeper-motif by Byzantine artists culminating into the frescoes of Sopocani done in Hellenistic-Byzantine aesthetics beatifield by Hesycast meditation to which that of Buddhists was not unknown. Comparisons of various determinant aspects, aesthetics and artistic denominators, and constraints not allowing similar consummation are properly investigated to substantiate the thesis that Prana-aesthetics transfigures at Ajanta but transubstantiates at Sopocani. The significance of the anabolic aspects of this aesthetics is highlighted especially as a way out from the reductivistic tendencies of the present day visual-arts straining them upto the stage of catabolic dissolution. |
| harems of indian kings: The Naked Mughals Vashi Sharma, 2017-05-31 DID YOU KNOW THAT Babur was a drunkard! He loved a boy named Babri! Akbar raped children! Akbar raped his own daughter-in-law! Akbar had Harem of 5000 women! Jahangir blinded his son with his own hands! Shah Jahan did not spare even his own daughter! Aurangzeb beheaded his own brother and sent his head to his imprisoned father! Almost every Mughal king killed some of his sons and brothers! and much more.This book is an eye opener on Mughal history in India. Mughals have been glorified as great rulers in Indian history books despite being maniacs, incest-lovers, rapists and merciless invaders.The book is a compilation of all hidden facts. Straight from their authentic biographies. To make Indians realise, enough is enough.Do not glorify these filthy creatures in the name of preserving the secular fabric of India.Note: This is the latest edition of the book Great Ruler of India with different title and few additional chapters. |
| harems of indian kings: The First Spring Abraham Eraly, 2011 |
| harems of indian kings: Sex Life Under Indian Rulers Rajaram Narayan Saletore, 1974 |
| harems of indian kings: Postcolonial Amazons Walter Duvall Penrose Jr., 2016-10-20 Scholars have long been divided on the question of whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Notably, Soviet archaeologists' discoveries of the bodies of women warriors in the 1980s appeared to directly contradict western classicists' denial of the veracity of the Amazon myth, and there have been few concessions between the two schools of thought since. Postcolonial Amazons offers a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in the ancient world, bridging the gap between myth and historical reality and expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype. By shifting the center of debate to the periphery of the region known to the Greeks, the startling conclusion emerges that the ancient Athenian conception of women as weak and fearful was not at all typical of the region of that time, even within Greece. Surrounding the Athenians were numerous peoples who held that women could be courageous, able, clever, and daring, suggesting that although Greek stories of Amazons may be exaggerations, they were based upon a real historical understanding of women who fought. While re-examining the sources of the Amazon myth, this compelling volume also resituates the Amazons in the broader context from which they have been extracted, illustrating that although they were the quintessential example of female masculinity in ancient Greek thought, they were not the only instance of this phenomenon: masculine women were masqueraded on the Greek stage, described in the Hippocratic corpus, took part in the struggle to control Alexander the Great's empire after his death, and served as bodyguards in ancient India. Against the backdrop of the ongoing debates surrounding gender norms and fluidity, Postcolonial Amazons breaks new ground as an ancient history of female masculinity and demonstrates that these ideas have a much longer and more durable heritage than we may have supposed. |
| harems of indian kings: Lovell's Library , 1889 |
| harems of indian kings: Indian Middle Ages Gurdeep Khullar, 2021-03-08 Time magazine stated that Game of Thrones is the most popular show in the world. It took the viewers to a remote, unknown past through an atmosphere of a dream world which comes into being with the help of the creation of an illusion. The strange, supernatural, and extraordinary world of beauty, fear, awe, mystery, talisman, and gallantry is created. Since these events occur in a centuries-old world far away from modern times, the viewers can enjoy them and believe that once upon a time they really may have happened.One hundred years ago, on the other side of the globe, some historical novelists and historical romancers in India created similar artworks in the Hindi language. These works contain almost exactly the same thematic characteristics by describing the life and activities of extremely voluptuous nawabs and prostitutes. They depicted their luxurious and opulent lifestyle, full of vulgar sex, free desires, dreams, and yearnings along with talismans to create a unique environment and the feelings of thrill and awe.This book is a humble effort to bring a sociological and philosophical perspective to these literary creations. It provides a lively and vibrant picture of various social and cultural traditions, customs, and superstitions of medieval Indian society. A glossary of Hindi and Sanskrit words is provided for the convenience of Western readers. |
| harems of indian kings: The works Kingsley, 1884 |
| harems of indian kings: Indian Women Through the Ages Paul Thomas, 1964 |
| harems of indian kings: Works Charles Kingsley, 1895 |
| harems of indian kings: Slavery and Bondage in Medieval North India Shadab Bano, 2024-11-15 This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule. It focuses on the northern Islamic regimes’ treatment of slavery but not limited or determined by the actions and demands of the ruling class alone. Societies normalized the practices, and the norms were socially constituted, which included slaves’ acceptance, resistance, and use of agency in the process. It shows how the transformations on the ground made the social-economic and ethical environment of slavery no longer the same over the centuries and the expansion or contraction of slavery corresponded to the structural changes and ethical developments specific to the Indian milieu. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, history and slavery. |
| harems of indian kings: Works Kingsley, 1857 |
| harems of indian kings: Sex in Indian Harem Life Rajaram Narayan Saletore, 1978 |
| harems of indian kings: The Evolution of Ideals of Womenhood in Indian Society Candrabalī Tripāṭhī, 2005 The present work is English Translation of an award winning Hindi book-Bharatiya Samaja Mein Nari Adarshon ka vikasa, written by late Pt. Chandra Bali Tripathi. While it eulogizes the strong points in the social matrix in various ages, it does not hesitate in bringing out the shortcoming which had resulted in denial to the women of their rightful share in building the social fabric. The Hindi book has been widely acclaimed by scholars of Indian History and Sociology as well as by the general reader. |
| harems of indian kings: Alton Locke Charles Kingsley, 1850 |
| harems of indian kings: The Ancient Explorers Max Cary, Eric Herbert Warmington, 1929 |
| harems of indian kings: Scheherazade Goes West Fatema Mernissi, 2001-09-16 Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks, she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't use them, it hurt.... So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her mesmerizing new book. Of all the lessons she learned from her grandmother -- whose home was, after all, a type of prison -- the most central was that the opportunity to cross boundaries was a sacred privilege. Indeed, in journeys both physical and mental, Mernissi has spent virtually all of her life traveling -- determined to use her wings and to renounce her gender's alleged legacy of powerlessness. Bursting with the vitality of Mernissi's personality and of her rich heritage, Scheherazade Goes West reveals the author's unique experiences as a liberated, independent Moroccan woman faced with the peculiarities and unexpected encroachments of Western culture. Her often surprising discoveries about the conditions of and attitudes toward women around the world -- and the exquisitely embroidered amalgam of clear-eyed autobiography and dazzling meta-fiction by which she relates those assorted discoveries -- add up to a deliciously wry, engagingly cosmopolitan, and deeply penetrating narrative. In her previous bestselling works, Mernissi -- widely recognized as the world's greatest living Koranic scholar and Islamic sociologist -- has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East. Now, as a writer and scholarly veteran of the high-wire act of straddling disparate societies, she trains her eyes on the female culture of the West. For her book's inspired central metaphor, Mernissi turns to the ancient Islamic tradition of oral storytelling, illuminating her grandmother's feminized, subversive, and highly erotic take on Scheherazade's wife-preserving tales from The Arabian Nights -- and then ingeniously applying them to her own lyrically embellished personal narrative. Interwoven with vivid ruminations on her childhood, her education, and her various international travels are the author's piquant musings on a range of deeply embedded societal conditions that add up, Mernissi argues, to a veritable Western harem. A provocative and lively challenge to the common assumption that women have it so much better in the West than anywhere else in the world, Mernissi's book is an entrancing and timely look at the way we live here and now. By inspiring us to reconsider even the most commonplace aspects of our culture with fresh eyes and a healthy dose of suspicion, Scheherazade Goes West offers an invigorating, candid, and entertaining new perspective on the themes and ideas to which Betty Friedan first turned us on nearly forty years ago. |
| harems of indian kings: Novels Charles Kingsley, 1884 |
| harems of indian kings: The Other Mind Beryl De Zoete, 1960 |
| harems of indian kings: Collection of Papers Presented International Symposium on History of Eastern and Western Cultural Contacts, 1959 |
| harems of indian kings: International Symposium on History of Eastern and Western Cultural Contacts Nihon Yunesuko Kokunai Iinkai, 1959 |
| harems of indian kings: Indian Antiquary , 1882 |
| harems of indian kings: Women in Early Indian Buddhism Alice Collett, 2014 This volume is a broad-ranging comparative study with translations of texts, sections of texts and textual fragments that are concerned with women in early Indian Buddhism, including study of texts in Gandhari, Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Tibetan and Sinhala. |
| harems of indian kings: Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Jyoti Atwal, Iris Flessenkämper, 2019-08-08 This book covers a range of issues and phenomena around gender-related violence in specific cultural and regional conditions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it discusses historical and contemporary developments that trigger violence while highlighting the social conditions, practices, discourses, and cultural experiences of gender-related violence in India. Beginning with the issues of gender-based violence within the traditional context of Indian history and colonial encounters, it moves on to explore the connections between gender, minorities, marginalisation, sexuality, and violence, especially violence against Dalit women, disabled women, and transgender people. It traces and interprets similarities and differences as well as identifies social causes of potential conflicts. Further, it investigates the forms and mechanisms of political, economic, and institutional violence in the legitimation or de-legitimation of traditional gender roles. The chapters deal with sexual violence, violence within marriage and family, influence of patriarchal forces within factory-based gender violence, and global processes such as demand-driven surrogacy and the politics of literary and cinematic representations of gender-based violence. The book situates relevant debates about India and underlines the global context in the making of the gender bias that leads to violence both in the public and private domains. An important contribution to feminist scholarship, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women’s studies, history, sociology, and political science. |
| harems of indian kings: Śaṅgam Polity N. Subrahmanian, 1966 |
| harems of indian kings: Shastric Traditions in Indian Arts Anna Libera Dallapiccola, Christine Walter-Mendy, Stephanie Zingel-Avé Lallemant, 1989 |
| harems of indian kings: Mṛcchakaṭikā, The Little Clay Cart Śūdraka, 1938 |
| harems of indian kings: Alton Locke Charles Kingsley, 2020-07-16 Reproduction of the original: Alton Locke by Charles Kingsley |
| harems of indian kings: Essays on Indian Politics Raj Kumar, 2003 Politics and political behaviour have undergone radical changes. We have developed a kind of psyche which is alien. We seem to have lost our moorings. Attempt here has been made to examine some of the basic issues on the subject under study. Object is to place before our readers selected essays which will enable them to formulate viable political philosophy for a happy, healthy and vibrant India of twentieth first century. No claim, therefore, is made to give a connected and complete account on the subject of the volume. Our main effort is at understanding the subject in appropriate perspectives for a future policy for a brighter India. Contents: Introduction, Rajadharma, Thoughts on Polity, Kautilya, The Kural Polity in the Modern Context, The Political Allegory in Kalidasa s Kumarasambhava, Polity and Governance, The Administration of Departments, The State, Swami Dayanand s Concept of the Indian Swaraj, The Striving for Swaraj, Politics of Indian Revolutionaries 1905-1910, Democracy and Political Change in India. |
| harems of indian kings: The Indian Review , 1913 |
| harems of indian kings: Empire of Enchantment John Zubrzycki, 2018 How Indian magic descended from the realm of the gods to become a popular amusement for the masses around the globe--Provided by publisher. |
| harems of indian kings: Indian Thought Through the Ages Balkrishna Govind Gokhale, 1961 |
| harems of indian kings: The Evolution of Desire David M. Buss, 2016-12-27 A “drop-dead shocker” (Washington Post Book World) that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide, The Evolution of Desire is the first work to present a unified theory of human mating behavior. Drawing on a wide range of examples of mating behavior — from lovebugs to elephant seals, from the Yanomamö tribe of Venezuela to online dating apps — Buss reveals what women want, what men want, and why their desires radically differ. Love has a central place in human sexual psychology, but conflict, competition, and manipulation also pervade human mating — something we must confront in order to control our own mating destiny. Updated to reflect the very latest scientific research on human mating, this definitive edition of this classic work of evolutionary psychology explains the powerful forces that shape our most intimate desires. |
| harems of indian kings: Novels, Poems & Letters Charles Kingsley, 1898 |
| harems of indian kings: The Mâlavikâgnimitra Shankar P. Pandit, 2020-06-02 Reprint of the original, first published in 1869. |
| harems of indian kings: Illinois Studies in Language and Literature , 1934 |
| harems of indian kings: Sources of Indian Tradition Motilal Banarsidass Publishers (Pvt. Ltd), 1988-05 |
| harems of indian kings: Journal of Indian History , 1926 |
Harem - Wikipedia
A harem[a] is a domestic space that is reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. [3][4][5] A harem may house a man's wife or wives, their pre-pubescent male children, …
Harem | History, Gender Roles & Social Structures | Britannica
May 23, 2025 · harem, in Muslim countries, the part of a house set apart for the women of the family. The word ḥarīmī is used collectively to refer to the women themselves. Zanāna (from …
Unveiled Facts About Harems - Factinate
Apr 27, 2025 · Harems—because of their secluded nature—are difficult subjects in art and history. Western art often portrays harems as illicit dungeons, where “exotic” women are stored for …
Harems - Encyclopedia.com
Harems. The harem is central to western popular perceptions of women and sexuality in Middle Eastern societies. In this context, it is often incorrectly perceived as a glorified brothel where a …
Highlights of life in a Persian harem during the time of Esther
Aug 13, 2012 · The harem was a tradition with Iranian [Persian] dynasties and aristocracy as well. Herodotus (1.135), who wrote in the time of Artaxerxes, testifies that each (notable) Persian …
What is a Harem? (with picture) - Cultural World
May 23, 2024 · Simply put, a harem is a space set aside in a home or complex specifically for the use of women and young children. Men are not allowed to enter the harem, as it is considered …
What Was The Purpose Of Harem Explained - History SQ
Sep 20, 2019 · Overall, the purpose of the harem was multifaceted. It served as a place of protection and seclusion for the women of the royal household and a center of political and …
Harem History, Facts & Culture - Study.com
Learn about harems and their history in societies around the world. Review examples of harems and understand how they function in certain social structures. What is a Harem? In the Western...
harem - Brown University
Deriving from the same root as haram meaning forbidden or inviolable, the harem was a secluded space in which the royal Islamic women, beginning with the Abbasids, were confined.
Ottoman Imperial Harem - Wikipedia
The Imperial Harem (Ottoman Turkish: حرم همايون, romanized: Harem-i Hümâyûn) of the Ottoman Empire was the Ottoman sultan 's harem – composed of the concubines, wives, servants (both …
Harem - Wikipedia
A harem[a] is a domestic space that is reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. [3][4][5] A harem may house a man's wife or wives, their pre-pubescent male children, …
Harem | History, Gender Roles & Social Structures | Britannica
May 23, 2025 · harem, in Muslim countries, the part of a house set apart for the women of the family. The word ḥarīmī is used collectively to refer to the women themselves. Zanāna (from …
Unveiled Facts About Harems - Factinate
Apr 27, 2025 · Harems—because of their secluded nature—are difficult subjects in art and history. Western art often portrays harems as illicit dungeons, where “exotic” women are stored for …
Harems - Encyclopedia.com
Harems. The harem is central to western popular perceptions of women and sexuality in Middle Eastern societies. In this context, it is often incorrectly perceived as a glorified brothel where a …
Highlights of life in a Persian harem during the time of Esther
Aug 13, 2012 · The harem was a tradition with Iranian [Persian] dynasties and aristocracy as well. Herodotus (1.135), who wrote in the time of Artaxerxes, testifies that each (notable) Persian …
What is a Harem? (with picture) - Cultural World
May 23, 2024 · Simply put, a harem is a space set aside in a home or complex specifically for the use of women and young children. Men are not allowed to enter the harem, as it is considered …
What Was The Purpose Of Harem Explained - History SQ
Sep 20, 2019 · Overall, the purpose of the harem was multifaceted. It served as a place of protection and seclusion for the women of the royal household and a center of political and …
Harem History, Facts & Culture - Study.com
Learn about harems and their history in societies around the world. Review examples of harems and understand how they function in certain social structures. What is a Harem? In the Western...
harem - Brown University
Deriving from the same root as haram meaning forbidden or inviolable, the harem was a secluded space in which the royal Islamic women, beginning with the Abbasids, were confined.
Ottoman Imperial Harem - Wikipedia
The Imperial Harem (Ottoman Turkish: حرم همايون, romanized: Harem-i Hümâyûn) of the Ottoman Empire was the Ottoman sultan 's harem – composed of the concubines, wives, servants (both …
