The Extant Remains

Subhash Parihar Illustrator: NA: History and Architectural Remains of Sirhind: The Greatest Mughal City on Delhi-Lahore Highway, Aryan Books International 2006 ISBN: 9788173053115

New Hardcover 22 x 28 cm. Sirhind, during the Mughal period, was the largest city situated in the midst of the Lahore-Delhi Highway. Even before that the antiquity of the city is traceable to the beginning of the Christian era. But it reached the zenith of its glory during the seventeenth century when it became one of the most prosperous cities of the Mughal empire. Its splendour is often described by the chroniclers and travelers of the period. With economic prosperity it also developed into a center of cultural activity. Dozens of saints, scholars, poets, historians, calligraphers and scribes from the city earned fame all over the Mughal empire. Great building activity is reflected in the popular belief that in its heyday, the city had 360 mosques, gardens, tombs, caravansarais and wells. After the first decade of the eighteenth century, the city fell on evil days. Taking advantage of the waning Mughal authority, it was plundered repeatedly by the bands of Sikhs, Marhattas and Afghans. And in 1764, in the final attack of the Sikhs, it was devastated thoroughly. The work is divided into two parts. The first part comprises three chapters. The first chapter provides a general history of the town chapter provides a general history of the town recording the known historical events in a chronological order. The next chapter is a bio-bibliographical survey of the saints and aEUR ulema of the town. The scholars of other fields, poets, calligraphers etc. form the subject matter of the third chapter. Despite the utter destruction of Sirhind during the eighteenth century, more than three dozens of historical monuments are than still extant there. The second part of the book deals with these monuments. The first chapter of this part presents an analysis of the main architectural features common to all types of monuments. The next three chapters provide a detailed survey of the extant monuments classified on typological basis, i.e., tombs, (including Rauza Sharif) mosques, gardens and other secular buildings. This part is based on first hand field work done by the author. The work is illustrated with 21 colour photographs, 120 b/w photographs along with 49 maps, ground plans, section drawings and isometric views. CONTENTS: Preface I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE : Sirhind, Sihrind or Shahrind; Origin of Sirhind; Sirhind During Ancient Period; Sirhind During Sultanate Period; Sirhind Under the Mughals and Later II. SAINTS AND 'ULEMA OF SIRHIND : Shaikh Imam Rafi' al-Din; Saiyid Muhammad; Maulana Sultan Sirhindi; Shaikh Ilah-dad Maulana Majd al-Din Muhammad; Maulana 'Abd al-Qadir; Miyan 'Abd Allah Niyazi; Shaikh Badr al-Din; Maulana Jauhar; Maulana 'Ali Sher Sirhindi; Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi; Saiyid Yasin; Shaikh 'Abd al-Rahman Sufi Sirhindi; Shaikh Haji Path Allah; Shaikh 'Abd al-Samad Husaini; Maulana Qutb al-Din Sirhindi; Maulana Aman Allah Sirhindi; Haji Ibrahim Sirhindi; Shaikh 'Abd al-Ahad Faruqi Kabuli; Haji Ni'mat Allah Sirhindi; Maulana Bayazid; Mulla Abu al-Khair; 'Abu al-Qasim Sirhindi; Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi; Muhammad Sadiq; Muhammad Sa'id; Khwaja Muhammad Ma'sum; Shaikh Badr al-Din; Maulana 'Abd al-Malik Sirhindi; Maulana 'Ali Sher Kambar Sirhindi; Miyan Natha; Haji Mustafa Sirhindi; Mulla 'Abd al-Jalal Sirhindi; Muhammad 'Ali, Son of Shaikh Husain Sirhindi; Shaikh Taiyib Sirhindi; Saiyid Hamza Sirhindi; Bandagi Shah Isma'il Chishti; Shaikh Fazl Allah Sirhindi; Shah Bin Majzub Sirhindi; Shaikh Muhammad Sibghat Allah; Khwaja Muhammad Naqshband; Khwaja Muhammad 'Ubaid Allah; Khwaja Muhammad Ashraf; Shaikh Abd al-Malik; Shaikh Saif al-Din; Shaikh Yusuf Sirhindi; Shaikh Zain al-'Abidin; Shaikh 'Abd al-Haqq Sajawal Sirhindi; Maulana Muzaffar Sirhindi; Shaikh Muhammad Ja'far; Shaikh 'Ali Riza Sirhindi; Shaikh 'Isa Sirhindi; Shaikh Muhammad Shafi al-Hal; Shaikh Muhammad A'zam; Maulana Shakir Sirhindi; Shaikh 'Abd al-Ahad; Ma Printed Pages: 292. First edition

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Dr. N.S. Ramachandra Murty: Forts of Andhra Pradesh (From the earliest times upto 16th c. A.D.) Bhartiya Kala Prakashan ,1996 ,Delhi ISBN: 8186050035

The book forts of Andhra Pradesh emphasises on much neglected aspect in the architectural and historical studies of Andhra Pradesh. It attempts to critically examine the rise and evolution of forts coupled wirh the concept of defence and classification of forts based mainly on the data available in archaeological excavations, extant remains, literary texts both sanskrit and telgu and local records from pre-state to state socities in Andhradesa.; Hardbound

[SW: Art / Architecture / Archaeology, Andhra Pradesh, South India]

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GRANT, RAYMOND J.S. Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde and the Laws of the Anglo-Saxons. Amsterdam-Atlanta., Rodopi., 1996.
ISBN: 978-90-420-0076-6.

Original publisher's sewn paperback, lettering and ornamentation spine and frontcover, 8vo; xij, 196pp., endnotes, list of sigla, index edited texts, Nowell and Lambarde texts in parallel, appendix, bibliography. " The Old English manuscript whose charred and burnt remains are now MS BL Cotton Otho B. xi was written at Winchester during the reign of AEthelred, partly in the middle of the tenth century and partly about the middle of the first half of the eleventh. In its pristine state it contained Anglo-Saxon texts of some importance, including a collection of laws. Unfortunately, the manuscript fell victim to the Cottonian fire of 1731 and was largely destroyed. Before the fire, however, in 1562, Otho B. xi was transcribed practically in its entirety by the antiquarian Laurence Nowell, whose work formed the basis for the printed edition of the Anglo-Saxon Laws contained in William Lambarde's Archaionomia of 1568. The present edition offers a brief discussion of the laws of the Anglo-Saxons as they survive in manuscripts and printed editions and then concentrates on the work of Nowell and Lambarde. Two Laurence Nowells and at least three Nowell transcripts of Cotton Otho B. xi are known to modern scholarship and require consideration before proceeding to an edition of what can be reconstructed of MS BL Cotton Otho B. xi. The texts of the law codes known as II Athelstan, V Athelstan, Iudex, and Alfred and Ine found originally in MS BL Cotton Otho B.xi are printed from the Nowell transcript contained in MS BL Additional 43703, while on facing pages the corresponding passages from Lambarde's Archaionomia are reproduced. Variants from the other Nowell transcripts of the same texts are noted, manuscript relations are discussed in an appendix, and a select bibliography is offered .The importance of the present edition is that it makes it easier to compare the Otho B. xi text and Lambarde's printed version than is possible with Felix Liebermann's Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. Comparison of the Nowell and Lambarde texts with one another shows that there can be little doubt that Lambarde for his Archaionomia used Otho B. xi or a transcript of it made by Nowell Comparison of the Nowell and Lambarde texts with the other extant manuscript and printed versions casts some further light on the relations between the surviving law codes of the Anglo-Saxons ". Very fine copy - As new. As new. Volume 108: Costerus New Series.

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Broom, Herbert: A Selection of Legal Maxims, Classified and Illustrated. 1874

Broom, Herbert [1815-1882]. A Selection of Legal Maxims, Classified and Illustrated. Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson & Co., 1874. lxxviii, 993 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"). Contemporary starched buckram, black rules and calf lettering piece to spine. Light shelfwear and soiling, some toning to text, internally clean. * Seventh American edition, from the fifth London edition. First published in 1845, Broom's collection of legal maxims remains a standard work. "His is the very best book of the kind extant": Marvin, Legal Bibliography 152 (citing earlier editions).

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