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How Indian Independence Was ‘Introduced’ - Velivada - Educate, Agitate, Organize
How Indian Independence Was ‘Introduced’ | Velivada
An Unusual Group of Hero Stones: Commemorating Self-Sacrifice at Mallam, Andhra Pradesh
An Unusual Group of Hero Stones: Commemorating Self-Sacrifice at Mallam, Andhra Pradesh
An Unusual Group of Hero Stones: Commemorating Self-Sacrifice at Mallam, Andhra Pradesh
2. Hero performing Dehatyāga, Vijayanagara period. Mallam, Gudur Taluk, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh. Author’s photograph
An Unusual Group of Hero Stones: Commemorating Self-Sacrifice at Mallam, Andhra Pradesh
1. Hero holding his head, Pallava period. Mallam, Gudur Taluk, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh. Reproduced with permission of the Archaeological Survey of India
An Unusual Group of Hero Stones: Commemorating Self-Sacrifice at Mallam, Andhra Pradesh
3. Durgā Mahiṣāsuramardini/Koṛṛavai receiving head sacrifice from a kneeling bhakta (left). Late 9th–early 10th century, Cola period. Brahmāpuriśvara Temple, Pullamangai, Tamil Nadu. Author’s photograph
An Unusual Group of Hero Stones: Commemorating Self-Sacrifice at Mallam, Andhra Pradesh
Mary N. Storm, PhD (UCLA), 1999, is the academic director of two programs for SIT Study Abroad—India: National Identity and the Arts, and Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture, both located in New Delhi. She is currently writing about the first wave of Indic cultural expansionism into Southeast Asia. She is the author of Head and Heart: Valour and Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India (2013). E-mail: mary.storm@sit.edu
The Indus Valley: The Beginnings of Indian Culture - Ancient Man and His First Civilizations
The Indus Valley: The Beginnings of Indian Culture - Ancient Man and His First Civilizations
The astronomical wonder
One of a kind: An old drawing of the temple by Thomas Daniel in 1792.