Indian Art & Culture
(Nitin Singhania)
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Indian Art and Culture by Nitin Singhania is one of the best book for preparing Art & Culture section for UPSC (Civil Services Examination) and other State PCS examinations.
Key highlights of the book
Detailed discussion of each topics supplemented with Previous Year Questions (PYQs) asked in Preliminary and Mains Examination of UPSC CSE along with some Practice Questions.
Contents :
Chapter 1: Indian Architecture and Pottery
- Introduction
- Indian Architecture
Chapter 2: Indian Paintings
- Introduction
- Principles of Painting
- Pre-historic Paintings
- Classification of Indian Paintings
- Folk Paintings
Chapter 3: Indian Handicrafts
- Introduction
- Handicrafts on Clothes
- Various types of toys
- Stoneware
- Embroidery Crafts
- Floor designs
Chapter 4: UNESCO's list of Tangible world heritage sites in India
- Criteria for selection
- Legal Status of designated sites
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India
Chapter 5: Indian Music
- Introduction
- History of Indian Music
- Anatomy of Indian Music
- Classification of Indian Music
- Semi-classical styles of Hindustani music
- Folk Music
- Modern music
- Musical instruments
- Folk musical instruments
- Modern development in Music
- Communities related to music
Chapter 6: Indian Dance Forms
- Background
- Aspect of Dance
- Indian Classical Dance Forms
- Folk Dances of India
Chapter 7: Indian Theatre
- Introduction
- Classical Sanskrit Theatre
- Folk Theatre
- Modern Indian Theatre
Chapter 8: Indian Puppetry
- Introduction
- Indian Origin
Chapter 9: Indian Circus
- The Great Indian Circus
- Keeleri Kunhikannan
- Major Circus Companies in India
- Circus: A marginal industry
- Possible remedies
Chapter 10: UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Introduction
- Representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity
Chapter 11: Language in India
- Introduction
- Classification of Indian Languages
- Official languages of India
- Status of classical language
- National translation mission
- Ancient scripts of India
Chapter 12: Religion in India
- Introduction
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Jainism
- Islam
- Christianity
- Sikhism
- Zoroastrianism
- Judaism
Chapter 13: Indian Literature
- Introduction
- Literature in Ancient India
- Buddhist Literature
- Jain Literature
- Zoroastrian Literature
- Sikh Literature
- Medieval Literature
- Modern Literature
Chapter 14: Schools of Philosophy
- Introduction
- PYQs
Chapter 15: Indian Cinema
- Introduction
- History of Indian Cinema
- South Indian Cinema
- Recent Film Controversies
- Indian Cinematograph Act 1952
Chapter 16: Science and Technology through the Ages
- Introduction
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Physics and Chemistry
- Ship building and navigation
Chapter 17: Calendars in India
- Introduction
- Classification of Indian Calendar forms
- National Calendar of India
Chapter 18: Fairs and Festivals of India
- Introduction
- Religious Festivals
- Secular Festivals
- Festivals of North-East India
- Fairs of India
Chapter 19: Awards and Honours
- Introduction
- Awards given by government of India
Chapter 20: Law and Culture
- Introduction to law and culture
Chapter 21: Martial Arts in India
- Introduction
Chapter 22: Cultural institutions in India
- Introduction
- The Archaeological survey of India
- Crafts Council of India
- Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
- All India Radio
- Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
- Centre for cultural resources and training
- National archives of India
- Indian council for cultural relations
- Directorate of film festivals
- Indian council of Historical research
- National mission for manuscripts
- Indian national trust for Art and Cultural heritage (Intach)
- Sahitya Akademi
- Sangeet Natak Akademi
- Lalit Kala Akademi
Chapter 23: Coins in Ancient and Medieval India
- Punch Marked coins
- Indo-Greek coins
- Coins by Satavahanas
- Coins of the western satraps or the Indo-Scythians
- Coins issued in Gupta Age
- Coins of the Vardhanas
- Coins of the Chalikayan kings
- Coins of the Rajput Dynasties
- Coins of the Pandayan and Chola dynasty
- Turkish and Delhi Sultanate coins
- Mughal coinage
Chapter 24: Indian Cultural abroad
- Who took Indian cultural abroad
- Prominent Ancient ports of India
- Mathematics from India to abroad
- Indian science and technology abroad
- Influence of Indian religion abroad
- Indian language abroad
- Indian temple architectural tradition abroad
- Role of Indian universities and scholars
Appendices
- Appendix - 1 (Delhi: A city of seven sisters)
- Appendix - 2 (Bhakti and Sufi Movement)
- Appendix - 3 (Famous Personalities of India)
- Appendix - 4 (Cultural places of interest)
- Appendix - 5 (Recent geographical indications)
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