Bless You Bollywood!

Bless You Bollywood!
Author: Tilak Rishi
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1466939621

May 3, 1913a historic day in the history of Indian Cinema. Indias first indigenous silent film Raja Harishchandra was released at the Coronation Cinema in Mumbai. This lay the foundation of what, in time, would grow to become the largest film-producing industry in the world. Spanning a wide range of decades, genres, and style, the Bollywood film culture in all its glory is a wonderful thing. Of the hundreds of great hits it has given, some have attained an aura of unparalleled respectability because, overtime, they continue to draw viewers in multitudes for weeks, months, and even years. Bless You Bollywood is an endeavor to pay tributes to the tallest among movie makers, artistes, composers, lyricists, and scriptwriters down the decades for contributing their extraordinary caliber to Bollywood.

Indian Antiquary

Indian Antiquary
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 1906
Genre: India
ISBN:

"At a time when each Society had its own medium of propogation of its researches ... in the form of Transactions, Proceedings, Journals, etc., a need was strongly felt for bringing out a journal devoted exclusively to the study and advancement of Indian culture in all its aspects. [This] encouraged Jas Burgess to launch the 'Indian antiquary' in 1872. The scope ... was in his own words 'as wide as possible' incorporating manners and customs, arts, mythology, feasts, festivals and rites, antiquities and the history of India ... Another laudable aim was to present the readers abstracts of the most recent researches of scholars in India and the West ... 'Indian antiquary' also dealt with local legends, folklore, proverbs, etc. In short 'Indian antiquary' was ...entirely devoted to the study of MAN - the Indian - in all spheres ... " -- introduction to facsimile volumes, published 1985.

White Indian

White Indian
Author: Edwin Legrand Sabin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1925
Genre: Fur traders
ISBN:

White Indian was the nickname given to a young Englishman who, rejected by an American girl, took to trapper life in the far west mountain country at the time when the decline of the beaver trade was opening the plains and passes and the road to Oregon.