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of Rajasthan; Tessitori's Contribution to Archaelogy in Rajasthan; Tessitori and Kalibangn; Tessitori and the Religious Wold of Rajasthan as Perceived Through a Jodhpuri manuscript; The Letters of Luigi pio Tessitori; The Tessitory Collection; Luigi Pio Tessitori's Unpublished Works; and Luigi Pio Tessitori - A Biobibliographical Note 1887-1919. Then come the photographs.
Tessitori was born in Udine on 13th December, 1997.In his short but intensely productive life, he established himself as an outstanding philologist, linguist, historian and archaeologist. Taking his degree in 1910 after defending a dissertaion on the Rāa-carita-mānasa of Tulasi Dāsa, he quickly arose to international prominence and was entrusted by Sir George Grierson, director of the Linguistic Survey of India, with the Bardic and Historical Survey of Rajputana, which was to be undertaken in India for the Asiatic society of Bengal. He came to India in April 1914 and moved to Rajasthan, devoted himself to meticulously collecting manuscripts and to a scrupulous study of the major works of the Bardic literary canon. He also completed work on behalf of the archaeologist John Marshal. In the course of his excavation, he discovered inscriptions, sculptures, pottery, coins and seals.
Although only a few of the many photographs tha Tessitory took in India, eloquent index ofhis attention over the social and cultural context he was living in, as well as over current anthropology and folklore studies, are reproduced in thepresentwork, nevertheless, they are sufficient to communicate, with emotional impact of eyewitness testimony, his contribution to the knowledge of Indian civilization at all stages in its histoty.
For all of us Luigi Pio Tessitory remains a symbol and an example, an example in his insatiable scholarly curiosity, and a symbol in his achievement of that human brotherhood whichgoes beyond all differences of race, religion and culture. N.M.K.
Kolhatkar, Madhavi Bhaskar: Surā -The Liquor and the Vedic Sacrifice. D.K.Printworld (P) Ltd., New Delhi, pp.xiv +218, RS.280/-.
In the Vedic Literature surā is grouped together with wrath, dice,etc., an is condemned as the cause of various vices inspiring the offenses and crimes. However, despite such severe condemation, surā has found a place in the Vedic ritual, in some gļhya rites as an offering to the wives of the manes, and to
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