KANISHKA

kənĭshˈkə, fl. c.a.d. 120, king of Gandhara. He was the most powerful and renowned ruler of the Kushan dynasty, one of the five tribes of the Yüeh-chih who had divided (1st cent. b.c.) Bactria among them. Earlier Kushan kings had extended their dominion into N India, and Kanishka ruled over an empire that stretched from the Pamirs to Bengal. His capital was at Peshawar. A patron of Buddhism, he built many Buddhist monuments, helped found the Gandharan school of sculpture, and encouraged the spread of Buddhism to central Asia.

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Asian Regional Governance: Crisis and Change
Book by Kanishka Jayasuriya; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Asia--Politics And Government--1945-, Regionalism--Asia
...of regionalism in the Asia-Pacific. Kanishka Jayasuriya is Principal Senior Research...Regional Governance Crisis and change Kanishka Jayasuriya (ed.) Asian Regional Governance Crisis and change Edited by Kanishka Jayasuriya LONDON AND NEW YORK...
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Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Crisis
Book by Richard Robison, Mark Beeson, Kanishka Jayasuriya, Hyuk-Rae Kim; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Capitalism--East Asia, East Asia--Economic Conditions, Financial Crises--East Asia
...Politics at Griffith University, Australia. Kanishka Jayasuriya is Senior Research Fellow...LAW AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS Edited by Kanishka Jayasuriya POLITICS AND MARKETS...Edited by Richard Robison, Mark Beeson, Kanishka Jayasuriya and HyukRae Kim POLITICS AND...
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Hellenism in Ancient India
Book by Gauranga Nath Banerjee; Munshi Ram Manohar Lal, 1961
Subjects: Greeks--India, Hellenism, India--Civilization
...Section II --The Relic-casket of Kanishka--the Hellenistic influ ence, it exhibits...Sculptures of the Mathura School The Kanishka Statues of Mathura ---Its relationship...in the remains of the great Stups of Kanishka, near Peshawar in 1909. This again was...
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The Art and Architecture of India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain
Book by Benjamin Rowland; Penguin Books, 1953
Subjects: Architecture--India, Art, Indic
...H. 41 cm: 1 ft 4 in 38 A Reliquary of King Kanishka H. 19.6 cm: 73/4 in B Reliquary from Bimaran H...Wima Kadphises H. 2.08 m: 6 ft 10 in 44 Statue of Kanishka H. 1.63 m: 5 ft 4 in 45 Bodhisattva dedicated by Friar...
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Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road
Book by Sally Hovey Wriggins; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Priests, Buddhist--China--Biography
...Pursuing King Kanishka Around Peshawar 56 Seeking the...the great Buddhist Kings Asoka and Kanishka; come to know some of the well-known...other in this famous area. Although Kanishka was a tolerant promoter of religion...
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Diversity and Planning Education: A Canadian Perspective
Journal article by Kanishka Goonewardena, Katharine N. Rankin, Sarah Weinstock; Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 13, 2004
Subjects: American Planning Association--Services, Canada--Educational aspects, Canada--Political aspects, Canada--Social aspects
...Education: A Canadian Perspective. by Kanishka Goonewardena , Katharine N. Rankin...Education: Lessons from North America by Kanishka Goonewardena, Katharine Rankin and Sarah...Princeton: Princeton University Press. Kanishka Goonewardena Katharine N. Rankin...
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Revisioning History: Shashi Tharoor's Great Indian Novel
Journal article by Kanishka Chowdhury; World Literature Today, Vol. 69, 1995
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Revisioning History: Shashi Tharoors Great Indian Novel By KANISHKA CHOWDHURY In a recent article titled "Figures, Configurations...post- colonial subject in the postmodern narrative. Gaya KANISHKA CHOWDHURY is Assistant Professor of English at the University...
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Postcolonial Urbicide: New Imperialism, Global Cities and the Damned of the Earth
Journal article by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer; New Formations, 2006
Subjects: Imperialism--Analysis, Postcolonialism--Analysis, Revolutions--History, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001
...Imperialism, Global Cities and the Damned of the Earth. by Kanishka Goonewardena , Stefan Kipfer Armoured Caterpillar D...Towards an Urban Geopolitics, Oxford, Blackwell, 2004. (3.) Kanishka Goonewardena, Postcolonialism and Diaspora, University of Toronto...
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Teaching the Postcolonial Text: Strategies and Interventions
Journal article by Kanishka Chowdhury; College Literature, Vol. 20, 1993
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
Teaching the Postcolonial Text: Strategies and Interventions Kanishka Chowdhury Purdue University "Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? . . . Id be glad to read them...
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Afrocentric Voices: Constructing Identities, [dis]placing Difference
Journal article by Kanishka Chowdhury; College Literature, Vol. 24, 1997
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
Afrocentric Voices: Constructing Identities, Dis placing Difference KANISHKA CHOWDHURY Chowdhury is assistant professor of English at the University of Saint Thomas. He has published articles...
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A Perfect Arrangement the Wedding Invitations Were Printed before Kanishka and Sancheeta Ever Met. the Naperville Couple Admits Their Arranged Marriage Was a Gamble, but, So Far, They Say It's Paying Off
Newspaper article by Lisa Friedman Miner; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 20, 2004
...Wedding Invitations Were Printed before Kanishka and Sancheeta Ever Met. the Naperville...Friedman Miner Daily Herald Staff Writer Kanishka Chaudhuri got down on one knee to propose...Roys eyes, or hold her hands in his. Kanishka was in Cleveland at the time; she was...
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Mosaic Updates
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 28, 2004
Mosaic Updates. After an arranged marriage, a new baby Kanishka and Sancheeta Chaudhuri, a Bengali couple profiled May 20 who fell in love through an "arranged" marriage, had their first child...
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11 Arrested in Aurora Prostitution Sting
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 5, 2007
Subjects: Prostitution
...allegedly solicited an undercover female officer, Aurora police said in a release issued Wednesday. The men arrested were: Kanishka Azizi, 22, of the 2000 block of Fox Pointe Drive, Aurora; Todd L. Butts, 29, of the 500 block of Hammond Avenue, Aurora; Rogelio...
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The Lessons Lurking in the Afghan Rubble
Newspaper article by Wesley Pruden; The Washington Times, January 4, 2002
...one of the finest pieces," said the minister, pointing to the rubble that only a year earlier had been a rare statue of King Kanishka, a great Kushan warrior and famous patron of the arts. The statue dated from the second century after the birth of Christ...


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encyclopedia articles on: Kanishka  - 6 results

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Kanishka
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KANISHKA k nish k , fl. c.a.d. 120, king of Gandhara . He was the most powerful and renowned ruler of the Kushan dynasty, one...who had divided (1st cent. b.c.) Bactria among them. Earlier Kushan kings had extended their dominion into N India, and Kanishka ruled over an empire that stretched from the Pamirs to Bengal. His capital was at Peshawar. A patron of Buddhism, he built...
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Peshawar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ancient Greco-Buddhist center of Gandhara . The Kushan leader Kanishka (2d cent. a.d.) made it his capital. For centuries, it was...sculpture, a 2d-century Buddhist stupa bearing an inscription by Kanishka, and a university (1950) with several affiliated colleges...
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Gandhara
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bactria from the late 3d cent. to the 1st cent. b.c. Under the Kushan dynasty (1st cent. 3d cent. a.d.), and especially under Kanishka , Gandhara developed a noted school of sculpture, consisting mainly of images of Buddha and reliefs representing scenes from...
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North-West Frontier Province
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Alexander the Great conquered the region c.326 b.c., but his garrisons were unable to hold the region. In the early centuries a.d., Kanishka and his Kushan dynasty ruled the area. The Pathans arrived in the 7th cent., and by the 10th cent. conquerors from Afghanistan...
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India
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...disappeared in quick succession; among the most famous of these kingdoms was that of the Kushans, which, under its sovereign Kanishka , enjoyed (2d cent. a.d.) great prosperity. In the 4th and 5th cent. a.d., N India experienced a golden age under the Gupta...
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