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By articulating and advancing the personal in the public and by imbuing the personal with the social and the political, these literary women transcended their limitations and became the precursors of a tradition that critically examined both traditional values and modern contingencies, yet sought to bring them together to fruition.

This volume attempts to piece together an overview of historical Laotian weights, based on surviving weights from the region, and writings of European visitors from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. The book comprises 211 pages and features over 400 colour images of the intriguing weights from Laos, and the associated Mekong region.

This is the first full-length study of the Dasanami-Samnyasis to be published since the 1970s, and will be particularly useful both for students of Hinduism and for readers with a particular interest in the religious history of mediaeval India.

This is a study for the layman as well as the professional.

On the contrary, a certain variety of approach may serve as a means of convincing the student of the manifold and ever varying character of the conglomerate of religious traditions which we are wont to subsume under the term Tantrism.

In this book the emphasis is on the Hindu side of Hindu-Muslim relations, and more particularly on the role of the Arya Samaj movement. The movement was founded near Bombay at Rajkot in 1875, and it achieved a wide influence in northern India.

The only exhaustive account of this major shrine, this study includes unique 19th century and contemporary photographs, the latter revealing features in its ongoing restoration.

This is an invaluable sourcebook that should serve scholars quite well

Other examples of the effectivity of the "hermeneutics of surprise" are seen when applied to the role of dakinis, Sakti worship, the Marathi Sant tradition, and to Sankara's commentaries.

Unfortu­nate incidents, such as Vachati, Muthanga, Silent Valley, Polavaram, and many more have been dealt with as special case studies to showcase the virulent tribal uprisings going on in the southern parts of our country that are in no way less significant than the eastern or central Indian tribal movements.

These include: the role of weights in Asian cultures, the manufacture of weights using lost-wax casting, metal analysis of weights, counterfeit and regional weights, 'weights' used as amulets, weights produced more recently in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book discusses briefly about the life of Akbar, who firmly established Mughal rule in India, and also deals with him as a husband, a father, and administrator.

The Mahabharata and works like the Arthasastra, the Kamandakiy Nitisara and the Sukraniti contain graphic descriptions of war tactics as these evolved over the centuries. It is hoped that this study will inspire researchers to delve deeper into this little explored field of study.

The historical sensibilities of people in various locations right from Kotalingala and Dhulikatta to Phanigiri, Patancheru, Kondapur and Nanakramguda and from Thotlakonda to Nagarjunakonda, Amaravati, Vaddamanu and Shravan Belgola have been recounted.

The book understands the upliftment of depressed castes as a defining feature of Sikhism.

It became extremely popular with the common man - labourers, peasants, householders, Indian labourers who were shipped by the colonial English rulers to Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, and West Indies, who carried it with them and made it known to others.

The Hittite kings bore Aryan names and worshipped the Vedic gods. The intercourse between India and the Semitic nations was mostly carried out by sea. In fact India was more or less in constant communication with the West for nearly ten centuries and influenced the West greatly.

The verses included in the text, lead one to the true essence of Buddhist thought and belief.

He was also an acute observer of Indian conditions at an interesting period of Indian history.

The book could also be used as reading material for students of history, political science, public administration, business administration, in under-graduate and post-graduate classes.

Many of the essays in this book focus on how the progress of the self is often impeded by the society it finds itself in. With an enlightening foreword by Dr. E.V. Ramakrishnan and a detailed, critical introduction by Aparna Lanjewar Bose, this anthology is useful for all those who wish to learn more about this genre of writing.

It is in continuation with the first report entitled Report on Bengal and is divided into four parts.

These and other questions are raised and discussed in this volume which should be of considerable interest to historians and other scholars concerned with South Asian society and with the nature and impact of Christian missions in India and elsewhere.

Public welfare measures pay scant attention to the issue of reform and rehabilitation of these sections and, they are made to suffer from an identity crisis today.

Through research in Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, the contributors explore how India's soft power has been conceptu­alised and enacted in schemes such as Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation, African scholarships, the Pan-African e-network, Gandhi statuary and India's Covid-19 outreach to Africa.

This book was first published in 1925.

In this revolt, religious faith worked as a source of liberation rather than a source of bondage. Recollecting and interpreting the subaltern history open new pathways of liberation and provide energy to claim new space in societal life.

Essentially, a war story, it presents Durga not only as a goddess in war, but also as a mother figure who tears apart the patriarchal frame in which women are treated as subordinates. Indigenous and secular, the Chandi Purana is a shastra for laymen, a bold step towards fulfilling their right to knowledge.

Written in a lucid language and style Folk Tales of Sind and Guzarat, can be enjoyed by both the young and the old, and will make the reader experience a gamut of emotions, from joy to dismay, from relief to shocked astonishment.