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The present position of this group is mainly due to the leadership of Kasturbhai Lalbhai (1894-1980) himself, who presided over its growth and expansion for well over six decades.

His campaigns include the conquest of Samarkand, Kabul and the first battle of Panipat in ad 1526 are recorded. Unlike most official chronicles, which record the achievements of any particular ruler with pompousness and filled with heroism.

The emphasis in the papers is on the complementarity and root-relationship of the Indian and Western cultural fields.

He recorded in this book what he saw and experienced. The book is a mine of information of Burma and its inhabitants - their religion, their customs, their family life, the crops they grew, the king and his court, and politics, etc.

The book begins very briefly with Asoka and then Kharavela of Kalinga; the Sakas, Pallavas, dynasties of Central, eastern and western Deccan; and dynasties of the Kanarese districts.

The book inves-tigates the colonial notion of 'dry city', and how this notion crafted the process of separating land and water bodies, which arguably resulted in the reclamation and draining of water bodies, and also gave rise to water pollution.

British and French colonial records the monograph presents the reading of history through the lens of climate and provides a more complete picture of Tamil landscape and environment in South India from the ninth to the nineteenth century.

Chapter three investigates 'piracy' in the South-Western Indian Ocean from around 1680 to 1750, while Chapter four addresses the issue of epidemic diseases that have violently influenced the history of Mauritius from the start of its settlement.

In the early stage of expansion of colonialism in Asia, Africa, Australia and South America, the European colonizers faced numerous problems in dealing with the untouched nature.

The author also examines the strategies used by the early writers to indianise the western language and the form of the novel.

'The Portuguese', 'Indian Ocean' and 'European expansion' form the three major thematic areas on which he concentrated his academic researches for more than three decades and hence, the felicitation volume has taken this wider thematic frame.

The present work thus gives a representative selection of the most popular Pads and Sakhis around ad 1600 in north-west India. There are several useful ways to consult this work.

By placing emphasis on the religious praxis and behaviour of the non-elite segment of population, this book offers some significant 'from below' perspectives on the social histories of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Ajivika-dharma in eastern and northern India.

He was one of the outstanding leaders of the so-called extremist phase of the Indian independence movement, which was the precursor of the Mahatma Gandhi wave.

This finally leads us to look at the Mauryan Empire from a regional perspective.

This is because despite the importance of this subject, no effort has been made to publish a comprehensive and collected account of Sasanid coinage, and the information that is available is largely scattered.

Apart from his investigation into Notovich's claims, Shah makes observations on the Tibetan culture of the time, including their peculiar customs, habits, religion, funerary customs and marriage ceremonies.

Interesting facets of his life in India are revealed through these letters, which also bring out his remarkable power of writing. There is an interesting correspondence about his meeting with Dwarkanath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore's father, and other well-known luminaries of Cal-cutta.

The book should be valuable to libraries and to all those interested in exploring the dynamics of communalism in twentieth century British India. It will no doubt advance our understanding of the issues and themes discussed and analysed by the contributors.

Interestingly, however, despite all the reformations consciously heralded the idea of primordiality in the sense of unchanging is a sincere atavism among the adherents of Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak.

lt was in the making for a long as reflected in the novel ideas put forth by the dissident sects like Mahasa?ghaikas and their sub-sects.

The present work sets out, with the aid of a number of contemporary texts, to elucidate conceptual approaches to the problem of political authority in the two countries during this phase.

The book makes a case that social conservatism and preference of gradual change implied that the right has dominated in the political spectrum and countered a tilt to the left successfully.

Their meth­odology, and inadequate sources, he believes, have tended to perpetuate many inaccurate interpretations concerning the origins, nature, scope, and at times even actual happenings of the Uprising.

The book has also been prepared in a language that is understood by those who have not had an advanced training in mathematical demography.

This book deals with the relations between different ethnic groups in these societies and the challenges they meet to establish peaceful and democratic societies. The volume consists of chapters on these societies, such as South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname.

The book is based on the collection of data from the field investigations done during the last seven years, and it will definitely fulfil the vacuum in the history of tribal movements in the neo-liberal era.

A serious study of Maulana Daud¿s Candayan, composed in 1379, in the reign of Firoz Shah Tughlaq, did not begin until well into the twentieth century because only a few pages of its manuscript folios were discovered at a time, in various academic institutions and museums around the world.

The chief value of the book is the picture of missionary labour it presents ¿ its trials and difficulties, its results, rewards and prospects. The book also contains some rare illustrations.