The Book presents for the first time a comprehensive study of the role of Mahatma Gandhi's ideas in the social and political mobilization of the Adivasis of the princely states of southern Rajputana during 1921 and 1948. It covers their tran…
The book aims at discussing different systems of numeration prevalent in early Orissa. That the typologies of the numerical symbols are part of an evolutionary process has been well defined and illustrated. The polemic about the earliest epigraphic ev…
The work attempts to understand complex nuances of the Portuguese presence in sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries in one of the age-old circuits of trade of the Indian Ocean world that existed between Coromandel Coast and island …
Divine Affairs is an invaluable contribution to pilgrimage studies in South Asia. Uniting meticulous historical documentation and ethnographic sensitivity, Ishita Banerjee Dube's scholarship significantly improves our understandings if the …
It is in the country’s northeastern region, with its complex mosaic of ethnic nationalities at different stages of socio-economic and political growth, that the Indian nation-state is today facing some of its gravest challenges. Time and again, the …
This is an attempt to analyse the non-mainstream perspectives as alternatives by critically interpreting the folktales of the four tribal communities who live in the northern part of West Bengal. While focusing on the alternatives in the folktales o…
The north-eastern region of India was terra incognita till very recently and even now much misconception about its history and its place in India prevails in India and abroad. It needs to be emphasised that Assam , the foremost of the state…
Three lectures in this volume explore the theme of love and gender in the literature created in north-western India – the Rig Veda , the Sufi poetry, and the narratives of love. A textual analysis of the Rig Veda reveals the complexity of ge…
Described as “a case study in the mystique of Lamaism”, this book analyses the central mysteries manifested in the lives of the two best known Buddhist saints from the eastern Himalayas—figures tied to each other by a shared reputation for enigm…
Forgiveness: Between Memory and History has risen out of a felt need of our times when violence and forgiveness have been uneasy co-travelers for more than half a century and occupied the attention of nations and peoples. The Western discourse has loc…
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This book mainly focuses on the life and contribution of Acarya Varamihira, one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the ‘Golden Age of Mathematics’ in India (from 5th to 12th Century AD), to the discipline. Since Varamihira, following the a…
This book explores the overlapping role of religion, popular belief, caste system and the state in the lives of people of the Western Himalayan. It traverses through the Western Himalayan landscape across the colonial times ( occasionally even earlier…
Role of gandhií s Ideas in Moblization of … By V K Vashishtha Rs.595 Rs.535 In StockShips in 14 - 21 DaysThe Book presents for the first time a comprehensive study of the role of Mahatma Gandhi's ideas in the social and political mobilization of the Adivasis of the princely states of southern Rajputana during 1921 and 1948. It covers their tran…
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