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…
For the major part of its time under colonial rule, Burma was administered as a province of the British Indian empire. It was during this period that Burma began to develop along modern lines. However, the development of both countries assumed their o…
This is an exploratory work making forays into aspects of caste, religion and the history of Christian mission in India. These three elements were historically enmeshed in the discourse of the leading exponents of Indian reform and nationalism as the…
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…
A Source Book of the Early Buddhist Inscriptions of Amarāvatī presents the available corpus of the donative epigraphs, recovered during the last two centuries, from the early Indian Buddhist monastic site of Amarāvatī in the south-eastern Deccan, …
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…
The present study seeks to outline the evolution of Bengal Muslims' intellectual and cultural growth during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on primary Bengali sources, it focuses reaction of the writers engaged in widespread d…
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…
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…
"It is the notion of singularity, as distinct from the universal-particular dyadic relation, that constitutes the telos of the hermeneutic practice of postmetaphysics. More precisely ... singularity is the key theme in the discourse of ontologic…
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…
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 …
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