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…
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…
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…
This work is a fascinating and innovative study which provides a detailed analysis of milk kinship; historically a medium for establishing complex social and political networks. Based on the use of primary source material, the study notes that Islami…
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…
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…
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 …
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