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This book is essential for re-imagining the history of Indian Independence, offering important insights for scholars, activists, and those interested in the diverse forces that shaped India's fight for freedom.

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.