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The History of Indian music, scale, mode, various ragas, grace, tala, drumming, ethos and structure of some of the oldest music, forms, and lastly the laws of melody in Indian music.

He makes Sita the central character who is not merely a moral or socio-cultural touchstone. He fills the cowherd woman with courage to fight for her individual liberty, even if it leads to licentiousness.

Two Anyonymous Percepts of Sanskrit Dramaturgy'; 'Glimpses of Ancient Indian Folk Theatre'; 'Stage and Stagecraft as Revealed in Some Sanskrit Plays' and 'The Later Phase of Sanskrit Theatre in Eastern India'.

Development of forms and styles like Dhruvapada, Khayal, and many Ragas have been gone into in their minutest details. Profiles of musicians during that time and their contemporary musical traditions add great value to this well researched study.

Overall, this book is a summary of Panini's dictum on Sanskrit grammar. This book is written in both Kannada and English in explaining the ancient Sanskrit grammar rules.

It is therefore, a work of monumental importance for understanding the development of a regional poetic consciousness within the contexts of classical cosmopolitan structures of thought and aesthetic taste."

By revealing the context in which music was created in Nathdvara, it provides new insights into the functioning of traditional artist communities and their response to the challenges of a changing world.

It covers poetry, religious thought, philosoph­ical currents and mystical tradition, the great contribution made by Arab histori­ography, and the various categories of prose literature.

The author, interestingly, also narrates the biographies of Indian musicians. This book is highly recommended for scholars and enthusi-asts interested in the history, forms, and nuances of Indian music.

Also, the hagiographical literature of Buddha and various forms of Buddhism practiced post-Buddha's death are discussed in this lecture series. Overall, this book is written from the perspective of comparative studies with non-Buddhist traditions prevalent during the Buddha's period and afterward.

The author also consulted Vedic and other Sanskrit canon manuscripts obtained from Indian and UK libraries. Highly recommended for those who are inter­ested in the gender and religious history of ancient India.

The later part contains six classical folk tales collected from the Konkani literature, which is the significant part of this book.

The prime focus of this book is to assess the role and contribution of India during the antiquarian age in other parts of the world such as Egypt, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, China, and South East Asia.

Besides, the chapter covers the description of noted political figures like La Bourdonnais, Leyrit, Godeheu, and De Bussy, and covers the annexation of Madras, military operations conducted at Cuddalore and Pondicherry, and the fall of Pondicherry.

This is a preliminary version of two major Sanskrit works for familiarization with the Indian literature and religion.

Originally composed in Pali, there are different Dhammapadas, which were composed in Kharosthi, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, and Japanese. The Texts from the Buddhist Canon is the English translation of the Chinese version of Dhammapada, Fa Ju Jing.

These tales were translated into English to understand Indian culture and literature. Beneficial for linguists, language experts, and research scholars interested in Indian vernacular tradition.

It shows that the Mughals modelled their documentary practices after those prevalent in their homeland and those followed by their Turko-Afghan predecessors.

Stories of the Buddha contains 47 selected tales collected from the original Jatakas, translated into English to make the teachings of Buddha alive in the minds of modern readers and scholars associated with Buddhism.

It would undoubtedly open doors to a Persian heritage as much as it slowly trains the eager learner in spoken Persian as well. Learn Persian will interest both new learners and experts, and an excellent experience of coming across Persian as an interesting living language.

They have brought in their subject-expertise towards analysing various dimensions of Food Studies, covering its interface with folklore, social practices, fictional representation, famines, memory, and media studies.

The establishment of the Funan Kingdom is also discussed, which was the first Hinduized kingdom in the Indo-China region during the first century ad. Besides that, the expansion of Angkor and a profile of the Kambuja Kingdom are also discussed in greater detail.

The Delhi Sultanate, Mughal, Suri, and post-Mughal era coins are also studied in this book.

Beneficial for students and scholars interested in Sanskrit literature and grammar.

Highly beneficial for students who want to learn the Sanskrit language.

The combination of the focused study of ritual performance and traditional ethnography allows readers to witness the ritual practices and lives of members of a small, real-world community rendered virtually absent from the historical record.

It is useful for translation and advanced studies in Persian language and literature.

The latter half of the book deals with the religious history of Champa, where it covers Buddhism, Shaivism, Vaishnavaism, and other minor Hindu sects, and also discusses the archaeological structures associated with the religious sites.

This is of greater interest to students, researchers, and instructors interested in medieval Indian architecture, Indo-Islamic architecture, and archaeology.

This book is essential for scholars and researchers interested in the pre-Islamic history of South East Asia.