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31 August, 2012

Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate

Indo-European Languages

By- Sir Monier Monier-Williams

New Edition, Greatly enlarged and improved with the Collaboration of E. Leumann, C. Cappeller and Other Scholars

This classic volume is a reprint of the expanded Clarendon Press edition of 1899 completed by Monier-Williams just before his death.

In Monier-William’s own words: ‘It has consisted in adding about 60,000 Sanskrit words to about 120,000—the probable amount of the first edition; in fitting the new matter into the old according to the same etymological plan; in their justification by the insertion of reference to the literature and to authorities; in the accentuation of nearly every Sanskrit word to which accents are usually applied; in the revision and re-revision of printed proofs; until at length, after the lapse of more than a quarter of a century since the publication of the original volume, a virtually new Dictionary is sent forth.’

For students of Sanskrit, Vedic History and Comparative Philology this is the most comprehensive and useful Sanskrit-English Dictionary ever compiled.

Sir Monier Monier-Williams was born at Bomaby in 1819. He was appointed the Professor of Sanskrit, Bengali and Telugu in 1844 at the East India Company’s College at Haileybury. In 1860, he was elected the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford, a post which he held till his death on 11 April 1899.

ISBN 81-7304-665-4 2006 1334p. Rs.895/ pounds 95

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Return Emigrants in Kerala: Welfare, Rehabilitation and Development

By- K.C. Zachariah, P.R. Gopinathan Nair and S. Irudaya Rajan

The book constitutes an attempt to construct a profile of migrants from Kerala to the Gulf region, on the basis of an extensive of survey of return emigrants and their households. The purpose of this study was to understand the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the emigrants at the various stages of emigration process—prior to emigration, during stay abroad and after return to Kerala. Another important aspect which is discussed is the costs and returns of emigration, the working and living conditions of emigrants in the destination region, the pattern of utilization of remittances back home and the problems of rehabilitation that the emigrants encounter after return.

While emigration in large numbers has assuaged the pain of massive unemployment in Kerala to a significant extent and raised the income levels of thousands of emigrants’ households by way of remittances, these processes have not led to a developmental take-off of the Kerala economy. While it is the duty of the government to help the returned emigrants whose emigration ended up in disaster and economic ruin (who constitute about one-fifth of the returned emigrants), the government may not find it justifiable to introduce social welfare programmers for the rest of them. However, the government may think of organizing welfare schemes and forming cooperatives of returned emigrants for undertaking projects, which they will be in a position to fulfill with discipline and dedication.

K.C. Zachariah currently Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, was principal demographer at the World Bank, Washington D.C. Along with Professor S. Irudaya Rajan, Zachariah has conducted two large scale Kerala migration surveys in 1998 and 2003. He has to his credit several important books/monographs and articles on Kerala’s Demography.

P.R. Gopinathan Nair currently Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, was earlier Head of the Department of Economics in the University of Kerala; National Coordinator, UNDP/Government of India project on National Strategies for Human Development in India and Programme Advisor, Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development financially supported by the Netherlands government.

S. Irudaya Rajan is Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. He is the lead author of the book, India’s Elderly: Burden or Challenge? Currently, he is coordinating two international projects on ageing—care of the elderly and healthy ageing.

ISBN 81-7304-675-1 2006 200p. Rs.595/ pounds 45

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Reporting the Partition of Punjab 1947: Press, Public and other Opinions

By- Raghuvendra Tanwar

The study is a novel attempt that chronicles Punjab’s partition while dealing with ‘partition itself’. The narrative weaves disparate local and national events, taking the reader back to 1947 in dimensions large in numbers and scope. Almost a day-to-day report of the Punjab through 1947, it restores the human dimension to a story that was essentially one of acute human misery.

Based mainly on 15 regional and national newspapers it closely examines the Punjab and its partition through letters, opinion columns, editorials, classifieds and photographs. Equal
emphasis is also laid on hitherto unused and unpublished sources; these include personal diaries, letters, memoirs and notes recorded by observant contemporaries including civil,
police and military field officers, culled from centers in India and the United Kingdom.

Tanwar breaks free of tutored statements of ‘so-called facts’ to provide new dimensions to crucial issues and events, challenging perceptions that have been held for long, seeking the ‘little histories’, the ‘local intensities’ the ‘local voices’, side stepping in the process the trend of downsizing, downplaying the tragedy of Punjab’s partition, a trend which has prevailed as part of a misplaced obligation to demonstrate oneness in writings on India’s struggle for freedom.

This book is exceedingly relevant to our present times, more so in view of the thawing process of relations between India and Pakistan. It is essential reading for those with interest in Punjab, both East and West, and colonial Indian history.

Raghuvendra Tanwar is Professor of Modern History at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.

ISBN 81-7304-674-3 2006 622p. Rs.1195/ Pounds 80

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29 August, 2012

The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal 1630-1720

By- Om Prakash

Om Prakash reveals the central role played by Bengal in the Dutch East India Company’s activities in India in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century and the resulting integration of India into the world economy. By the early 1700s, Bengal provided almost 40 per cent of value of Asian goods sent to Holland, and over half of all textiles exported from Asia by the Company had carried goods from Bengal all over Asia. Drawing on little- used documents in the General State Archives in The Hague, the author discusses the place of the Company in Bengal from the beginnings of its trading operations there in the 1630s until about 1720.

The book clearly demonstrates Bengal’s crucial part on the development of world trade networks that occurred after the discovery of the Cape route to the East Indies, and analyses the implications of the Company’s trade for Bengal’s economy, with special reference to import of precious metals. It examines not only the role played by Bengal in the Company’s trading activities but the structure of Indian merchants’ trade, as well as the system of manufacturing products in the region.

Om Prakash retired as Professor of Economic History at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He is a foreign fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam and of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Haarlem, The Netherlands.

ISBN 978-81-7304-971-2 2012 304p. Rs.950/ pounds 65

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Region, Culture, and Politics in India

By- Rajendra Vora and Anne Feldhaus (eds)

In recent decades the South Asian subcontinent has seen an often-contentious nationalistic and rationalistic splintering which sometimes leads to horrifyingly bloody consequences. In India the process of transforming conceptual and cultural regions into administrative and political units continues to this day, with ever-more-refined regional identities becoming the basis for carving up larger states into smaller ones. For centuries there have also been many regions in India that provide a framework for people’s cultural lives without attaining political salience.

This book presents a multidisciplinary study of the processes through which regions and
regional consciousness get formed and maintained in India. The fourteen essays brought together here examine various modes through which people in different parts of India express, create, and foster a sense of their area as a distinct, coherent, and significant unit to which they belong in some important way. The modes examined include language, oral and written literature, festivals, pilgrimages, everyday rituals, domestic wall-calendars, caste identity, religious identity, and political movements. The contributors to the volume belong to a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: linguistics, literature, folklore, history, religious studies, sociology, and political science. The regions they discuss range in location from Kerala to Punjab, and in size from a few square kilometers of the Sringeri area to the whole Hindi-speaking region of north India, with two essays focusing on a single city each.

Rajendra Vora is Lokmanya Tilak Professor of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Pune..

Anne Feldhaus is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She has published more than ten books and twenty articles on the religious history and geography of Maharashtra.

ISBN 81-7304-664-6 2006 380p. Rs.795/ Pounds 55

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Rebels to Rulers: The Rise of Jat Power in Medieval India 1665-1735

By- R.P. Rana

This book deals with rural uprisings in the Mughal subas of Agra, Delhi and Ajmer during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries which left a lasting impact on the polity,
society and economy of the region and played a decisive role in limiting the fortunes of the Mughal empire.

The book traces the history of the Jats who were the principal leaders and constituted the major support base of these revolts.

A unique but hitherto unnoticed feature of the revolts was the formation of a multi-caste coalition of zamindars against the Mughal jagirdars in the Braj-Mewat region. The rebels usually took collective decisions in secret gatherings, shared information among them through letters and often expressed their hostility by attacking imperial symbols of power and seats of local administration such as thanas and qasbas. All these modalities of the action of the rebels are brought out in this study.

The study shows that by the 1730s the rebels had successfully shaken the imperial control in the region. The assertion of the power of zamindars found its expression in the expansion of zamindaris at every level. The rise of Jat power in the neighbourhood of Agra and Delhi is an important event of eighteenth-century north Indian politics. This book brings out the subtle processes through which Jat rebels became rulers.

This work covers the period of Mughal decline and inchoate formation of post-Mughal states and contributes to the existing literature on the Mughal crisis in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries.

R.P. Rana is Reader in the Department of History, University of Delhi.

ISBN 81-7304-605-0 2006 222p. Rs.575/ Pounds 40

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28 August, 2012

Piri-Muridi Relationship: A Study of the Nizamuddin Dargah

By- Desiderio Pinto

The relationship between a spiritual master and his disciple (piri-muridi) becomes important when one witnesses day after day the large numbers of Muslims and non-Muslims flocking to spiritual masters (pirs) stationed at the various dargahs of India.

This work discovers that piri-muridi aims at making the disciple see God in all things
while very often allowing him to enjoy worldly success. This is achieved through a lengthy socialization process that spans a period of time ranging from twelve years to a lifetime. This socialization process is very painful, and some disciples (murids) run away. Most, however, remain bound to their pir, by their vow of allegiance to him, the pir’s friendliness, sympathy, material, magical and psychological assistance, and when that is not enough, fear of his
magical power.

During this period the murid learns to fall in love with the pir whom he strives to see as the representative of God, by observing, serving, and seeing the pir’s hand in everything that befalls him, and frequently recalling and concentrating on a mental image of the pir while believing that his actions are prompted by the pir. Having thus attained union with the pir, he one day suddenly realizes that the pir is just a curtain or veil that hides something else—that which he has truly loved all the time in the image of the pir is God himself.

The book is a mine of empirical information collected in the Nizamuddin dargah, showing how a set of beliefs contained in constantly narrated stories and experiences are used to forge, structure, maintain and further the relationship between the pir and his murid. It will be
of interest to scholars of Islam, Indian history and sociology, Sufi thought and the place of religion in the modern world.

Desiderio Pinto, S.J. taught at Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth. Presently he is teaching at Vidyajyoti College of Theology and other institutions of theology in Ranchi, Varanasi and Calcutta, and is also librarian at Vidyajyoti.

ISBN 81-7304-111-3 2006 356p. Rs.700/ Pounds 55

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