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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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Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures in South Asia: Problems and Prospects : RCSS Policy Studies 35

By-Upendra Choudhury

Published in association with Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo

The prospect of a nuclear war in South Asia has drawn global attention and concern. This book studies nuclear risks in the Indo-Pakistani and Sino-Indian contexts and suggests a wide range of measures by which India, Pakistan and China could reduce nuclear dangers in
South Asia.

The author argues that there is a direct link between a war or a near war situation and nuclear risks. If the India–Pakistan or the Sino-Indian relationships take a downward turn, three nuclear risks could raise their ugly heads. They include: the intentional use of nuclear weapons, accidental use of nuclear weapons and unauthorized use of nuclear weapons. This book shines a powerful light on the possibility of each of these three nuclear risks in detail.

Choudhury suggests that improvement in bilateral relations and nuclear risk reduction are organically linked and in view of the prevailing suspicion, mistrust and animosity among these three countries, it would be best for India, Pakistan and China to concentrate first on measures that can be implemented without requiring any significant changes in their current security policies. If these measures were implemented, they could lay the foundation for more significant measures at a later stage.

The only full-length study and a timely epilogue of latest nuclear dialogues between India and Pakistan, Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures in South Asia will be a standard reference not only for political scientists and strategic analysts, but also for policy makers, diplomats, journalists, defense personnel and the informed general reader.

Upendra Choudhury is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has received his Ph.D from CPS/SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and published more than fifty articles and research papers in India and abroad. He has also presented papers in several national and international seminars/conferences.

ISBN 81-7304-661-1 2006 122p. Rs.250/ pounds 17.99

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Negotiating for India: Resolving Problems through Diplomacy

By- Jagat S. Mehta

This book is a chronological compilation of the author’s diplomatic experiences when,
during his Foreign Service career, he was involved in seven unconnected negotiating responsibilities. No other officer was entrusted with comparable burdens but he acknowledges that they came to him by bureaucratic happenstance. In the first three—accompanying Nehru to Bhutan (1958), leading the official team for India-China Boundary talks (1960), negotiating compensation for Indians expelled by Idi Amins’ Uganda (1975)—he was only a secretatriat official. During the last four—normalizing relations with Pakistan and negotiating Salal hydro-electric project on a ‘Pakistani’ river (1976), Farakka negotiaations with Bangladesh (1977), and separating Trade and Transit with Nepal (1978)—he was the Foreign Secretary which enabled him to recommend improvisations to resolve inherited deadlocks. Most negotiations were with unequal neighbours, which required anticipating the perceptions (and misperceptions) of the sovereign partners. Suspicions—justified or exaggerated—of coercion and hegemonism had to be assuaged.

Mehta also recalls the personalities of select colleagues and negotiating opposite numbers, the ablest amongst whom was Chang-wen-chin, his Chinese counterpart. According to Mehta dueling all day intellectually but toasting each other’s nations after sundown, symbolizes the unique calling of professional diplomacy.

Jagat S. Mehta was Foreign Secretary, Government of India, during 1976-79 appointed at a comparative young age of 53. After retirement, his primary interest has been in voluntarism for social and economic development. However, he has woven these with spells in academia. He was an Associate at Harvard Centre for International Affairs in 1980, Fellow at Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washingtonin 1981 and appointed Tom Slick Distinguished Professor of World Peace in Austin (Texas) in 1983. His predecessor in this chair included Nobel Laureates Gunnar and Alva Myrdal.

ISBN 81-7304-672-7 2006 314p. Rs.750/ pounds 50

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Nation State by Accident: The Politicization of Ethnic Groups and the Ethnicization of Politics: Bosnia, India, Pakistan

By- Carsten Wieland

In this comparative study of Muslim nation-building and the so-called ‘ethnic conflicts’ the author reveals stunning parallels between the collapse of Tito’s Yugoslavia and the ethno-
national separation of colonial India. In both cases Muslims ended up in a nation state of their own without the majority of them wanting one. There were no mass movements that
demanded a new ‘homeland’, which contradicts modernization-theory approaches of nationalism. Wieland digs below the surface and sketches historic developments that triggered the construction and instrumentalization of ‘ethnic groups’ in both cases.

He concludes that the term ethnicity has lost its academic value because it suffers from
inconsistencies and strong political implications. ‘Ethnicity’ is not an existing group of people but a concept of action and political resource detached from any historic context. The ‘ethnocenter’ varies. In both the Yugoslavian and the Indian case it was religion around which secondary features were added as contrast boosters.

Bosnia and Pakistan were founded under the strong influence of political elites and external political actors, like the colonial power or the international community, who themselves through within the ethno-national paradigm and acted accordingly. This helped to create Muslim nation states despite considerable contradictions between the political action group and the ‘ethnic group’ they claimed to represent. While delivering convincing facts and new
perspectives, this book is a passionate appeal for the deconstruction of ‘ethnic’ camps.

Carsten Wieland works with the Goethe Institute (Max Müller Bhavan). He was an editor and correspondent with the German Press-Agency (DPA) in Washington, Tel Aviv, Hanover and Bogota. As a free-lancer he worked from New Delhi and from the besieged city of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. Wieland studied history, political science, philosophy, and inter-national reltions at Humboldt University in Berlin, at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and at Duke University in North Carolina (USA).

ISBN 81-7304-624-7 2006 456p. Rs.850/ Pounds 65

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Minorities and Police in India

By- Asghar Ali Engineer and Amarjit S. Narang (eds)

This timely volume analyses the attitude and orientation of police towards minorities in India’s plural, democratic, secular society and its behavior while dealing with them as groups particularly in communal riot situations. The essays written from diverse socio-cultural perspectives take into account the expected role of law enforcement agencies in plural democratic societies and India’s constitutional framework, also how far these agencies have stood up to that role and deviated from the same.

The essays take into account the colonial heritage, structure, training and working conditions of the police agencies to determine their attitude and behavior. Role of police has not been evaluated in isolation but in the framework of socio-political structures and processes. The reports of various commission and studies have also been analyzed and suggestions have been thoroughly examined. The purpose is not just to condemn the police but to evaluate the system in a manner which can be used for improving the situation.

Contributors include Kirpal Singh Dhillon, Prakash Louis, Abdulrahim Vijapur, R.K. Raghavan, Prem Dhar, Malaviya among many others.

Asghar Ali Engineer is Chairman, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai and Director, Institute of Islamic Studies. He is recipient of several awards including Right Livelihood Honorary Award and a renowned Human Rights activist and social reformer.

Amarjit S. Narang is Professor of Political Science and coordinator, Human Righs Education at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He has participated in U.N. Human Rights Commission sessions for several years and writes extensively on issues related to Indian Politics, Human Rights and Ethnicity.

ISBN 81-7304-678-6 2006 226p. Rs.625/ Pounds 40

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Maritime Cooperation between India and Sri Lanka: RCSS Policy Studies 36

By- Adluri Subramanyam Raju and S.I. Keethaponcalan

Published in association with Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo

Maritime boundary of India and Sri Lanka is divided at three different points in different seas: the Bay of Bengal in the north, the Palk Straits in the middle, and the Gulf of Mannar in the South. The maximum distance between these two countries in the Palk Straits is about 45 km. and the minimum distance is around 16 km. between Dhanushkodi on the Indian side and Thalaimannar on the Sri Lankan coast. They don’t have Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) in the area. They have rights over 12 to 22 km. of water. The countries signed bilateral agreements on the Kachchativu Island in June 1974 and on the maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mannar and the Bay of Bengal in March 1976. However, there are some contentious issues between them. The study has analysed the various maritime issues between India and Sri Lanka.

The work focuses on the reasonable options available to both countries. It brings out a new perspective on the problem between a larger and a smaller country. Moreover, some of the issues in maritime relations directly and indirectly affect lives of communities in and around the coastal areas. A systematic analysis of these issues may imporve understanding of the
dynamics of the problems at hand among policy makers, most of whom are largely
disconnected from the ground realities. Such an understanding may help resolve some of the problems faced by these communities.

Adluri Subramanyam Raju is a Honorary Academic Fellow at the Indo-American Centre for International Studies, Hyderabad and Associate Editor for Indian Ocean Survey. He was Salzburg Seminar Fellow (2006), recipient of the Mahbub-ul-Haq Award (2003), Scholar of Peace (2002) and Kodikara Award (1998). He has published five books and more than a dozen articles.

S.I. Keethaponcalan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He holds a masters and a doctoral degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, Virginia and Nova Southeastern University, Florida respectively. He has published widely on issues relating to Sri Lanka and South Asia.

ISBN 81-7304-690-5 2006 126p. Rs.250/ Pounds 17.99

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Interrogating Social Development: Global Perspectives and Local Initiatives

By- Debal K. SinghaRoy

This collection of essays shows that as the developmental processes have not positively impacted all sections of the society, due to inherited socio-cultural considerations on the one hand and the state failure to ensure equity to all its citizen on the other, pre-existing social imbalances have been reproduced and furthered keeping vast sections of the population persistently poor, illiterate, in ill-health, un/underemployed, homeless, voiceless, and vulnerable. Beside elaborating the dominant perspectives of social development, it also elucidates several developmental initiatives undertaken among the tribes, dalits, forest dwellers, women, physically challenged, sex-workers in various parts of the country and recorded emerging praxes of social development that have emerged from the grass-roots experiences of cooperative activisms. Self-Help Group initiatives, corporate social partnerships, interactivity of marginalized communities, and ICTs interventions.

This collection would be of immense use to students, researchers, teachers of sociology, political science, economics, history, public administration, social psychology and development studies and civil society activists, planners, executives and politicians dealing with the issues of social development, marginalization and social exclusion.

Debal K. SinghaRoy is Professor of Sociology, in the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University. He is a recipient of the Australian Government Endeavour Fellowship, 2010.

ISBN 978-81-7304-871-5 2010 474p. Rs.1250/ pounds 65

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Eastern India in the Late Nineteenth Century (Part II: 1880s-1890s): Documents on Economic History of British Rule in India, 1858-1947

Eastern India in the Late Nineteenth Century (Part II: 1880s-1890s): Documents on Economic History of British Rule in India, 1858-1947

By- Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay (eds.)

The Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) has recently revived its Major Project on the collection and collation of important documents pertaining to the economic history of British rule in India covering the period 1858-1947. Economic history is taken here in the widest possible meaning of the term, covering data and developments judged significant from the economic, social, cultural ecological history of the country. The present volume is concerned with a wide range of economic documents for Eastern India covered by the Bengal Presidency of British India in the late nineteenth century.

The volume is divided into two parts, Part I (1860s-1870s) and Part II (1880s-1890s). The Part I has been published in 2009. The Part II contains documents on economic history of the region in the last two decades of the nineteenth century when the mark of the new administration of the British Raj was felt by the people in myriad ways. These documents do reflect on the economic conditions of the people in diverse fields, often culminated by the more dramatic presence of scarcity or famines. Accordingly, data are collected from a wide spectrum of human activity reflected in diverse fields such as agriculture, forestry, population, public health, education and sanitation. A considerable part of these documents is presented in statistical forms, particularly connected with Public Health, Agricultural prices and Export–Import trade. In minute details, these documents touch on a wide variety data on agricultural operations, agricultural appliances, material conditions of agricultural classes, population change, health and mortality, literacy and primary education, value of livestock and cattle diseases, production and export of cash crops, production and supply of food grains, distribution of waste lands, forests and reclamation of jungle lands, tenural disputes, and scarcity and famines.

The work is expected to be an important source for students of the history of economic and human development in India.

Amiya Kumar Bagchi is Professor of economics, Director, institute of Development Studies Kolkata and first Chancellor of Tripura Central University.

Arun Bandopadhyay is current Nurul Hasan Professor of History and formerly Dean of the Faculty Council for Postgraduate Studies in Arts at the University of Calcutta.

ISBN 81-7304-889-0 2011 780p. Rs.2350/ Pounds 150

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Eastern India in the Late Nineteenth Century (Part I: 1860s-1870s): Documents on Economic History of British Rule in India, 1858-1947

By- Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay (Eds.)

The Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) has recently revived its Major Project on the collection and collation of important documents pertaining to the economic history of British rule in India covering the period 1858-1947. Economic history is taken here in the widest possible meaning of the term, covering data and developments judged significant from the economic, social, cultural ecological history of the country. The present volume is concerned with a wide range of economic documents for Eastern India covered by the Bengal Presidency of British India in the late nineteenth century.

The volume is divided into two parts, Part I (1860s-1870s) and Part II (1880s-1890s). Part I contains documents on economic history of the region in the early decades after the administration of India was taken over from the East India Company by the British Parliament. These documents display the plight of the people, often culminating in famines and epidemics. The collected data relate to diverse fields such as agriculture, forestry, population, public health, education and sanitation. Official data on agricultural operations, agricultural appliances, material conditions of agricultural classes, population change, health and mortality, literacy and primary education, value of livestock and cattle diseases, production and export of cash crops, production and supply of food grains, distribution of waste lands, forests and reclamation of jungle lands, tenurial disputes and demarcation of village lands, are to be found here.

The work is expected to be an important resource for students of the history of economic and human development of India.

Amiya Kumar Bagchi is Professor of economics, Director, institute of Development Studies Kolkata and first Chancellor of Tripura Central University.

Arun Bandopadhyay is current Nurul Hasan Professor of History and formerly Dean of the Faculty Council for Postgraduate Studies in Arts at the University of Calcutta.

ISBN 978-81-7304-825-8 2009 462p. Rs.1375/ pounds 110

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27 August, 2012

In the Days of Cages

By- Aparna Lanjewar Bose

A dazzling new collection of poems by a remarkably gifted poet whose vision penetrates to unravel, expose and cauterize the stereotypes in a uniquely individualistic style. Rejecting formalism of elites these verses appear disarmingly simple, direct but too often profound and significantly complex to communicate.

Without the danger of stunning nostalgia there is resistance and reflection and a discernible sociopolitical consciousness besides a regular reproach of the self whose seemingly endless search for belonging, and meaning and sanity collides with a disjointed, base, absurd and insensitive world.

Tender, confessional, joyous, painful, disturbing, rebellious and provocative, the poems in this volume celebrate humanity and womanhood in all its complexities.

Aparna Lanjewar Bose (b. 1971) is a trilingual writer, poet, translator and activist. She teaches English Literature at the Postgraduate teaching department of University of Mumbai and resides in Mumbai.

ISBN 978-81-7304-848-8 2010 144p. Rs.250/ pounds 35

The Forgotten Mughals: A History of the Later Emperors of the House of Babar (1707-1857)

By- G.S. Cheema

A hundred and fifty years lie between the death of Aurangzeb and the final extinction of the Mughal empire. In its first hundred and fifty years the empire had seen six rulers, but during the next century and a half the Qila-i-Mualla would witness the passage of as many as eleven emperors – if one leaves out the six or seven failed pretenders. It was a period of violence and disorder, with armies constantly on the march across a landscape of increasing misery, impoverishment, and desolation. The Forgotten Mughals is the story of these largely pageant emperors with their increasingly ineffectual ministers, and their gradual decline into irrelevance while younger and more powerful forces, both Indian and foreign, grappled with each other for the mastery of Hindostan.

The landmark events like the wars of succession, the dictatorship of the Syed brothers, the Nadir Shahi and Durrani invasions with their attendant horrors, the bloodbath of Panipat and the final sack of Delhi in 1857 are all covered in detail. The book’s strength lies in its anecdotal details, like that of young Muhammad Shah, hiding behind the ample skirts of the formidable Sadr un-Nissa, superintendent of the harem, and of Bidar Dil cowering in a closet, while the emissaries of Qutb-ul-Mulk tried, in vain, to convince his women that they had, in fact, come to call him to the throne. And who will believe today that, as part of the ‘retributive justice’ of the British, for nearly twenty years the Zinat masjid in Daryaganj was used as a bakery, and that the basement of the Fatehpuri mosque was sold to Seth Chuna Mall?

G.S. Cheema was born in Ranchi and is presently a senior civil servant belonging to the Punjab cadre of the Indian Administrative Service which he joined in 1972. He lives in Chandigarh.

ISBN 81-7304-601-8 2012 552p. Rs.450/ pounds 27.5