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16 October, 2012

From Hydaspes to Kargil: A History of Warfare in India from 326 BC to AD 1999

From Hydaspes to Kargil: A History of Warfare in India from 326 bc to ad 1999

By- Kaushik Roy

Warfare has determined the fate of India from the dawn of civilization. Battles like Tarain and Panipat have altered the course of history. The army has always been one of the biggest government employers and the military constituted the principal item of expenditure for the state.

Nevertheless, military history remains marginal within the academic discourse. In this volume the aim is to show the interaction between war as an institution and society. Along with society, ecology remains a crucial integer in shaping the scope and mode of warfare. A long duree approach along with cross-cultural comparisons is undertaken for understanding the specificity of Indian military history. This book is a work of synthesis and argues that several Military Revolutions had occurred outside India since the time of Alexander. None the less such developments by themselves were unable to guarantee military success to the foreigners due to specific conditions within the Indian theatre of warfare. Only those powers which were able to synthesize the elements of Military. Revolutions with the traditional Indian System of Warfare, were able to dominate the subcontinent. This book also contains guidelines for contemporary military management. Hence it is hped that this volume will not only be useful from a strictly academic perspective but would also be of interest to the policy makers.

Kaushik Roy is a Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library.

ISBN 978-81-7304-543-1 2004 284p. Rs.595/Pounds 45

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14 October, 2012

Existence, Identity and Mobilization: The Cotton Millworkers of Bombay, 1890-1919

Existence, Identity and Mobilization: The Cotton Millworkers of Bombay, 1890-1919

By- Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay

This work is concerned with the early history of labour in the Bombay cotton textile industry. It takes into account various facets of workers’ lives—economic as well as social, cultural and political—and emphasizes both the uniqueness and commonness of the workers’ experiences with relation to the rest of the population. The author begins with a structural outline of the industry, its history and demographic specificities. The long hours of work, the struggle to reduce them, ventilation, wages, housing, liquor consumption, diseases and indebtedness are discussed with reference to various points of view—of workers, of millowners, of colonial officials of social workers and of nationalists. Numerous citations of workers’ descriptions of their working and living conditions are given both to counter the official versions as also to augment them.

The author then goes on to analyse the formation of the certain crucial identities in the modern, colonial and urban context. These were related to religious community, nationalism and class. All these were generated as a result of modern political ideas and movements sometimes based on pre-modern identities and resulted in three biggest mobilization during this period—the communal riots of 1893, the nationalist mobilization in 1908 and the protests and small mobilizations around economic issues culminating in the general industrial strike of 1919.

The chapter dealing with the communal riots of 1893 incorporates official debates and characterizations of the riots, along with the agitations by the cow-protection societies and the ideological assumptions behind census mechanisms. The nationalist mobilization is discussed with reference to the famous instance of workers’ strikes and protests against Tilak’s incarceration in 1908. The interplay of religious and nationalist sentiments, and of myth-making with conditions of life and work, is carefully developed into a complex explanation. Finally, the study deals with the emergence of class identity through the first general industrial strike on economic issues. The present work tries to explore how far these identities were ingrained in the consciousness of the workers.

Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay is a Reader of History in the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

ISBN 978-81-7304-529-5 2004 238p. Rs.495/Pounds 40

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Essays on Religion, Literature and Law

By- Günther-Dietz Sontheimer, Heidrun Brückner, Anne Feldhaus and Aditya Malik (eds)

The present volume contains fourteen selected papers in English by the late G.-D. Sontheimer and follows up on his earlier volume King of Hunters, Warriors, and Shepherds: Essays on Khandoba (Delhi, 1997). The articles chosen for publication here span a wide thematic and temporal range and will be of interest to students of Hinduism. The volume contains essays on the juristic personality of Hindu deities, the history and religion of pastoral groups in the Deccan and the interdependence of folk and scriptural religion. The articles reflect Sontheimer’s multidisciplinary approach, combining the methodologies of philosophy, anthropology, history, archaeology, epigraphy and iconography. Three other articles illustrated by over a hundred photographs, focus on hero- and sati-stones of the Deccan and Western India. Sontheimer identified the worship of heroes and satis as an important element of folk religion. He analyses the memorial stones in the context of other historical, social and religious references, physical ecology and literary sources. Yet another set of articles deals with aspects of oral literature. Two papers can be considered building blocks for a model of Hinduism that was finally worked out in ‘Hinduism—The Five Components and their Interaction’ (1989), the article which concludes the present volume.

The two volumes of Sontheimer’s collected papers are complemented by a memorial volume entitled In the Company of Gods which is being published simultaneously by the same editors.

Günther-Dietz Sontheimer (1934-92) taught History of Religions and Philosophy of Religions and Philosophy of South Asia, traditional Hindu Law, and Marathi language and literature at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg. He was a scholar of Indian folk culture, especially the oral traditions, religion and customs of pastoral communities in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

Heidrun Brückner is Professor of Indology and South Asian Studies at the University of Würzburg.

Anne Feldhaus is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University.

Aditya Malik is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

ISBN 978-81-7304-521-9 2004 486p. Rs.750/Pounds 65

Environment and Livestock in India: With a Comparative Study of the Indian and US Dairy Systems

Environment and Livestock in India: With a Comparative Study of the Indian and

US Dairy Systems

By- S.N. Mishra and A.K. Dikshit

This book presents the first comprehensive study of the national and global environmental effects of India’s livestock production system. The first few chapters provide a descriptive account of India’s livestock biodiversity as determined by environmental conditions, modes of livestock farming, chief features of mixed livestock farming integrated with agriculture, and its direct and indirect linkages with environment. The authors have also formulated an environmental model of the livestock production system in an input-output framework. Environmental effects are shown to occur on both sides of the system. The model should be of interest to environmental scientists and economists.

Based on the model the book provides estimates of greenhouse gases (methane) emission from cattle and buffaloes, carbon dioxide emission prevented due to animal energy use in agriculture arising out of fossil-fuel saving, arable land area saved by recycling agricultural by-products as animal feed, as also from during cake as a source of biofuel, and the saving of chemical fertilizers by using during as manure. The authors then value these positive environmental contributions in rupee terms. Interestingly, they conclude that the sum of these values is much more than the value of output of India’s livestock sector as a whole.

Finally, the book compares the environmental effects of the Indian dairy production system with that of the US. This comparison is particularly addressed to environmentally concerned readers in the developed world.

Dr. S.N. Mishra (b. 1935) is a well known name for his pioneering contributions to economics of livestock in India.

Dr. A.K. Dikshit is presently an Associate Fellow at Livestock Research and Conservation Centre, Society for Economic and Social Research (SESR), Delhi. He has published a number of research papers in journals on various topics relating to livestock

ISBN 978-81-7304-563-9 2004 196p. Rs.500/Pounds 35

13 October, 2012

Elite Perceptions in Foreign Policy: Role of Print Media in Influencing India-Pakistan Relations 1989-1999

RCSS Policy Studies 26

By- Smruti S. Pattanaik

The task of educating people on foreign-policy issues is largely performed by the elite. Although people in India and Pakistan have a keen interest in the furtherance of bilateral relations, various intricacies of the relations are not known to the masses. It is the elite who inform the masses regarding various issues and the existing challenges to their resolution. This prepares people to be more amenable to changing circumstances and appreciate solutions that strengthen peace in the region. In this context the English language newspapers role is crucial in making the views and opinions expressed accessible to a wider audience thereby generating well-informed opinions that act as crucial inputs in foreign policy making. The present study focuses on the entire gamut of Indo-Pak relations post-1989 based on the content analyses of five English language newspapes each from India and Pakistan. It reflects the trends in bilateral relationship and how elite in both the countries have prioritized various bilateral issues and discussed possible solutions on each issue.

It also reveals the parameter of mistrust and apprehensions within which opinions are conceived and articulated. What generates hope and optimism in the topsy-turvy path of Indo-Pak relations is the convergence of realization on both sides that war is not a solution and negotiation, however tedious, is the only path to peace and development. This study encapsulates that with every setback and pessimism there is a reinvigorating new dynamism in building peace and renewed attempts are tirelessly made to reach out to each other.

Smruti S. Pattanaik, Ph.D, is Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. Her area of specialization is security and foreign policy issues in South Asia with special focus on Indo-Pak security relations, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her other areas of research include migration and refugees issues. Dr Pattanaik has contributed to journals and books extensively in India and abroad. She is currently a recipient of the Asia Fellowship 2003 and is researching on ‘State Formation in South Asia: Role of Identity and Nationalism in the Making of Pakistan and Bangladesh’. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Relations, Dhaka University, Dhaka, and is also attached to Substainable Development Policy Institute (SDP), Islamabad as a Visiting Research Fellow for conducting research on the above-mentioned topic.

ISBN 978-81-7304-577-6 2004 190p. Rs.350/Pounds 12.99

Electricity Theft: Empowering People and Reforming Power Sector

By- Surinder Kumar

A comprehensive review of the technical performance of the Punjab State Electricity Board and erstwhile Haryana State Electricity Board has been conducted to identify the key factors responsible for poor technical and financial performance. It has been observed that no reforms in power sector in general and of power distribution in particular will be successful unless the problem of theft and pilferage of power is tackled. To identify the dynamics of this ailment, a survey based study, of perceptions of the consumers and the employees regarding the theft and pilferage of power shows that the evil has got highly institutionalized and has acquired a social acceptability and legitimacy among consumers as well as employees. Pilferage of power is not just a technical problem; hence simple technical solutions will not be adequate. Passing of laws by itself does not ensure their enforcement. The attitude of the people towards publicly provided goods evolved over the last five decades needs a change for which social marketing strategies need to be evolved as necessary complement to the appropriate type of restructuring of the state electricity boards.

Based on firm data and rigorous analysis, this book makes a case for suitable institutional interventions.

Surinder Kumar is Professor of Economics and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak (Haryana). He was Post-Doctoral Visiting Scholar to the Center for Regulated Industries, the New Jersey State University. Newark and Energy and Environment Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. His special areas of interest are: Energy, Economics, Public Economics and Political Economy of Development. He has published on a wide range of issues. He is associated with a large number of professional bodies and NGOs.

ISBN 978-81-7304-530-1 2004 176p. Rs.400/Pounds 35

11 October, 2012

Education and Democracy in India

By- Anne Vaugier-Chatterjee (ed)

Published in association with

Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi

Since Independence, India’s educational performance has been regularly put under scrutiny. Meeting the original mandate of providing free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of 14 has proved to be an uphill task. Various reforms and programmes have been initiated over the past decades to achieve the somewhat elusive aim of universal elementary education (UEE). The National Policy of Education (1986) formulated after a nation-wide debate still stands out as a landmark in the country’s educational policy along with the 1992 Programme of Action which outlined its implementation strategy. A framework of partnerships aiming to launch centrally sponsored schemes at the state level followed later. A spectacular innovation, post-1991, was the multiplicity of donor-assisted programmes.

Against this backdrop, the enduring class, caste and gender imbalances in education called for a political will to make access to schools a priority. Moreover, as schools form a natural arena for the construction of nationalism, it is not a surprise that the gradual withdrawal of the state from the educational sphere has created a vacuum for its use by ideological groups and organizations.

Some of these significant changes and present trends are reflected and commented upon in the present volume, which is the outcome of two international conferences organized by the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. Cutting across research fields, the two seminars gathered on a common platform, historians, political scientists and educationists from India and Europe to reflect on the most central issues in the education sector: its history and development, its decentralization, its finances, its sociology and some of its ideological trends.

Anne Vaugier-Chatterjee, is currently Political Adviser at the Delegation of the European Commission to India. A graduate in international relations from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris), she holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). The major part of her research on contemporary Indian politics was conducted as a fellow and research coordinator (Political Science) at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (New Delhi).

ISBN 978-81-7304-604-9 2004 270p. Rs.695/Pounds 45