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27 July, 2012

The Way to Liberation: Indological Studies in Japan

By- Sengaku Mayeda in collaboration with Y. Matsunami, M. Tokunaga and H. Marui

For the past 100 years, books and periodicals in the field of Indological studies in Japan have increased enomously year by year in number and diversity of subject and methodology. However, these achievements by Japanese scholars have overwhelmingly been published in Japanese and, therefore, they have hardly been accessible to most Indian, European and American scholars. This tendency remains true even today.

The present work in two volumes was planned for the purpose of rectifying the present situation even in some small measure. It consists of articles written by comparatively younger Japanese scholars who are at present actively engaged in the various fields of Indological studies and, in addition, selected bibliographies of Indolgical publications in Japan for the past 10 years from 1987 to 1997.

Sengaku Mayeda is Professor Emerius at the University of Tokyo and Head of the Graduate School of Human and Cultural Studies at Musashino Women’s University.

ISBN 81-7304-374-4 2001 290p. Rs.550/ pounds 45

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The Pandit: Traditional Scholarship in India

By- Axel Michaels (Eds.)

In January 1999, the distinguished scholar Pandit Dr. Parameswara Aithal retired from his position at Heidelberg University. To mark this occasion, Prof. Axel Michals organized a symposium on the institution of the Pandit and the future of traditional Sanskrit scholarship in India and the West. The present volume contains the learned papers of the conference which cover a wide range of topics, e.g. the pandit as a private scholar, university teacher, public intellectual or legal adviser, also traditional ways of Sanskrit teaching and learning, especially the methods of memorization and transfer of traditional knowledge, among other things. Life histories of some well-known pandits such as Krshnashastri Chiplunkar, Hazari Prasad Dvivedi, Goinath Kaviraj, V.S. Apte, and others are also provided.

Axel Michaels, studied Indology, Philosophy and Law in Munich, Hamburg and Varanasi. He was Director of the Nepal Research Centre (Kathmndu), Spalding (Oxford), and Professor for the History of Religions at the University of Berne. Since 1996 he is Professor of Classical Indology at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg.

ISBN 81-7304-435-X 2001 266p. Rs.550/ pounds 55

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The Concept of Hero in Indian Culture

By- Heidrun Bruckner, Hugh van Skyhawk, Claus Peter Zoller (Eds.)

The concept of the hero (via, sura nayaka) is of crucial importance in Indian civilization, from the Vedic to the present times. The contributors to this volume include scholars of times. The contributors to this volume include scholars of Indology history, religion, literature, politics and anthropology.

Papers study, ‘The Birth of the Hero in Ancient India’, including Vedic gods as well as the Jina and the Buddha (Bollee), ‘Heroes and Kings’ (Jansen), ‘Kings as Heroes’ in the Sanskrit carita literature (Thapar), and ‘Himalayan Heroes’ in oral folk epics (van Skyhawk Shankaranarayana), Tamil folk narrative (Ferro-Luzzi) modern literature (Gatzlaff, Oesterheld) and Sanskrit drama (Byrski). Other papers deal with political leadership (Shelke), with Hanuman as Mahavira (Duncan) and ‘From Sacrificer to Hero’ (Sakharov). This is an indispensable volume for the scholars of Indian religion and culture.

Heidrun Bruckner is Professor of Indology and South Asian Studies at the University of Wurzurg.

Hugh van Skyhawk is Associate Professor (Privatdozent) of Indology and History of South Asian Religions at the Institute of Indology of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.

Claus Peter Zoller is Associate Professor of Hindi at the University of Oslo.

ISBN 81-7304-710-3 2007 308p. Rs.795/ pounds 65

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Sanskrit and Orientalism: Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958

By- Douglas T. McGetchin, Peter K.J. Park, and D. R. SarDesai (Eds.)

The groundbreaking studies contained in this volume present a history of Sanskrit philology and comparative-historical linguistics that is fully integrated with German political and intellectual history ranging from the Enlightenment to Cold War eras. The authors engage and extend the intercultural ‘dialogue’ that Wilhelm Halbfass powerfully initiated in India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding (1988). This volume contains his last public address, in which he challenges the ‘Otherness’ of German Indology, seeing Germany as fitting a European pattern.

While the lack of direct German colonial involvement in India does not completely eliminate the relevance of Edward Said’s arguments in Orientalism (1978) for German Indology, it does call for an individual appraisal of the German case. The long-tauted special historical relationship between India and Germany, as purported by some professional Indologists, is at last critically examined in this volume by historians who are able to approach the question with a knowledge of the particulars of institutional as well as intellectual and political history.

Douglas T. McGetchin is a Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego.

Peter K.J. Park is a candidate for a Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Los Angeles.

D.R. SarDesai is Professor Emeritus at UCLA. A member of the History faculty since 1966, he was the Department’s Vice-Chair and the first holder of the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian History, from 1998 to 2001.

ISBN 81-7304-557-7 2004 386p. Rs.895/ pounds 55

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Popular Religion and Ascetic Practices: New Studies on Mahima Dharma

By- Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Johannes Beltz (Eds.)

This volume brings together new research by Indian and German scholars on Mahima Dharma of Orissa. It combines anthropological insights, historical research and textual analyses to offer a wide variety of perspectives on this popular yet relatively unknown religion: perspectives on this popular yet relatively unknown religion: perspectives which have taken shape in field experience in Orissa and research in Germany.

Starting with an essay by Anncharlott Eschmann, whose pioneering work in the last century had kindled academic interest in the Dharma, this book blends current investigations of different hue and textures in order to provide a nuanced and detailed account of this multi-dimensional religious order in the different phases of its evolution.

Apart from diverse assessments of the life and works of the life and works of the radical poet Bhima Bhoi, it also includes translations from his important works of Bhima Bhoi and and Biswanath Baba, crucial records of the archives and unpublished letters and photos of Eschmann. Needless to say, this volume will cater to a readership interested in the anthropology, sociology, philosophy and history of religions but also to people who are attached to the land of Orissa, its rich culture and the Dharma itself.

Ishita Banerjee-Dube is Professor at the Centre for Asian and African Studies.

Johannes Beltz is Curator of Indian art at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, Switzerland.

ISBN 81-7304-756-1 2008 262p. Rs.695/ pounds 45

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Perception of the Vedas

By- Vidya Nivas Misra (ed.)

This collection of Ananda Coomarasamy essays taken from several volumes presents a full interlinking of not only Vedic texts and their exegetical texts in the Indian tradition itself but also of the related metaphysical texts in other traditions.

The essays are similar in character and although written on random topics, bear upon unity of thought and reflect single minded contemplation of him.

The volume opens a new vista of interpreting the Vedic lore.

Vidya Nivas Misra is an eminent scholar, sanskritist and distinguished educationalist. He was Professor, Head of Department and later Vice – Chancellor of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi. At present, he is a Member of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Trust.

ISBN 81-7304-254-3 2000 449p. Rs.800/ pounds 85

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