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18 October, 2012

History and Development of Prakrit Literature

By- J.C. Jain

History and Development of Prakrit Literature traces the important role played by Prakrit language and narrative literature in the development of Indian languages and literature. This is considered to be the first attempt ever, by any Indian or foreign scholar in this field.

This publication has been painstakingly, manually prepared by Dr. J.C. Jain after a detailed research of a wide range of Indian and foreign literary works, which has taken several years.

The manifold contributions of Prakrit in the field of Ardhamagadhi, Sauraseni, Maharastri and Paisachi language and literature, development of narrative literature in Maharastri, contributions in the field of Sanskrit poetics and drama have all been incorporated in this rare publication.

Dr. Jain has considered all the traditional views of ancient authors and grammarians and has compared them to those of the modern times, to enable to present a clear viewpoint to the readers.

Prof. Dr. Jagdish Chandra Jain (1909-1994), a legendary figure in the field of Indology, specifically Jainological and Prakrit studies, occupied the Chair in the Universities of Bombay (India), Peking (China) and Kiel (Germany). His lecture tour to most of the international universities of Europe, Soviet Union, USA, Canada and Latin America was a milestone of his efforts to bring the Indian wisdom in the practical grip of human society.

Besides an author of more than 80 books on a variety of subjects, he has contributed numerous research papers to Indian and foreign journals. One aspect of Dr. Jain’s versatile personality was his active participation in the freedom struggle of India and association with Mahatma Gandhi, Gurudeva Tagore and Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. The Municipal Corporation of Mumbai, honoured him by naming the road of his residence after him and to keep his memory alive, the Government of India has released a commemorative postal stamp recently. He was the recipient of several national and international literary awards.

ISBN 978-81-7304-537-0 2004 520p. Rs.1095/Pounds 70

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Globalization and the Developing Economies: Theory and Evidence

By- Aditya Bhattacharjea and Sugata Marjit (eds)

Universities in developing countries often face severe resource constraints, making it difficult for them to stock their libraries with the latest books and journals, and to attract and retain faculty who are abreast of current trends in research. In order to meet this perceived gap, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) funded a conference at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, at which papers wee presented by specialists on various aspets of development. This volume comprises substantially updated and revised versions of those papers, in which the authors show how recent theoretical techniques and statistical analyses can illuminate a wide range of important issues in developing countries.

The volume begins with case studies of economic reforms in Russia, Korea and Malaysia, each in its own way an example of what can go wrong with simplistic prescriptions advocating either free markets or controls independent of the institutional context. These chapters lead into models of exchange rate behaviour and balance of payments crises, and area of contemporary concern. Other chapters examine recent theoretical treatments of international trade in relation to cumulative patterns of development and underdevelopment, international labour mobility and remittances. Two largely statistical chapters come up with findings that contribute new and disturbing insights to two long-running debates, one on the deterioration of developing countries’ terms of trade and the other on the weak kink between incomes and nutrition in India. A final chapter reviews various analytical perspectives on the family and fertility in developing countries.

Apart from acquainting readers with recent techniques and trends, the essays also point to possible directions for future research. The book should thus be of interest to teachers and students of economics and development.

Aditya Bhattacharjea, Reader, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.

Sugata Marjit, Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

ISBN 978-81-7304-545-5 2004 234p. Rs.475/Pounds 40

16 October, 2012

Globalization and Local Development in India : Examining the Spatial Dimension

Globalization and Local Development in India : Examining the Spatial Dimension

Frédéric Landy and Basudeb Chaudhuri (eds)

This collective volume brings together the interdisciplinary work of a group of French social science scholars who have specialized on India. By focusing on the different levels or ‘scales’ of development—local, regional, national and international—of India in the last few decades, multidisciplinary perspectives from geography, economics, anthropology, sociology, agronomy and history try to highlight the complexity of the Indian development process, in particular the fact that India’s development cannot be pinpointed down as occurring at one single level.

Most of the essays are based on fieldwork in India, and the introduction raises methodological and conceptual issues on globalization from a specifically French social science perspective. This book will be useful to students and researchers who are interested in both sectoral studies and also a wider social science perspective on India development, with a very realistic appraisal of globalization and its impact on India. The long-term perspectives that are highlighted in this book will enable both scholars and a wider audience to evaluate the strengths and the problems that face India’s economy and its vibrant democracy.

Frédéric Landy, Associate Professor of Geography, Laboratoire Geotropiques, University of Paris X-Nanterre, and Research Associate, Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS), Paris.

Basudeb Chaudhuri, Associate Professor of Economics, Centre for Reserch in Economics and Management, University of Caen, Normandy, and Research Associate, Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS), Paris.

ISBN 978-81-7304-540-0 2004 250p. Rs.625/Pounds 45

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

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