When Olivia, a forthright young American, comes to live with her very proper British relatives, she falls headlong into love with angry, half-caste Jai. Olivia believes nothing will ever diminish her love for Jai, but can it withstand the terrible revenge he is planning to take on the people who betrayed him? Ryman has done a good job of portraying the closed, rigidly stratified colonial society; against this background her vibrant, passionate main characters compel attention. Occasional lapses into overheated prose are disconcerting but don't impede the story's flow. Suspense, exotic locales, and strong-willed lovers make this novel a treat for romance readers.

    Colorful and compelling, it brings to life a world never before portrayed as it tells the dramatic and stormy tale of Dinah Sassoon's quest for love and justice.

    Kaye's fiction will discover here the source of the characters, settings, and certain incidents of her novels. Most of all, they will bask in this warm account of a young woman's remarkable life--and the beginnings of a love affair with an India whose time has passed but which has not been forgotten. 24 pages of black-and-white photographs.

    In the book Ayodhya retains its importance, but it does not occupy the centre of discussion. In dealing with its subject, it exercises complete fidelity to truth; unlike secularist and Marxist writers, it does not believe in re-writing and fabricating history.

    To highlight the importance of the role played by Ambedkar in improving the conditions of untouchables, and the constructive and leading role he played in building modern India, this timeline of events is of great help. The book talks about the crowning achievements of the man in drafting the constitution of India, and the uplifting work he remained loyal to, all his life. The author has added a genealogical table of the Ambedkar family, Ambedkar’s educational career, a list of his basic writings and a bibliography. This chronology will serve as one of the best reference works to those who are interested in Dr. Ambedkar’s influence on the advancement of the downtrodden.

    Laxman is India's best-known and best-loved cartoonist. For nearly forty years his immortal character, the Connon Man has continued to delight and charm readers.

    This is the definitive biography of the Boses, placing them in the context of the Indian freedom struggle and international politics of the period. The author uses materials gathered in Europe and Asia from archives, records and 150 interviews he conducted with the brothers' political contemporaries and family members.

    It also goes beyond the mere dynamics of the socio-economic structures of a society in a particular era. D. D. Kosambi’s An Introduction To The Study Of Indian History propagates these very ideas in a significantly scientific manner.With a complete novel approach to the study of history, the book uses a scientific methodology, contemporary techniques of interpretation, and analyses basic problems making extremely absorbing and vivid observations.An Introduction to the Study of Indian History has been hailed by various sections of the society as an epoch-making book with brilliantly formulated and original ideas. Considered to be a seminal contribution to the study of history, it is one of the few books that went on to propagate that Indian history cannot be studied in a manner similar to the study of European history. The fruit of fecund and patient research and the mature manifestation of a profound mind, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History can best be termed as the perfect scientific amalgamation of facts, meanings and their importance.It is with this book that DD Kosambi introduced his novel style of studying history -- essentially by applying a scientific and mathematical approach to the subject. Thanks to this unique style and a generous use of examples gained from his own in-depth research, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History was very well received after it was first published in 1956.Ever since, it is believed to have stimulated the thoughts and minds of thousands of students across the world who have been using it for references to Indian history. The book is also a reflection of how DD Kosambi revolutionised the study of Indian history with his Marxist approach.

    

    It traces the history of the British Indian sepoy back to the fifteenth century, firmly rooting him in India's medieval past. It also shows that, from the anthropological point of view, it was not the hierarchically arranged castes, but rather the multiple alliances and fluid identities of the peasantry that were the central phenomena of North Indian politics and decision making.

    The Locana, presented here in English translation for the first time, is a commentary on the ninth-century "Dhvanyaloka" of Anandavardhana, which is itself the pivotal work in the history of Indian poetics.The "Dhvanyaloka" revolutionized Sanskrit literary theory by proposing that the main goal of good poetry is the evocation of a mood or "flavor" ("rasa") and that this process can be explained only by recognizing a semantic power beyond denotation and metaphor, namely, the power of suggestion. On the basis of this analysis the "Locana" develops a theory of the psychology of aesthetic response.This edition is the first to make the two most influential works of traditional Sanskrit literary and aesthetic theory fully accessible to readers who want to know more about Sanskrit literature. The editorial annotations furnish the most complete exposition available of the history and content of these works. In addition, the verses presented as examples by both authors (offered here in verse translation) form an anthology of some of the finest Sanskrit and Prakrit poetry.

    The author claims no more than to introduce Krishnamurti's teaching but, by studying his own explorations into it's origin, she is able to give help to the reader who wishes to delve deeper, as many will.

    In The Satnami Story, we meet McGavran the field missionary. Born in India of missionary parents, he served as an educator, administrator, and evangelist for 27 years. This book is a delightful autobiographical narrative providing glimpses of missionary life and labor in India in the mid-twentieth century.

    The growth and development of a world economy in and around the Indian Ocean was effected by continued economic, social, and cultural integration into ever wider and more complex patterns under the aegis of Islam.Please note that Early medieval India and the expansion of Islam 7th-11th centuries was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 09249 8, still available).

    An English translation of her Assamese book, this autobiography exudes a quiet courage with which she faced the tormenting pain and desolation she suffered since childhood. Coming from Indira, who says, "Without my pen, I will die," the book is both fascinating and repelling in its honest and sincere approach to life. A celebrity in modern Assamese literature, Indira Goswami tells her story, which could well be described as "Life is No Bargain". "On the basis of research and scholarship," says Amrita Pritam, "she has depicted life in Vrindaban in all its joys and sorrows."

    Bonded Histories traces the historical processes by which these notions became established as dominant discourses in India during colonial rule and continued into post-colonial India. Gyan Prakash locates the formulation of these discourses in the history of bonded labour in southern Bihar. He focuses on the emergence and subsequent transformation of the relationship of reciprocal power and dependence between landlords and labourers. The author explores the way in which these transformations were connected with broader shifts in the political economy of this part of the subcontinent; with the changing structures of agricultural production, land tenure and revenue demand; with local social hierarchies and the ideology of castes; and with Hindu cosmologies, spirit cults and their articulation in ritual practices.

    This comprehensive and detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most renowned scholars of Buddhism.