A Book of Buddhist Symbolism and Icons

Author: Kamal S. Srivastava
Order No. 51173
ISBN: N/A
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sangeeta Prakashan
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 169
Language: English

The book reflects an attention on the iconographic aspects of Buddhism and to promote a comprehensive survey of the history, significance, philosophy, symbolism, variety and Impact of Buddhist Iconography. Apart from the origin and development of Buddhist icons, it demonstrates Mudras (gestures), Buddhist deities, Buddhas (manus/), Bodhisattvas, Yoginis, Laughing Buddha and a select bibliography, it also includes 28 explanatory illustrations (14 plates). The work deals in simple, elegant, and exhaustive manner.

A Social History of India

Author: S.N. Sadasivan
Order No. 51049
ISBN: 817648170X
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2000
Pages: 799
Language: English

A Social History of India is a systematic and objective study of society beginning with the Aryan invasion. It takes a leap into the pristine past to distinguish between the myths and realities associated with the origin and development of social order and religion and makes a critical assessment of the various schools of philosophical thought in India. The book contains a history of Buddhism and re-evaluates its organized, disciplined and peaceful course over a millennium to raise mankind intellectually, morally and spiritually on the sound foundation of reason.

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Author: K. Bhushan, G. Kayal
Order No. 51064
ISBN: 817648380X
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 208
Language: English

A vegetarian and a teetotaler, Abdul Kalam recites the Quran and the Bhagavad-Gita with equal ease. A confirmed bachelor, his modesty is evident from the fact that he gives all the credit to his colleagues. He burst into the limelight after the Pokhran nuclear explosions in 1998. Totally dedicated to the development of the nation, he has been felicitated with many national awards. Abdul Kalam is a dreamer. He dreamt of a strong India. “We must think and act like a nation of a billion people.” His next goal is to produce a reusable missile which no country in the world has been able to produce. And judging by his earlier achievements, this invention does not seem a distant possibility for this genius. It is hoped that the present book will open a new area for future historians, researchers and the general public to know his leadership.

Administrative System in India: Vedic Age to 1947

Author: U.B. Singh
Order No. 51097
ISBN: 8170249287
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1998
Pages: 216
Language: English

This book makes an earnest attempt to trace the evolution of administration in Indian history. It discusses the historical development of administrative system over the periods starting from the Vedas to the Independence of the country. This may be a pioneer work on the subject and provides it a new vista.

Ambedkar, Politics and Scheduled Castes

Author: Prem Parkash
Order No. 51066
ISBN: 8170245907
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 181
Language: English

The study describes, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's role in the Indian politics of caste ism as very significant in the history of our country. It can be examined by knowing his achievements for the dehumanized untouchable in particular, and for the country as a whole. He had before him the aim of social deliverance, political safeguards and human rights for the untouchables. He wanted to secure for them political, social and economic justice with equality, liberty and fraternity as the principles of life. He had come to the conclusion that the constitutional safeguards were necessary to protect them from the oppression of caste and untouchability in the Indian Society.

Amberdkar and Indian Constitution

Author: Kusum Sharma
Order No. 51001
ISBN: 8170244994
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1997
Pages: 265
Language: English

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's role as the Chief architect of the Indian Constitution is a well regarded and widely discussed fact of our recent history. But how and to what extent he' influenced the Course of constitutional development in pre-independent India is not very well known. Fired with the zeal to secure social and Political rights for the depressed and down trodden of this country this great champion of liberty and human rights actively engaged himself in all the constitutional developments right from the year 1918 when he successfully pleaded for the case of the depressed classes before the Southborough Committee on Franchise. The authors bring forth hitherto unknown facts of our institutional history and established beyond doubt this great impact of edkar on constitutional reforms contained in the Acts of 1909, 1919 and 1935.

Atrocities on Indian Women

Author: Dipangshu Chakraborty
Order No. 51002
ISBN: 8176481157
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 197
Language: English

This book aims to make an in-depth study of the various crimes which are committed against women in India. The book tries to eradicate the ignorance amongst women about the laws which have been enacted in India to prevent them from being exploited. The book also tries to take a psychological approach to the various crimes which are committed against women by analyzing the reasons as to why these crimes are committed and trying to provide a solution to this burning problem.

Battles of Medieval India

Author: M.S. Naravane
Order No. 51098
ISBN: 8170247721
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1996
Pages: 241
Language: English

This book deals with, in an outline form, the main battles of medieval India. Ten battles in part I are covered in somewhat more detail while in Part II a general review of the more important battles fought by the Mughals, the Rajputs, the Marathas and the forces of the East India Company has been done. Chapters on the Sikh and Gurkha wars bring the story of Indian medieval battles to its logical end. Chapters on guerrilla warfare and the Principles of War as applied to medieval battles, add to the value of the book.

Baul Philosophy

Author: Baul Samrat Purna Das, Selina Thielemann
Order No. 51170
ISBN: 8176484091
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2003
Pages: 540
Language: English

The present book offers for the first time an insight into the spiritual aspect of Baul culture in which the tenets of the Baul's spiritual search are revealed from the insider's point of view. From the basic level to increasingly intricate stages, the procedures and methods of questing as well as their inner signification are introduced one after the other in systematic progression. The essentials of sadhana, of the journey towards realization are explained in easy language so as to make them comprehensible to anyone interested in the processes of human spiritual emancipation. The tenets of Baul philosophy, if settled in the minds of all humans, are capable of extending exceedingly beneficial effects upon mankind as a whole, guiding man towards fulfillment of his utmost quest and bestowing upon humanity the gift of peace, of joy, of bliss and all-encompassing harmony.

Benazir-A Profile

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51003
ISBN: 8170247527
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1996
Pages: 186
Language: English

This book provides its readers an outline of the gracious emergence of an incomparable woman, as a socialist - democrat, hailing from a feudal background, coming out of the fundamentalist foundation of Islamic polity and moorings.

Bio-Terrorism

Author: L.R. Reddy
Order No. 51004
ISBN: 8176483117
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 225
Language: English

With the diagnosis of cases of Anthrax in Florida, USA on October 11, 2001 and deaths reported due to disease from Kolar district, Karnataka, India in September 2001 it is now time that we sit up and take a note regarding the possible threat of what has been called a Biological Warfare. This book elaborately discusses the burning issues of biological warfare in the contemporary world. It will be highly informative to all concerned.

Bride Burning in India

Author: Mohd. Umar
Order No. 51005
ISBN: 8170249228
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1998
Pages: 326
Language: English

The problem of bride-burning has received a tremendous importance in the country during the last few years. Rape and physical torture of young women are common in most parts of the world but bride-burning appears to be a purely Indian phenomenon. The bride-burning is an extreme form of wife-beating and domestic violence. This book discusses the socio-economic background of the victims, their husbands, their in-laws and their parents in State of U.P. and analyses the form and manifestation of the nature of the harassment, torture and cruelty suffered by the victims. The author finds that dowry taking and giving is universal in India across caste/community, race religion and income group. The study concludes with policy recommendations and suggests legal and practical steps to check the menace of bride-burning and to create national awareness.

Buddhism Reincarnation and Dalai Lamas of Tibet

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51115
ISBN: 8170249309
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1998
Pages: 236
Language: English
Price: $41.00

Buddhism: Dance and Drama

Author: V. Subramaniam
Order No. 51117
ISBN: 8170241413
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1985
Pages: 104
Language: English

Professor V. Subrarnaniam has established himself as a creative artist through his dance dramas and as a perceptive sociologist of the arts through his recent book The Sacred and the Secular in India's Performing Arts. This fourth book of his dance dramas titled Buddhism, Dance and Drama or Dima Panchakam is his latest creative work including some of his latest thinking on the sociology of Indian dance and on Buddhist themes. Dima Panchakam includes five Sanskrit dance dramas of the Dima genre, stressing the Rasas of Vira, Raudra and Bhayanaka i.e. heroism fury and fear. Three are totally Buddhist and the other two have Buddhist prayers and Buddhist morals.

Buddhism: Religions and Meditation

Author: S. Jafar Mahmud
Order No. 51116
ISBN: 817024949X
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1998
Pages: 386
Language: English

The teachings of the Buddha, is clearly impossible with the materials at our disposal to develop in detail his position, and that how he strove to combine views, at least when closely probed. Meditation-putting away of all pleasures and pain, by which is one of pure or complete self-possession and indifference without pleasure or pain. The book highlights that the ultimate source of all true knowledge and of salvation, for his doctrines is not delivered for the sake of imparting knowledge on its own account, but as a remedy against the pain of life, which is inevitably miserable according to him.

Buddhism: The Science of Life

Author: Alice Leighton Cleather, Basil Crump
Order No. 51114
ISBN: 818722634X
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 204
Language: English

The growing demand, in the East as well as in the West, for a popular exposition of Buddhism, has resulted in a form of present book. Buddhism stands for brotherhood and unity between all beings without distinction of color and creed and the most characteristic feature is a gracious and winning tolerance which is common in all forms of Buddhism. Buddhism is not only deeply philosophical, but also possesses a system of Evolution far more comprehensive than the Darwinian from which it differs radically concerning the antiquity and origin of Man. This book is therefore offered as a modest contribution to a cause which' every true lover of humanity must have at heart.

Cities of India: Past & Present

Author: G.W. Forrest
Order No. 51099
ISBN: 8187226269
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 354
Language: English

The collected sketches were some of the records of many journeys which the author undertook across the continent of India. The Author believes that the work would reflect some of his own keen enjoyment in these cities and some of their serene charm and oriental enchantment. The Author has given an account of the story of each city their temples; mosque palaces with brief details of the manners and customs of those who erected them. He has endeavored to give life to old scenes, and to reproduce sentiments unfamiliar to the present generation. The book also peeps into ancient architecture and antiquity illustrating them with beautiful pictures.

Combating Terrorism

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51161
ISBN: 8176484156
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2003
Pages: 570
Language: English

There is no better way to handle terrorist virulence, on the soft targets than decisive police action. The gunning down of five terrorists in Bangalore on 29th September 2002 by a team of Tamil Nadu commandos came in the wake of killing of two terrorists, on September 25 in the Akshardham temple in Gujarat. Both operations should set an example for the police force. More important, they ought to send a clear signal to India's destabilizers that the security forces mean business about eradicating the terrorist menace. The death of Imam Ali, one of the five in the Bangalore encounter, conveys the message that extremists Islamic fundamentalists cannot run forever. Terrorists target soft vulnerable places of open transparent societies and have no respect for national boundaries. United struggle against the global terrorism is the only way to combating terrorism.

Communist Party

Author: C.V.N. Rao
Order No. 51067
ISBN: 8176842684
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2001
Pages: 136
Language: English

This book lays bare microscopically the pre-set ideological beliefs, the secret blueprint, the polemics, the apparatus, and the modus operandi of a Communist Party. It painstakingly garners a number of historical case studies from various countries, meticulously giving step by step accounts, about how the Communist Party builds itself up from the scratch up to the level of capturing political power in a state. The party's shockingly true main preoccupation with the strategy and tactics of subterfuge, with all its repulsive ramifications, is unequivocally put before the reader. This book effectively unmasks the Communist Party and shows it in its true colors.

Constitution and Constitutionalism in India

Author: Surya Narayan Misra, et al.
Order No. 51069
ISBN: 8176480282
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 413
Language: English

A Constitution is a fundamental law laying down basic objectives of a polity, and the procedures of institutional functioning to facilitate the attainment of the stated goals. It represents the balance of forces in a society obtaining at a historical moment. The constitution embodies the vision of a good society which its framers would like to build in the country. Further, constitution has become a vital part of the socio-political order and the life-breath of a nation. It has been identified with democracy, nationalism and independence of a nation. The present volume is a comprehensive treatise on the theory and practice of the lengthiest constitution - The Constitution of India. The authors of the articles of the edited volume are eminent scholars and they contributed these articles covering various facets of the Indian Constitution.

Crime and Punishment in Indian Society

Author: Cecil Walsh
Order No. 51070
ISBN: 8187226293
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 230
Language: English

The records of crime in India present peculiar features. The cases collected in this volume, with certain exceptions, have been chosen as types and illustrations rather than as eccentricities and abnormalities. The author in his study has found an enormous difference between the number of cases registered and those convicted. He has found that the large proportion of the cases of violence in India arise out of hot blood, ungovernable temper and the natural inclination of the villagers who is generally miles away from any police, to take the law into his hands and to fight out his quarrel on the spot and the increase in crime is also attributed to lack of education, the narrowness of their religion, the climate, and lack of reasoning and self control.

Cultural Integration in India

Author: V. Subramaniam
Order No. 51100
ISBN: 8170241405
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1979
Pages: 228
Language: English

In spite of several centuries of foreign rule and persistent predictions about impending disintegration. India has continued as a single cultural whole. Much has been written in a general way about the Indian capacity for cultural synthesis over the centuries but very little has been attempted in terms of rigorous sociohistorical analysis. This book deals with a crucial period after the end of the Hindu imperial period and before the establishment of Muslim rule when the Hindu intellectual elite built up the foundations of Hindu cultural integration through two major factors namely Sankara's creation and activation of a nationalist cultural elite and the rise of the Bhakti movement in South India. These two are analyzed with sociological imagination. The book also attempts to show how this integration persisted through the Muslim period and was revived and used by the nationalist leaders in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Dhirubhai Ambani: The Man Behind Reliance

Author: K. Bhushan, G. Kayal
Order No. 51146
ISBN: 8176483842
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 190
Language: English

Ambani, who founded the petrochemicals giant Reliance group, was born in 1932 in Chorwad village in Gujrat. He started out as a laborer, graduated to becoming a spice trader, and then set up his first cloth mill in Ahmedabad; finally building one of India's largest companies. The story of the small-time trader who, within four decades, created a global corporation is a part of Indian market folklore. The present book describes in detail the life and times of Dhirubhai Ambani. It will be extremely useful for people of Management Sector, Industrialists, Bureaucrats and the general public.

Divine Prostitution

Author: Nagendra Kr. Singh
Order No. 51008
ISBN: 8170248213
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1997
Pages: 300
Language: English

Divine prostitution means a woman enslaved for the service of some deity or sacred object. The term is the feminine form of "Devadas" a man who is enslaved for the service of a deity. Though the term has its origin in Sanskrit and means "God's slave", the prevailing custom and practices are in no way related to the gods or deities mentioned in Sanskrit literature, especially the Trinity. However, there are many temples in different part of the country with a divine prostitute attached to it.

Divine Service and Performing Arts in India

Author Selina Thielemann
Order No. 51119
ISBN: 8176483338
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 142
Language: English

The present book consists of a number of essays related to the theme of music and the performing arts as part of the divine service in Indian religious traditions, with emphasis on devotional religion and specifically on devotional Vaisnavism. Besides providing some basic insights into the integration of the various performing traditions into the ritual schedule of the Vaisnava temples, the thematic focus is directed at the theoretical purport for the significance of music, dance and acting as liturgical tools outlined in Vaisnava theology, as well as at the spiritual weight of music in larger philosophical dimensions. Dance is treated separately in a single essay, again from the viewpoint of its historical and practical association with the traditions of temple art throughout India.

Dr. Ambedkar and Social Justice

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51065
ISBN: 8176483524
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 259
Language: English

In the present book we embark on a journey where we see the miserable plight of the underprivileged and Dr. Ambedkar's reaction and his life long mission to eradicate the evil. As the main drafting personality of the Constitution of India he took care that the deprived are protected and given their due. The book makes interesting reading, particularly the chapters on race, caste, social revolution, modern menu, cultural renaissance deserve rereading. Dr. Ambedkar's interaction with national leaders like Gandhi, Jinnah and others scattered here and there in the book is spicy to taste.

Education & Politics from Sir Syed to Present Day

Author: Shan Muhammad
Order No. 51071
ISBN: 8176482757
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 300
Language: English

It is more than a century when Sir Syed founded the Aligarh School to disseminate modern education among Muslims in India. Education was the goal to be achieved in the beginning but later by the turn of the century it imbibed the ideals of Nationalism and spearheaded the national movement along with Mahatma Gandhi and other nationalists. This continued till 1937 and when the Congress ministries in some of the provinces mal-treated the Muslims, a section of the Aligarh School alienated from the Congress and supported the Pakistan Movement. After the Great Divide that section obviously left for Pakistan. The pro-Congress section of the school continued its allegiance to the Congress and fought for the independence. The book reveals how after the independence the School maintained the secular rations of India while keeping its own identity.

Elite Women of India

Author: Padmalaya Mohapatra
Order No. 51009
ISBN: 8176483397
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 282
Language: English

The women elite composed of the active and influential women of different fields definitely form a separate group, who can inspire women in general and their background and attitude can find ways of imparting welfare measures of women in particular. The book will be of use to students and researchers on women development. Administrators working on women welfare can get suggestions of women elite on issues related to women. These materials may serve as anchorage in imparting welfare measures.

Encyclopaedia of Great Men of India (3 vols.)

Author: Edited by L.F. Rushbrook Williams
Order No. 51072
ISBN: 8187226102(Set)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 640
Language: English

The book is an attempt to tell the story of some of the greatest of the men who have made Indian history. The legacies of her culture, her art, her literature, her great and splendid past which were forgotten and neglected over the times was revived by these great men and the national spirit of India restored. The classification of the great men of India might well be divided into three parts there are men who ruled India with their stirring examples of courage and chivalry, there are the men who made the India of the Past with its rich culture, its deep philosophical wisdom and spiritual insight and there are the men who took the best from the past, and made India strong and great.

Encyclopaedia of Indian History: Ancient, Medieval & Modern (4 vols.)

Author: Prakash Chander
Order No. 51101
ISBN: 8176480703(Set)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 1,264
Language: English

The four-volume publication; Encyclopaedia of Indian History has caught the imagination of the readers. The growing popularity of these books among the postgraduate students and researches in the history of India is evidenced by the ever increasing correspondence of the editor with them as also by the challenge of press review from scholars from various parts of the country. A brief resume on the survey of sources may give an idea to the scholars of history, particularly the subject-specialists, of the deep involvement of the author in the field of his study and research. As a matter of fact, it reveals but a tip of the iceberg of the source-material on Indian history which the editor has built over the last twenty five years.

Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh (5 vols.)

Author: Edited by Nagendra Kr. Singh
Order No. 51011
ISBN: 8176482307 (Set)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2001
Pages: 2000
Language: English

This is a comprehensive biographical encyclopedia of about 4000 eminent Muslims of Indian subcontinent from advent of Islam to present day. It has been compiled in alphabetical order. Although several biographical works have been published in India and abroad but none of these is able to produce such a vast informative biography of prominent Indian personalities from ancient time to present day. The entries included in these volumes cover a wide range of competent surveys of biography written by the contributors and compilers

Encyclopaedia of South Asia (5 vols.)

Author: S.K. Khanna, K.N. Sudarshan
Order No. 51073
ISBN: 8170249198
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1998
Pages: 1423
Language: English

The South Asian region, which comprises that present-day states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives, has long been significant in world affairs. For 5000 years it has been one of the main centers of civilization continually enriching societies beyond its borders and in turn being enriched from outside. Four and a half thousand years ago many millennia of human development reached a striking in the Indus valley cities of Mohenjodaro and Harappa. The aim of this encyclopaedia of the countries of South Asia is, to make their worlds accessible to as wide a public as possible. At the same time there is the aim of offering new knowledge to the specialist.

Encyclopaedia of the Indian Biography (8 vols.)

Author: Edited by Nagendra Kr.Singh
Order No. 51012
ISBN: 8176480886 (Set)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 5092
Language: English

This multi-volumes is a pioneering attempt of learned scholars to bring together not only the prominent historical and mythical personalities of India but also provide a lavishly illustrated details about the biographical analysis scientists, philosophers, social activists, politicians, artists, writers, poets, novelists, educationists, freedom lighters, spiritual teachers, religious reformers, mystics, and saints, from beginning of civilization to present day in alphabetical order from A to Z. We have tried to bring all leading Indian personalities of various dimensions in this encyclopedia, though several biographies of Indian personalities have been published in limited approach. In our opinion, it is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of Indian biography.

Encyclopaedia of Women Biography: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh (3 vols.)

Author: Edited by Nagendra Kr.Singh
Order No. 51010
ISBN: 8176482617(Set)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2001
Pages: 1524
Language: English

This triple volumes has been designed to meet the current requirement of biographical studies. This encyclopaedia is comprehensive biographical information of about 2000 eminent women of Indian subcontinent from the earliest time to present day. Entries in this encyclopaedia are alphabetically arranged, strictly letter by letter. To guide readers from one entry to related biography elsewhere in the work, there is an extensive system of cross references.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 10:
Buddha: Myth & Legends

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51129
ISBN: 8176481890
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2000
Pages: 680
Language: English

As part of 21-Volume series, this book points out that centuries pass but the stupa and its legends endure. Because legends and folk tales of divinity are so much more readable than a thousand scriptures though they both signpost a path to that which is everlasting.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Myths Illuminate
Legends, Myths & Folklore
Living Power Behind Symbol
Every Religion Has Distinct Mythology
A Revolutionary Concept of Socio-spiritual Engineering
The Pathless Path to Truth
Siddhartha to Buddha
Creation of Universe
Shambhala: A Mythical Land
The Jataka Legend: Some Reflections
Appraisal & Sum up

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 11:
Main Currents in Buddhism (With Kalchakra Abhishak Viddhi in Sanskrit, English)

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51130
ISBN:8176481904
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 764
Language: English

As part of a 21-volume set, this book points out that the most widely known aspect of Hindu Mysticism, beginning from the Vedas to the Upanishads ultimately blossomed into Vedantic Philosophy of Sunyata; (emptiness) and Tantrayana the aphoristic Yog Shastra of Patanjali.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Edifice of Buddhism
Emblem of Buddhism
Buddhism as Mantrism
Trantric Buddhism
Mythology
Bodhisattva Philosophy
Path of the Soul
Religion of Logic and Reason
Kalchakra: Wheel of Time
Bhavachkra: The Wheel of Light
Aurachakra: The Wheel of Light
Yogacara: A Major School of Mahayana
Theravada Buddhism: Dhamma is Duty, Norm, Right & Destiny
Sutra Tantra and Dzgchen
Tantra in Vedas & Puranas
Mahamudra
The Enlightenment
Appraisal & Sum up

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 12:
The World of Sorrows & Sufferings

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51131
ISBN: 8176481912
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 660
Language: English

As part of a 21-Volume series, this study reflects that every one of us is full of anxieties because of this material existence. Unless one is awakened to this position of questioning his suffering, unless he realizes that he doesn’t want suffering but rather wants to make a solution to all sufferings, then one is not to be considered a perfect human being. Humanity begins when this sort of enquiry is awakened in one’s mind.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
All Avoid Suffering, Aspire Happiness
Bodhisattva in the World of Suffering
The Enlightened
Search for Truth & Non-Violence
Suffering & Transitoriness of life
Existence is Suffering
Dukkha: Key Note with Buddhism
Saddharma Pundarika the Philosophy of Life
Universal Harmony & Tolerance
Lee Way to Adharma
Contentment, the Greatest Bliss
Craving and Desire: The Root of All Human Suffering
Pratityasamutpada
Science of Peace, Social, Economic & Spiritual Development
Annihilation of Suffering
Liberation of Suffering Beings through Kalachakra Tantra
Appraisal & Sum Up

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 13:
Edifice of Buddhism

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51132
ISBN: 8176481920
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 860
Language: English

This book is part of 21-volume series on Buddhism: A World Faith. In an age repelled by the excesses of ritualism, casterism, there was the rise of Gautama, the Buddha decrying the Vedic tradition, questioning the existence of a personal god, emphasizing the Nirakara, the nirguna reality. Well it gave a certain twist to the Indian tradition. Spirituality fled from life to the forest, the viharas. Asceticism raised its head. Till then asceticism on such a large scale was not there in India.

Table of Contents:
Humanity: A World Family
Compassion is Divine
Loving Kindness
Buddha, His Form and Virtue
Sabbe Sankhara Anatta and Sabbe Sankhara Anicca
Dependent Origination
Time Space and Causation
No-Mind
Dhamma Pali, Dharma Sanskrit
Realising Fearlessness
Consciousness Inextricably Interwoven with entire Universe
Doctrine of Karma
Equality Liberty and Fraternity
Conventional and Ultimate Truth
Desires and Eternal Quest
Existence is but suffering
Interdependence
Reincarnation and Rebirth
Self and Selflessness

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 14: The Bodhisattva's Selflessness

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51133
ISBN: 8170249104
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 806
Language: English

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 15:
Buddhas: A Vehicle of Social Change

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51134
ISBN: 8170243892
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2003
Pages: 622
Language: English

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 16:
Vedic Religious Tradition

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51135
ISBN: 8170245931
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year:
Pages: 800
Language: English

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 17:
Saddharmapundarika, The Lotus Sutra

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51136
ISBN: 8176480312
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year:
Pages: 800
Language: English

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 18:
Bodhicharyavatara: Governing the Bodhisattvas Way of Life

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51137
ISBN: 8176480576
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year:
Pages: 800
Language: English

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 19:
Interderendence & Interrelatedness

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51138
ISBN: 8170247454
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year:
Pages: 800
Language: English

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 1:
The Dhammapada Stories, Verses & Commentary

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51120
ISBN: 8176481807
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1997
Pages: 773
Language: English

This inaugural volume of 21-volume series on Buddhism draws attention that Dhamma is discipline, law, religion; Pada is path, means (upaya), way (magga).

Table of Contents:
The Twin Verse
The Vigilance
The Mind
The Flowers
The Immature
The Wise
The Saint
The Thousands
The Evil
The Punishment
The Old Age
The Self
The World
The Enlightened
The Happiness
The Affection
The Anger
The Impurity
The Righteous
The Path
The Miscellaneous
The Woeful State
The Elephant
The Craving
The Bhikshu
The Brahma

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 20:
Kalachakra Tantra

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51139
ISBN: 8176482498
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year:
Pages:
Language: English

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 21:
Glossary of Buddhism Terms

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51140
ISBN: 8176483141
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2000
Pages: 800
Language: English

This concluding volume of 21-volume series on Buddhism: A World Faith reflects that Buddhism is the teaching of actuality, and its language also – the Pali as regards content of actuality, takes a leading place among languages. The reader can have a clear glimpse of Buddhism if he intelligently, goes through this volume. In any case the Glossary is likely to be of great utility to the reader in his study of Buddhism.

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 2:
World Peace in Nuclear Age

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51121
ISBN: 8176481815
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1998
Pages: 500
Language: English

As part of a 21-Volume series, this book points out that world peace is not myth; it is a kind of mirage. We have never achieved it. And because we have never achieved peace, it is a real necessity that we look into all avenues of creating peace.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
World Peace: A Necessity
Individual to World Peace
Contribution to Peace
Peace Zones: Oases of Stability
Ecological Values and World Peace
Human Rights and Peace
Commonwealth of dharma
United Nations and Peace Keeping
India and World Peace
The Dividing Line: Non-violence and violence
Non-Violence: A Way of Life
Nuclear: Pakistan
Nuclear Non-Proliferation: A Game Plan
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and Sanctions
Small Arms, Big Impact
Buddhism and Just War
Smiling Buddha
Buddhism in the Changing World
Peace Loving Chakma Buddhists
Peace and Re-incarnation
Kalchakra for World Peace
Doctrine of Liberation & Peace
Love, Compassions: Pillars of World peace
Lotus Sutra: The Way to Peace
Welcome Steps towards Peace
Peace Through Dialogue
March Towards Perpetual peace
Buddhism: A Gospel of peace

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 3:
So Says Bodhisattva

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51122
ISBN: 8176481823
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 700
Language: English

As part of a 21-volume set, this book stresses that the aim of life must be to transcend all suffering and it can be achieved by trading the path of Bodhisattva.

Table of Contents:
The Month of Janus: January
The Month of Purification: February
The Month of Mars: March
The Month of Venus: April
The Month of Maia: May
The Month of Juno: June
The Month of Julius Caesar: July
The Month of Augustus: August
The Barley Month: September
The Winter full-moon month: October
The Wind, Blood Month: November
The Winter Month: December

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. Writing has developed his most favorite expression.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 4:
Buddhism and Environment

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51123
ISBN: 8176481831
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 464
Language: English

This volume, part of a 21-volume series, stresses that the planet is the home of all living beings. Every being has right to live and let others live. Man will survive as long as the Earth survives.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Buddhist Concept of Environment
Earth: A Common Heritage
Trusteeship is Humanism Par Excellence
Trusteeship Heritage
Dalit, The Oppressed and Earth
Eco System in its Equilibrium
Eco Friendly System
Harmony with Nature
Nature and Nomadic life
Equilibrium in Nature
Nature Our Mother
Safety Valve to Impending ecocide
Concept in legends and Folklore
Wildlife conservation
Concept of Bodhi Tree and Forestation
Be Natural
Man, Environment & Global Concerns
Human Rights and Environment]
Environment, Human Rights and Tibet
Reincarnation Theory
Desire: The Seed of Mind
Population Poverty and Environment
Cold War Legacy
Environmental catastrophe
Dilution: No Solution to Pollution
Panchsheel and Environment
Consumerism: Lead to Environmental Degradation
Eco-tourism is Eco-development
Sustainable Development
Vision for Sustainable Water Future
Contentment Not consumerism
Vasudhiv Kutumbbkum and Environment
Interdependence: Fundamental Law of Nature
Bring Child Face to Face with his Divinity
Environmental education: Some Reflections
Loving Life and Fearing death
Excel Excellence with Indian Ethos

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 5:
Buddhist Nirvana (With Text of Nagarjuniyam Madkyamak Shastram)

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51124
ISBN: 817648184X
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 617
Language: English

This 5th book of a 21-Volume set deals with Nirvana. Nirvana literally means without desire, or freedom for desire. People who indulge in worldly activities and pursue worldly ends will never realize truth, nor attain salvation. Only those who have experienced salvation during their lifetime, namely, who have gone through the process of dying while living, are competent.
Table of Contents:
The Purpose of Human Life
Ego Free Living
Living Eternal Truth
Man Delivers Himself
Live Buddhism Be Enlightened
Trikaya related to Buddha Nature
Unfolding Self
The Concept of Self In four Noble
Suffering and its Cessation
Ten Fetters of Human Passion
Freedom From Tanha: Nirvana
Samsara is Nirvana & Nirvana is Samsara
The Path of Souls Leads To Nirvana
The Wise Realize Nirvana
Dharmakaya, Nirvana: Two Sides of the same coin
Suchness to the Eternal Shores of Nirvana
Mahamudra Realisation
Summum Bonum of Life
Mediation is a way to Enlightenment
Jainism, Buddhism: To Ultimate Liberation
Enlightenment- Satori is instant
Peace and Re-incarnation
Liberation & Peace
Bodhisattva Ideal
Dharma Upholds Efforts
Morality: The Essence of Dhamma
Dhamma: Not Religion
Dharma: A Concept of Socio-Spiritual engineering
Love, Compassion; Motivation for Social Service
Buddhism: Admits Rebirth But Not Transmigration
Buddhism in the Changing World
Lotus Sutra: Skill-in Means
The Lotus Sutra: The Philosophy of life
Appraisal & Sum Up

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 6:
Buddhism Pulsative Himalayas

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51125
ISBN: 8170249902
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2000
Pages: 646
Language: English

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 7:
Vipassana Meditation

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51126
ISBN: 8176481866
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 818
Language: English

As part of a 21-volume series, this book provides insight into the truth of the impermanence, suffering and impersonality of all corporal and mental phenomena of existence is Vipassana mediation.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Stanic Hurdles
Vipassana
Insight Vipassana, The Mindfulness
Samatha & Vipassana
Metta Meditation
Universal love
Aim of Meditation- Removal of Ignorance
Meditation Doctrine in Hinayana
Mantrism Synonym of Vajrayana
Buddhism Better Known as Mantrism
Yantra, Mantra & Tantra
Prayer & Meditation
Karma Yoga: Preparatory to Meditation
The Highest Spiritual Discipline
Bodhisattva Deeds
Be Natural
Meditation & Samadhi
Sila Samadhi & Prajna
No Mind Means Pure Mind
Dharma Wish Fulfilling Tree
Self Sacrifice Means Surrender
Eternal Quest & The Desires
Kalchakra: Wheel of Time
True Nature of All Phenomena
Peace of Mind : A Way of life
Penetration and Filtration Process of meditation
The Fundamental Teaching of Quran: Universalization in Belief

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 8:
Global Value

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51127
ISBN: 8176481874
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 820
Language: English

This book is a part of a 21-volume series on Buddhism: A World Faith. Buddhism certainly teaches love among mankind, between those of domestic, social and other relations, but at the same time it teaches love towards all beings with equally great emphasis.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Benevolence: Kindred virtuous feelings and actions
Consensus Building
Deathlessness & fear of death: deathless
Ecological Values
Ego free living
The Desires and Eternal quest
Excel Excellence
Generosity: the practice of Dharma
Human Dignity
Interdependence: law of nature & the world
Life of pilgrimage
Love: A Universal Religion
Man delivers himself: the tempter Brahman
Mind the fore runner
Mother & motherhood
Non-violence; Devoid of all passion
One who keeps on reaches the goal
Patience: a value Virtue
Peace of Mind
Restraint thought
Self is the lord of self
Sustainable Development: Future ethics
The capsule of basic teachings of Buddha
The path of sense gratification and that of sense control
The saint
The spirit if giving and sharing
Truth, the cornerstone of All values
Universal harmony
Values classified
Values: socially accepted norms
Vigilance end thoughtlessness
World & beyond the world
World peace

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. 9:
Middle Path

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51128
ISBN: 8176481882
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 1000
Language: English

As part of a 21-volume series, this book underscores that The Buddha is aware of both possible extremes, which he emphatically tells us to avoid so as to take the middle course. The Buddha experienced both the paths and found them unsatisfactory and hence he preferred the middle path, which is neither indulgence non renunciation, but it consists in controlling desires to that they are subdued. This path is midway between the two paths and is, therefore, known as Middle Path.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
A Revolutionary Concept of Socio Spiritual Engineering
Advent of Socialism
Agenda 2000: Integration of Science and Spiritual Wisdom
Austerity to Eternal life
Beyond Time and Space
Buddha in the Making
Buddha the Enlightened
Buddha, the Reformist
Desire: The Seed of Mind
Dhamma & Dhammapada
Edifice of Buddhism
Evolution of Consciousness
Four Purusharthas
Globally Accepted Ethics
God: The Uncaused Cause of Creation
Harmonious World Community
Himalayas, The Sangam Sthal
Interdependence: law of nature
Kalachakra for World Peace
Lotus Sutra
Madhyamaka has Soteriological orientation
Mind the Interrelatedness of thoughts
Moral Values & Pure Senses
Re-incarnation, Re-birth & Transmigration
The Self and Selflessness
Shunyata is Buddha
The Jataka Myth & Legend
Life After Death
The Middle Path, Sustainable Development
The Suffering
Truth in Madhyamaka
Vedic Tradition
Vipassana: Buddhas variegate contr

About the Author:
M G CHITKARA, former Vice Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Shimla, has also served as Advocate General, Himachal Pradesh. He is the author of over twenty books on Buddhism, history and political science.

Eternal Gandhi

Author: Edited by Narayan Hazary, et al.
Order No. 51013
ISBN: 8170249155
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1998
Pages: 357
Language: English

Mahatma Gandhi is Universally recognized as the most distinguished theorist and practitioner of love, non-violence, tolerance, freedom and peace in our century. His reverence for nature, concern for the poor, deprived and the downtrodden, his search for the social, economic, political and cultural alternatives-while combining lofty spiritual, moral and human values with publication have inspired and sustained many eminent persons of our times in the work they have undertaken in the public, no less than in the private domain. It may also be mentioned here that the increasing relevance of Gandhian principles to the Challenges which confront humanity today is gaining widespread acceptance.

Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka and Role of Indian Peace Keeping Force

Author: P.A. Ghosh
Order No. 51074
ISBN: 8176481076
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 215
Language: English

Sri Lankan ethnic crisis acquires an unique dimension of it's own in the context of demographic set up and geo-strategic milieu of the island state of Sri Lanka. The spectrum of the conflict transcend the domestic boundaries and spill over other contiguous state and area i.e. India and South-Asian continent as a whole. The complexities of the issue further expanded with the near involvement of the extra-regional powers and the fear of a far bigger external dimension was visible in a particular stage of the conflict.

Fifty Years of Indian Independence

Author: Edited by T. Suryanarayana Sastry
Order No. 51075
ISBN: 8176481491
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2000
Pages: 250
Language: English

This book represents an insightful analysis into the various perceptions such as Sociological, Cultural, Economic, Political, Legal, Constitutional, Anthropological and Educational as projected by the authors. This book will be of immense help to Academicians, Policy Makers, Professionals and Researchers.

Folklore of Hindu Festival & Ceremonials

Author: P.A. Gupte
Order No. 51102
ISBN: 818722648X
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 285
Language: English

This work originated after the opinions of various scholars were strung together. J. Bryants' system of analysis of ancient mythology tells us that the first ray of religion appeared with the devotion to the unaccountable phenomena of Nature and the Deity, which they originally worshiped, was the Sun. The Hindu Ratha-saptami, Sankrant and Kapila-Shasthi are the examples. Story after story has been inserted to increase the number of fasts and feasts and advice is given everywhere to support them

Gandhi Amdedkar Dispute

Author: A.K. Vakil
Order No. 51078
ISBN: 8170243777
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1991
Pages: 201
Language: English

The book inquires into the reasoning, principles and strategies behind the dispute between Gandhi and Ambedkar on a few' issues. The researches, so far pursued, have not brought into focus the Hindutvavadi elements in Ambedkar's thought and action. The present book unfolds them and compares Ambedkar's Hindutva with that of Gandhi. It attempts to reply-How did Ambedkar's Satyagraha differ from Gandhi's? Why did Ambedkar follow two-pronged policy of Hindu-Sanghatan and establishing separate identity of the Untouchables simultaneously? Did Gandhi always show disregard for Hindu interests? How far the distinction between Dharma and Dhamma holds water? What were the points of strength and weakness in Gandhi's and Ambedkar's thinking and action.

Gandhi and Indian Freedom Struggle

Author: Mazhar Kibriya
Order No. 51076
ISBN: 8176480584
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 387
Language: English

The present work is a sincere attempt to understand the theoretical and conceptual dimensions as well as practical nature and efficacy of Non-violence as defined, interpreted, developed and practiced by Gandhi at several occasions the Indian freedom struggle. During this struggle Gandhi played a novel non-violent role which proved to be decisive in making India free from the British domination and left an indelible impact on the masses and classes of India as well as the world.

Gandhi and the World Order

Author: Ramjee Singh, S. Sundaram
Order No. 51077
ISBN: 8170247373
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1996
Pages: 405
Language: English

The world is sick of war and violence. It has also experienced the catastrophe enveloping the world owing to politics without principles and consumption without restraint. The model of development that we have been practicing has ceased to be sacrosanct. In short, everything is in a mess. Unless we have an alternative world order, we cannot have a new world and a new mankind. This book deals with this basic question in multi-dimensional manner-social, political, economic and technological. Most of the authors are authorities in their respective fields and familiar both in India and abroad.

Glimpse of Buddhist Culture in India

Author: V. Subramaniam
Order No. 51141
ISBN: 8176484512
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1983
Pages: 122
Language: English

The book includes four Sansknt dance dramas namely "Parimala Madhaveeyam", "Prabuddha Mekhaleeyam", "Khemanguli maleeyam" and Mahakanya Sangha Natakam." The introduction discusses the change from a secular to a religious basis for the arts in India through the Bhakti movement and its effect on Buddhism and some of the socio-historical aspects of musical composition. Appendix II on the dance drama is a sociological analysis of its evolution.

Glimpses of Kashmir

Author: T.R. Swinburne
Order No. 51014
ISBN: 8187226145
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 342
Language: English

The book was written day by day, and the sketches were all done on the spot. The Author remembers the happy time spent in the rambling among some of the finest scenery of this lovely earth and believes that this work would induce anyone to betake himself to Kashmir.

Glimpses of Nepal

Author: Naresh Chandra Sangal, Prakash Sangal
Order No. 51015
ISBN: 8170249627
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1998
Pages: 342
Language: English

This book has been jointly written by Professor Naresh Chandra Sangal & his wife Dr. (Mrs.) Prakash Sangal. Professor Sangal has obtained B.Sc. degree from Agra University. B.D.S. & M.D.S. degrees from Lucknow University and higher specialized training at Guy's Hospital Dental School London (U.K.). Professor Sangal has written several scientific papers based on original researches which are published in reputed Journals. He has widely traveled in India & abroad. He loves, reading and writing on general subjects and current topics.

Gorkhaland Movement: A Study in Ethnic Separatism

Author: Amiya K. Samanta
Order No. 51016
ISBN: 8176481661
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2000
Pages: 335
Language: English

Nation, nationality and ethnicity are expressions with different connotations. A nation has many prerequisites but none is indispensable. Ethnicity has multiple attributes like religion, sect, caste, region, language, color, culture, descent, race etc. These, in different combinations, often even singly, may determine an ethnic group. This book is the result of author's close and dispassionate observation of the events and intimate knowledge of the dramatis personae. A number of hitherto unpublished letters and documents have been reproduced to substantiate the contentions of the author.

Gujarat Holocaust: Communism in the Land of Gandhi

Author: Ram Nath Sharma
Order No. 51017
ISBN: 8187226714
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2002
Pages: 344
Language: English

This book is a fact file. The author has sincerely and accurately drawn the total picture of Gujarat Holocaust. He has presented communalism in all its aspects. Starting from fire on Sabarmati Express on Feb 27, 2002, this book describes the Godhra Investigations, Godhra Aftermath, Communal Hot Spots in India, Minority Laments, Media's Major Role, The Accused C. M., International Protest, Ayodhya and V.H.P., BJP and Its Allies, R.S.S. and Family, P.M. Accused, Secularism and finally Communalism in the Land of Gandhi. These have been described in all details. Pictures have been given every where to enlighten understanding. This book should find its place on the shelf of every Indian who has been shaken from this Holocaust in the land of Gandhi.

Hand Book of Muslim Jurisprudence

Author: Alexander David Russell, et al.
Order No. 51079
ISBN: 8187226487
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2000
Pages: 120
Language: English

While other systems of jurisprudence have grown up, and run their course and passed away-or at the best have altered their whole character in such a manner that only the student of antiquities can identify in the living form the traces of the past-Muslim law remains at the present of all practical purposes the same as it was at the commencement. With the sphere of family relations, (marriage, succession, wills, gifts etc.) more specially, it has undergone hardly any modification since old days. It will stand the student in good stead if he will bear this principle in mind as he advances into what complications of Muslim jurisprudence.

Health Planning in India

Author: Edited by G. Ramachandrudu
Order No. 51018
ISBN: 8170248760
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1997
Pages: 178
Language: English

The book is an attempt to go beyond the traditional concept of planning for health care services. Health is a wider proposition and very much linked to attitudes of the patient, doctor, producer of drugs and the government. This book deals with several aspects of social, cultural and economic aspects of health planning and policy. This book is certainly useful to planners, researchers and students of social planning.

Helping the Disabled: Indian Perspective

Author: A. Prakash Rao, Usha M. N
Order No. 51019
ISBN: 8170246709
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1995
Pages: 147
Language: English

The book mainly focuses on the various dimensions of disabled in India in general and in Karnataka in particular. It deals with demographic and social profile of disabled and covers Education, Special Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Health, Rehabilitation and other Welfare Programs for the disabled. Special attention has been paid to the disabled in Karnataka. However, a micro and a macro perspective have been given to the welfare of the disabled.

Hindu Techniques of Mental Health

Author: Rachna Sharma
Order No. 51020
ISBN: 8187226412
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2000
Pages: 231
Language: English

While several works are available on the application of Western techniques of Mental Health, this book is the first and the only work on Hindu Techniques of Mental Health. Starting with the definition of Mental Health in East and West the book deals with Hindu Beliefs, Varnashrama Dharma, Hindu Values, Purusharthas, Personality and Self, Yoga and Mental Control, Sanskaras and Hindu Techniques of Mental Health. It is the first work to empirically and scientifically study the effectiveness of Hindu Techniques in the attainment of Mental Health through a life style close ended questionnaire given in the appendix of the book. Thus the book caters to the interest of the layman and the specialist, the psychologist and the psychiatrist.

Hinduism for All

Author: Raikha Bisnauth
Order No. 51080
ISBN: 8176480495
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1999
Pages: 89
Language: English

The objective of human life is to gain liberation (Moksha), but the mind (Manas) is a stumbling block, and has to be brought under control in order for this to be achieved. The religious books (Sat Shastras), the nine (Nava) planets (Grahas), occupation (Varna), and divisions of life (Ashram as) are very useful aids to realize this worthwhile objective. The descent (Avatara) of the Supreme Lord into this material world is intended to give added impetus to achieve this objective.

History and Sources of Law in Ancient India

Author: Chakradhar Jha
Order No. 51082
ISBN: 8170240506
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1987
Pages: 233
Language: English

This is the first book of its kind on the subject. For the first time an attempt has been made by the author to present a comprehensive and exhaustive account of different facts of law in Ancient India. This is an authoritative account of the evolution of legal culture in Ancient India. The Author has successfully tried to give a realistic picture of the prominent phases as aspects of sources of law of Ancient India in its gleaming historical background.

History of Prostitution: From Antiquity to Present

Author: George Ryley Scott
Order No. 51021
ISBN: 8187226250
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 1998
Pages: 239
Language: English

Prostitution is one of those subjects the discussion of which has always been either evaded altogether, or justified and excused by being linked up with some praiseworthy social object or reform. The author was amazed to find that there was no modern comprehensive study of a sociological phenomenon which is of the most profound significance. There are some works which for the most part are fragmentary, prejudiced studies dealing with special phases of prostitution or with its relation to other sociological factors. So the author in his work has tried to deal the subject' of prostitution with utmost honesty, his approach has been direct and he makes no excuse for it; offers no apology and believes the need exists for a work surveying the whole field of prostitution not with the jaundiced eye of a reformer or moralist, but with the dispassionate eye of a scientific observer.