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The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary

Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality

Author: Bernardo Kastrup

Publisher: Iff Books Year: 2019

Call Number: 110 KAS

17852

Recommended by: Dr Nithin Nagaraj

A rigorous case for the primacy of mind in nature, from philosophy to neuroscience, psychology and physics. The Idea of the World

offers a grounded alternative to the frenzy of unrestrained abstractions and unexamined assumptions in philosophy and science today.

This book examines what can be learned about the nature of reality based on conceptual parsimony, straightforward logic and

empirical evidence from fields as diverse as physics and neuroscience. It compiles an overarching case for idealism - the notion that

reality is essentially mental - from ten original articles the author has previously published in leading academic journals. The case

begins with an exposition of the logical fallacies and internal contradictions of the reigning physicalist ontology and its popular

alternatives, such as bottom-up panpsychism. It then advances a compelling formulation of idealism that elegantly makes sense of -

and reconciles - classical and quantum worlds. The main objections to idealism are systematically refuted and empirical evidence is

reviewed that corroborates the formulation presented here. The book closes with an analysis of the hidden psychological motivations

behind mainstream physicalism and the implications of idealism for the way we relate to the world.

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Holy Science : The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism

Author: Banu Subramaniam Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Year: 2019

Call Number: 320.540954

SUB

17853

Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya

Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a fascinating but untold story of an evolving relationship

between Science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of coming led worlds, where humans, animals, and gods transform each

other and ancient history, Bana Subramanian demonstrates how Hindu nationalism weaves an ideal past into technologies of the

present to imagine a future nation that is modern and “Hindu.” as in many parts of the world, India is witnessing a hypernationalism

on multiple fronts. Through five illustrative cases involving biological claims, Subramanian explores an emerging nationalism. The

cases are varied, spanning the revival of vaastushastra, the codification of “unnatural” sex in IPC section 377 (which the Indian

Supreme Court recently struck down), the unfolding debates around the veracity of Hanuman and Rama Setu, debates on the

geographic origins of Indians through genomic evidence, the revival of traditional systems of Indian medicine through genomic and

pharmaceuticals, the growth of and subsequent ban on gestational surrogacy, and the rise of old Vedic gestational sciences. Moving

beyond a critique of India’s emerging bionationalism, holy Science explores generative possibilities that the rich traditions of South

Asian story telling practices offer us. This book will be of interest to scholars of science and Technology studies, history of science,

gender studies, sexuality studies and cultural studies.

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Why Materialism is Baloney: How True

Skeptics Know There is No Death and Fathom Answers to life, the Universe, and

Everything

Author: Bernardo Kastrup

The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed materialism to go unchallenged as the

only rationally-viable metaphysics. This book seeks to change this. It uncovers the absurd implications of materialism and then,

uniquely, presents a hard-nosed non-materialist metaphysics substantiated by skepticism, hard empirical evidence, and clear logical

argumentation. It lays out a coherent framework upon which one can interpret and make sense of every natural phenomenon and

physical law, as well as the modalities of human consciousness, without materialist assumptions. According to this framework, the

brain is merely the image of a self-localization process of mind, analogously to how a whirlpool is the image of a self-localization

process of water. The brain doesn't generate mind in the same way that a whirlpool doesn't generate water. It is the brain that is in

Publisher: Iff Books

Year: 2014

Call Number: 110

KAS 17854


mind, not mind in the brain. Physical death is merely a de-clenching of awareness. The book closes with a series of educated

speculations regarding the afterlife, psychic phenomena, and other related subjects.

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The State of Renewable Energy in India

2019 – A Citizen’s Report

Author:

Publisher: Centre for Science and Environment

Year: 2019


STA

17855

Recommended by: Prof. R Srikanth

In the five years since the publication of the first Citizen’s Report on the State of Renewable Energy, the renewable energy sector has

made tremendous strides in the country. Riding on a favourable policy environment and dipping prices, capacity and generation have

grown. But this success has thrown newer challenges.

The second Citizen’s Report on the State of Renewable Energy takes a close look at where we stand now, what are the strengths and

challenges facing the sector, and whether the sector can overcome these obstacles and emerge as a viable alternative to conventional

energy sources.

It offers an analysis which covers the key sub-sectors and the associated infrastructure — solar (large-scale, rooftop and

manufacturing), wind, waste to energy, integration and transmission, energy access and distribution companies. And it offers a

blueprint which could help the sector reach its 175-gigawatt goal seamlessly.

The world stands at the cusp of a momentous shift in the energy sector. For the first time, decarbonised electricity appears feasible in

the foreseeable future; it is not an abstract vision. The question that the second Citizen’s Report asks is: Can India grab this

opportunity and chart a brave new world of 100 per cent renewable quickly and efficiently?

5 Super Highway: Sea Power in the 21st

Century

Author: Chris Parry

Publisher: Elliott & Thompson

Year: 2014

Call Number: 320.12

PAR 17856

Recommended by: Dr.Prakash Pannerselvam

In Super Highway, maritime strategist and former Rear Admiral Chris Parry argues that in the second decade of the 21st century, the

sea is set to reclaim its status as the world’s preeminent strategic medium. Almost everything that travels virtually between continents

and states on the Internet moves, in reality, as in previous eras of globalization, across, under or over the sea. Parry makes the case

that the next decade will witness a scramble for the sea, involving competition for oceanic resources and the attempted political and

economic colonization of large tracts of what have, until now, been considered international waters and shipping routes. Can the UK,

with its seafaring history, reclaim the waves? With space travel no longer on the agenda, the sea (the physical equivalent of the

world-wide-web) is effectively the world’s final undiscovered frontier and the potential arena for a classic "Great Game" between the

major powers and developing states.

6 Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and

Present

Author: Tim Bunnell & Daniel P. S. Goh

Publisher: Jovis

Year: 2018

Home to more city dwellers than any other region, and the locus of many of the world’s most populous metropolitan areas, Asia is

moving to centre stage in popular and academic debates about planetary urban futures. Among diverse urban Asias are landscapes,

images, visions and aspirations that conjure new forms of the future. This volume comprises essays examining intersections of the

urban and futurity. While attentive to emergent forms of urban Asia, contributors also examine futures past, the afterlives of

historical projects, and archaeologies of the future. While authoritative forms of future city-making feature in several essays, others

focus on everyday engagement with futurity. Many essays provide ethnographic and field-based empirical insights into urban

lifeworlds that are coming into being, while others explore the theoretical and political implications of urban futures from Asia.

Call Number: 307.1216095 BUN

17857


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On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism, (2nd ed)

Author: Jonathan Culler Publisher: Routledge

Year: 2007

Call Number: 801.95

CUL

17858

Recommended by: Miss. Sumithra Sunder

With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considers deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by

psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and

an analysis of the often-problematic relationship between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics.

Culler's book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding modern critical thought. This edition marks the

twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of this landmark work and includes a new preface by the author that surveys

deconstruction's history since the 1980s and assesses its place within cultural theory today.

8 The Tata Saga: Timeless Stories From

India's Largest Business Group

Author:

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 2018


TAT 17859

Recommended by: Mr. Rajesh K

How did Jamsetji Tata win over British resistance to start Tata Steel?

How did JRD lose control of Air India?

Why did Ratan Tata face opposition to become the chairman of Tata Sons?

What happened inside the Taj Hotel on 26/11?

The Tata Saga is a collection of handpicked stories published on India's most iconic business group. The anthology features snippets

from the lives of various business leaders of the company: Ratan Tata, J.R.D. Tata, Jamsetji Tata, Xerxes Desai, Sumant

Moolgaokar, F.C. Kohli, among others. There are tales of outstanding successes, crushing failures and extraordinary challenges that

faced the Tata Group.

These riveting business stories, by some of India's top writers on the subject, bear testament to the ruthless persistence and grit of the

Tata Group and make for an incredible collector's edition.

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The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean

Shaped Human History

Author: Sanjeev Sanyal

Publisher: Penguin Year: 2016

Call Number: 909.09824 SAN

Much of human history has played itself out along the rim of the Indian Ocean. In a first-of-its-kind attempt, bestselling author

Sanjeev Sanyal tells the history of this significant region, which stretches across East Africa, the Middle East and the Indian

subcontinent to South East Asia and Australia. He narrates a fascinating tale about the earliest human migrations out of Africa and

the great cities of Angkor and Vijayanagar; medieval Arab empires and Chinese 'treasure fleets'; the rivalries of European colonial

powers and a new dawn.

Sanjeev explores remote archaeological sites, ancient inscriptions, maritime trading networks and half-forgotten oral histories, to

make exciting revelations. In his inimitable style, he draws upon existing and new evidence to challenge well-established claims

about famous historical characters and the flow of history. Adventurers, merchants, explorers, monks, swashbuckling pirates,

revolutionaries and warrior princesses populate this colourful and multifaceted narrative.

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Recommended by: Prof. Settar S

The Ocean of Churn takes the reader on an amazing journey through medieval geopolitics and eyewitness accounts of long-lost cities

to the latest genetic discoveries about human origins, bringing alive a region that has defined civilization from the very beginning.

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Darwin Comes to Town : how the urban jungle drives evolution

Author: Menno Schilthuizen Publisher: Quercus

Year: 2019

Call Number: 577.56

SCH

17861

Recommended by: Prof. Anindya Sinha

We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, and a large portion of the planet’s landmass is

urbanized. With much of the rest covered by human-shaped farms, pasture, and plantations, where can nature still go? To the cities

— is Menno Schilthuizen’s answer in this remarkable book. And with more and more wildlife carving out new niches among

humans, evolution takes a surprising turn. Urban animals evolve to become more cheeky and resourceful, city pigeons develop

detox-plumage, and weeds growing from cracks in the pavement get a new type of seeds. City blackbirds are even on their way of

becoming an entirely new species, which we could name Turdus urbanicus.

Thanks to evolutionary adaptation taking place at unprecedented speeds, plants and animals are coming up with new ways of living

in the seemingly hostile environments of asphalt and steel that we humans have created. We are on the verge of a new chapter in the

history of life, Schilthuizen says — a chapter in which much old biodiversity is, sadly, disappearing, but also one in which a new and

exciting set of life forms is being born.

Menno Schilthuizen shows us that evolution in cities can happen far more rapidly, and strangely, than Darwin had dared dream.

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The Gifts of Reading

Author: Robert Macfarlane

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 2017

Call Number: 028.9

MAC 17862

Recommended by: Dr. Srikumar Menon

Every book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of

three minds (the giver, the author, the recipient), an exchange of intellectual and psychological currency, that leaves each participant

enriched. Here Robert Macfarlane recounts the story of a book he was given as a young man, and how he managed eventually to

return the favour, though never repay the debt.

From one of the most lyrical writers of our time comes a perfectly formed gem, a lyrical celebration of the transcendent power and

humanity of the given book.

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Journeys: A Poet's Diary

Author: A K Ramanujan

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 2019


RAM 17863

Recommended by: Dr. M.B.Rajani

A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993), one of India's finest poets, translators, folklorists, essayists and scholars of the twentieth century, is a

stalwart in India's literary history. His translations of ancient Tamil and medieval Kannada poetry, as well as of UR Ananthamurthy's

novel Samskara, are considered as classics in Indian literature. A pioneering modernist poet, during his lifetime he produced four

poetry collections in English, and he had also intended to publish the journals he had kept throughout the decades. After his

premature death 25 years ago, his journals, diaries, papers and other documents-spanning fifty years from 1944 to 1993-were given

by his family to the Special Collections Research Center at the Regenstein Library of the University of Chicago in June 1994. These

unpublished writings, meticulously preserved and catalogued at the University of Chicago, were waiting for someone to unveil them

to a wider readership.

Edited by Krishna Ramanujan and Guillermo Rodríguez, Journeys offers access to Ramanujan's personal diaries and journals,

providing a window into his creative process. It will include literary entries from his travels, his thoughts on writing, poetry drafts,

and dreams. His diaries and journals served as fertile ground where he planted the seeds for much of his published work.

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Ustad amir Khan : Pioneer of Indore

A biography of one of the greatest vocalists of north Indian classical music in the twentieth century.

Gharana

Author: Pandit Tejpal Singh and Prerna

Arora

Publisher: Thema Year: 2017

Call Number: 782.00954 SIN

17864


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Black Holes And Baby Universes And Other Essays

Author: Stephen Hawking Publisher: Bantam Book

Year: 1994


HAW

17865

Recommended by: Prof. Sreekantan B. V

The universe, the cosmos and the gigantic nothing of the space are something that human beings are yet to acknowledge and

appreciate in all its glory. And, the famous scientist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has always tried to make the novice readers

understand the nuances of the vast space and its intricate framework.

In this collection of essays, ‘Black Holes and Baby Universes’, Stephen Hawking treads upon a path that transverses from warmly

personal to the entirely scientific. On one hand, Hawking is revealed as the man of science and a world citizen while, on the other, he

is showcased as an imaginative yet rigorous thinker.

In this book, Hawking leads the readers onto the depths of space, teaching them the beginning of time and space. His discussions

start from how stars die and collapse under their own weight along with their subsequent transformation into black holes. He also

talks about how, like the stars, the universe, too, had a beginning.

Written with the aim to make the readers understand the intricacies of the Universe, this collection of essays teach any layman

readers about how to appreciate the wonders of the universe and the various astronomical developments therein.

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Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning

Author: David Barber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 2014


BAR 17866


Machine learning methods extract value from vast data sets quickly and with modest resources. They are established tools in a wide

range of industrial applications, including search engines, DNA sequencing, stock market analysis, and robot locomotion, and their

use is spreading rapidly. People who know the methods have their choice of rewarding jobs. This hands-on text opens these

opportunities to computer science students with modest mathematical backgrounds. It is designed for final-year undergraduates and

master's students with limited background in linear algebra and calculus. Comprehensive and coherent, it develops everything from

basic reasoning to advanced techniques within the framework of graphical models. Students learn more than a menu of techniques,

they develop analytical and problem-solving skills that equip them for the real world. Numerous examples and exercises, both

computer based and theoretical, are included in every chapter. Resources for students and instructors, including a MATLAB toolbox,

are available online.

16 Causality, Probability, and Time

Author: Samantha Kleinberg Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 2018

Causality is a key part of many fields and facets of life, from finding the relationship between diet and disease to discovering the

reason for a particular stock market crash. Despite centuries of work in philosophy and decades of computational research, automated

inference and explanation remains an open problem. In particular, the timing and complexity of relationships has been largely

ignored even though this information is critically important for prediction, explanation and intervention. However, given the growing

availability of large observational datasets including those from electronic health records and social networks, it is a practical

necessity. This book presents a new approach to inference (finding relationships from a set of data) and explanation (assessing why a

Call Number: 511 KLE

17867


particular event occurred), addressing both the timing and complexity of relationships. The practical use of the method developed is

illustrated through theoretical and experimental case studies, demonstrating its feasibility and success.

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Coding Theory: A First Course

Author: San Ling & Chaoping Xing

Publisher: Cambridge University Press Year: 2019

Call Number: 519.72 LIN

17868


Coding theory is concerned with successfully transmitting data through a noisy channel and correcting errors in corrupted messages.

It is of central importance for many applications in computer science or engineering. This book gives a comprehensive introduction

to coding theory whilst only assuming basic linear algebra. It contains a detailed and rigorous introduction to the theory of block

codes and moves on to more advanced topics like BCH codes, Goppa codes and Sudan's algorithm for list decoding. The issues of

bounds and decoding, essential to the design of good codes, features prominently. The authors of this book have, for several years,

successfully taught a course on coding theory to students at the National University of Singapore. This book is based on their

experiences and provides a thoroughly modern introduction to the subject. There are numerous examples and exercises, some of

which introduce students to novel or more advanced material.

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Information Theory and Coding by Example

Author: Mark Kelbert & Yuri Suhov


Call Number: 003.54 KEL

17869


This fundamental monograph introduces both the probabilistic and algebraic aspects of information theory and coding. It has evolved

from the authors' years of experience teaching at the undergraduate level, including several Cambridge Maths Tripos courses. The

book provides relevant background material, a wide range of worked examples and clear solutions to problems from real exam

papers. It is a valuable teaching aid for undergraduate and graduate students, or for researchers and engineers who want to grasp the

basic principles.

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Machine Learning: The Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data

Author: Peter Flach Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 2015

Call Number: 006.31

FLA

17870

As one of the most comprehensive machine learning texts around, this book does justice to the field's incredible richness, but without

losing sight of the unifying principles. Peter Flach's clear, example-based approach begins by discussing how a spam filter works,

which gives an immediate introduction to machine learning in action, with a minimum of technical fuss. Flach provides case studies

of increasing complexity and variety with well-chosen examples and illustrations throughout. He covers a wide range of logical,

geometric and statistical models and state-of-the-art topics such as matrix factorisation and ROC analysis. Particular attention is paid

to the central role played by features. The use of established terminology is balanced with the introduction of new and useful

concepts, and summaries of relevant background material are provided with pointers for revision if necessary. These features ensure

Machine Learning will set a new standard as an introductory textbook.


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Mathematical Aspects of Signal Processing

Author: Pradip Sircar


Year: 2016


SIR 17871


Written using clear and accessible language, this text provides detailed coverage of the core mathematical concepts underpinning

signal processing. All the core areas of mathematics are covered, including generalized inverses, singular value decomposition,

function representation, and optimization, with detailed explanations of how basic concepts in these areas underpin the methods used

to perform signal processing tasks. A particular emphasis is placed on the practical applications of signal processing, with numerous

in-text practice questions and real-world examples illustrating key concepts, and MATLAB programs with accompanying graphical

representations providing all the necessary computational background. This is an ideal text for graduate students taking courses in

signal processing and mathematical methods, or those who want to establish a firm foundation in these areas before progressing to

more advanced study.

Emphasizes the relationship between mathematical theory and practical applications in signal processing

Accompanied by numerous in-text practice questions and real-world examples to illustrate key concepts

Covers the computational aspects of signal processing, with the inclusion of MATLAB programs and graphical representations

of simulation results

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Ordinary Differential Equations: Principles and Applications

Author: A. K. Nandakumaran, P. S. Datti & Raju K. George,

Publisher: Cambridge University Press &

IISc Press Year: 2017

Call Number: 515.352 NAN

17872


Written in a clear, logical and concise manner, this comprehensive resource allows students to quickly understand the key principles,

techniques and applications of ordinary differential equations. Important topics including first and second order linear equations,

initial value problems and qualitative theory are presented in separate chapters. The concepts of two point boundary value problems,

physical models and first order partial differential equations are discussed in detail. The text uses tools of calculus and real analysis to

get solutions in explicit form. While discussing first order linear systems, linear algebra techniques are used. The real-life

applications are interspersed throughout the book to invoke reader's interest. The methods and tricks to solve numerous mathematical

problems with sufficient derivations and explanation are provided. The proofs of theorems are explained for the benefit of the

readers.

Contains separate chapters on first and second order linear equations and qualitative theory

Includes advanced topics such as qualitative analysis of linear and nonlinear systems

Covers many important results from variable real analysis and linear algebra

Includes plenty of real-world applications, solved examples and numerical problems

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Randomized Algorithms Author: Rajeev Motwani & Prabhakar

Raghavanr


For many applications a randomized algorithm is either the simplest algorithm available, or the fastest, or both. This tutorial presents

the basic concepts in the design and analysis of randomized algorithms. The first part of the book presents tools from probability

theory and probabilistic analysis that are recurrent in algorithmic applications. Algorithmic examples are given to illustrate the use of

each tool in a concrete setting. In the second part of the book, each of the seven chapters focuses on one important area of application

of randomized algorithms: data structures; geometric algorithms; graph algorithms; number theory; enumeration; parallel algorithms;

and on-line algorithms. A comprehensive and representative selection of the algorithms in these areas is also given. This book should

Call Number: 004.0151 MOT

17873


prove invaluable as a reference for researchers and professional programmers, as well as for students.

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A Textbook on Automata Theory

Author: P.K. Srimani & Nasir S.F.B.

Publisher: Foundation Books Year: 2014

Call Number: 511.35 SRI

17874


This book has been designed for students of computer science. Adopting a comprehensive approach to the subject, it presents various

concepts with adequate explanations. The logical and structured treatment of the subject promotes better understanding and

assimilation. Lucid and well-structured presentation makes the book user-friendly.

It covers the curricula for MCA, BE (Computer Science) and MSc (Computer Science) at various universities and gives students a

strong foundation for advanced studies in the field.

Key features

• Provides a wide array of solved examples and applications

• Includes numerous illustrations supporting theoretical inputs

• Contains exercises for practice at the end of each chapter

• Lists notations to describe machine models

• Provides a brief history of mathematicians and computer scientists

• Highlights important theorems (with proofs) as separate boxed items

• Includes appendices and a list of abbreviations for ready reference of computational and mathematical terms

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Understanding Machine Learning: From

Theory to Algorithms

Author: Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Shai Ben-

David Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 2015

Call Number: 006.31

SHA

17875 Recommended by: Dr Nithin Nagaraj

Machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science, with far-reaching applications. The aim of this textbook is

to introduce machine learning, and the algorithmic paradigms it offers, in a principled way. The book provides a theoretical account

of the fundamentals underlying machine learning and the mathematical derivations that transform these principles into practical

algorithms. Following a presentation of the basics, the book covers a wide array of central topics unaddressed by previous textbooks.

These include a discussion of the computational complexity of learning and the concepts of convexity and stability; important

algorithmic paradigms including stochastic gradient descent, neural networks, and structured output learning; and emerging

theoretical concepts such as the PAC-Bayes approach and compression-based bounds. Designed for advanced undergraduates or

beginning graduates, the text makes the fundamentals and algorithms of machine learning accessible to students and non-expert

readers in statistics, computer science, mathematics and engineering.

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City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the

World

Author: Michael Kimmelman

Publisher: HarperCollins

Year: 2016

In this important collection, eighteen renowned writers, including David Remnick, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Skloot, Rory Stewart, and

Adam Gopnik evoke the spirit and history of some of the world’s most recognized and significant city squares, accompanied by

illustrations from equally distinguished photographers.

Over half of the world’s citizens now live in cities, and this number is rapidly growing. At the heart of these municipalities is the

square—the defining urban public space since the dawn of democracy in Ancient Greece. Each square stands for a larger theme in

history: cultural, geopolitical, anthropological, or architectural, and each of the eighteen luminary writers has contributed his or her

own innate talent, prodigious research, and local knowledge.

Divided into three parts: Culture, Geopolitics, History, headlined by Michael Kimmelman, David Remnick, and George Packer, this


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Recommended by: Prof. Sudha Mahalingam

significant anthology shows the city square in new light. Jehane Noujaim, award-winning filmmaker, takes the reader through her

return to Tahrir Square during the 2011 protest; Rory Stewart, diplomat and author, chronicles a square in Kabul which has come and

gone several times over five centuries; Ari Shavit describes the dramatic changes of central Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square; Rick Stengel,

editor, author, and journalist, recounts the power of Mandela’s choice of the Grand Parade, Cape Town, a huge market square to

speak to the world right after his release from twenty-seven years in prison; while award-winning journalist Gillian Tett explores the

concept of the virtual square in the age of social media.

This collection is an important lesson in history, a portrait of the world we live in today, as well as an exercise in thinking about the

future. Evocative and compelling, City Squares will change the way you walk through a city.

7 Seeking Middle Ground: Land, Markets,

and Public Policy

Author: Sanjoy Chakravorty and Amitendu

Palit

Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2019

Call Number: 333.30954 CHA

17877


Land is a subject of great conflict and debate in India. Over the past decade, the debate has focused on land acquisition, which some

have called India's biggest problem. Land and the issues related to its acquisition have heavily influenced electoral verdicts and

political fortunes in various parts of India. A new law for acquisition was created by the left-of-center Congress-led UPA government

in 2013, which was immediately sought to be amended (unsuccessfully) in 2014 by the newly elected right-wing BJP-led NDA

government. These differing visions on acquisition have often been simplified into opposing camps: people-friendly vs. business-

friendly; o

At the core of the debate are serious issues of justice and history intertwined with politics and economics. These debates over land

are already prominent in contemporary India and are expected to become even more so in the coming decade given the anxieties over

rural distress and the problem of livelihoods. Social, economic, and political turmoil over land will become more visible as India

struggles to address the serious challenges of satisfying the aspirations of a burgeoning young population with growing lack of work.

As land-based incomes stagnate or dwindle for rural communities and alternative earning options remain vague and limited, while

changing land use from agriculture to more productive alternatives remains fraught with conflict, popular politics and public policies

in India will have to stay engaged with the debate on land at their core.

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Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social

Author: Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai

Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2019

Call Number: 302 GUR

17878


Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social offers a sustained argument that the social is experienced in various ways, through the

senses as well as through conceptualizations such as self, time, and friendship. By looking at the experiences of everyday life in

societies like India, it attempts to understand how different socialities are formed and sustained. It offers new insights on themes such

as the ontology of the social, the way the social is experienced, the nature of social that operates in the world as invisible authority,

along with the creation of notions such as social self and social time. Endorsing the concept of ‘Maitri’, signifying ethical

relationship among multiple social entities, the book offers a distinct theory of the social supported by ample empirical observations.

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Quichotte

Author: Salman Rushdie

Publisher: Penguin Hamish Hamilton

Year: 2019

In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and

family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern

age.

Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, an ageing travelling salesman

who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his imaginary son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across

America to prove worthy of her hand. Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.

Call Number: 823.92 RUS

17879


Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirise the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on

the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of his work, the fully realised

lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in

which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.

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The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood Publisher: Chatto & Windus

Year: 2019

Call Number: 813.54

ATW

17880


The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s

classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on

power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women

converge, with potentially explosive results.

Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are

joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.

With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with

who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.

11 The Travel Gods Must Be Crazy: Wacky

Encounters in Exotic Lands

Author: Sudha Mahalingam

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year: 2019

Call Number: 910.41

MAH 17881


Ever suffered the collective flatulence of eighty co-passengers while sailing on a serene Asian river? Or called out for rescue in true

Bollywood style while locked up in a minaret in Persia? Or had to cross a pack of hyenas en route to the loo?

Dreaming of glorious sunrises and architectural marvels in exotic places, Sudha often landed up in situations that were uproariously

bizarre or downright dangerous. Tongue firmly in cheek, she recounts her journeys through the raw wildernesses of Borneo and the

African savannah, into the deserts of Iran and Uzbekistan, and up the Annapurna and the Pamirs, revealing the quirky side of solo

travel to side-splitting effect. Punctuating her droll stories with breathtaking descriptions and stunning photographs, Sudha invites

readers on an unexpected and altogether memorable tour around the world!

12 Education: Culture, Economy, and Society

Author: A. H. Halsey, Hugh Lauder, Phillip Brown, and Amy Stuart Wells Eds.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Year: 1997

Education: Culture, Economy, and Society is a book for everyone concerned with the social study of education: students studying the

sociology of education, foundations of education, educational policy, and other related courses. It aims to establish the social study of

education at the centre stage of political and sociological debate about post-industrial societies. In examining major changes which

have taken place in the late twentieth century, it gives students a comprehensive introduction to both the nature of these changes and

to their interpretation in relation to long-standing debates within education, sociology, and cultural studies.

The extensive editorial introduction outlines the major theoretical approaches within the sociology of education, assesses their

contribution to an adequate understanding of the changing educational context, and sets out the key issues and areas for future

Call Number: 370

HAL 17882

Recommended by: Dr. Jeebanlata Salam

research. The 52 papers in this wide-ranging thematic reader bring together the most powerful work in education into an international

dialogue which is sure to become a classic text.

13

Education and the Public Sphere: Exploring

the Structures of Mediation in Post-Colonial India

Author: Suresh Babu G.S Publisher: Routledge

Year: 2020


BAB

17883


Education and the Public Sphere conceptually and empirically investigates and unfolds several complexities embedded in the

educational system in India by exploring it as a site of transforming the public sphere. Bringing together a range of contributions

from education and the social sciences, this volume analyses and reflects on structures in education and how these mediate and

transform the public sphere in post-colonial India.

Drawing on fresh research, case studies and testimony, this book debates issues such as the crisis in higher education, privatisation

and politicisation of education, the reciprocal relationship between marginalisation and education, and the lasting impact that modern

pedagogical practices have on the wider world. It critically reflects on the direct engagement of people, institutions, various cultural

sensibilities and public debate to animate how these combined structures affect the teaching and learning process.

From a unique interdisciplinary perspective, this book initiates an analytical enquiry into teaching and the culture of learning,

generating critical discourses on the system as a whole. This book will be vital reading for researchers, scholars and postgraduate

students in the field of international education, education theory and social justice education.

14 Chalukyan Architecture: including

examples from the Ballari district, madras

Presidency

Author: Alexr,Rea

Publisher: Archaeology Survey of India Year: 1995


REA 17884

Recommended by: Dr. Rajani M. B

15

The Chalukyan Architecture of the

Kanarese Districts

Author: Henry Cousens


Call Number: 722.4409548 COU

17885


16

Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan

Author: Henry Cousens


Call Number: 726.14509548 COU

17886


17

Report of the first season’s operations in the Belgam and Kaladgi Districts. January to

May 1874

Author: James Burgess

Publisher: Archaeology Survey of India

Year: 1997


BUR 17887


18

Revised lists of Antiquarian Remains in the Bombay Presidency Vol.3

Author: Publisher: Archaeology Survey of India

Year: 2000


ARC

17888


19 Socio-Economic Archaeology of India

Author: M.K. Dhavalikar Publisher: Archaeology Survey of India

Year: 2014

Call Number: 934

DHA

17889


20 Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender,

History, Narratives, Colonial English

Author: Kumkum Sangari

Publisher: Anthem Press

Year: 2002


SAN 17890

Recommended by: Ms. Cheshta Arora

This collection of essays covers a broad range of disciplines to produce a work that rethinks relationships and divisions in gender,

geography, class relations, culture and much more to create a true 'politics of the possible'.

Broadly emphasizing forms, ideologies and class relations, Sangari's essays crisscross and cohere around several themes: the politics

of social location and the connection between local, metropolitan and colonial geographies as they bear on debates about the nature

of knowledge; the transnational and regional production of ideologies such as altruism under the aegis of colonialism; ways of

theorizing women's labour, literacy and consent to patriarchal arrangements and dominant ideologies.

Sangari's analysis of Indian English and the relationships between 'literature' and the non-literary change, the way we consider the

divisions between the metropolitan and the sub-continental. In her discussion of capitalism and colonialism, her egalitarian feminist

viewpoint opens up and questions issues of cultural autonomy and hybridity. She also critiques the impact of race, caste, class,

religion and misogyny on patriarchal ideology and its effect on women.

The 'politics of the possible' mapped by these essays presents itself in several areas: as a more sensitive feminist historiography; as

the social potential for secular activity in seemingly impossible situations; in the historical possibilities that were offered by situations

not doomed to inevitable outcomes; and as the elements of resistance produced by the contradictions of different structures of

oppression..


LIBRARY

NEW ARRIVALS

5 February 2020


1

Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-

Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural

Heritage

Author: Anjana Sharma

Publisher: ISEAS Publishing

Year: 2018


SHA

17891


Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage has its conceptual core the inter-

regional networks of Nalanda Mahavihara and its unique place in the Asian imaginary. The revival of Nalanda university in 2010 as a

symbol of a shared inter-Asian heritage is this collection's core narrative. The multidisciplinary essays interrogate ways in which

ideas, objects, texts, and travellers have shaped - and in turn have been shaped by - changing global politics and the historical

imperative that underpins them. The question of what constitutes cultural authenticity and heritage valuation is inscribed from

positions that support, negate, or reframe existing discourses with reference to Southeast and East Asia. The essays in this collection

offer critical, scholarly, and nuanced views on the vexed questions of regional and inter-regional dynamics, of racial politics and their

flattening hegemonic discourses in relation to the rich tangible and intangible heritage that defines an interconnected Asia.

2

Curricula for Sustainability in Higher

Education

Author: Paulo Davim J , Ed

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2017

Call Number: 378.01

DAV

17892

Recommended by: Dr.Shalini Dixit

This books presents the curricula necessary for sustainability in higher education. It shows how the learning process is transforming

in order to promote sustainability. It prepares administrators, teachers and students to diffuse the development in the field, showing a

curricula based on three interconnected pillars: the environment, the economic and the social aspects. It contains 8 chapters

introducing research advances in the field.

3

Schooling for Sustainable Development in

Europe: Concepts, Policies and Educational

Experiences at the End of the UN Decade of

Education for Sustainable Development

Author: Jucker, Rolf & Mathar, Reiner,Eds

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2015

Call Number: 379

JUC

17893


This book examines the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programs in schools across Europe. It

describes and analyzes how individual countries and the region as a whole have established teaching and learning methods to help

students develop the competencies needed to be part of a sustainable society.

Featuring chapters written by experts throughout Europe, the book first provides a general overview of ESD in various contexts,

including the state-of-the-art of ESD theory and conceptual development; political and social analysis; the various concepts of ESD

competencies; and teacher training. Next, the book details how ESD has been implemented in different European countries and

regions, including: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Catalonia, Hungary, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Flanders, France,

Cyprus, UK and the Netherlands.

In recognition of education as a motor of change, the United Nations General Assembly declared a Decade of Education for

Sustainable Development (2005-2014), calling for the integration of sustainable development into all aspects of education and

learning. Inside this book, readers will find details on what has been done, as well as assessments of what more could be done, across

Europe. It will help readers gain valuable insights into how to help students develop the knowledge, skills and values needed to shape

a sustainable future.

4

Finance and Financial Intermediation: A

Modern Treatment of Money, Credit, and

Banking

Author: Harold L. Cole


Year: 2019

Call Number: 332

COL

17894


The financial system is a densely interconnected network of financial intermediaries, facilitators, and markets that serves three major

purposes: allocating capital, sharing risks, and facilitating intertemporal trade. Asset prices are an important mechanism in each of

these phenomena. Capital allocation, whether through loans or other forms of investment, can vary both across sectors-at the

broadest, manufactures, agriculture, and services-and within sectors, for example different firms. The risk that various investors are

willing to take reflects their financial position and alternative opportunities. Risk and asset allocation are also influenced by whether

money, and especially its expenditure, is more important now or in the future. These decisions are all influenced by governmental

policies. When there are mismatches, the results include financial meltdowns, fiscal deficits, sovereign debt, default and debt crises.

Harold L. Cole provides a broad overview of the financial system and assets pricing, covering history, institutional detail, and theory.

The book begins with an overview of financial markets and their operation and then covers asset pricing for standard assets and

derivatives, and analyzes what modern finance says about firm behavior and capital structure. It then examines theories of money,

exchange rates, electronic payments methods, and cryptocurrencies. After exploring banks and other forms of financial

intermediation, the book examines the role they played in the Great Recession. Having provided an overview of the provate sector,

Cole switches to public finance and government borrowing as well as the incentives to monetize the public debt and its

consequences. The book closes with an examination of sovereign debt crises and an analysis of their various forms.

Finance and financial intermediation are central to modern economies. This book covers all of the material a sophisticated economist

needs to know about this area.

5

Representation Theory: A Combinatorial

Viewpoint

Author: Amritanshu Prasad


Year: 2015

This book discusses the representation theory of symmetric groups, the theory of symmetric functions and the polynomial

representation theory of general linear groups. The first chapter provides a detailed account of necessary representation-theoretic

background. An important highlight of this book is an innovative treatment of the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence and its

dual by extending Viennot's geometric ideas. Another unique feature is an exposition of the relationship between these

correspondences, the representation theory of symmetric groups and alternating groups and the theory of symmetric functions. Schur

algebras are introduced very naturally as algebras of distributions on general linear groups. The treatment of Schur-Weyl duality

reveals the directness and simplicity of Schur's original treatment of the subject. In addition, each exercise is assigned a difficulty

level to test readers' learning. Solutions and hints to most of the exercises are provided at the end.


PRA

17895


6

Temple Design in Six Early Saiva

Scriptures

Author: Libbie Mills

Publisher: Institute Francais De Pondichery

Year: 2019


MIL

17896


This book is a contribution to the history of Saiva temple-construction that furnishes for the first time an edition and translation of

prescriptions given in some of the earliest known Sanskrit sources. The six works represented in this volume are all scriptures of the

Mantramarga (tantras) transmitted to us in early (tenth- to thirteenth-century) manuscripts that have survived in the Kathmandu

valley, and all of them, with the exception of the Pingalamata, belong to the Saivasiddhanta. As to the provenance of the texts

themselves, the present state of our knowledge does not allow us to be certain, but none of them seems to have been composed in the

Tamil-speaking South. This is significant because hitherto treatments of the architecture and iconography of temples have tended to

be heavily skewed towards South Indian tantras of the second millennium. This is partly because many of these have been made

more accessible in recent decades by the work of the French institutions of research in Pondicherry (the Raurava, Ajita, and

Mayamata, for instance). But the tendency to give weight to the testimony of such sources was evident already in Rao's Elements of

Hindu Iconography (1914), long before critical editions of agamic literature had begun to appear from Pondicherry. And yet it is

clear that the iconographic themes that such literature prescribes were unknown before the construction of Chola-period temples in

the Tamil-speaking South. The disconnect is similar for architectural prescriptions too. This ground-breaking book for the first time

brings together, edits and translates the prescriptions for temple-types from six tantras that predate Chola-period norms and that hail

from more northerly regions.

7

Muslims in India Since 1947: Islamic

Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations

Author: Yoginder Sikand

Publisher: Routledge

Year: 2004


SIK

17897

Recommended by: Ms. Zarnain Manzoor

Muslims in India today are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts

being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organisations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths

and to the modern nation-state, and to deal with issues such as democracy and secularism. It examines how a common predicament,

characterised by a sense of siege and the perception of being an oppressed minority, is producing new expressions of Islam, some of

which seek to relate to non-Muslims in terms of confrontation, and others which call for dialogue, reconciliation and inter-faith

harmony.

8

India Through Archaeology: Excavating

History

Author: Devika Cariapa

Publisher: Tulika

Year: 2017

Superhero action carved on rocks... A headless statue... Royal inscriptions on pillars and copper plates... Glass fragments from a lost

city... These may sound like clips from a fantasy thriller, but are in fact objects unearthed at archaeological sites across the country —

and the stories they throw up are just as exciting!

This visually vibrant book has an interdisciplinary approach that goes beyond conventional subject boundaries. Showing the

interconnectedness of ideas, events and issues, and cross-cultural influences — all based on archaeological findings — it encourages

a more critical and holistic understanding of India’s multihued history.

Call Number: 934

CAR

17898

Recommended by: Prof. Sharada Srinivasan

9

Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost

Emperor

Author: Charles Allen

Publisher: Abacus

Year: 2012


ALL

17899


India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone he turned

Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion, and set up a new yardstick for government. But Ashoka's bold experiment ended

in tragedy and he was forgotten for almost two thousand years.

In this beautifully written, multi-layered journey Charles Allen describes how fragments of the Ashokan story were gradually

discovered, pieced together by a variety of British Orientalists: antiquarians, archaeologists and epigraphists. In doing so, they did

much to recover India's ancient history itself. The Lost Emperor tells the story of the man who was arguably the greatest ruler India

has ever known.

10

The Bhagat Singh Reader

Author: Chaman Lal

Publisher: Harpercollins

Year: 2019


LAL

17900

Recommended by: Dr. Udayakumar S

Sporting a sharp handlebar moustache, his hat askew, Shaheed Bhagat Singh has been lionized in Indian imagination as one of the

most influential revolutionaries of the Independence movement. Convicted and hanged by the British in 1931 for his role in killing a

colonial police officer in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, he became a martyr at the young age of twenty-three, leaving behind an

inspiring legacy. Tales of Bhagat Singh’s heroism and bravery are part of popular folklore, as it were – how he exploded bombs at

the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and showered leaflets on the legislators before surrendering himself to the authorities, or

how he led Indian political prisoners in a hunger strike demanding better conditions in jail. The Bhagat Singh Reader brings into

prominence his less widely known intellectual output. It presents in a single volume a collection of his writings and thoughts: from

his letters, telegrams and notices to articles that chalk out his subversive and progressive ideas, and his mails from prison to the

colonial administration and judiciary. His forty-three sketches of Indian freedom fighters throw light on the larger picture of the

independence struggle. This is a book that reveals Bhagat Singh the man and the thinker, the Marxist and the idealist.

11

Ancient Art And Its Remains - Or, A

Manual Of The Archaeology Of Art

Author: Muller C.O

Publisher: Alpha Editions

Year: 2019

Call Number: 709

MUL

17901


12

Ancient Egypt

Author: George Rawlinson & Arthur

Gilman


Year: 2016

Call Number: 932.01

RAW

17902


13

Antiquities of India: an account of the

history and culture of ancient Hindustan

Author: Lionel D Barnett


Year: 2019

Call Number: 934

BAR

17903


14

Blood and Iron: Origin of German Empire

As Revealed by Character of Its Founder,

Bismarck

Author: John Hubert Greusel


Year: 2019

Call Number: 943.07

GRE

17904


15

The Dawn of Civilization: Egypt and

Chaldea

Author: Maspero,G,Ed


Year: 2019

Call Number: 932

MAS

17905


16

The Fine Arts: a university course in

sculpture, painting, architecture and

decoration in their history, development

and principles Vol.1

Author: Edmund Buckley


Year: 2019

Call Number: 700

BUC

17906


17

The Fine Arts: a university course in

sculpture, painting, architecture and

decoration in their history, development

and principles Vol.2

Author: Edmund Buckley


Year: 2019

Call Number: 700

BUC

17907


18

A History of Ancient Sculpture

Author: Lucy M. Mitchell


Year: 2019

Call Number: 732

MIT

17908


19

A History of Architecture

Author: Fiske Kimball & George H.E


Year: 2019

Call Number: 720

KIM

17909


20

A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti:

from the earliest times to the

commencement of the twentieth century

Vol.2

Author: Walton Claridge W


Year: 2019


CLA

17910


21

History of the Manufacture of Iron in All

Ages

Author: James M Swank


Year: 2019


SWA

17911


22

The Legacy of Kashmir- A Study of the

Ancient Faiths of Kashmir

Author: Altaf Hussain Yatoo


Year: 2015


YAT

17912


The book is actually one of the chapters of the author's doctoral thesis, Islam in Kashmir: Role of Sufis (An Analytical Study). Since

the comparative study of religions has got a tremendous importance, therefore, its publication could be helpful in the understanding

of religions in a pluralistic society. It is, therefore, an endeavour to present the historical and conceptual framework of Kashmir

Buddhism and Kashmir Shaivism as understood and put forward by the adherents of these faiths. As such, it is just an analytical

representation on the part of the author. The fact is quite interesting that prior to its transformation to Islam, Kashmir has been a hub

of Buddhism and Shaivism. The philosophies of these two faiths flourished here to produce multifarious sages and philosophers.

While as Buddhism produced laborious missionaries who crossed perilous terrains to preach this faith to the far off regions of the

east, Shaivism produced great aestheticians like Abhinavagupta who became the ideologue of Advaita Monism. The Sufis or the

Muslim mystics who entered Kashmir mainly from Persia and Central Asia had their own brand of Monism. The two brands

intermingled to create the atmosphere for Kashmir's transformation to Islam. This book, thus gives a background study of this

transformation.

23

A Short History of the Bombay Presidency

Author: Edmund C. Cox


Year: 2019


COX

17913


24

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture

Author: Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin


Year: 2019

Call Number: 720

HAM

17914


25

Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of

German Occupation in Belgium

Author: Emile Cammaerts


Year: 2018

Call Number: 943.08

CAM

17915



LIBRARY

NEW ARRIVALS

19 February 2020


1

Ethnography

Author: John D. Brewer

Publisher: Rawat Publications

Year: 2010


BRE

17916


• What is ethnography?

• To what use can ethnographic data be put?

• Who are its fiercest critics?

• Does ethnography have a future?

Ethnography is one of the principle methods of qualitative research with a long-established tradition of use in the social sciences.

However, the literature on ethnography has become a battleground as ethnography is attacked from within and without the qualitative

tradition. Post-modern critics effectively deny the possibility of any objective research, whilst globalization challenges the relevance

of the local and the small scale.

In this book you will be presented with a robust defence of ethnography and its continued relevance in the social sciences. The author

sets out the competing methodological bases of ethnography and details its different uses as a research method. You will find

guidelines for good practice in the research process, as well as advice on the analysis, interpretation of ethnographic data.

Ethnograpy is written as a textbook with many features to help the learning process. However, its content are research led, informed

by the author’s own extensive experience of undertaking ethnographic research in dangerous and sensitive locations in Northern

Ireland and elsewhere. It is a lively and engaging read on an essential topic.

2

Field Methods in Remote Sensing

Author: Roger M. McCoy


Year: 2006

Call Number: 526

MCC

17917


This concise, much-needed guide takes readers step by step through planning and executing fieldwork associated with many different

types of remote sensing projects. Remote sensing texts and research reports typically focus on data-analytic techniques while offering

a dearth of information on procedures followed in the field. In contrast, this book provides clear recommendations for defining field

work objectives, devising a valid sampling plan, finding locations using GPS, and selecting and using effective measurement

techniques for field reflectance spectra and for studies of vegetation, soils, water, and urban areas. Appendices feature sample field

note forms, an extensive bibliography on advanced and specialized methods, and online metadata sources.

3

A Primer of GIS: Fundamental Geographic

and Cartographic Concepts

Author: Francis Harvey


Year: 2018


HAR

17918


This pragmatic book introduces key concepts and skills to prepare students to understand and use geographic information systems

(GIS). The text thoroughly explains what geographic information is, how it is represented and analyzed, and what it communicates

about human and environmental activities and events that take place on our planet. Basic principles of map making and map reading

are integrated with discussions of relevant information technologies and applications. Written in an accessible style, the text is

organized into four parts that can be used in any sequence in entry-level and more specialized GIS courses. User-friendly features

include practical examples and exercises, engaging vignettes, and helpful Internet resources.

4

Remote Sensing and Geographical

Information Systems: Basics and

Applications

Author: P.R. Vyas


Year: 2014


VYA

17919


The book provides a comprehensive coverage of techniques, applications and technologies of remote sensing and Geographical

Information System (GIS). It is organized into three parts: the first part focuses on the basic concepts of Remote Sensing, Digital

Image Processing and Geographical Information System; second part deals with the application aspects in the field of natural

resource management and the third part covers applied aspects of environment and regional planning based on primary field

observations. In fact, Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques are being widely used since last two

decades, mainly by earth scientists, geologists, geographers, regional planners, environmentalists in the fields of mineral

explorations, archaeological excavations, geographical and topographical analysis, terrain studies, urban planning, regional planning,

natural resources management, natural disaster management etc. The basic purpose of this book is to provide literature to research

scholars, scientist and planners working in fields of application of remote sensing and GIS.

5

Research Methods for Cultural Studies

Author: Michael Pickering


Year: 2016


PIC

17920


This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides readers with clearly written

overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. It advocates a

multi-method approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of

investigation. The book covers the following main areas: • Drawing on experience, and studying how narratives make sense of

experience. • Investigating production processes in the cultural industries, and the consumption and assimilation of cultural products

by audiences and fans. • Taking both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of cultural life. • Analysing visual images

and both spoken and written forms of discourse. • Exploring cultural memory and historical representation. The contributors, along

with Michael Pickering, are Martin Barker, Aeron Davis, David Deacon, Emily Keightley, Steph Lawler, Anneke Meyer, Virginia

Nightingale, and Sarah Pink. The book is designed for use by students on upper-level undergraduate and taught Masters-level courses

as well as postgraduate research students and cultural studies researchers more generally. It will be of enormous value across all

fields of study involved in cultural enquiry and analysis.

6

Rethinking Maps: New Frontiers in

Cartographic Theory

Author: Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, Chris

Perkins


Year: 2011

Call Number: 526

DOD

17921


Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to

explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping

research, and cartographic scholarship. It offers a contemporary assessment of the diverse forms that mapping now takes and,

drawing upon a number of theoretic perspectives and disciplines, provides an insightful commentary on new ontological and

epistemological thinking with respect to cartography.

This book presents a diverse set of approaches to a wide range of map forms and activities in what is presently a rapidly changing

field. It employs a multi-disciplinary approach to important contemporary mapping practices, with chapters written by leading

theorists who have an international reputation for innovative thinking. Much of the new research around mapping is emerging as

critical dialogue between practice and theory and this book has chapters focused on intersections with play, race and cinema. Other

chapters discuss cartographic representation, sustainable mapping and visual geographies. It also considers how alternative models of

map creation and use such as open-source mappings and map mash-up are being creatively explored by programmers, artists and

activists. There is also an examination of the work of various ‘everyday mappers’ in diverse social and cultural contexts.

This blend of conceptual chapters and theoretically directed case studies provides an excellent resource suited to a broad spectrum of

researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in human geography, GIScience and cartography, visual

anthropology, media studies, graphic design and computer graphics. Rethinking Maps is a necessary and significant text for all those

studying or having an interest in cartography.

7

What is Anthropology?

Author: Thomas Hylland Eriksen


Year: 2019

Call Number: 301

ERI

17922


Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world.

Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in an

exciting and innovative way.

Lucid and accessible, What is Anthropology? draws examples from current affairs as well as previous anthropological studies.

Eriksen looks at the history of anthropology, its unique research methods and some of its central concepts, such as society, culture

and translation.

This second edition contains a new introduction, as well as updates throughout. New content includes discussions about Brexit, the

rise of the populist Right in Europe, the anthropology of climate change and social media. What is Anthropology? shows in

persuasive ways why anthropology is a fundamental intellectual discipline, perhaps more so in the twenty-first century than ever

before.

8 Education's Epistemology: Rationality,

Diversity, and Critical Thinking

Author: Harvey Siegel


Year: 2017

Call Number: 370.01

SIE

17923


This collection extends and further defends the “reasons conception” of critical thinking that Harvey Siegel has articulated and

defended over the last three-plus decades. This conception analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality of candidate beliefs,

and the dispositions and character traits that constitute the “critical spirit”, that are central to a proper account of critical thinking;

argues that epistemic quality must be understood ultimately in terms of epistemic rationality; defends a conception of rationality that

involves both rules and judgment; and argues that critical thinking has normative value over and above its instrumental tie to truth.

Siegel also argues, contrary to currently popular multiculturalist thought, for both transcultural and universal philosophical ideals,

including those of multiculturalism and critical thinking themselves. Over seventeen chapters, Siegel makes the case for regarding

critical thinking, or the cultivation of rationality, as a preeminent educational ideal, and the fostering of it as a fundamental

educational aim. A wide range of alternative views are critically examined. Important related topics, including indoctrination, moral

education, open-mindedness, testimony, epistemological diversity, and cultural difference are treated. The result is a systematic

account and defense of critical thinking, an educational ideal widely proclaimed but seldom submitted to critical scrutiny itself.

9

A Handbook of Test Construction:

Introduction to Psychometric Design

Author: Paul Kline


Year: 1986


KLI

17924


Psychological tests provide reliable and objective standards by which individuals can be evaluated in education and employment.

Therefore accurate judgements must depend on the reliability and quality of the tests themselves. Originally published in 1986, this

handbook by an internationally acknowledged expert provided an introductory and comprehensive treatment of the business of

constructing good tests.

Paul Kline shows how to construct a test and then to check that it is working well. Covering most kinds of tests, including computer

presented tests of the time, Rasch scaling and tailored testing, this title offers: a clear introduction to this complex field; a glossary of

specialist terms; an explanation of the objective of reliability; step-by-step guidance through the statistical procedures; a description

of the techniques used in constructing and standardizing tests; guidelines with examples for writing the test items; computer

programs for many of the techniques.

Although the computer testing will inevitably have moved on, students on courses in occupational, educational and clinical

psychology, as well as in psychological testing itself, would still find this a valuable source of information, guidance and clear

explanation.

10

Oxford Handbook of Indian Sociology

Author: Veena Das


Year: 2006


DAS

17925


The handbook provides students of sociology in India with an understanding of key theoretical, thematic, and historical issues in the

discipline. Leading authorities in each area explain: the state of social science knowledge in India institutional frameworks in the

development of sociology and social anthropology selected aspects of society and culture, such as demography, environment, social

life, stratification, urban social formations, and migrations the major religions in India, their inherent diversities and public culture

mainstream debates on family, childhood, and education economic arrangements including agrarian relations, markets, and labour

politics including democracy, the state, and collective violence

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Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and

Application

Author: Michael Inzlicht and Toni

Schmader


Year: 2012


INZ

17926


Stereotype threat is defined as a situational predicament in which individuals are at risk of confirming negative stereotypes about

their group. It is the resulting sense that one might be judged in terms of negative stereotypes about one’s group instead of on

personal merit. Research over the past 15 years has shown that stereotype threat contributes to low performance among African

Americans, Latinos, and the poor, but also among women in math and science, the elderly in memory, and even whites in athletics.

This book examines this important topic not only at the level of basic processes and theory, but also at the level of application in the

real world. It provides a contemporary and systematic treatment of research on the impact of negative stereotypes and devalued social

identities on performance, engagement, sense of belonging, and self-control. This book is organized into four sections. The first

section, Basic Processes, introduces definitions and conceptualizations of stereotype threat, including issues related to environmental

triggers and questions of mechanism. Section two, Theoretical Extensions, explores how the initial theory has been refined to

acknowledge stereotype threats (plural), how threat affects a sense of belonging, how it has implications that extend beyond the

stereotyped domain, and the comparison of performance impairments due to motivational versus automated processes. Section three,

Manifestations of Stereotype Threat, shows the breadth of the theory by exploring many of the different groups and performances to

which the phenomenon of stereotype threat has been applied. Section four, Stereotype Threat and the Real World, examines issues of

applied importance, taking a critical approach to understanding the extent to which stereotype threat has real-world consequences

outside the lab. Finally, the originator of the theory, Claude Steele, provides a final essay in which he reflects upon the theory, from

its origin to its implication.

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Handbook of the Sociology of Education in

the 21st Century

Author: Barbara Schneider

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2018


SCH

17927


This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores

today’s populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing

the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. Sociologists often center their work on the sources and consequences

of inequality. This handbook, while reviewing many of these explanations, takes a different approach, concentrating instead on what

needs to be accomplished to reduce inequality. A special section is devoted to new methodological work for studying social systems,

including network analyses and school and teacher effects. Additionally, the book explores the changing landscape of higher

education institutions, their respective populations, and how labor market opportunities are enhanced or impeded by differing

postsecondary education pathways. Written by leading sociologists and rising stars in the field, each of the chapters is embedded in

theory, but contemporary and futuristic in its implications. This Handbook serves as a blueprint for identifying new work for

sociologists of education and other scholars and policymakers trying to understand many of the problems of inequality in education

and what is needed to address them.

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Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory

Author: Anthony Elliott & Charles Lemert


Year: 2014

Call Number: 300.1

ELL

17928


In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert

examine the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to globalization and beyond. When first published, the book’s

wide range set new standards for introductory textbooks – social theorists discussed include Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse,

Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Kristeva, Jurgen Habermas, Judith

Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Manuel Castells, Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Giorgio Agamben and Manuel De Landa.

Extensively developed to take into account significant recent developments in American social theory, the book offers chapters on

American pragmatism, structural functionalism, ethnomethodology, black feminist thought and world-systems theory. American

traditions of social theory are brought powerfully to life in treatments of intellectuals ranging from William James to Robert K.

Merton, David Riesman to Randall Collins, and Patricia Hill Collins to Saskia Sassen.

Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory combines lively exposition and clarity with reflective social critique and original

insights, and is a superb textbook with which to navigate the twists and turns of contemporary social theory as taught in the

disciplines of sociology, politics, history, cultural studies and many more.

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Beyond Weird

Author: Philip Ball

Publisher: Vintage

Year: 2018

Call Number: 539

BAL

17929


A clear and deeply researched account of what’s known about the quantum laws of nature, and how to think about what they might

really mean’ Nature

‘I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.’ Richard Feynman wrote this in 1965 – the year he was

awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his work on quantum mechanics. Over the past decade, the enigma of quantum mechanics has

come into sharper focus. We now realise that quantum mechanics is less about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a

theory about information: about what can be known and how.

The quantum world isn’t a different world: it is our world, and if anything deserves to be called ‘weird’, it’s us. This exhilarating

book is about what quantum maths really means – and what it doesn’t mean.

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Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

Author: Lee Smolin

Publisher: Allen Lane

Year: 2019

Call Number: 539

SMO

17930


Human beings, says Lee smolin, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusing our

representations of the world with the world itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in quantum Physics, which forms the basis for

our understanding of everything from elementary particles to the behaviour of materials. While quantum mechanics is currently our

best theory of nature at an Atomic scale, it has many puzzling qualities - qualities that preclude realism and therefore give an

incomplete description of nature. Rather than question this version of quantum mechanics, however, whole groups of physicists have

embraced it as correct and rejected realism. Subscribing to a kind of magical thinking, they believe that what is real is far beyond the

world we perceive: indeed, that the 'true' World is hidden from our perception. Back in the 1920s Einstein, both a realist and a

physicist, believed that it was necessary to go beyond quantum mechanics to discover what was missing from a true theory of the

Atoms. This was Einstein's unfinished mission and it is Lee smolin's too. Not only will this new model of quantum Physics form the

basis of solutions to many of the outstanding problems of Physics, but, crucially, it is a theory that is realist in nature. At a time when

Science is under attack and with it the belief in a real world in which facts are either true or false, never has the importance of

building Science on the correct foundations been more urgent.

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Steel Nibs Are Sprouting : New Dalit

Writing From South India

Author: Satyanarayana K & Susie Tharu

Publisher: Harper Collins

Year: 2013

Call Number: 894.8

SAT

17931


Not only an important social document, this is a collection of highly readable, earthy literature that holds up a mirror of India to us.

The second of two volumes that document the upsurge of dalit writing in South India that began in the mid-1970s brings together in

English translation forty-three writers, activists and public intellectuals from Kannada and Telugu. Their poetry, fiction, essays,

critical commentary, self writing and research into mythopoeic pasts have changed the very idea of modern literature, culture and

society. Each writer strikes a distinct political note that challenges received wisdom. Initially published in small, alternative journals

and daily newspapers, this fulsome, ground-hugging archive is a rare intellectual biography of the past half century; record of the

meanings of Ambedkar, Lohia and Marx in contemporary India; and a mine of knowledge and insight into childhood, education,

family, welfare, employment, work, the role of politics in dalit worlds.The array of dalit perspectives within these pages, sometimes

in conversation, at other times clashing, provide texture and dynamism to what is possibly the most vital debate in the country today.

Together, they tell the hidden story of India.

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The Foundations of Behavioral Economic

Analysis: Volume IV: Behavioral Game

Theory

Author: Sanjit Dhami


Year: 2019


DHA

17932


This fourth volume of The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis covers behavioral game theory. It is an essential guide for

advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students seeking a concise and focused text on this important subject, and examines the

evidence on classical game theory and several models of behavioral game theory, including level-k and cognitive hierarchy models,

quantal response equilibrium, and psychological game theory.

This updated extract from Dhami's leading textbook allows the reader to pursue subsections of this vast and rapidly growing field and

to tailor their reading to their specific interests in behavioural economics.

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Higher Education for Sustainable

Development

Author: Kerry Shephard

Publisher: Palgrave

Year: 2015

Call Number: 378.01

SHE

17933


This book asks how higher education should approach the task of educating for sustainability and then sets to answering it. It

provides a guide for those who advocate for sustainability and for those who do not and makes a point of emphasising that all in

higher education have the capacity and willingness to contribute in some way. The challenge is to find an approach that unifies the

efforts of higher education teachers towards sustainability objectives, rather than dividing them. People at universities across the

world were consulted and a grounded theory was devised. This encourages all university teachers to teach what they want to teach

openly and honestly, about sustainability or not; but on the way to ensure that their students develop the critical skills that will enable

them to fully understand what is being taught and what they are learning.

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Cultural Heritage of Northeast India: Recent

Perspective

Author: Alok Tripathi

Publisher: Sharada Publishing House

Year: 2019

Call Number: 954.16

TRI

17934


This volume is a rare collection of research articles on lesser known cultural heritage of Northeast India—both tangible and

intangible. These selected articles deal with some of the important archaeological studies, ancient monuments, archaeological sites

and remains, first ever underwater archaeological exploration in internal waters in India, Neolithic remains, Megalithic culture and

traditions, burial practices, copper-plates and land grants, numismatics, art and architecture, early temple styles, ancient trade route,

study and preservation of cannons, manuscripts, dresses, Chinese porcelain, bamboo-based domestic architecture, religious beliefs,

folk deities, ethnic identity, and some early works on them, geographically covering almost entire Northeast India.

Scholars have systematically traced the history of important investigations highlighting great diversity and uniqueness of cultural

heritage in the region. They have also critically analyzed new data in the light of current knowledge and provide recent perspective

on the Cultural Heritage of Northeast India—covering diverse areas from Stone Age discoveries, some two centuries back, to

recently concluded underwater archaeological investigations.

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Historical Geography of Vaigai River

Valley

Author: K.Rajan & P.Balamurugan


Year: 2019

Call Number: 954.82

RAJ

17935


The present book Historical Geography of Vaigai River Valley seeks to update our knowledge based on the findings obtained from

the intensive explorations carried out by the authors and excavations conducted in the study area particularly at Alagankulam and

Kiladi to understand the processes of cultural transformation from Middle Palaeolithic to Historical period through mutually

supportive works and interpretative techniques. The archaeological, epigraphical, literary and numismatic data are analysed and

synthesized within a given political, social, economic and religious context to give a cohesive picture on the historical settings of the

micro region. The micro level maps provide a good amount of knowledge on the emergence and re-emergence of settlements. The

carefully prepared illustrations are self-explanatory and educative. The book provides a kaleidoscopic view on the nature of cultural

processes that undergone in the long span of human life.


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The Alladi Diary: Memoirs of Alladi

Ramakrishnan

Author: Krishnaswami Alladi

Publisher: World Scientific Year: 2019

Call Number: 925.3 KRI

17936

Recommended by: Prof. Ranganathan S

This is a kaleidoscopic account of the remarkable life story of Alladi Ramakrishnan (1923–2008), an internationally reputed

physicist, and the son of Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer (1883–1953), one of India's most eminent jurists.

Part I of the autobiography gives a fascinating account his early life in Madras, India during the last decades of British colonial rule,

and the leading role played by Sir Alladi in drafting the Constitution of India. Then follows the incredible saga of his creation of

MATSCIENCE, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, in Madras, inspired by his visit to the Institute for Advanced Study in

Princeton, and the result of a Theoretical Physics Seminar which he organized in his family home Ekamra Nivas in Madras, which

received the endorsement of Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr, and the support of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Part II covers the period of Ramakrishnan's term as Director of MATSCIENCE, and his visits to about 200 centres of learning the

world over, where he interacted with leading scientists and lectured on his research in the fields of Probability, Stochastic Processes,

Elementary Particle Physics, Matrix Theory, and on his novel treatment of Einstein's Special Relativity. Historical photos, letters, and

documents of special interest are included.

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Quantum Theory

Author: David Bohm

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc Year: 1989

Call Number: 530.12 BOH

17937


This superb text by David Bohm, formerly Princeton University and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Birkbeck College,

University of London, provides a formulation of the quantum theory in terms of qualitative and imaginative concepts that have

evolved outside and beyond classical theory. Although it presents the main ideas of quantum theory essentially in nonmathematical

terms, it follows these with a broad range of specific applications that are worked out in considerable mathematical detail.

Addressed primarily to advanced undergraduate students, the text begins with a study of the physical formulation of the quantum

theory, from its origin and early development through an analysis of wave vs. particle properties of matter. In Part II, Professor Bohm

addresses the mathematical formulation of the quantum theory, examining wave functions, operators, Schrödinger's equation,

fluctuations, correlations, and eigenfunctions.

Part III takes up applications to simple systems and further extensions of quantum theory formulation, including matrix formulation

and spin and angular momentum. Parts IV and V explore the methods of approximate solution of Schrödinger's equation and the

theory of scattering. In Part VI, the process of measurement is examined along with the relationship between quantum and classical

concepts.

Throughout the text, Professor Bohm places strong emphasis on showing how the quantum theory can be developed in a natural way,

starting from the previously existing classical theory and going step by step through the experimental facts and theoretical lines of

reasoning which led to replacement of the classical theory by the quantum theory.

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Education for Sustainability

Author: John Huckle & Stephen Sterling

Publisher: Earthscan

Year: 1996

At a time when polls suggest that a majority of young British people believe that the future will offer a worse quality of life than the

present, it is becoming imperative that children are introduced to principles of sustainability through the educational system from an

early age, and that these principles are regularly reinforced and built upon. The governments own Panel on Sustainable Development

has called for a 'comprehensive strategy for environmental and training', and NGOs frequently point to education as a key policy

instrument in the transition to sustainable development. This is the first book published in Britain to provide an overview of the

theory and practice of these issues. It brings together contributions from environmental educators working in the formal and informal

Call Number: 333.7071 HUC

17938


sectors and in continuing education, and provides perspectives on the philosophy, politics and pedagogy of education for

sustainability, as well as case studies and pointers towards good practice. Part I establishes some initial perspectives on sustainability,

education and the role of NGOs; the potential for education for sustainability in the formal and informal sectors is assessed in Parts II

and III; Part IV discusses its development as part of the greening of business and local government; and Part V looks at the way

forward.

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Higher Education for Sustainability: Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across

the Curriculum

Author: Lucas F. Johnston


Year: 2013


JOH 17939


Student and employer demand, high-level institutional commitment, and faculty interest are inspiring the integration of sustainability

oriented themes into higher education curricula and research agendas. Moving toward sustainability calls for shifts in practice such as

interdisciplinary collaboration and partnerships for engaged learning. This timely edited collection provides a glimpse at the ways

colleges and universities have integrated sustainability across the curriculum. The research-based chapters provide empirical studies

of both traditional and innovative degree programs as well as case studies from professional schools. Chapter authors illustrate some

of the inclusive and deliberative community and political processes that can lead to sustainable learning outcomes in higher

education. Exploring the range of approaches campuses are making to successfully integrate sustainability into the curricula, this

much-needed resource provides inspiration, guidance, and instruction for others seeking to take education for sustainability to the

next level.

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Research in Early Childhood Education for

Sustainability: International perspectives and provocations

Author: Julie Davis & Sue Elliott Publisher: Routledge

Year: 2014


DAV

17940


Sustainability is a global issue that urgently needs addressing, and for which the most serious consequences are for children and

future generations. This insightful research text tackles one of the most significant contemporary issues of our times – the nexus

between society and environment – and how early childhood education can contribute to sustainable living. By offering international

and multidisciplinary research perspectives on Early Childhood Education for Sustainability, each chapter explores and investigates

the complex topic of sustainability and its relationship to early childhood education. A particular emphasis that runs through this text

is young children as empowered citizens, capable of both contributing to and creating change for sustainability.

The chapter authors work from, or are aligned with, a transformative education paradigm that suggests the socio-constructivist

frameworks currently underpinning Early Childhood Education require reframing in light of the social transformations necessary to

address humanity’s unsustainable, unjust and unhealthy living patterns. This research text is designed to be provocative and

challenging; in so doing it seeks to encourage exploration of current understandings about Early Childhood Education for

Sustainability, offers new dimensions for more deeply informed practice, and proposes avenues for further research in this field.

6 Understanding Sustainability in Early

Childhood Education: Case Studies and

Approaches from Across the UK

Author: Diane Boyd, Nicky Hirst & John

Siraj-Blatchford, Eds Publisher: Routledge

This unique book explores research related to education for sustainability within early childhood education in the United Kingdom.

Divided into the four home nations, it examines what education for sustainability looks like in practice, discusses the different

application and positions of each region, and considers the contribution of early childhood education to support the Sustainable

Development Goals.

Each chapter considers the relevant early years framework and includes associated case studies which highlight connections between

statutory guidance, policy and positive early years pedagogical practice. The authors use an education for sustainability lens to

explore the critical issues and explicit and implicit links embedded in each of the curricula frameworks. Each chapter acknowledges

Year: 2018


BOY

17941


the context of outdoor learning with discussion related to different interpretations of ecological sustainability. This exploration

should help readers to consider the idea of sustainability within early childhood education.

The book considers early childhood education as a distinct and valuable phase beyond the readiness for school discourse and

recognises the importance of having skilful and knowledgeable adults to work with young children from birth. It offers a unique

resource for students, practitioners, leaders and researchers engaged in the study of education for sustainability in early childhood and

the importance of the early years for the development of life-long pro-environmental attitudes.

7 What Ails the IAS and Why It Fails to

Deliver: An Insider’s View

Author: Naresh Chandra Saxena

Publisher: Sage

Year: 2019

Call Number: 351.54

SAX 17942

Recommended by: Prof. Meenakshisundaram S S

An unorthodox and maverick administrator, the author worked in top policy positions, but the system rejected the reforms that he

advocated. In his career he followed the economic philosophy of ‘socialism for the poor and free market for the rich’. However, the

political and administrative system in India seemed to believe in ‘indifference to the poor and control over the rich to facilitate rent

seeking’.

The book is full of anecdotes ranging from how the author resisted political corruption that led to the Prime Minister’s annoyance to

a situation when the author himself ‘bribed’ the Chief Minister to scrap oppressive laws against tribal women. As Joint Secretary,

Minorities Commission, the author exposed the communal bias of the district administration in handling riots in Meerut; he was

punished for bringing to light the killing of innocent Muslim women and children by the police. When Bihar became a ‘failed state’

during the Lalu Prasad Yadav era of 1990–2005, the author did not hesitate in rebuking the Chief Secretary who was his senior in

service, and accused IAS officials in Bihar of behaving like English-speaking politicians.

Despite their high integrity, hard work and competence, IAS officials do not exercise sufficient control over the field staff who

collude with the junior staff in reporting false figures on hunger deaths, malnutrition and usage of toilets, leading to erosion of

accountability. Not only do many welfare programmes such as NREGA, ICDS and PDS have design flaws, governance in India at

the state and district levels is also quite weak, manifesting itself in poor service delivery, uncaring administration, corruption, and

uncoordinated and wasteful public expenditure.

Analysing the present Indian situation, the book suggests policy changes in all cross-cutting systemic issues such as the role of

politicians, tenure, size and nature of Indian bureaucracy, accountability, monitoring of programmes and civil service reforms, which

will transform individual competencies of IAS officers into better collective outcomes.

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Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus

Civilization was Discovered

Author: Nayanjot Lahiri

Publisher: Permanent Black Year: 20015

Call Number: 934.01 LAH

17943


In the autumn of 1924 the scholar-archaeologist John Marshall made an announcement that, at one stroke, dramatically altered

existing perceptions of South Asia’s antiquity: he proclaimed the discovery of ‘the civilization of the Indus valley.’ Within weeks,

Marshall’s news was recognized as conveying one of the most monumental discoveries in the history of human civilization: the

world over, it became apparent that this was on the same scale as the findings of Heinrich Schliemann (who unearthed Troy) and

Arthur Evans (who dug out Minoan Crete). The Troy and Crete stories have been well told, several times over. But a detailed,

archivally rich, and completely accessible narrative of the people, processes, places, and puzzles that led up to Marshall’s

proclamation on the Indus civilization has, like the civilization itself, long remained buried. Now, for the first time in this book, we

have the whole story, enchantingly told. Nayanjot Lahiri has mined and deployed as never before bureaucratic memoranda, colonial

noting, marginal letters, and piecemeal musings within the institutions and in the work of individuals who collectively discovered the

Indian subcontinent’s earliest cities. Spanning nearly a century, this is a tale of men such as the colourful collector-traveller Charles

Masson, who first described Harappa; the archaeological pioneer Alexander Cunningham, Harappa’s first excavator; discerning

diggers such as Daya Ram Sahni, Rakhaldas Banerji, and Madho Sarup Vats who uncovered Harappa and Mohenjodaro; the Italian

linguist-turned-explorer Luigi Pio Tessitori, who unearthed Kalibangan but never lived to tell the tale of his exploits.

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Is Indian Civilization a Myth?

Author: Sanjay Subrahmanyam

In the title essay of this enthralling collection, Sanjay Subrahmanyam sets a provocative ball rolling: 'At the heart of the matter', he

says, 'is the notion that at some distant point in the past, say about AD 500, the concept of "Indian civilization" had already been

perfected. Everything of any importance was in place: social structure, philosophy, the major literary works. The central idea here is

Publisher: Permanent Black

Year: 2015

Call Number: 954

SUB 17944


of India-as-civilization, and it very soon becomes the same as a notion of closed India.' Demolishing some of the myths which sustain

the notion of 'the wonder that was India', he shows us a region that was always more a crossroads, a rendezvous for concepts,

cultures, and worldviews.

Subrahmanyam's book is itself a meeting point for a dazzling variety of ideas. It provides the cosmopolitan perspective of a

multilingual world scholar who, having begun life in New Delhi, has gone on to live in several thought-provoking cities, including

Paris, Lisbon, and Oxford. He is witty, debunking, iconoclastic, and polemically entertaining in all that he anatomizes here - Indian

history and fiction, South Asian cultural forms, imperialism and imperialists, secularism and Hindu nationalism, travel writing, and

the central conceits in Hemingway, Rushdie, Naipaul, and Marquez.

Subrahmanyam is renowned as a historian and biographer. This book, which makes us rethink India and the world around it, is the

first to reveal that he is also a writer of accessible and delightful English prose.

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The Rise of a Folk God: Vitthal of Pandharpur

Author: Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere Publisher: Permanent Black

Year: 2012


DHE

17945


Vitthal, also called Vithoba, is the most popular Hindu god in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. He is also among the best-

known gods outside India. His temple at Pandharpur attracts one of the largest and most elaborate annual pilgrimages in the world.

This book is the foremost study of the history of Vitthal, his worship, and his worshippers. First published in Marathi in 1984, it

remains the most thorough and insightful work on Vitthal and his cult in any language, and provides an exemplary model for

understanding the history and morphology of lived Hinduism.

Vitthal exemplifies the synthesis of Vaishnava and Shaiva elements that not only typifies Maharashtrian Hindu religious life but also

marks Vitthal’s resemblance to another prominent South Indian god, Venkatesh of Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh.

Dhere's analysis highlights Vitthal’s connection with pastoralist hero cults, and demonstrates the god’s development from a god of

shepherds to a god of the majority of the population. In addition, Dhere explores the connections of Vitthal with Buddhist and Jain

traditions.

The book’s final chapter presents a culminating stage in the evolution of the worship of Vitthal: the interpretation in spiritual terms of

the god, his temple, the town of Pandharpur, and the river that flows past the town.

11 Sociology and Social Anthropology in

South Asia: Histories and Practices

Author: Ravi Kumar, Dev Nath Pathak and

Sasanka Perera

Publisher: The Orient Blackswan Year: 2018

Call Number: 301.0954 KUM

17946


while intellectual practices always take place within a definite socio-cultural context, disciplinary histories and practices have

overlapped with the territorial boundaries of nation-states in South Asia. As a result, the disciplinary history of India, for example,

appears to have no relation with that of any other country in the region. believing that disciplinary histories, even while engaging

with the local and the National, are influenced by larger regional forces, sociology and social anthropology in South Asia calls for a

more complete understanding of history and Culture in the region, over time and at specific moments.

In the various chapters, sociologists and social anthropologists from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan show how

social anthropology and sociology have worked as well as collapsed in South Asia, and how a more inclusive research agenda for this

intellectually connected region can be imagined.

The authors explore the nature and Scope of the disciplines emerging in each context; evaluate the relationship between sociology

and social anthropology within a historical framework; and focus on the contemporary status of the disciplines, given the increasing

thrust towards development objectives and agendas set by NGOs in each country

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Malabar Gazetteer - Vol 1 and 2

Author: C.A. Innes, I.C.S

Publisher: Kerala Gazetteers Department

Year: 1997

Call Number: 910.305483 INN

17947

Recommended by:

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Landscape, Culture, and Belonging: Writing

the History of Northeast India

Author: Neeladri Bhattacharya, Joy L. K.

Pachuau, Eds Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 2019


BHA

17948 Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya

This collection of essays is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast

India. Moving away from an exclusive dependence on colonial ethnographies, the authors build their arguments on a varied range of

sources: from buranjis to revenue records, survey maps to explorers' diaries, and missionary papers to police files. They question the

givennes of the categories through which the region is usually described, and contest the stereotypes by which the people of the

region are primitivized. They explore the historical processes whereby the region was surveyed, mapped, understood, represented,

politically governed, economically refigured, and historically constituted during the colonial period. Though focused on the

experience of Northeast India, the volume also raises substantive questions about the idea of the frontier and the border, the primitive

and the modern, and the tribal and the settled, the local and the trans-local.

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Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India

Author: Dolly Kikon & Bengt G. Karlsson Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 2019


KIK

17949 Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya

During the last decade, indigenous youth from Northeast India have migrated in large numbers to the main cities of metropolitan

India to find work and study. This migration is facilitated by new work opportunities in the hospitality sector, mainly as service

personnel in luxury hotels, shopping malls, restaurants and airlines. Prolonged armed conflicts, militarization, a stagnant economy,

corrupt and ineffective governance structures, and the harsh conditions of subsistence agriculture in their home villages or small

towns impel the youth to seek future prospects outside their home region. English language skills, a general cosmopolitan outlook as

well as a non-Indian physical appearance have proven to be key assets in securing work within the new hospitality industry. Leaving

the Land traces the migratory journeys of these youths and engage with their new lives in cities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad

and Thiruvananthapuram.

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The Legal Right to Housing in India

Author: Anindita Mukherjee


Call Number: 344.54063635 MUK

17950


This book on constructing a legal right to housing in India seeks to achieve three ends: first, examine the costs incurred in translating

a moral right into the language of the law; second, unpack the ways in which existing law and policy impact the realisation of the

right to housing and situate any attempt to legally guarantee the right within this context; and finally, begin thinking through the

many complexities that will arise should the right be articulated within the law. A comprehensive chronology of central housing law

and policy provides the descriptive background for this analytical text, while also acting as a rich introductory resource on the

subject. Asserting a need as a right and then seeking legislative recognition for the right is a formula often used in rights struggles.

This book takes a critical look at this process, in order to facilitate informed engagement with the law.


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The Meticulous Plan

Author: Sheela K Ramasesha

Publisher: iUniverse

Year: 2014

Call Number: 823.92

RAM

17951

Recommended by: Dr. Sheela K Ramasesha

Kunal, the son of a poor daily wager in India has big dreams. He wants to study and become an engineer. He even fancies going to

the USA for higher education with his girlfriend, Deepa. He has no means to pay his tuition at college, yet he has a strong urge to

make his dreams come true.

Kunal, unknowingly, gets sucked into drug peddling during his initial years in college and is kidnapped by the kingpin of the

business. Staying inside the business, Kunal has a meticulous plan to return to normal life. He manages to marry Deepa and also send

her to USA for higher education.

While Kunal is making his escape from the business, his boss gets killed. After many years and quite by chance, he meets the slain

boss's son and wife. What ensues is a highly emotional exchange of words and blame game. Again, Kunal has to stand up for what he

believes in.

2

The Promise of Contemporary Primatology

Author: Erin P. Riley


Year: 2020

Call Number: 599.8

RIL

17952

Recommended by: Prof. Anindya Sinha

This book argues for a contemporary primatology that recognizes humans as integral components in the ecologies of primates. This

contemporary primatology uses a broadened theoretical lens and methodological toolkit to study primate behavior and ecology in

increasingly anthropogenic contexts and seeks points of intersection and spaces for collaborative exchange across the natural

sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

The book begins by exploring the American tradition of anthropology, providing historical and disciplinary context for the

emergence of field primatology and how it became a part of this tradition. It then examines how primatology transformed into a field

dominated by evolutionary approaches and highlights how the increasingly anthropogenic environments in which primates live

present opportunities to understand primate adaptability at work. In doing so, it explores how an extended evolutionary approach can

help explain behavioral variation in these contemporary environments. Focus is then given to the ethnoprimatological approach, a

contemporary approach that provides a pluralistic framework, drawing from the natural and social sciences and humanities, needed to

study human-primate coexistence in the Anthropocene. Finally, the book considers how such a crossing of disciplines can inform

primate conservation in the future.

3

Social Theory and Education: A Critique of

Theories of Social and Cultural

Reproduction

Author: Raymond Allan Morrow

Publisher: State University of New York

This book summarizes and critiques theories of social and cultural reproduction as they relate to sociology of education.

Press

Year: 1995

Call Number: 370.19

MOR

17953


4

The Edge of the Earth

Author: Sharadindu Mukerji

Publisher: Redgrab Books

Year: 2017

Call Number: 989

MUK

17954

Recommended by: Prof. Dinesh Kumar

Srivastava

Dr. Sharadindu Mukerji was associated with geological investigations in Antarctica for nearly 26 years out of his 37 year long career

with the geological survey of India. During this period he visited the South Polar Region four times in various capacities and spent

two full winters in the frozen continent. In 1991-92 he led the Eleventh Indian Expedition to Antarctica and was also the Station

Commander for the Ninth Winter Team at Maitri station. Between 1985 and 2009 his visits to Antarctica spanned between Dronning

Maud Land in the East Antarctica and King George Island via Weddell Sea in the West. In this delightful book Sharadindu shares in

a very lucid style his first hand experiences in Antarctica. The narration is free of scientific jargons and focuses on the life as one

faces there. Thus, it not only makes the book read like a story full of thrill and adventure but also acts as a guide book for new age

visitors to Antarctica.

5

Roots

Author: Dinesh Srivastava

Publisher: Redgrab Books

Year: 2018

Call Number: 823.92

SRI

17955


Srivastava

Roots is a narrative of roots of our culture and ethos. The memory of our roots is “like a shrine to us, where we find solace when we

are in pain”. The stories included in this collection, use a first person narrative to explore the events “with the vitality of a

confession”. These are marked by a love for nature and all living beings, empathy with weak and suffering, respect for traditions,

pain of separation from or even destruction of, one’s roots, calm and dignified acceptance of one’s fate and continued struggle for

survival. For some the suffering is so severe that death brings “a smile of relief from excruciating pain”. Rural India comes alive in

the details of everyday life, cattle, birds, river, forest, wolves and jackals, spirits, snakes, songs, traditions, tales and beliefs. Though

mostly rooted in ethos of India, the stories are universal in nature and portray characters from across the world. The tenacity of

migrant workers across the world and their struggle against every possible adversity is yet another theme, which finds an expression

in this collection. Most aptly, the collection ends in a story where the narrator comes to a realization that “a prose of a quiet

determination is far more lyrical than the poetry of pity, which he had always penned”.

6

The Silent Whisper

Author: Dinesh Srivastava

Publisher: Anjuman Prakashan

Year: 2019

The Silent Whisper is a collection of short stories which deal with people and their aspirations, their anxieties, their fears, their

cowardice, their braveries, their weaknesses, their strengths, their ecstasies, their humiliations, their joys, their frustrations, their

pains, their sufferings, fulfillment of their dreams, shattering of their dreams, their lack of dreams, their nightmares, their fantasies,

their hardships, their failings, their virtues, their victories, their failures, their struggles, their inner thoughts and their hopes. Some of

these also record their cowardice for which they hate themselves for the rest of their living moments but which they may never be

able to admit; perhaps even to themselves. These celebrate man and his struggles for survival when all odds are stacked against him

Call Number: 823.92

SRI

17956


Srivastava

and when the ground under his feet is crumbling. Sometimes, these struggles result in his complete destruction; but the satisfaction of

having faced the adversities is his triumph and we need to celebrate it. And then there are occasions when man wins and exults.

7

Renunciation and Untouchability in India:

The Notional and the Empirical in the Caste

Order

Author: Srinivasa Ramanujam


Year: 2020


RAM

17957

Recommended by: Mr. Varun S Bhatta

This volume develops a historically informed phenomenology of caste and untouchability. It explores the idea of ‘Brahmin’ and the

practice of untouchability by offering a scholarly reading of ancient and medieval texts. By going beyond the notions of purity and

pollution, it presents a new framework of understanding relationships between social groups and social categories.

An important intervention in the study of caste and untouchability, this book will be an essential read for the scholars and researchers

of political studies, political philosophy, cultural studies, Dalit studies, Indology, sociology, social anthropology and Ambedkar

studies.

8

The Being of Man: Science, Culture and

Consciousness

Author: Alok Tripathi


Year: 2016


TRI

17958


9

Metallic Art of India

Author: S.D. Trivedi


Year: 2009

Use of metal for crafting sculptures and other works of art in India is more than 5 years old. There are several exemplary creations

testifying mastery of ancient metallurgists through the ages. This book contains papers presented on Metal Art of India. These

articles on ancient bronzes, gold images, and use of gold in textiles give a deep insight into the various aesthetic and technical aspects

of metal art of India. The papers deal with collections in famous museums like Lucknow, Allahabad and Mathura and some other

metal images in foreign collections. Authors have studied iconography and aesthetics of finds from various famous centers of

metallic art such as Chausa, Aluara, western Orissa, south India and Konkan. Not only the art of Pala and Chola period but also their

Call Number: 732.44

TRI

17959


depictions in art are discussed. Illustrated with colour images and figures this book throws light on various aspects of metal art of

India

10

Quaternary Studies in the Manipur Valley

Author: Thokchom Angou Singh


Year: 2012

Call Number: 934

SIN

17960


This book presents results of the investigations carried out in the Manipur valley to understand the nature and the complexity of

Quaternary sediments and their stratigraphic correlation; unravel the environment of deposition; and compare the nature of the

Quaternary records of the Manipur valley with that of the rest of Northeast India, intermontane basins of the Himalayan regions and

other tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia. Field data presented here are collected through extensive surveys, and field works

carried out by various several other agencies in Manipur. Quaternary units were mapped on the basis of their weathering character

and morphology; sub-surface data were collected from the different government official sources; and pertinent laboratory analyses

were carried on the soil sediment samples. In order to reconstruct the chronology of the Quaternary formation, the tectonic

movements and climate changes in Manipur valley during the Neogene have also been discussed. The Quaternary deposits of

Manipur valley developed due to various complex processes. In absence of palaeontological evidence and paucity of absolute dating

a sincere attempt has been made on the basis of altemetric position, geomorphic processes and forms, degree of weathering,

archaeological finds; and a few absolute dates. This book highlighting the importance of Quaternary studies in prehistoric

archaeology will certainly be of great help to the historians, geomorphologists, archaeologists and research scholars working on

Manipur in particular and Northeast India in general.

11

Introduction to Test Construction in the

Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Practical

Guide

Author: Joshua A. Fishman and Tomas

Galguera

Publisher: Rowman & Little field Publishers

Year: 2003


FIS

17961


This book offers beginning researchers in psychology and education with limited statistics backgrounds a practical, hands-on guide to

the preparation, assessment, and development of quantitative research instruments. With the explicit goal in mind of making the text

accessible to readers with only a beginning level of statistical expertise, the authors include numerous examples and figures to

illustrate necessary concepts and procedures, while minimizing jargon. The book includes an appendix with directions for the

required statistical analyses for readers with access to SPSS. The organization of the book into two sections, theoretical and practical,

with complementary chapters in each section, results in a practical and versatile resource to have in a variety of contexts. Because of

its versatility, the book may be used either as a textbook for courses on test construction and instrument design or quantitative

research methods in psychology and education, as a reference for researchers using and constructing quantitative instruments, or as

background reading for professionals in related fields.

12

Power, Intimacy, and the Life Story:

Personological Inquiries into Identity

Author: Dan P. McAdams

Publisher: The Guilford Press

Year: 1988

Who am I? And how do I fit into the world? These are the questions individuals ask themselves to make sense of their lives. Power,

Intimacy and the Life Story addresses the human quest for identity. The author reinterprets some of the classic writings in

psychology as he shows how each of us constructs a life story in order to meet the identity challenge and create a sense of unity and

purpose in our lives.

Call Number: 155.2

MCA

17962


13

Sociology as Political Education

Author: Karl Mannheim, David Kettler,

Colin Loader


Year: 2017

Call Number: 301

MAN

17963


German professors and academic intellectuals are often blamed for passivity or complicity in the National Socialist rise to power.

Karl Mannheim was a leading representative of a vital minority of university personalities who devoted themselves to making

sociology and higher education contribute to democratization. Sociology as Political Education is both an analytical account of

Mannheim's efforts as well as an illustration of the application of sociological knowledge to the world of practical action. Together

with a second biographical volume by the editors, forthcoming next season, it comprisesa complete record of Karl Mannheim in the

university life of the Weimar period.

The comparatively new discipline of sociology was looked upon with favor by the Weimar Republic's reformers of higher education.

In advancing its methods Mannheim had first to contend first with prominent and influential figures who attacked sociology as a

mere political device to undermine cultural and national values for the sake of narrow interests and partisanship. He then had to meet

the objections of fellow sociologists who were convinced that the discipline could prosper only as an area of specialized study with

no claim to educational goals beyond the technical reproduction. Finally, he had to separate himself from proponents of politicized

sociology. Sociological thought should be rigorous, critical, and attentive to evidence, but, Mannheim argued, its system had to be

open and congruent with the ultimate responsibility of human beings for their acts.

Loader and Kettler supplement Mannheim's groundbreaking volume with previously untranslated Mannheim texts, among them a

transcript of his 1930 sociology course in which Mannheim answered his critics and clarified his intentions. Sociology as Political

Education is not only of historical significance, but also shows Mannheim's relevance for current discussions of academic integrity

and politicization. This volume will be of interest to sociologists, cultural historians, and political scientists.

14

Algorithmic Aspects of Machine Learning

Author: Ankur Moitra


Year: 2018


MOI

17964


This book bridges theoretical computer science and machine learning by exploring what the two sides can teach each other. It

emphasizes the need for flexible, tractable models that better capture not what makes machine learning hard, but what makes it easy.

Theoretical computer scientists will be introduced to important models in machine learning and to the main questions within the

field. Machine learning researchers will be introduced to cutting-edge research in an accessible format, and gain familiarity with a

modern, algorithmic toolkit, including the method of moments, tensor decompositions and convex programming relaxations. The

treatment beyond worst-case analysis is to build a rigorous understanding about the approaches used in practice and to facilitate the

discovery of exciting, new ways to solve important long-standing problems.

15

How to Think About Algorithms

Author: Jeff Edmonds

This textbook, for second- or third-year students of computer science, presents insights, notations, and analogies to help them

describe and think about algorithms like an expert, without grinding through lots of formal proof. Solutions to many problems are

provided to let students check their progress, while class-tested PowerPoint slides are on the web for anyone running the course. By

looking at both the big picture and easy step-by-step methods for developing algorithms, the author guides students around the


Year: 2008

Call Number: 518.1

EDM

17965


common pitfalls. He stresses paradigms such as loop invariants and recursion to unify a huge range of algorithms into a few meta-

algorithms. The book fosters a deeper understanding of how and why each algorithm works. These insights are presented in a careful

and clear way, helping students to think abstractly and preparing them for creating their own innovative ways to solve problems.

16

A Student's Guide to Coding and

Information Theory

Author: Stefan M. Moser and Po-Ning Chen


Year: 2012

Call Number: 003.54

MOS

17966


This easy-to-read guide provides a concise introduction to the engineering background of modern communication systems, from

mobile phones to data compression and storage. Background mathematics and specific engineering techniques are kept to a minimum

so that only a basic knowledge of high-school mathematics is needed to understand the material covered. The authors begin with

many practical applications in coding, including the repetition code, the Hamming code and the Huffman code. They then explain the

corresponding information theory, from entropy and mutual information to channel capacity and the information transmission

theorem. Finally, they provide insights into the connections between coding theory and other fields. Many worked examples are

given throughout the book, using practical applications to illustrate theoretical definitions. Exercises are also included, enabling

readers to double-check what they have learned and gain glimpses into more advanced topics, making this perfect for anyone who

needs a quick introduction to the subject.

17

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta:

The Making of Calcutta

Author: Debjani Bhattacharyya


Year: 2018

Call Number: 954.14

BHA

17967


What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of

dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and

struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking',

a governing tool critical in making land and water discrete categories of bureaucratic and legal management, was at the heart of

colonial urbanization and the technologies behind the draining of Calcutta. The story of ecological change is narrated alongside

emergent practices of land speculation and transformation in colonial law. Bhattacharyya demonstrates how this history continues to

shape our built environments with devastating consequences, as shown in the Bay of Bengal's receding coastline.

18

Creativity in Research: Cultivate Clarity, Be

Innovative, and Make Progress in your

Research Journey

Author: Nicola Ulibarri

Creativity is at the heart of successful research, yet researchers are rarely taught how to manage their creative process, and modern

academic life is not structured to optimize creativity. Creativity in Research provides concrete guidance on developing creativity for

anyone doing or mentoring research. Based on a curriculum developed at Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design,

this book presents key abilities that underlie creative research practice through a combination of scientific literature on creative

confidence, experiential exercises, and guided reflection. By focusing attention on how research happens as well as its outputs,

researchers increase their ability to address research challenges and produce the outputs they care about. Simultaneously, they may


Year: 2019

Call Number: 153.35

ULI

17968

Recommended by: Dr.Shailaja D Sharma

also transform their emotional relationship with their work, replacing stress and a harsh inner critic with a more open and emotionally

empowered attitude.

19

Army of None – Autonomous Weapons and

the Future of War

Author: Paul Scharre

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Year: 2018

Call Number: 623.4

SCH

17969

Recommended by: Prof. Soundar Rajan

What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Or when a weapon that can hunt its own targets is

hacked? Although it sounds like science fiction, the technology already exists to create weapons that can attack targets without

human input. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in emerging weapons technologies, draws on deep research and firsthand experience to

explore how these next-generation weapons are changing warfare.

Scharre’s far-ranging investigation examines the emergence of autonomous weapons, the movement to ban them, and the legal and

ethical issues surrounding their use. He spotlights artificial intelligence in military technology, spanning decades of innovation from

German noise-seeking Wren torpedoes in World War II—antecedents of today’s homing missiles—to autonomous cyber weapons,

submarine-hunting robot ships, and robot tank armies. Through interviews with defense experts, ethicists, psychologists, and

activists, Scharre surveys what challenges might face "centaur warfighters" on future battlefields, which will combine human and

machine cognition. We’ve made tremendous technological progress in the past few decades, but we have also glimpsed the terrifying

mishaps that can result from complex automated systems—such as when advanced F-22 fighter jets experienced a computer

meltdown the first time they flew over the International Date Line.

At least thirty countries already have defensive autonomous weapons that operate under human supervision. Around the globe,

militaries are racing to build robotic weapons with increasing autonomy. The ethical questions within this book grow more pressing

each day. To what extent should such technologies be advanced? And if responsible democracies ban them, would that stop rogue

regimes from taking advantage? At the forefront of a game-changing debate, Army of None engages military history, global policy,

and cutting-edge science to argue that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but without

surrendering human judgment. When the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.

20

Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and

Futures of Urban Ecologies

Author: Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sorlin

Publisher: MIT Press

Year: 2019


ERN

17970


Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments.

21

Discovering Bengaluru

This book walks you through a past that is still present in Bengaluru. Packed with archival maps and photographs, the book is part

history and Part walking-guide. It tells the stories of the streets where people lived, where battles were fought, and where little

Author: Meera Iyer

Publisher: Intach Bengaluru Chapter

Year: 2019

Call Number: 954.87

IYE

17971


marvels of architecture, culture or nature are still found around almost every corner. Whether you are a visitor to Bengaluru or a

resident, this book is essential reading for you to discover and understand the city!

22

Ever Upwards: ISRO in Images

Author: P V Manoranjan Rao, B N Suresh

Publisher: Universities Press

Year: 2019


RAO

17972


The Indian space programme has the unique distinction of being born in a place of worship: the St. Mary Magdalene Church in

Thumba, a fishing hamlet near Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala. From those humble beginnings in 1963, the national space

programme grew under the visionary guidance of Vikram Sarabhai and Satish Dhawan to become a technological giant, known today

as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Sarabhai created ISRO in 1969.

This year, 2019, marks the birth centenary of Sarabhai and the 50th anniversary of ISRO. This book celebrates the double

anniversary through over 370 photographs, lovingly curated by the authors from a collection of 2000. Some of them have never been

seen before by the public, while others are eye-catchingly beautiful.

The authors have worked on this book – their tribute to Vikram Sarabhai – for over five years, always keeping abreast with the latest

developments in ISRO: from its birth in 1963 to Chandrayaan-2, whose launch is imminent.

This is the story of ISRO told through images. The pictures speak for themselves!

23

Climate Governance in the Arctic

Author: Koivurova, Timo, Keskitalo, E.

Carina H., Bankes, Nigel (Eds.)

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2009


KOI

17973

Recommended by: Prof.Suba Chandran

Climate change is affecting the Arctic environment and ecosystems at an accelerating speed, twice the rate of the global average.

This is opening the Arctic to transportation and resource development and creating serious challenges for local communities and

indigenous peoples.

Climate Governance in the Arctic considers two aspects of climate change from an institutional perspective. It focuses on how

relevant regimes, institutions and governance systems support mitigation of climate change. It also examines the extent to which the

varying governance arrangements in the Arctic support adaptation and the development of adaptation processes for the region. The

book’s focus on Arctic governance offers unique insights within climate change mitigation and adaptation research.

Climate Governance in the Arctic is intended for an audience of international lawyers, international relations scholars and political

scientists concerned with the regional implications of climate change for existing governance regimes and the role of indigenous

peoples within those regimes.

24

Agrarian Change and Urbanization in

Southern India: City and the Peasant

Author: Purushothaman, Seema and Patil,

This book takes readers on a journey through the evolution of agricultural communities in southern India, from their historical roots

to the recent global neo-liberal era. It offers insights into a unique combination of themes, with a particular focus on agrarian change

and urbanisation, specifically in the state of Karnataka where both aspects are significant and co-exist.

Based on case studies from Karnataka in South India, the book presents a regional yet integrated multi-disciplinary framework for

Sheetal

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2019


PUR

17974


analysing the persistence, resilience and future of small farmer units. In doing so, it charts possible futures for small farm holdings

and identifies means of integrating their progress and sustainability alongside that of the rest of the economy. Further, it provides

arguments for the relevance of small holdings in connection with sustainable livelihoods and welfare at the grass roots, while also

catering to the welfare needs of society at the macro level.

The book makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship of agrarian as well as peri-urban transdisciplinary literature. For agrarian

academics, students and the teaching community, the book’s broad and topical coverage make it a valuable resource. For

development practitioners and for those working on issues related to urbanisation, urban peripheries and the rural–urban interface,

this book offers a new perspective that considers the primary sector on par with the secondary and tertiary. It also offers an insightful

guide for policymakers and non-government organisations working in this area.

25

Contracts, Agreements and Public Policy in

India

Author: Sairam Bhat

Publisher: National Law School of India

University

Year: 2015


BHA

17975


The book is the second in the series of Contract Law publications from Dr. Sairam Bhat. The first part, Law of Business Contracts in

India, published by SAGE Law in 2009, brought together a compilation of various modern forms of contracts. This book published

by the National Law School of India University is another attempt towards mapping the growth and application of modern contracts.

The articles collected in this book give the reader an in-depth understanding of the special business models governed by contractual

obligations. This work contains an analysis of judicial pronouncements and describes the principles of contractual interpretation and

construction.

26

Energy Law and Policy in India

Author: Sairam Bhat


University

Year: 2016

Call Number: 346.046790954

BHA

17976


This book is the second in the NLSIU book series. It is an attempt to address the need for comprehensive literature on the energy

sector in India and deals with the various legal and policy challenges posed by this sector. It covers critical aspects of renewable and

non-renewable sources of energy, energy security and the interface between energy, environment and trade. This book aims to serve

a ready reckoner for research, teaching and reference in this vital and emerging area of law.

27

Public Private Partnership In India: A

Sectoral Analysis

Author: Sairam Bhat


University

Year: 2019


BHA

17977


28

Corporate Governance, Agency Theory and

Firm Value: Advanced Econometric

Analysis and Empirical Evidence

Author: Hamizah Hassan

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Year: 2018


HAM

17978


Important corporate governance mechanisms such as ownership concentration and debt used by the large firms can affect firm

performance and value in developed markets. The mixed findings – which are non-conclusive in the literature – pertaining to these

relationships pose questions about the exact nature of the relationships between these mechanisms and firm value. Moreover, the

mixed findings in the literature have resulted in the endogeneity issue of the former becoming central to discussions in corporate

governance and corporate finance studies. The research in this book focuses on the dynamic endogeneity issue to investigate whether

this issue influences the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and firm value in the largest Australian firms based

on agency theory. The study investigates this issue through three different advanced econometric models and tests based on agency

theory: two-way fixed effects (FE) and the two-step system known as the generalised method of moments (GMM). The book

concludes that dynamic endogeneity is not a serious issue in influencing the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms

and firm value in the largest Australian firms. These models can be applied to other countries for investigating similar corporate

governance and finance issues

29

Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How

the elements were named

Author: Peter Wothers


Year: 2019

Call Number: 540

WOT

17979

Recommended by: Prof. Ranganathan S

The iconic Periodic Table of the Elements is now in its most satisfyingly elegant form. This is because all the 'gaps' corresponding to

missing elements in the seventh row, or period, have recently been filled and the elements named. But where do these names come

from? For some, usually the most recent, the origins are quite obvious, but in others - even well-known elements such as oxygen or

nitrogen - the roots are less clear.

Here, Peter Wothers explores the fascinating and often surprising stories behind how the chemical elements received their names.

Delving back in time to explore the history and gradual development of chemistry, he sifts through medieval manuscripts for clues to

the stories surrounding the discovery of the elements, showing how they were first encountered or created, and how they were used

in everyday lives. As he reveals, the oldest-known elements were often associated with astronomical bodies, and connections with

the heavens influenced the naming of a number of elements. Following this, a number of elements, including hydrogen and oxygen,

were named during the great reform of chemistry, set amidst the French Revolution. While some of the origins of the names were

controversial (and, indeed incorrect - some saying, for instance, that oxygen might be literally taken to mean 'the son of a vinegar

merchant'), they have nonetheless influenced language used around the world to this very day. Throughout, Wothers delights in

dusting off the original sources, and bringing to light the astonishing, the unusual, and the downright weird origins behind the names

of the elements so familiar to us today.

30

Hydrodynamic Stability

Author: P. G. Drazin and W. H. Reid


Year: 2004

Call Number: 532.5

DRA

17980

Recommended by: Dr. Janaki Balakrishnan

Hydrodynamic stability is of fundamental importance in fluid mechanics and is concerned with the problem of transition from

laminar to turbulent flow. Drazin and Reid emphasise throughout the ideas involved, the physical mechanisms, the methods used, and

the results obtained, and, wherever possible, relate the theory to both experimental and numerical results. A distinctive feature of the

book is the large number of problems it contains. These problems not only provide exercises for students but also provide many

additional results in a concise form. This new edition of this celebrated introduction differs principally by the inclusion of detailed

solutions for those exercises, and by the addition of a Foreword by Professor J. W. Miles.


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Identity: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Florian Coulmas


Year: 2019

Call Number: 126

COU

17981

Recommended by: Prof. Narendar Pani

Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an

identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet "identity" is extremely versatile, meaning different things to

different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common

features, so often the term is used without a definition of what, exactly, is meant by it. This provokes the core question: What exactly

is identity?

In this Very Short Introduction Florian Coulmas provides a survey of the many faces of the concept of identity, and discusses its

significance and varied meanings in the fields of philosophy, sociology, and psychology, as well as politics and law. Tracing our

concern with identity to its deep roots in Europe's intellectual history, individualism, and the felt need to draw borderlines, Coulmas

identifies the most important features used to mark off individual and collective identities, and demonstrates why they are deemed

important. He concludes with a glimpse at the many ways in which literature has engaged with problems of identity throughout

history.

2

The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism

Author: Erica Chenoweth Ed. et al


Year: 2019


CHE

17982


The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism systematically integrates the substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism

before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues in

studying and teaching these vital phenomena. This Handbook goes further than most existing collections by giving structure and

direction to the fast-growing but somewhat disjointed field of terrorism studies.

The volume locates terrorism within the wider spectrum of political violence instead of engaging in the widespread tendency towards

treating terrorism as an exceptional act. Moreover, the volume makes a case for studying terrorism within its socio-historical context.

Finally, the volume addresses the critique that the study of terrorism suffers from lack of theory by reviewing and extending the

theoretical insights contributed by several fields - including political science, political economy, history, sociology, anthropology,

criminology, law, geography, and psychology. In doing so, the volume showcases the analytical advancements and reflects on the

challenges that remain since the emergence of the field in the early 1970s.

3

Practical Guide To Drafting Commercial

Contracts

Author: Bhumesh Verma

Publisher: Oakbridge Publishing

Year: 2018

Practical Guide to Drafting Commercial Contracts by Bhumesh Verma is a concise practical guide for lawyers as well as non-

lawyers. Legal drafting is an art. A good draftsman must factor a number of practical aspects to ensure an effective agreement. A

well-drafted contract can serve the exact purpose and ensure optimum protection of the parties’ interests and would rarely lead to

disputes. Even if the parties are at dispute, a well-drafted contract is a strong tool to ensure the wronged party has the correct set of

remedies. Therefore, the importance of good contract drafting skills cannot be underestimated. This book guides the reader on minute

concepts and contains templates of most frequently used contracts.


VER

17983


4

Privatization And Globalization: Changing

Legal Paradigm

Author: Sairam Bhat

Publisher: Eastern Law House

Year: 2017


BHA

17984


The liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (LPG) Policy was considered the window of great opportunity for India to

formally enter into international market as a potential contender. The years 1991 dawned with an economic crisis in the country; it

was by virtue of this divergent LPG policy aimed at opening new avenues for the economy to grow.

The book analyses the trends and policy dimensions of privatization and focuses on the growth and impact of global policy on the

Indian legal system. It traces the era before introduction of this policy and then charts the journey of international and comparative

perspective including environmental protection, dispute settlement in trade laws and the objectives of passing competition law in

India. It also puts forward the discussion on business and human rights, ADR mechanism and most importantly, the changing role of

the government in response to economic liberalization. A few deliberations have been put together on the issues of labour

organizations, agricultural, pharmaceutical laws, interconnected with Intellectual Property Rights. Covering almost all the main areas

of probable changes, the book justifies it genesis as changing the legal paradigm of post-liberalization and globalization.

5

Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic

Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations

Author: Herbert Lin and Amy Zegart,eds

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Year: 2019

Call Number: 005.8

LIN

17985

Recommended by: Prof. Soundar Rajan

Offensive cyber operations have become increasingly important elements of U.S. national security policy. From the deployment of

Stuxnet to disrupt Iranian centrifuges to the possible use of cyber methods against North Korean ballistic missile launches, the

prominence of offensive cyber capabilities as instruments of national power continues to grow. Yet conceptual thinking lags behind

the technical development of these new weapons. How might offensive cyber operations be used in coercion or conflict? What

strategic considerations should guide their development and use? What intelligence capabilities are required for cyber weapons to be

effective? How do escalation dynamics and deterrence work in cyberspace? What role does the private sector play?

In this volume, edited by Herbert Lin and Amy Zegart—co-directors of the Stanford Cyber Policy Program—leading scholars and

practitioners explore these and other vital questions about the strategic uses of offensive cyber operations. The contributions to this

groundbreaking volume address the key technical, political, psychological, and legal dimensions of the fast-changing strategic

landscape.

6

Brass from the Past: Brass made, used and

traded from prehistoric times to 1800

Author: Vanda Morton

Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology

Year: 2019

Brass from the Past is not only a history of the use and production of brass, but more broadly an insight into the journey of this

important metal in the context of a changing and modernising world.

The book follows the evolution of brass from its earliest forms around 2500 BC through to industrialised production in the eighteenth

century. The story is told in the context of the people, economies, cultures, trade and technologies that have themselves defined the

alloy and its spread around the world. It explores innovations, such as the distillation of zinc, that have improved the quality and ease

of production. From national or religious priorities to exhaustion of raw material supplies, the themes from the past are echoed in our

own world today. In the later centuries, the book shines a light on some of the more personal aspects of people, businesses and

Call Number: 739.52

MOR

17986


relationships that have influenced industry and its progress.

Above all the book reflects the enthusiasm, not just of the author, but of all brass enthusiasts across the world. The search for

information has involved scrambling down Bohemian ravines, stumbling over brass-works debris under trees, and studying pre-civil-

war artefacts in Virginia. Academics and experts from across the world have provided information, from China to Qatar and the USA

to the Czech Republic.

Brass is a strong and attractive metal, which has been used to create items of great beauty and utility. It is hoped that the reader will

come to value the qualities of this material which has become a passion for so many people around the world.

7

Siruthavoor: An Iron Age-Early Historical

burial Site, Tamil Nadu, South India

Author: Smriti Haricharan

Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology

Year: 2016

Call Number: 954.82

HAR

17987


Archaeological artifacts such as stone tools, ceramics, coins, metal implements, and ornaments like beads, are generally used to

evaluate and understand the history of humans. These artifacts are especially important for the study of periods that lack concrete

literary evidence. Intangible aspects such as spiritual beliefs and ceremonies, as well as tangible but perishable objects, are lost in the

passage of time but artifacts are more likely to survive the vicissitudes of time. Pollen analysis, plant ecology and not least prehistoric

archaeology have contributed to the recognition of the transitional zone between uncontaminated nature and what eventually became

known as a cultural landscape. Cultural landscapes are looked upon not only as products of human intervention, but also and in

particular as the result of human desire to leave an imprint of control and power, often associated with territoriality and religious or

political ambitions. Megalithic burials, which are found in vast numbers in southern and central India, are a well-known global

phenomenon and their builders have left behind a landscape altered by their funereal remains. This study aims at using and

understanding man-land relationships in order to better comprehend the megalithic burials of Tamil Nadu. Funereal remains are one

of the most important lingering means of understanding society, customs and religion of pre and proto historic periods. Many

questions remain unanswered for the Iron Age of south India, and the megalithic burials are an important piece of this puzzle. This

site specific study helps us better understand some aspects such as spatial distribution, chronology and post depositional changes of

the burials at Siruthavoor.

8

Conflict in the Shared Household: Domestic

Violence and the Law in India

Author: Indira Jaising and Pinki Mathur

Anurag


Year: 2019


JAI

17988


The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (PWDVA) was enacted following a concerted campaign by Indian

women's groups. The law was envisaged to provide emergency civil reliefs to women facing violence within their homes. Over the

years there has been a massive increase in cases filed under the PWDVA. Interactions with lawyers indicate that that the law is useful

because of the comprehensiveness of the definition of domestic violence and the scope of reliefs provided in it; and that it allows

women direct access to courts. The objective of this publication is to take stock of the progress made towards achieving statutory

objectives in the first decade of its implementation. In this regard, the work attempts to cover themes relating to state accountability

in terms of providing a supportive framework to facilitate women's access to justice, experiences in court, and jurisprudence evolved

by appellate courts. It also seeks to trace and document the history behind the enactment of the PWDVA 2005. The work will capture

the experience of key functionaries under the law, and analyse judicial trends by examining orders and judgments passed by the

courts of magistrate, various high courts, and the Supreme Court.

9

India and Bilateral Investment Treaties:

Refusal, Acceptance, Backlash

Author: Prabhash Ranjan

Many countries have started contesting international investment treaties that allow foreign corporations to sue sovereign States for

alleged treaty breaches at international arbitration fora. This contestation has taken the form of either countries terminating their

investment treaties or walking out of the investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) system. India has also jumped on the contestation

bandwagon. As a consequence of being sued by more than 20 foreign investors, India terminated close to 60 investment treaties and


Year: 2019


RAN

17989


adopted a new model bilateral investment treaty (BIT) purportedly to balance investment protection with the host State's right to

regulate. This book studies critically India's approach towards BITs by tracing its origin, evolution, and the current state of play. The

book does so by locating it in India's economic policy in general and policy towards foreign investment in particular. India's approach

towards BITs and its policy towards foreign investment were consistent with each other in the periods of economic nationalism

(1947-1990) and economic liberalism (1991-2010). However, post 2010, India's approach to BITs has become protectionist while

India's foreign investment policy continues to be liberal. In order to balance investment protection with the State's right to regulate,

India needs to evolve its BIT practice based on the twin framework of international rule of law and embedded liberalism.

10

Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege, and

Inequality

Author: Surinder S. Jodhka & Jules Naudet


Year: 2019


JOD

17990


India is being widely seen as an emerging economic and political power on the global scene. Despite having the largest population of

chronically poor in the world today, it is home to a sizeable number of thriving rich and flourishing middle classes. They are

reshaping the country’s popular image and its self-imagination. Equally important are its political dynamics. With increasing

participation of erstwhile-marginalized sections in the electoral process, the social profile of India’s political elite has been changing,

making way for those coming from the middle and lower strata of the traditional social order, thus broadening the social base of

political power.

Mapping the Elite seeks to expand the understanding of processes of formations and transformations of the Indian elite. The

contributors explore the emergent elite spaces, the new idioms of power and inequality, the diverse strategies in which symbolic

boundaries of privilege are traced in everyday lives, as well as the class mobilities in an age of proclaimed meritocracy. They do so

by using the sociological frames of caste, class, gender, community, and their intersections.

11

A Life in the World

Author: U.R. Ananthamurthy


Year: 2019


ANA

17991


A fascinating portrait of the life and ideas of the great Indian writer and public intellectual, U.R. Ananthamurthy. Between 2012 and

2013, Ananthamurthy shared his personal experiences in a series of lively conversations with academic and writer Chandan Gowda,

and reflected on issues that would preoccupy him until the end. Besides the vivid accounts of his childhood, friendships, the

evolution of his intellectual life, and public involvements, his passionate ideas on tradition, on India’s political culture, and on

language and writing make the conversations an engaging and valuable document. A Life in the World – perhaps the first exercise of

its kind done with an Indian writer – will enthral both general readers as well as admirers of Ananthamurthy’s works.

12

Capital

Author: Rana Dasgupta


Year: 2016

The boom following the opening up of India’s economy in the early 1990s plunged Delhi, the capital city, into a tumult of destruction

and creation: slums and markets were bulldozed or burnt down, and shopping malls and apartment blocks erupted from the ruins – or

upon agricultural land taken over in the interests of business and modernization. Immense fortunes were made, and in the glassy

stores lining the new highways, customers paid for global luxury with bags of cash. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people

from the rural hinterland streamed into the newly formed ‘National Capital Region’ looking for work, which they often found

constructing, cleaning or guarding the homes of the increasingly affluent middle class. The transformation of the city was stern,

abrupt and unequal, and it gave rise to new and bewildering feelings. Delhi brimmed with ambition and rage. In his first work of non-

Call Number: 954.56

DAS

17992


fiction, Rana Dasgupta shows us this new Delhi through the eyes of its people.

13

Indian Environmental Law: Key Concepts

and Principles

Author: Shibani Ghosh

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Year: 2019


GHO

17993


For more than three decades now, the Indian courts have delivered far-reaching judgments on a range of significant environmental

matters. In their effort to adjudicate complex disputes with serious environmental repercussions, involving the interplay of multiple

social, economic and political factors, the courts have developed a framework of environmental rights and legal principles, which

now forms an integral part of Indian environmental jurisprudence. The judiciary invokes this framework creatively to identify

constitutional, statutory and common law obligations of public and private actors to protect the environment, and to enforce the

performance of related duties. There is, however, limited in-depth study of these crucial rights and principles in existing legal

literature.

Indian Environmental Law: Key Concepts and Principles fills this gap through its critical analysis of the evolution of this

environmental legal framework in India. It studies the origins of environmental rights, substantive and procedural, and the four most

significant legal principles— principle of sustainable development, polluter pays principle, precautionary principle and the public

trust doctrine—and elaborates how Indian courts have defined, interpreted and applied them across a range of contexts.

As environmental litigation and legal adjudication struggle to respond to this crisis, conceptual clarity about the content, application

and limitations of environmental rights and legal principles is crucial for the improvement of environmental governance. This book

explores the judicial reasoning and underlying assumptions in landmark judgments of the Supreme Court, the High Courts and the

National Green Tribunal, and aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive understanding of this framework of rights and

principles.

14

Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics

and Militarization in Northeast India

Author: Dolly Kikon

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Year: 2019


KIK

17994


The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and

other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland,

everyday militarization, violence, and the scramble for natural resources regulate the lives of Naga, Ahom, and Adivasi people, as

well as migrants from elsewhere in the region, as they struggle to find peace and work.

Anthropologist Dolly Kikon uses in-depth ethnographic accounts to address the complexity of Northeast India, a region between

Southeast Asia and China where boundaries and borders are made, disputed, and maintained. Bringing a fresh and exciting direction

to borderland studies, she explores the social bonds established through practices of resource extraction and the tensions these

relations generate, focusing on peoples’ love for the landscape and for the state, as well as for family, friends, and neighbors. Living

with Oil and Coal illuminates questions of citizenship, social justice, and environmental politics that are shared by communities

worldwide.

15

Sociology of Education in India

Author: N.Jayaram

Publisher: Rawat Publication

Sociology of education is defined as a sociological study of the institutions and processes of education, on the one hand, and the

relation between education and the other facets of society, on the other. This book provides an introduction to this subject and

analyzes various themes under its umbrella by focusing on Education in India. Part I of the book introduces sociology of education;

analyzes the relation between education and society, in general, and between the school and the community, in particular; and

outlines the social History of education in the country. Part II deals with the issues in and perspectives on the relation between

Year: 2015


JAY

17995


education, employment, and economy. Part III analyzes the relation between education, inequality, and social Change. It also

discusses the concept of 'value-oriented education' And reflects on the educational backwardness of Muslims. Part IV examines the

decline of the University as a public institution, the changing status of the academic profession, and the nature of student political

activism. Part V dwells on the political aspects of education by discussing the issues of multiculturalism, democracy, peace, and

conflict - all in relation to education.

16

A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of

V.K. Krishna Menon

Author: Jairam Ramesh

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 2019


RAM

17996

Recommended by: Dr. Shailesh Nayak

This is a compelling biography of one of India's most controversial and consequential public figures. V.K. Krishna Menon continues

to command our attention not just because he was Jawaharlal Nehru's confidant and soulmate but also for many of his own political

and literary accomplishments. A relentless crusader for Indian independence in the UK in the 1930s and 1940s, he was a global star

at the United Nations in the 1950s before he was forced to resign as defence minister in the wake of the India-China war of 1962.

Meticulously researched and based entirely on new archival material, this book reveals Krishna Menon in all his capabilities and

contradictions. It is also a rich history of the tumultuous times in which he lived and which he did so much to shape.

17

World Energy Outlook 2019

Author:

Publisher: International Energy Agency

Year: 2019

Call Number: 333.79

IEA

17997


18

World Energy Statistics 2019

Author:


Year: 2019

Call Number: 333.79

World Energy Statistics provides comprehensive world energy statistics on all energy sources – coal, gas, oil, electricity, renewables

and waste. It covers energy supply and consumption for over 160 countries and regions, including all OECD countries, and more

than 100 other key energy-producing and -consuming countries, as well as world totals and various regional aggregates. The book

includes detailed tables by country in original units and summary time series on production, trade, and final consumption by sector.

In the companion publication, World Energy Balances 2019, data are presented as comprehensive energy balances expressed in

energy units. The World Energy Statistics USB key/online data service also contains key energy statistics for over 160 countries and

regions. Data are provided in original units for the different types of coal, oil, natural gas, renewables and waste, as well as for

electricity and heat. In general, the data are available for 1971 (1960 for OECD countries) to 2017, with preliminary 2018 estimates

IEA

17998


of all supply flows (OECD) and of production and trade of natural gas, primary coal and oil (non OECD). Definitions of products and

flows and explanatory notes on the individual country data are also included. In the companion USB key, World Energy Balances

2019, data are presented as comprehensive energy balances expressed in energy units.

19

Electricity Information 2019

Author:


Year: 2019


IEA

17999


Electricity Information provides a comprehensive review of historical and current market trends in the OECD electricity sector. It

provides an overview of the world electricity developments covering world electricity and heat production, input fuel mix, supply

and consumption, and electricity imports and exports. More detail is provided for the OECD countries with information covering

production, installed capacity, input energy mix to electricity and heat production, consumption, electricity trades, input fuel prices

and end-user electricity prices. It provides comprehensive statistical details on overall energy consumption, economic indicators,

electricity and heat production by energy form and plant type, electricity imports and exports, sectoral energy and electricity

consumption, as well as prices for electricity and electricity input fuels for each country and regional aggregate. Electricity

Information is one of a series of annual IEA statistical publications on major energy sources; other reports are Coal Information,

Natural Gas Information, Oil Information and Renewables Information.

20

Coal Information 2019

Author:


Year: 2019


IEA

18000


Coal Information provides a comprehensive review of historical and current market trends in the world coal sector. It provides an

overview of world coal developments covering coal production and coal reserves, coal demand by type, coal trade and coal prices. A

detailed and comprehensive statistical picture of historical and current coal developments in the OECD member countries, by region

and individually is presented in tables and charts. Complete coal balances and coal trade data for selected years are presented on

major non-OECD coal-producing and -consuming countries, with summary statistics on coal supply and end-use statistics for many

other countries and regions worldwide. Coal Information is one of a series of annual IEA statistical publications on major energy

sources; other reports are Electricity Information, Natural Gas Information, Oil Information and Renewables Information.

21

Renewables Information 2019

Author:


Year: 2019


IEA

18001


Renewables Information provides a comprehensive review of historical and current market trends in OECD countries. It provides an

overview of the development of renewables and waste in the world since 1990. A greater focus is given to the OECD countries with a

review of electricity generation and capacity from renewable and waste energy sources, including detailed tables. However, an

overview of developments in the world and OECD renewable and waste market is also presented. The publication encompasses

energy indicators, generating capacity, electricity and heat production from renewable and waste sources, as well as production and

consumption of renewables and waste. Renewables Information is one of a series of annual IEA statistical publications on major

energy sources; other reports are Coal Information, Electricity Information, Natural Gas Information and Oil Information.

22

CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion 2019

Author:


Year: 2019


IEA

18002


In recognition of the fundamental importance of understanding energy related environmental issues, the IEA CO2 Emissions from

Fuel Combustion provides a full analysis of emissions stemming from energy use. This annual publication has become an essential

tool for analysts and policy makers in many international fora. The data in this book are designed to assist in understanding the

evolution of the emissions of CO2 from 1971 to 2017 for 150 countries and regions by sector and by fuel. Emissions were calculated

using IEA energy databases and the default methods and emission factors from the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse

Gas Inventories.


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1

Stochastic Dynamics, Filtering and

Optimization

Author: Debasish Roy & G. Visweswara

Rao


Year: 2017

Call Number: 519.23

ROY

18003


Targeted at graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the field of science and engineering, this book gives a self-contained

introduction to a measure-theoretic framework in laying out the definitions and basic concepts of random variables and stochastic

diffusion processes. It then continues to weave into a framework of several practical tools and applications involving stochastic

dynamical systems. These include tools for the numerical integration of such dynamical systems, nonlinear stochastic filtering and

generalized Bayesian update theories for solving inverse problems and a new stochastic search technique for treating a broad class of

non-convex optimization problems. MATLAB® codes for all the applications are uploaded on the companion website.

2

Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the

Making of Modern India

Author: Benjamin Robert Siegel


Year: 2018


SIE

18004


This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth

century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical origins of

contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic, showing how food and sustenance moved to the center of nationalist thought

in the final years of colonial rule. Independent India's politicians made promises of sustenance and then qualified them by asking

citizens to share the burden of feeding a new and hungry state. Foregrounding debates over land, markets, and new technologies,

Hungry Nation interrogates how citizens and politicians contested the meanings of nation-building and citizenship through food, and

how these contestations receded in the wake of the Green Revolution. Drawing upon meticulous archival research, this is the story of

how Indians challenged meanings of welfare and citizenship across class, caste, region, and gender in a new nation-state.

3

Rural Technology Development and

Delivery

This book comprises the proceedings of a rural technologies conference organised by the Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG),

which was conceptualized and initiated by Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India R. Chidambaram in 2003–

04. The book highlights case studies and research into providing science and technology interventions for the development of rural

areas. Covering various aspects of research carried out in the area of rural technologies, it offers a valuable resource for researchers,

Author: Saha, Subir Kumar & Ravi, M. R.

(Eds.)

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2019


SHA

18005

Recommended by: Prof. V. Bhujanga Rao

professionals, and policymakers alike.

4

Ancient Art Architecture and Environment

Author: Rajesh Chandra

Publisher: Edukeen Publishers

Year: 2019

Call Number: 722.44

CHA

18006


5

Ancient Science and Archaeology (Journal

of the Ancient Science & archaeological

Society of India) Vol.3 to Vol.8

Author: Sampath M.D, Executive Ed.

Publisher: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan

Year: Vol.3 - 2010

Vol.4 - 2011

Vol.5 - 2014

Vol.6 - 2016

Vol.7 - 2018

Vol.8 - 2019

Call Number: 509.34

SAM

18007-18012


6

Anthropology of Sound Santal Tribe

Author: Onkar Prasad

Publisher: B.R. Publishing Co.

Year: 2016


PRA

18013


7

Archaeological Adventure

Author: A.K. Sharma


Year: 2019

Call Number: 934

SHA

18014


8

Archaeological Anthropology: An

Introduction to Prehistory

Author: Indrani Chattopadhyaya

Publisher: B.R. Publishing Co

Year: 2019


CHA

18015


In certain respect Archaeology enjoys a unique position in social sciences. In European tradition it developed as a historical science,

but since the growth of New Archaeology, it has acquired proximity with anthropology, on the one hand, and natural sciences, on the

other. According to a radical view it is understood as a hermeneutically informed dialectical science of past and present. This book

deals with some basic concepts of archaeological anthropology. Some of the ideas described here were aired to a generation of Delhi

University undergraduates and postgraduates since 1997. The text owes much to the relentless demands of and inspiration from my

students who made me aware of their needs during all these years. It has been written to view archaeology, that is the material

embodiment of the culture, with a wide range of approaches to the past. It seems to me that far from becoming submerged within

other disciplines, archaeology has become better able to define itself as a distinct and productive area of study. Archaeology’s

maturity as a discipline allows it to claim an independent personality with distinctive qualities to contribute.

9

Archaeological History of Early South Asia

Author: Rajesh Chandra

Publisher: Edukeen Publisher

Year: 2019

Call Number: 934

CHA

18016


10

Archaeological Museums: A Students

Manual

Author: A K Sharma


Year: 2019


SHA

18017


The book deals about the archaeological museums in India. The design of the building, design of the galleries and display method of

various types of antiquities obtained from explanations and excavations. The display should be in such a way with proper labeling so

that the heritage of the past could be brought to the notice of scholars and students. The book has been written particularly for the

students of musicology.

11

Archaeological Practice in India

Author: Amrendra Verma

Publisher: Venus Publications

Year: 2019

Call Number: 934

VER

18018


12

Archaeology & Heritage: Haryana - Current

Trends

Author: Jagdish Parshad,Ed


Year: 2019


PRA

18019


13

Archaeology of Maldives and Lakshadweep

Author: A.K.Sharma


Year: 2019

Call Number: 934.95

SHA

18020


14

Archaeology of North East India

Author: S S Gupta


Year: 2019

Call Number: 934.1

GUP

18021


15

Architecture Form, Space and Order

Author: Raghav Saxena


Year: 2019

Call Number: 720

SAX

18022


16

Art, Archaeology and Cultural History of

India

Author: R.N Aggrawal

Publisher: World Heritage Inc

Year: 2019

Call Number: 954

AGG

18023


17

Arts and Architectures in the Islamic

Traditions

Author: K. Prakash Dash

Publisher: Writers World

Year: 2018


DAS

18024


18

Bharatanatyam How to ... : A Step-by-step

Approach to Learn the Classical Dance

Author: Eshwar Jayalakshmi

Publisher: BR Rhythms

Year: 2010


ESH

18025


Among the many styles of dance that we have on the subcontinent. It is perhaps Bharatanatyam which represents the dancer as

Goddess; her costumes, her jewellery, her stance, the clear and precise geometries of the dance, its meaning, its techniques that reveal

the visionary four dimensional geometries of Inner space in three dimensional sections. While the dance is seen on stage in front of

an audience, yet it takes form in an invisible, mystical world from which the dance itself is believed to have emerged. Jayalakshmi

Eshwar's book - "Bharatanatyam : How to..." states in simple terms all the first steps that are necessary to enter this world of dance. It

would be an invaluable reference for students and teachers alike. - The book leads the student from the general ideas of the

principles, methods and techniques of Bharatanatyam, to the main topic of the Dance units 'Adavus'. - The book is self-explanatory

with detailed pictorial and written instructions of the Adavus in a simple and systematic manner. - Over 1400 illustrations integrate to

form a comprehensive reference. - A descriptive historical background to the dance form and it's evolution introduces the content. -

In addition Separate Audio CD & DVD are also available as support material.

19

The Cave Temples of India

Author: James Fergusson


Year: 2018


FER

18026


20

Compendium of Ancient Culture (4 Vols)

Author: Suresh Chandra

Publisher: Innovative Imprint

Year: 2019

Call Number: 934

CHA

18027-18030


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SL.No TITLE

1

Current Issues in Archaeology

Author: Raghav Saxena


Year: 2019

Call Number: 930.1

SAX

18031


2

Dances of South India

Author: Jagmohan Singh


Year: 2019

Call Number: 954.8

SIN

18032


3

Early Harappan Culture of Kot Diji-Sothi Complex

Author: Vinay Kumar


Year: 2018

Call Number: 934

KUM

18033


4

Early Indian Art and Architecture

Author: Amrender Verma


Year: 2019

Call Number: 722.44

VER

18034


5

Encyclopedia of Indian Culture (5.Vol.Set)

Author: Anuradha Jaiswal


Year: 2018

Call Number: 954

JAI

18035-18039


6

Encyclopedia of Indian Dances (2.Vol.Set)

Author: Trivedi B.C


Year: 2019


TRI

18040-18041


7

Environment and Settlement Pattern of the

Harappan Civilization in the Chautang basin

Author: Tejas Garge


Year: 2017


GAR

18042


8

Essays in Indian Protohistory

Author: Agrawal,D.P & Dilip K C,Eds


Year: 2012

Call Number: 934.01

AGR

18043


9

Famous Dancing Gurus

Author: Jagmohan Singh


Year: 2019


SIN

18044


10

Harappan Civilization: Homogeneity and

Heterogeneity

Author: Vijneshu Mohan


Year: 2005

Call Number: 934.01

MOH

18045


11

The Harappan Script: a new perspective

Author: Vijayendra


Year: 2011

Call Number: 491.1

VIJ

18046


12

Hindu Religion Art and Architecture

Author: K. Prakash Dash


Year: 2018


DAS

18047


13

History and Archaeology of Ancient Haryana

Author: Rajpal


Year: 2019


RAJ

18048


14

History, Culture and Archaeological Studies:

Recent Trends (3.Vol.Set)

Author: Pedarapu Chenna Reddy


Year: 2018

Call Number: 954

RED

18049-18051


15

A History of Nagas and Nagaland

Author: Bipin Bhatt


Year: 2019


BHA

18052


16

Indian Culture: Tradition and Continuity

Author: B.C Trivedi


Year: 2019

Call Number: 954

TRI

18053


17

Indian Folk Jewellery: Designs and Techniques

Author: Waltraud Ganguly


Year: 2015


GAN

18054


18

Indus Civilization: Arts and Crafts

Author: Mahesh Chandra Mishra

Publisher: Innovative Imprints

Year: 2019

Call Number: 934.01

MIS

18055


19

An Introduction to Hindu Dancing

Author: Subhash Tomar

Publisher: Peridot Literary Books

Year: 2019


TOM

18056


20

Khasi of Meghalaya: Differential Reproduction

and Family Planning

Author: Deimaphishisha Sun


Year: 2016

Call Number: 304.6320954164

SUN

18057


21

Khasi Tribe of Meghalaya

Author: S.H.M. Rizvi & Shibani Roy


Year: 2006


RIZ

18058


22

Lepchas and Their Heritage

Author: Tapan Chattopadhyay


Year: 2013


CHA

18059


23

Manipur: A Tourist Paradise

Author: E. Ishwarjit Singh


Year: 2005


SIN

18060



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1

Nose Rings of India

Author: Waltraud Ganguly


Year: 2015


GAN

18061


Nose rings have through the ages been worn all over the world. The piercing of the nose is often of a ritual character. The reasons for

wearing nose rings are manifold. Some aboriginal tribes used bone or boar tusks in order to appear fiercer to their enemies. Maya and

Aztec nose rings were restricted to men and were used as signs of royalty. The nose was and is a very important part of the body,

piercing it is the therefore always of high significance for an individual or a community. In tribal societies nose rings can act as

amulets to prevent evil spirits to enter the body. Modern youths may wear nose rings as a visual symbol of rebellion and to represent

their individuality. In most cases however the nose as the most visible part of the face is decorated to enhance and brighten the

individual appearance. In India nose rings, introduced from the West in Muslim time, are holding an old Jewellery tradition. It seems

however that the sophisticated and eye-catching big nath types which were not common before. More recently with the introduction

of modern lifestyles, the shape of nose rings was drastically reduced to small fashionable pins, larger nose rings being reserved to the

wedding outfit.

2

The Origin of Brahmi Script

Author: Gupta S.P & Ramachandran K.S

Eds.

Publisher: Indian History and Culture

Society

Year: 1979

Call Number: 491.3

GUP

18062


3

People of Manipur

Author: Rama Chakravartti


North East India provided shelter to numerous people of various ethnic affiliations and of different social structures and cultural

heritages. Since the year 1900, this part of Indian subcontinent has drawn attention to the Anthropologists of different parts of the

globe. Few areas of the world can rival with Manipur in the rich diversity of its population, culture and above all, its overall

panoramic view. Manipur is the homeland of a bewildering variety of people, kindred, tribes and languages. This monograph based

on in-depth research investigations on four population groups of Manipur, both from the valley and the hill, presents the

Year: 2013


CHA

18063


Anthropogenesis nature of the groups studied.

4

Rajput Painting: Being an Account of the

Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab

Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the

Nineteenth Century, Described in Their

Relation to Contemporary Thought (Set of

2.Vols)

Author: Ananda Coomaraswamy


Year: 2003


COO

18064-18065


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Rock Art in India: In Felicitation of Prof. V

H Sonawane (Set of 2.Vols)

Author: Sadasiba Pradhan & Dibishada B.

Garnayak


Year: 2017


PRA

18066-18067


This is a unique volume in view of the fact that for the first time, it presents a comprehensive account of rock art heritage of India

from the Himalayas to the Southern coast and from the Gujarat coast to the Odisha coast through collection of twenty two research

based articles contributed by rock art specialists of the various regions of the Subcontinent. Running over to 508 pages of text

supplemented by 81 figures and colour plates the volume would be a useful source material for students, researchers and public at

large for understanding the Rock Art Heritage of India. The volume presents a spectacular account of rock art scenario of India; in

which while North India and South India are pronounced largely by petroglyphs (engravings) with few specimen of Pictographs

(Paintings) Central India comprising the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan that account for the largest

concentration of rock pictures in the country (more than two-thirds) are featured by pictographs with few instances of petroglyphs.

This volume is dedicated to felicitate Professor V. H. Sonawne, an eminent Field Archaeologist in recognition of his seminal

contributions to rock art researches in India.

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The Roots of South Asian Art (Set of

2.Vols)

Author: D.P. Sharma and Madhuri Sharma


Year: 2012

Call Number: 709.54

SHA

18068-18069


This book The Roots of South Asian Art is a joint work of D.P. Sharma and Madhuri Sharma. The book covers art history of south

Asia from upper Paleolithic to early historic period. Roots of South Asian art exist in lower traditions of South Asia since Harappan

age circa 2700-2000 B.C. and these roots developed in higher traditions of art from 3rd c B.C. onwards. Mother Goddess worship

began during circa 20000 B.P. and developed during Harappan, Chalcolithic and Megalithic ages. From 3rd c BC onward it

developed into higher tradition of art like Sakti cult of Hindu religion. During early centuries the worship of Mother Goddess was

also inherited by other religions. The seated male torso of Harappan age of lower tradition developed into the Yogic figures of higher

tradition of early historic period. The stone male torsos discovered from Harappa (c. 2600 B.C.) and Lohanipur (circa 3rd c B.C.)

show continuous development in style between lower and higher traditions Pasupati Siva and Siva Linga of Harappan art of lower

tradition developed in the from of Siva cult of Hindu religion during early historic period. Wheel symbol Chakra stone pillar model

of animal capital top existed in Harappan age of lower tradition and these motifs of art developed completely in Mauryan age 3rd c

BC) of higher tradition of South Asian art.

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Sacred Complex of the Sabarimala Ayyappa

Temple

Author: P.R.G. Mathur


Year: 2019

Call Number: 294.535095483

MAT

18070


The book deals with the study of the sacred complex associated with Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple, especially since it draws millions

of pilgrims from all over India and abroad. Lord Ayyappa is worshipped in a unique manner at the Sabarimala temple in Kerala, deep

in the forests of the Sahya mountain ranges in the Western Ghats. It also presents a descriptive analysis of the ecology and

environment; the legends and myths of the birth of Lord Ayyappa; the architectural design of the temple; ritual functionaries; daily

worship; seasonal and annual festivals plus the Mandalam-Makara Vilakku festivals; pilgrimage and the history and administration of

the temple; continuity and change. This book has drawn the attention of common man eager to know about the deity, but also the

scholars of Indian civilization. The mythology associated with Ayyappa and even the form in which he is depicted is unprecedented.

Ayyappa was hunting deity, but was incorporated into Sanskritic tradition. The cult is an amalgamation of diverse faiths like tribal,

Brahmanic, Buddhist, Savism and Tantric traditions. It even incorporates obeisance to a Muslim saint. The author has also

highlighted the environmental impact of commercial promotion of the shrine, which the state will have to address in the larger

interest of the people and ecology.

8

India: 50 years of Independence, 1947-97

Status, Growth and Development

Author: Mohan S and Ashok Jain


Year: 1999

Call Number: 509.54

MOH

18071


9

Shaivism in Ancient Kashmir: A Historical

and Cultural Study

Author: John Mohammad Paul


Year: 2018


PAU

18072


10

South East Asian History and Anthropology

Author: Dilip Diwakar


Year: 2019


DIW

18073


11

South Indian Studies

Author: Murali S, Ed


Year: 1998

Call Number: 954.8

MUR

18074


12

Tribal Culture in Ethnographic Museum

Author: Namita Pegu


Year: 2016


PEG

18075


13

Tribal Religion in Central India : Continuity

and Change

Author: Tripathy B & Prasad DV, Eds


Year: 2019


TRI

18076


Religion is a mechanism to tide over the crisis of life for modern as well as primitive man. It is an expression of tribal ethos, culture

and tradition. The belief in supernatural beings led to establish close contact with the natural surroundings and as a result human

being established a symbiotic relationship with nature as it is closely associated with their survival. With this backdrop, the present

edited volume takes into account the understanding of tribal religion in central India with an emphasis on continuity and change. The

central India is the abode of more than one hundred tribes having diverse faith and belief system. The religious institution of the

tribes can be understood in man nature spirit complex, sacred performances, sacred rituals, sacred specialists, religious dances and

festivals, etc. The impact of Hinduism and Christianity on the tribes of central India is another important aspect of tribal religion as

some tribal communities have adopted or influenced by alien religion, due to which a number of changes have occurred in their

religious structure. This volume contains twenty-two well documented research articles taking examples from Madhya Pradesh,

Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Jharkhand. It provides an in-depth analysis of various facets of tribal religion

such as belief system, practices, rituals, festivals, syncretism, emerging identities, process of Hinduisation and Christianity, etc.

which are useful to anthropologists, sociologists, historians and those who are interested in tribal cultural heritage of India in general

and of central India in particular.

14

Tribal Society and Civilizations

Author: Mahesh Chandra Mishra


Year: 2019


MIS

18077


The social division of labor—the division of social roles in society—appears to play a very important role in shaping liminal

situations. In less differentiated societies, many liminal situations are more structured and more fully ritualized. Accordingly,

different themes of liminality, protest, and antistructure are more fully articulated and, in fact, highly regulated. Max Gluckman’s

classical analysis of rituals of rebellion (1963) portrays exactly this type of situation, in which protest, liminality, and antistructure

are very closely interrelated, fully structured, and placed in the center of the society. Tribal societies came under stress due to several

factors. The extension of commerce, military incursions on tribal land, and the resettling of Brahmins amidst tribal populations had

an impact, as did ideological coercion or persuasion to attract key members of the tribe into “mainstream” Hindu society. This led to

many tribal communities becoming integrated into Hindu society as jatis (or castes) while others who resisted were pushed into the

hilly or forested areas, or remote tracks that had not yet been settled. This book deals with an unstated premise of the twentieth

century paradigm for cultural development. This premise is that civilizations are the legitimate teleology of cultural development and

that settlement societies like the plantation societies formed from the eighteenth century onwards ought to be considered as resting on

the peripheries of developmental process. On the face of it, there is nothing wrong in this premise: in our quest for authenticity and

ennobling ideals of human development, we do of course look upon civilizations as the pinnacle. This book contains the

fundamental and basic information of subject and the selection of contents makes it an appropriate textbook for the students.

15

Wheel of History

Author: Rammanohar Lohia


Year: 2010

Call Number: 901

LOH

18078


16

World Art and Architecture

Author: Yajnanendra Pratap Singh

Publisher: World Heritage

Year: 2018

Call Number: 709

SIN

18079


Art and architecture have a deep connection that unites them through their design, their designer, and their individual meanings.

Architects create livable or usable spaces, but their architectural structures are also significant beyond their functionality. The arts

reflect the society that creates them. Nowhere is this truer than in the case of the ancient Greeks. Through their temples, sculpture,

and pottery, the Greeks incorporated a fundamental principle of their culture: arete. To the Greeks, arete meant excellence and

reaching one’s full potential. Formal analysis is an integrated study of all the formal qualities of an art object to see how they all

work together. We can then see how they add to the overall meaning of that piece of art. Formal qualities add to an artwork because

they are aesthetically satisfying. Looking at art is a different experience from looking at the general environment, which is visually

disjointed and disorganized. The formal qualities of artworks make them satisfying visual experiences, which adds considerable

power to art. Size, scale, texture and value are all formal elements in art that contribute to a works meaning. Size, scale and value are

formal elements in architecture that enhance the meaning of a building. This book is an excellent resource guide for students,

researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about global arts and architectures.

17

Aesthetics and Motivations Arts and

Science

Author: Kiran C Gupta

Publisher: New Age Int Ltd

Year: 1996

Call Number: 111.85

GUP

18080


This volume is a collection of twelve papers invited for a National Seminar based on the seminal work, “Truth and Beauty;

Aesthetics and Motivations in Science” by the Nobel Laureate S. Chandrasekhar. The contributions are by experts in arts, fine arts

and science, exploring the themes of creativity, beauty and truth in their respective subjects of specializations. It is hoped that this

publication will lead to more dialogues between the practitioners of arts and sciences.

18

Ajanta: Handbook of the Paintings (Set of 2

Vols)

Author: Dieter Schlingloff

Publisher: IGNCA & Aryan Books

Year: 2013

Call Number: 755.9430954792

SCH

18081-18082


Prof. Dieter Schlingloff is one of the leading experts on the paintings of Ajanta. He has been engaged with the task of identifying the

subject matter of the Ajanta Paintings in rich detail-a pre-requisite for further research. His steadfast research for last forty years

constitutes a brilliant corpus of books and articles on the paintings of Ajanta. The present work comprises the quintessence of his

research on the narrative wall paintings, their literary sources and the cultural background. In Prof. Schlingl

off's own words, The narrative paintings of the ancient period of Ajanta are of no less quality than the contemporaneous paintings of

Roman Pompeii, and like those, they are the only testimonies of the marvelous art of narrative wall-painting elsewhere lost. The

glory of ancient Indian culture and the high standard of its morality as revealed in the Ajanta paintings should become known

worldwide . The narrative wall paintings thus forms the subject matter of the present publication arranged in three volumes where the

main focus remains on the relationship of the text and the image that will hopefully stimulate further discussion and investigation in

similar fields. An English translation of the 2000 edition of Ajanta, Handbuch der Malereien = Ajanta, handbook of the paintings .

Professor emeritus Dr. Dieter Schlingloff, formerly head of the Department of Indology and Iranian Studies at the University of

Munich, Germany, is a specialist in Buddhist Sanskrit literature, ancient Indian culture and art. More than forty years of the author's

researches have been concentrated on the narrative Ajanta paintings.

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Catalogue of Manuscripts on Performing

Arts ( Music, Dance and Drama )

Author: Kaushalya Gupta

Publisher: National Mission for

Manuscripts, IGNCA

Year: 2016

Call Number: 016.79

GUP

18083


Catalogue of Manuscripts on Performing Arts (Music, Dance and Drama) is one of such important publication of the NMM which

has been painstakingly prepared by Kaushalya Gupta. Catalogue of Manuscripts on Performing Arts is a compiling information of

manuscripts on dance, music and drama. Such compilation reflects years of efforts in gathering information from the institutional

libraries and private collections. This will not be just a copy of the music, dance, drama material in Aufrecht or Raghavan but it will

update or rather fill the gap of existing knowledge in these fields.

20

Computerizing Cultures

Author: Kapila Vatsyayan

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 1995


VAT

18084


The book under review is the first volume of the proceedings of a UNESCO workshop, “Cross-Cultural Lifestyle Studies with Multi-

media Computerizable Documentation”, held at the IGNCA in New Delhi on January 9-13, 1989. The comparative method, the

concept of culture and the computerization of cultural materials were the major ingredients debated around cross-cultural lifestyle

study.

21

Crafting Traditions: Documenting Trades

and Crafts in Early 19th Century North India

Author: Ghulam Yahya


Year: 2005

Call Number: 954.82095409034

YAH

18085


Our knowledge of Indian society during British rule in the nineteenth century has rested primarily on the voluminous records of the

East India Company the works of various Europeans the writings of many civil servants of the company and the accounts of Indians

writing in this period. Interesting first hand and very useful alternative sources are writings of Indians produced on request or

assignment by company administrators. Such accounts are by no means readily available they were probably discarded after serving

their purpose. Nevertheless as this codex illustrates they embody a special middle space in the texts belonging to this genre. These

writings were used by the company officials as research data in writing their own reports survey or papers for publication. The Kitab

i Tasavir Shishagaran Vaghairah Va Bayan i Alat i Anha (The illustrated book about makers of glassware etc and a description of

their tools) is written by Ghulam Yahya in a matter of fact scientific observational style. It is an economic and ethnographic

description of eleven tradesmen and their crafts in the District of Bareilly in the Rohilkhand area in the 1820s. The text is augmented

with detailed drawings showing tools and processes and coloured paintings in the regional Company style. Of immense interest are

the lists of commodities sold by the dry goods dealer along with details of prices and an inventory of jewellery and ornaments

manufactured by goldsmiths. The codex was advertised by a London rare book dealer as an early nineteenth century cook book

written in Urdu. It turned out to be neither a cook book nor in Urdu but a neat little book in Persian on trade crafts and their

practitioners. Some of the crafts described in the text for example crimping and specialized charpoy weaving are now extinct. The

book also includes forgotten delicious recipes for kababs.

22

Cross Culture Lifestyle Studies

Author: Kapila Vatsyayan

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 1995

Call Number: 306

VAT

18086


23

Deer in Rock Art of India and Europe

Author: Giacomo Camuri

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 1993


CAM

18087


24

Essays on Music

Author: Ananda K Coomaraswamy

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 2010


COO

18088


Essays in Music is seventeenth in the series of the Collected Works of Dr Ananda K Coomaraswamy, in the IGNCA's publication

programme. These essays were published in a few books, journals, etc., mostly in the early years of the twentieth century.

Coomaraswamy held that music in countless ways had been bound up with the Indian national culture, for it was the most universal

expression of emotion religious, amorous or martial. Music belonged to every part of life. The flute of Krishna, the vina of Sarasvati,

the dance of Shiva, the Gayatri as cosmic chant or music of the spheres; the hymns of passionate adoration of the Southern Saivite,

all these belong to the association of music and religion. In addition to the art music, he lays great emphasis on the folk songs of

agriculture and crafts. This is music serving to lighten heavy labour, such as the songs of husbandmen, carters and boatmen. Music

remained too intimately associated with religion, with drama and with life, whether courtly or popular, and was faithfully guarded by

tradition. Coomaraswamy was much against the harmonium and gramophone, when compared to stringed instruments; even the

piano, he held, was an inferior instrument. Every time these mechanical instruments were used in place of man, the Indian musician

was degraded, his living was taken away from him and the group soul of Indian life injured. Among musical instruments, he gave

pride of place to vina. He firmly believed that the importance of music in education can hardly be overestimated. He bemoaned that

foreign (English) education had paralysed the living impulses of Indians, and driven India to a state of social disintegration. He

advocated that the restoration of Indian folk and art music to its proper place in Indian education would result in the understanding of

the self-expression of India in her music.

25

Glimpses of India-China Rock Art

Author: Bansi Lal Malla

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 2016


MAL

18089


26

Global Rock Art

Author: Bansi Lal Malla & Sonawane VH

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 2013


MAL

18090


The vast corpus of rock art that occurs in most of the countries of the world serves as an almost universal expression and

communication of human thought since the dawn of humanity. It is one of our greatest surviving art treasures. The intrinsic efficacy

of rock art lies in its universality of appeal and to endure and sustain in a manner in which all can discern it. Until recent past the

content of rock art has been much commented on as an indicator of the stage of development of the makers of the rock art. But now

for quite some time the attempts are being made by many scholars to explore the possibility of the proximity of rock art with the art

of many living communities of the world, such as the indigenous people the aboriginals the tribals and the nomads.

27

History of Tripura: As reflected in the

Manuscripts

Author: Satyadeo Poddar

Publisher: National Mission for Manuscripts

IGNCA

Year: 2016

Call Number: 954.15

POD

18091


This Samiksika series brings forth the paper presented at the seminar 'History of Tripura: As reflected in the Manuscripts'. The

Seminar was organised in collaboration with Tripura University and Prof. Satya Deo Poddar was the Coordinator of the seminar. The

book aims at exploring the resources for the reconstruction of the History of Tripura utilizing manuscripts as a source materials.

While going through the contents of papers, there emerged a fresh look about the history of Chakma and Mogs in Tripura. The social

practice, rituals and traditions in the society of Tripura has been comprehensively emphasized in this book. This book is a beginning

for writing the History Tripura in an expected zone i.e the cultural history of the state.

28

Iconography of the Buddhist Sculpture of

Orissa (Set of 2 Vols)

Author: Donaldson

Publisher: IGNCA & Abhinav Publications

Year: 2001


DON

18092-18093


The present book on the Iconography of the Buddhist Sculpture of Orissa utilizes the author's expertise of Orissan Brahmanical Art

to develop a similar consistent and reliable iconographic and stylistic evolution for the Buddhist Arts of Orissa and its adherence to

or deviation from, surviving textual icono - graphic peculiarities. There is little doubt that Orissa played a major role in the creation,

development and dissemination of Buddhist doctrines and concepts throughout India and the Buddhist world, particularly in respect

to Vajrayana Buddhism and the iconography of sculptural mandalas. Particular emphasis in this book is placed on the reciprocal

influence between Brahmanical and Buddhist Art in Orissa, both religions expanding at the same time in regard to the proliferation of

deities and their variant forms and each apparently competing with the other for patronage and converts.

29

King of Hunters, Warriors and Shepherds:

Essays on Khandoba

Author: Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 1997

Call Number: 294.52113095479

SON

18094


This volume brings together Sontheimer's English-language articles on Khandoba and the equivalent gods Mallanna in Andhara

Pradesh and Mailara in Karnataka. The articles take into account the differing traditions of the wide variety of castes and tribes for

whose members Khandoba (or Mallanna or Mailara) is an important god, and make use of the various kinds of source materials that

Sontheimer gathered - ovis, oral epics, of the Dhangar shepherds; narratives, comments and statements made by people belonging to

various groups, etc.

30

Mahatma Gandhi and Art

Author: Anand YP

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 2003

Call Number: 709.54

ANA

18095


31

Manuscript Heritage on Astronomy

Author: Venkataramana Reddy


Year: 2012


RED

18096


32

Medieval Indian Legacy: Linguistic and

Literary

Author: Indra Nath Choudhuri

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 2012


CHO

18097


33

Mughal and Persian Paintings and

Illustrated Manuscripts in the Raza Library

Rampur

Author: Barbara Schmitz & Ziyaud-Din A

Desai

Publisher: IGNCA & Rampur Raza Library

Year: 2006


SCH

18098


During the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the Nawwabs of Rampur, the hereditary rulers of Rohilkhand, a district

some 75 kilometers east of New Delhi, amassed a large collection of books and art, including illustrated books and album paintings.

Their collection was given to the people of India after independence. The Raza Library at Rampur thus possesses a remarkable

collection of Mughal and Persian Paintings and illlustrated books. This includes minia-tures from the great Jahangirnama, considered

by many as the greatest of all Mughal illustrated manuscripts. The Raza Library holdings of the Akbar period are equally

distinguished including a work on astrology Tarjama-i Sirr al-maktum and a Divan-i Hafiz with eleven miniatures by Akbar?s best

court artists painted in Lahore about 1585, published here with much new scholarship. A painting of the aging Jahangir at the

jharokha and many other portraits of the 17th-19th centuries will come as wonderful surprises to those interested in Indian art

throughout the world. Most of the miniatures (some 4,000 in number) and the contents of thirty-five albums of paintings (an

additional 1,000 items) are catalogued herein. Many of these are being reproduced for the first time. The catalogue entries include

up-to-date scholarly research on Mughal and Persian painting. An extensive bibliography and numerous indices make this volume a

helpful tool for scholars. The catalogue?s 330 illustrations will delight every reader.

34

Nartananirnaya of Pandarika Vitthala

Author: Pandarika Vitthala

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 1998

Call Number: 709.54

VIT

18099


35

Natyasastra and the Indian Dramatic

Tradition

Author: Radhavallabh Tripathi

Publisher: National Mission Manuscripts

Year: 2012


TRI

18100


The National Mission for Manuscripts was established in February 2003 by the Ministry of Culture. Its purpose is to locate,

document, preserve and disseminate the knowledge content of Indian manuscripts. While looking ahead to reconnect with the

knowledge of the past, the Mission is in the process of trying to re-contextualize the knowledge contained in manuscripts for the

present and the future generations. The Mission organizes seminars on various subjects related to Indian Knowledge in different

locations of India. The papers presented in the seminar are collected and brought out under the Samiksika series. In 2007, the Mission

organized a seminar on Natyasastra and the Indian Dramatic Tradition in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. The seminar dealt with various

aspects as well as related topics of India s dramatic tradition starting from Bharata s Natyasastra. The Seminar gave ample

opportunity to the experts in the field on dramaturgy to put forth the outcome of their research on manuscripts of Indian drama and

allied subject matter.


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Numismatic Art of India: Historical and

Aesthetic Perspectives Vol.1

Author: Mukherjee B.N

Publisher: IGNCA & Munshiram

Manoharlal Publishers

Year: 2007


MUK

18101


2

Numismatic Art of India: an Album of the

Masterpieces of Indian Coins Vol.2

Author: Mukherjee B.N

Publisher: IGNCA & Munshiram

Manoharlal Publishers

Year: 2007


MUK

18101


3

Recent Studies in Indonesian Archaeology

Author: Edi Sedyawati & Iwayan Ardika

Publisher: IGNCA & B.R. Publishing Co

Year: 2012

Call Number: 930.107209598

SED

18103


The pioneering researches on Indonesia are mostly done by Dutch scholars who formulated various theories based on archaeological

remains. Since then, a large number of new discoveries have been brought to light. The present book Recent Studies in Indonesian

Archaeology includes seventeen research papers contributed by eminent scholars of Indonesia. These papers mainly focus on

Balinese and Javanese archaeology.

Prehistoric evidence points to the existence of developed societies practicing ancestral worship and also engaged in regional barter

trade. The megalithic study reveals prevalence of homogenous culture continuing from Sumbawa to east of Bali. International trade

gained strength because of the availability of natural products. Maritime activities culminated into the development of Hindu-

Buddhist culture. The Padmasana in Bali brings to light the understanding of Indian philosophy.

The sculptural analysis of the divine figures throws light on the enigmatic character of the deity. The location of the temples,

especially in Central Java, is based on the geographical settings. The metal working shows elements of pre-Hindu technology. Land-

ownership broaches the social and administrative system of ancient Bali. The Subak system shows continuity of Balisnese traditional

social institution. The structural spatial analysis exposes the social and cultural significance of the city of the Islamic period. These

pages provide the reader of the various aspects of Indonesian culture.

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Rock Art of India: Suitable Dating

Techniques


Publisher: IGNCA & DK Printworld

Year: 2014


MAL

18104


Rock art is a vital archaeological source to study and analyse the cognitive evolution of the human intellect across the world. The

importance of rock art and its dating has long been a key issue of rock-art research and continues to be attended by difficulties about

methodology, misinterpretation of findings and overconfidence in the reliability or precision of results. Most of the rock-art

researchers’ primary focus in their investigations for rock-art dating at present has been to establish chronologies of different rock-art

sites.

The present volume mainly emphasizes on long due and much discussed issues like that of what will be the suitable dating

techniques for Indian rock art. Some of the topics in the volume cover different dating methods such as the minimum dating by

archaeological excavation, radiocarbon analyses of mineral accretions or their inclusions, radiocarbon analyses of paint residues or

their inclusions, geomorphological methods, minimum or maximum ages derived from biological accretions, lichenometry,

colorimetry of patinae, radiocarbon analyses of charcoal and beeswax figures, and any other methods of “direct” dating of rock art.

This volume includes not only new insights but also new dating results. The data and interpretations put forward by various scholars

are comprehensive and analytical. Most of their views are appropriate and hold promise in terms of recent trends in dating rock art.

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Rock Art Studies: Concept, Methodology,

Context, Documentation and Conservation

Vol.1



Year: 2014


MAL

18105


Rock Art is the first visual articulation and manifestation of humankind which emanates from his sense of sight. The proximity of

this art and its affinity with the art of many living communities of the world today makes it all the more significant and valuable. It

can be thus treated as a source of cultural communication between the pat, the present and the future.To celebrate what is undeniably

one of the earliest forms of art, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) organized an international conference on rock

art comprising of special lectures, artists workshops and exhibitions. This global event along with the participation of renowned

scholars from all over the world was held at New Delhi from 6th December 2012 –23rd January 2013. The present volume(s) Rock

Art Studies (Part I & II) are the proceedings of the conference. The two volumes contain selected articles representing rock art from

all over the world. The first volume covers subject related to content, methodology, context, documentation, and conservation and

management while the second volume contains papers related to the interpretation of rock art.

The articles in the present volume hold good promise in terms of recent trends in rock art research. The approach followed by some

of the contributions is reconstructing the lifestyle and environment of the people who created this art. The vast spectrum of

subjects/themes covered by these two highly illustrated volumes indicates the concern and seriousness of present day researchers for

the study and conservation of rock art globally. Their main concern is exploring the ‘future of the past’ beyond the duty of

discovering, protecting, and educating about archaeological treasures. As rock art is an intricate and complex domain covering

material and cognitive aspects of culture, a multidisciplinary approach has been recommended by many contributors to decode and

understand it in all its dimensions.

The beautifully illustrated volumes aim to boost and promote rock art research. They will not only interest scholars but also general

readers at large and will certainly contribute to enhance our vision of rock art.

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Rock Art Studies: Interpretation through

Multidisciplinary Approaches Vol.2



Year: 2014


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Rock Art is the first visual articulation and manifestation of humankind which emanates from his sense of sight. The proximity of

this art and its affinity with the art of many living communities of the world today makes it all the more significant and valuable. It

can be thus treated as a source of cultural communication between the pat, the present and the future. To celebrate what is undeniably

one of the earliest forms of art, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) organized an international conference on rock

art comprising of special lectures, artists workshops and exhibitions. This global event along with the participation of renowned

scholars from all over the world was held at New Delhi from 6th December 2012 –23rd January 2013. The present volume(s) Rock

Art Studies (Part I & II) are the proceedings of the conference. The two volumes contain selected articles representing rock art from

all over the world. The first volume covers subject related to content, methodology, context, documentation, and conservation and

management while the second volume contains papers related to the interpretation of rock art.

The articles in the present volume hold good promise in terms of recent trends in rock art research. The approach followed by some

of the contributions is reconstructing the lifestyle and environment of the people who created this art. The vast spectrum of

subjects/themes covered by these two highly illustrated volumes indicates the concern and seriousness of present day researchers for

the study and conservation of rock art globally. Their main concern is exploring the ‘future of the past’ beyond the duty of

discovering, protecting, and educating about archaeological treasures. As rock art is an intricate and complex domain covering

material and cognitive aspects of culture, a multidisciplinary approach has been recommended by many contributors to decode and

understand it in all its dimensions.

The beautifully illustrated volumes aim to boost and promote rock art research. They will not only interest scholars but also general

readers at large and will certainly contribute to enhance our vision of rock art.

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Baroque India: The Neo-Roman Religious

Architecture of South Asia, a Global

Stylistic Survey

Author: Jose Pereira


Year: 2000


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Baroque India is the fruit of over forty years of research and is the work of one professionally trained in the history of Indian art

(Hindu, Buddhist and Jain). In addition, he is the author of a survey of Islamic architecture worldwide, which includes, of course, the

Indo-Islamic traditions. It is his belief that Indian Baroque-or, more correctly, Indian Neo Roman -cannot be properly appreciated

without an understanding of the architectural styles that preceded it on the subcontinent, and which exercised a significant impact on

it.

In so doing, the author has tried to outline a consistent aesthetic theory of Neo Roman, to portray its five major modes –

Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassicism – as expressions of the Neo-Roman essence, immanently developing,

in the indicated sequence, one from the other, and pullulating a rich variety of spatial themes that both display a marked originality

and manifest a capacity for assimilating the spatial nuances of the other architectural styles

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Basketry: Everyday Art of North East India

Author: A.K.Das

Publisher: IGNCA & B.R. Publishing Co

This catalogue presents some rare cultural materials from one of India's remote region i.e North East India, systematically collected

by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA). New Delhi as a part of their study, research and documentation of

ethnographic collection belonging to little known tribes and ethnic groups.

Year: 2016


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Cultural History of Uttarakhand

Author: D.D.Sharma

Publisher: IGNCA & DK Printworld

Year: 2009


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Cultural history of Uttarakhand is an outcome of many years of keen observation of the linguistic and cultural phenomena of the

whole Himalayan region, right from Ladakh in the west to Bhutan in the east and an intensive study of ancient Indian literature and

of the historical incidents that have taken place in the central Himalayan regions, particularly in the land termed as Uttarakhand.

Though there are some works, both in Hindi and English, on the history and culture of this land, they pertain either to a specific

region or to some particular aspect of it. This is for the first time that exhaustive chronological accounts of the history and culture of

the inhabitants of Uttarakhand, including various ancient and modem tribes and races, right from Tons and Yamunā in the west to

Mahākālī / Śāradā in the east, and from Bhotantic Himalayan regions in the north to Tarāī-Bhābar area in the south, considered to be

a “cultural area” of Uttarakhand, have been taken into account for this study. An effort has been made to unfold various layers of the

history of this land in a comprehensive way.

As such, this volume on the cultural history of Uttarakhand is supposed to provide a rare opportunity to students, as well as to readers

in general, to have an intimate knowledge of various aspects of the cultural history of various tribes and races inhabiting Uttarakhand

from pre-historic periods to modem times.

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Dictionary of Indo-Persian Literature

Author: Nabi Hadi


Year: 1995


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Since the eleventh century Indian subcontinent had been producing a galaxy of authors who wrote in Persian. Their mastery over

diverse fields of knowledge is evident from the range and variety of books produced by them. Their works deal with such varied

subjects as Sufism, anthology of poets and saints, versions of the Prophet’s traditions and original digests concerning jurisprudence,

histories, diaries, memoirs, science, medicine, official bulletin, etc. The translations from Sanskrit works on Indian philosophy and

science have added a unique dimension to this corpus of Indo Islamic literature.

This Dictionary briefly introduces the Persian authors of the Indian subcontinent and their contributions. It may serve as a guidebook

to researchers in the field of Indo-Islamic studies and history of medieval Indian society and culture. Though arranged author wise in

one alphabetical sequence, a detailed title index provides access to the Persian works written in Indian subcontinent.

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Dunhuang Art: Through the Eyes of Duan

Wenjie

Author: Tan Chung


Year: 1994


Dunhuang although internationally known is infrequently visited. The Mogao shrine at Dunhuang is a cluster of 492 caves,

containing 45,000 square metres of frescoes and 2,415 stucco statues. This is a precious art heritage of the world. It has great

historical and artistic value. These caves were created, renovated and maintained continually with devotion and care from the 4th

upto the 14th century. They were also maintained during the subsequent periods up till the 19th century. From the 7th to 9th century,

culture and art enjoyed a golden period in China, so did Dunhuang Art.

In this volume we have provided an English translation of selected writings of Prof. Duan Wenjie, Director of the Dunhuang

Academy who has given a chronological study of the contents inside the Mogao caves with several decades of research of the

Dunhuang Academy under his command.

Prof. Tan Chung, the editor, has furnished an illuminating introduction, while Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, the driving spirit behind this

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volume, has made succinct comments in her ‘Foreword’. A valuable information on all the Mogao caves has been added.

Colour and black and white photographs and fine sketches by Vineet Kumar supplement the text.

The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts is committed to exploring all dimensions of art. It feels privileged to place before art

historians and art lovers of the English-speaking world first-hand information about this unique art gallery going back to one-and-a-

half millennia.

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Essays on Jaina Art

Author: Ananda K Coomaraswamy

Publisher: IGNCA & Manohar

Year: 2003


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This volume deals with Coomaraswamy’s contribution to the study of Jaina art.

His writings on Jaina art span the entire period of his active working life as an art historian. He published his first article on the

subject in 1914 and ended with a book review in 1943, four years before his death.

Jaina art and its symbolic inventory held a special place in Coomaraswamy’s formulation of the history of Indian painting, indeed

Indian civilization itself. He was the first to recognize its chronological place in the succession of style. The Jaina paintings are not

only important for the student of Jaina iconography and archaeology which are illustrative of costumes, manners and customs, but are

of greater interest because they are the oldest Indian paintings on paper, representing an almost unknown school of lndian art.

Holding the view that in order to make these paintings fully comprehensible, a short account of Jainism and of the legends of

Mahāvīra and Kālakācārya, which are the main subject of the paintings is given in this volume. The chapters that follow deal with the

explanation of various terms; Jaina cosmology; aesthetics and relationships of Jaina painting; the illustrated Jaina manuscripts;

description of the figures; followed by a large number of illustrations.

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In the Footsteps of Xuanzang: Tan Yun-

Shan and India

Author: Tan Chung

Publisher: IGNCA & Gyan Publishing

House

Year: 1999


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Indian Art and Connoisseurship: Essays in

honour of Douglas Barrett

Author: John Guy

Publisher: IGNCA & Mapin Publishing

Year: 1995

Call Number: 709.54

A collection of twenty-five essays by international scholars written to celebrate the contribution to the study of Indian art of Douglas

Barrett, former keeper of Indian art at the British Museum. The essays are organized in five sections: Part 1: Early India;

Part 2: North Indian sculpture; Part 3: South Indian sculpture; Part 4: Indian painting; Part 5: Islamic art. All papers are richly

illustrated, some in colour. A full bibliography of Douglas Barrett’s writings on Indian art is included.

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Katyayana – Sulbasutra with Vivrti

Commentary of Ramachandra Vajapeyi a

critical edition and translation

Author: Shankar Gopal Nene


Year: 2016


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Mayamatam: Treatise of Housing,

Architecture and Iconography (2 Vols Set)

Author: Bruno Dagens

Publisher: IGNCA & Motilal Banarsidass

Year: 1994


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The Mayamata is a Vastusastra, i.e. a treatise on dwelling and as such it deals with all the facets of gods' and men's dwellings, from

the choice of the site to the iconography of the temple walls. It contains numerous and precise descriptions of villages and towns as

well as of the temples, houses, mansions and palaces. It gives indications for the selection of a proper orientation, right dimensions

and of appropriate materials. It intends to be a manual for the architect and a guidebook for the layman. Well-thought-of by

traditional architects (sthapati-s) of South India, the treatise is of great interest at a time when technical traditions, in all fields, are

being scrutinized for their possible modern application. The present bilingual edition prepared by Dr. Bruno Dagens, contains

critically edited Sanskrit text which is an improvement over the earlier edition by the same scholar and published as No.40 of

Publications de I'Institut Francaisd' Indologie, Pondicherry. The English translation, also published earlier, has now been revised with

copious notes. The usefulness of the edition has been further enhanced by adding an analytical table of contents and a comprehensive

glossary. In the series of Kalamulasastra early texts on music, namely, Matralaksanam, Dattilam and Brhaddest, have been published.

The medieval texts on music, specially, the Sribastamuktavali (No.3 in the series) and the Nartananirnaya (No.17 in the series), bring

us upto the 15th and 16th century. In the case of architecture, despite the IGNCA's endeavour to publish portions of the

Brhatsamhita, the Agnipurana and the Visnudharmottara-Purana, first this has not been possible. Instead, our scholars were able to

complete work first on a late but important text, namely, Silparatnakosa. We hope that the sections on architecture in the

Brhatsamhita, the Agnipurana and the Visnudharmottara-purana which predate the medieval texts, will be published soon, along with

revised and re-edited texts of Manasollasa and Aparajitaprccha. The Mayamatam is the fourteenth and fifteenth volumes in the

Kalamulasastra series of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA).

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Ragalaksanam of Sri Mudduvenkatamakhin

Author: Mudduvenkatamakhin

Publisher: IGNCA & Motilal Banarsidass

Year: 2010

Ragalaksanam was composed by Mudduvenkatamakhin in Tanjore in the early 18th century A.D. It is an important text of Karnataka

Music and appeared in an effervescent epoch in the development of this music system of which it deals with only raga. It collects,

classifies, codifies and characterizes the entire music base of the Indian peninsula. The author was musician, musicologist and music

composer of high order. His contribution to the world of music is twofold: systematisation of the theory of raga content of his times

and creating music to crystallize the character and scope of each raga described.


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The author derived his inspiration from his great grandfather, Venkatamakhin who revolutionized the theory and practice of Indian

music through his scheme of 72 melas. His Caturdandiprakasika illustrates the four fundamental components (dandi) of music - gita,

alapa, thaya and prabandha, which is paramaguru (teacher's teacher) Tanappa postulated and illustrated. His own guru was his father

Govindadiksita who made the first efforts to stabilize the four dandis in practice in his Sangitasudha. Thus a line of four important

musicians musicologists-composers of South India: Tanappa, Govindadiksita, Venkatamakhin and Mudduvenkatamakhin built up or

reorganized a textual tradition which supported a living dynamic tradition of performed music in which hundreds of composers,

thousands of performers and countless listeners endeavoured to continously strengthen and nourish it. Ragalaksanam marks an

important phase of this great evolution.

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Ramkatha: in Narrative, Performance and

Pictorial Traditions

Author: Molly Kaushal


Year: 2015


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Transmission, mobility, adaptation and concrete expression of the Rama theme among different communities and regions in India

and outside is the finest example of the power of the oral word that transcends all boundaries, be they geographic, temporal, social or

literary. It provides for plurality, diversity and continuity of the tradition transcending the rigid boundaries of the text to flow in

multiple streams and directions meeting with tributaries and rivulets along the way. In order to explore, understand and comprehend

this living and vibrant Rama tradition in Indian culture, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, in 2008, convened an

international conference Ramkatha: Ankan, Manchan aur Vaachan under its ongoing project, Living Traditions of Ramkatha and

Mahabharata. The present volume consists of select papers presented in this conference along with others that were specially invited

from eminent scholars in the field. The papers here range from textual to oral, performance and pictorial renderings of Rama theme

both in traditional and contemporary contexts, covering a large geographic area and diverse communities. For example, Bhil Ram

Sitama ni Varta, Kunkana Ramkatha, Gond Ramayani, Rama traditions among the Ramnamis of Chhattisgarh, Ramman of Garhwal,

Bundeli Ramkatha, Mewati Ramkatha and Ramkatha traditions among the Khasis, to name a few. The volume also contains essays

on traditional and modern presentations of Rama theme in Southeast Asia. The volume is broadly organised under four themes:

sacred geography; narrative; performance; and pictorial traditions. However, several of them overlap and flow into one another. The

book is further divided into two sections: the first contains papers in English and the second in Hindi. This book is a significant

addition to the existing literature on Ramayana and Ramkatha traditions and of great value to scholars of Indian culture, folklorists,

anthropologists and Indologists.


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1

Rasatarangini of Bhanudatta: With

Nutanatari Commentary by Bhagavadbhatta

Author: Nina C Bhavnagari,Ed


Year: 2018

Call Number: 891.21

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Rta: the cosmic order

Author: Madhu Khanna, Ed

Publisher: DK Print World & IGNCA

Year: 2004


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This volume contains the articles, presented in a seminar at IGNCA on Ṛta: The Cosmic Order in which a panel of distinguished

Indian and foreign scholars interpret the multifaceted theme of Ṛta from a wide range of perspectives, comparing notions of order in

Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese and Islamic speculative thought and with references to ancient Indian Hindu writings and modern science.

Combining sound scholarship with a penetrating insight, these essays are a fine example of integrated studies. They give alternative

viewpoints on the unity underlying this ancient concept as well

as, its relevance in the modern age.

3

Postcolonial Economies

Author: Jane Pollard, Cheryl McEwan and

Alex Hughes, Eds

Publisher: Zed Books

Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the

nature of globalisation, transnational flows of capital and workers and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume centre

stage in debates about contemporary economies and policy.

Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how 'other' cultures encounter 'the west', economics-oriented

approaches within social sciences have been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by postcolonial critiques. In turn,

postcolonial approaches have been criticised for their simplistic treatment of 'the economic' and for not engaging with existing

Year: 2011

Call Number: 330.9

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economic analyses of poverty and wealth creation.

Utilising examples drawn from India to Latin America, and bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, including

Geography, Economics, Development Studies, History and Women's Studies, Postcolonial Economies breaks new ground in

providing a space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its treatment of 'the economic'.

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Day Care for Young Children in India:

Issues and Prospects

Author: Vrinda Datta and Rajani M.

Konantambigi, Ed

Publisher: Concept Publishing Co.

Year: 2007


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Recommended by: Prof. Malavika Kapur

This compendium of sixteen papers addresses the macro and micro issues concerning day care for young children in India. Analysing

the socio-economic context of child care in the country, it discusses the developmental needs of children and the various agents, the

parents, child care gives and state try to fulfil them. Further identifying the child care needs of women in urban, semi-urban and rural

contexts, the contributors also deliberate on the effects of substitute care on children, child care quality, personnel training and

advocacy, and quality parameters of day care programmes.

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Development of Theory of Mind and Mental

State Language in Children

Author: Nandita Babu


Year: 2009

Call Number: 155.4130954133

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This book attempts to examine the relationship between the children's acquisition of language and their development of theory of

mind. With the help of an extensive research on Oriya language and acquisition of mental state vocabulary among Oriya speaking

children, it addresses the major issues pertaining to development of a theory of mind and mental state language. It deals with the

development of mental representational language, the role of socio-cultural variables in the acquisition of mental representational

words, and the cognitive as well as academic implications of acquiring a set of mental state words. The book will be of great help to

researchers and students from diverse disciplines like early, education, educational psychology, child psychology and psycho-

linguistics.

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Perspectives On Indigenous Psychology

Author: Girishwar Misra & Ajit K Mohanty


Year: 2002

Perspectives on Indigenous Psychology is an effort to bring into focus the context, contents and relevance of the move towards

indigenous psychology in India. This volume offers a critical appreciation of the changing contexts of "science" and places, the

discipline of psychology in the emerging interpretive framework of human sciences. The contributions make an effort to explore the

potentials of indigenous notions in the areas like self understanding, health and well-being, happiness, stress, personality, emotions

and skill development. The relevance of culture and ideology to the development of the discipline is also critically examined and

assessed of indigenization of psychology in India is made. Modern psychology is a discipline predominantly rooted in the western

Call Number: 150

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cultural practices and ideologies, however, under politico-economic compulsions this peculiarly. Euro-American scholarship has

been projected as universal, secular, and scientific. This Image has been transported to the developing countries of the world; many

of them have a colonial history. In recent past not only variations and similarities in human a colonial history. In recent past not only

variation and similarities in human behavior across cultures have been identified but also the role of culture in constitution

psychological phenomena has been explicated. In this context exploration into indigenous psychologies has become an important

concern. The present volume extends the debate and contributes to the development of post western psychology.

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Third Handbook Of Psychological And

Social Instruments (Set of 2 Vol)

Author: D.M. Pestonjee


Year: 1997

Call Number: 155.28

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8

Chaotic Signal Processing

Author: Henry Leung

Publisher: Society for Industrial and

Applied Mathematics

Year: 2014

Call Number: 612.38220151539

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Chaotic processes are deterministic phenomena which display a random appearance. Many signal processes such as radar and sonar

appear random, and chaos theory provides an alternative approach to processing these signals. This book presents a thorough guide to

recent developments in chaotic signal processing. This includes the application of nonlinear dynamics to radar target recognition, an

exactly solvable chaos approach for communications, a chaotic approach for reconfigurable computing, and system identification

using chaos. It also investigates the design of a high resolution LADAR system based on chaos, and the use of chaos in compressive

sensing. Suitable for researchers and graduate students in chaos, applied nonlinear dynamics, signal processing and radar

communications.

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The Anarchy: The East India Company,

Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an

Empire

Author: William Dalrymple

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Year: 2019

In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a

new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army - what we would now

call an act of involuntary privatisation.

The East India Company's founding charter authorised it to 'wage war' and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the

creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional international trading

corporation dealing in silks and spices and became something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a

multinational business. In less than four decades it had trained up a security force of around 200,000 men - twice the size of the


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British army - and had subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering first Bengal and finally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi

itself. The Company's reach stretched until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was effectively ruled from a boardroom in

London.

The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world's most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by

a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and

answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting book to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the

East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.

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Kuknalim, Naga Armed Resistance:

Testimonies of Leaders, Pastors, Healers

and Soldiers

Author: Nandita Haksar & Sebastian M.

Hongray

Publisher: Speaking Tiger

Year: 2019


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This first-of-its-kind book tells the story of the Naga national movement from the inside. Based on extensive interviews of the Naga

nationalists, conducted in the late 1990s in Bangkok, Kathmandu, Dimapur and Delhi, it explains why the Indo-Naga conflict has

lasted more than seven decades, and why successive prime ministers of India, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi, have

personally met the Naga leaders and tried to resolve the conflict.

In Kuknalim, leaders and members of ten Naga tribes spread across India and Myanmar speak directly to the reader about their

childhood experiences, reasons for joining the armed struggle, and their personal triumphs and tragedies. They recount their journeys

from small impoverished mountain villages through the jungles of Myanmar to China—from where they carried back arms to fight

for an independent Nagaland—and finally the journey to the negotiating table. These stories relate to the period of the Naga

movement from World War II to 1997, when Naga nationalists under the NSCN (IM) entered into a ceasefire agreement with the

Indian state and began peace talks. And in the introduction to the book and the different sections in it, the authors also write about

subsequent events, besides providing the political context for each interview.

A groundbreaking work, Kuknalim offers invaluable insights into the world of Naga insurgency and its geo-political significance.

Without asking the reader to agree or disagree with the people and movement it profiles, the book also examines complex questions

of identity politics; the role of religion in nationalism; and the sentiments that drive men and women to take up arms and endure

extreme hardship in pursuit of their dreams.

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The Politics of Power Sector Reforms in

India

Author: Niranjan Sahoo

Publisher: Observer Research Foundation

Year: 2007


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12

New Facets of Indian Art, Architecture and

Epigraphy ( Essays in honour of Prof.

S.L.Shantakumari)

This volume in honour of Prof. S.L. Shantakumari contains 42 original articles organized under two sections: Art and Architecture

and Epigraphy.

Author: S V Padigar, V Shivananda & C B

Patil

Publisher: Agam Kala Prakashan

Year: 2020

Call Number: 709.54

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The first section, Art and Architecture, includes a rich variety of papers dealing with pan Indian art themes beginning with the

Mauryan through to the Vijayanagara, covering art motifs, Buddhist art, temple architecture, sculpture, iconography, painting,

symbolism, new interpretation of art-themes, archaeological field investigation of Buddhist remains, art and architecture of Jainism,

geo-cultural interactions, and so on.

The second section, Epigraphy, comprises of diverse themes from Epigraphy, which deal with epigraphs from the early to the late

Medieval period. They cover new discoveries, reconstructions from epigraphic evidence, restudy and interpretation of known

epigraphs, structural analysis of inscriptions for understanding tank irrigation, conceptual aspects of memorial traditions, new

memorial stones and inscriptions, etc.

The book will be useful for Indologists, Art Historians and Epigraphists.

13

Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and

Disjunctions

Author: Maitrayee Chaudhuri & Manish

Thakur

Publisher: Orient BlackSwan

Year: 2018


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We live in times where theory is often understood as irrelevant in the real world. It appears to have no practical results. This has been

further complicated in a post-fact world, where our ‘identities’ and ‘perception’ have become the final judges of truth.

Sociology/social anthropology, in contrast, rests on a fundamental distinction between commonsense and theoretically informed

knowledge. It teaches us to get rid of ‘perceptions’ and alerts us to go beyond taken-for-granted ideas. The paradox is that although

theory is taught as a mandatory paper in sociology, it is either reduced to a topic in the syllabi or used as ceremonial citations.

Emphasising that theories emerge in specific historical contexts and are embedded in economic, political, social, cultural,

institutional and intellectual processes, this volume takes a new approach by highlighting the sociological paths through which

theories travel and are adopted by institutions in different parts of the country. The contributors explore: the search for an

‘indigenous’ theory within sociology in India; critically examine the construction of the ‘local’ and the ‘postcolonial’; theorise the

‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’, caste and modernity, industrial and media sociology; study the disconnect between theory taught within

the classroom and theory practised in the world outside.

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In the Hall of Mirrors: Reflections on Indian

Democracy

Author: Peter Ronald deSouza


Year: 2018


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a single mirror reflects the truth as it is but only from one perspective. A ˜hall of mirrors, on the other hand, exposes the truth through

overlapping reflections, with varying depths and from a wide range of perspectives. In this book, political scientist Peter Ronald

deSouza places India at the centre of such a hall of mirrors. He reveals for the reader the layered nature of Indian democracy, one

particular depth, one particular perspective at a time.

in the hall of mirrors discusses the dynamics of democracy and the nature of the human condition in India through a range of

multidisciplinary, analytical and methodological tools. It documents our achievements and failures, follies and humanity, through the

fall and rise of competing ideologies. The essays here, written over the course of the past two decades, document the aspirations and

anxieties of the Indian people, the accommodations that our plural society has made, and the uncertainties and ambivalences that

remain as a result of this grand experiment of and in democracy.

With this eclectic collection of his writings in journals and popular dailies, the author takes us through an array of issues facing us. At

every turn and in every corner, he reflects on the resilience of India's democracy, the worlds largest and most challenging. Students,

scholars and the general reader interested in democracy, political Science and contemporary India will find this book invaluable.

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Labour State and Society in Rural India: A

Class-Relational Approach

Author: Jonathan Pattenden

Publisher: Social Science Press

Year: 2017


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Behind India's recent economic growth lies a story of societal conflict that is scarcely talked about. Across its villages and production

sites, state institutions and Civil society organisations, the better and less well-off sections of society are engaged in antagonistic

relations that determine the material conditions of one quarter of the worlds ˜poor. Increasingly mobile and often with several jobs in

multiple locations, India's ˜classes of labour are highly segmented but far from passive in the face of ongoing exploitation and

domination.

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Migrants and the Neoliberal City

Author: Ranabir Samaddar


Year: 2018


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India nurtures a contradiction between two images of its cities”they are the engines of economic growth and, at the same time, an

inadequate and contested space for its various residents and subjects. Migrants and the Neoliberal City, a culmination of the research

conducted by the Calcutta Research Group on rural migrants as the core of the urban poor in India, shows us why and how this

contradiction plays out in the lives of migrants, on whose labour the city thrives.

This collection of twelve essays, based on extensive research and fieldwork, investigates the experience of migrating to three of

Indias populous metropolitan cities: Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi. They focus on the interrelations between urban policy, governance,

forms of labour, migration, and neoliberalism as the political ideology motivating increasing urbanisation of India. It also shows how

cities are increasingly turning into sites of conflict, fragmentation and gentrification, fragmentation and acute class conflict.

Since the migrant is central to neoliberal urban development and migrant labour is critical to the transformation of the city, their

position in the informal, unorganised sector and their vulnerability to violence makes migrant labour and life precarious. This book

documents and examines the coping strategies of such migrants, new forms of urban struggles, and resistances to legal and policy

regimes. Focusing on the connections between the material conditions of labour and specific issues such as old age, rent, wage forms,

etc., this book also shows how the recruitment and dispersal of this migrant labour in turn restructures urban spaces.

An important addition to the growing literature on Indian urbanism and urbanisation, this book will interest policy analysts and

students and scholars of sociology, migration studies, development studies, urban studies and geography.

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Much Ado Over Coffee - Indian Coffee

House Then and Now

Author: Bhaswati Bhattacharya


Year: 2017


BHA

based on oral history, fiction, interesting intellectual gossip, and records of the coffee Board of India, much ADO over coffee: Indian

coffee house then and now is a many-sited description of the Indian coffee house, possibly the worlds first coffee house chain.

The book offers interestingly written accounts of the add as or informal meetings, of the educated middle class in the cities of

Calcutta, Allahabad and Delhi. Add as initially flourished in the neighbourhood tea shops, and then switched to the newly created

coffee houses. readers will encounter their favourite writers, and other famous people at close quarters here. Bhaswati Bhattacharya

brings to life the lanes and by-lanes of these cities as they were then, through the sheer gift of her ethnographic skills.

some workers, now forgotten but who were once immensely popular with the regular visitors of the coffee houses, live on again on

these pages bringing back old memories. In this context one should perhaps mention that in an interesting departure, some footnotes

in this book are used to carry video links of luminaries visiting these coffee houses. Change has set in here too as everywhere else.

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Savage Attack: Tribal insurgency in India

Author: Crispin Bates & Alpa Shah


Year: 2014


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Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India In Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India the authors ask whether there is anything

particularly adivasi about the forms of resistance that have been labelled as adivasi movements. What does it mean to speak about

adivasi as opposed to peasant resistance? Can one differentiate adivasi resistance from that of other lower castes such as the dalits? In

this volume the authors move beyond stereotypes of tribal rebellion to argue that it is important to explore how and why particular

forms of resistance are depicted as adivasi issues at particular points in time. Interpretations that have depicted adivasis as a united

and highly politicised group of people have romanticised and demonized tribal society and history, thus denying the individuals and

communities involved any real agency. Both the interpretations of the state and of left-wing supporters of tribal insurgencies have

continued to ignore the complex realities of tribal life and the variety in the expressions of political activism that have resulted across

the length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent.

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Unfinished Gestures – Devadasis, Memory,

and Modernity in South India

Author: Davesh Soneji

Publisher: Permanent Black

Year: 2012

Call Number: 306.695438082

SON

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"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis,

focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred years of

vociferous social reform, including a 1947 law that criminalized their lifestyles, the women in devadasi communities contend with

severe social stigma and economic and cultural disenfranchisement. Adroitly combining ethnographic fieldwork with historical

research, Davesh Soneji provides a comprehensive portrait of these marginalized women and unsettles received ideas about relations

among them, the aesthetic roots of their performances, and the political efficacy of social reform in their communities. Poignantly

narrating the history of these women, Soneji argues for the recognition of aesthetics and performance as a key form of subaltern self-

presentation and self-consciousness. Ranging over courtly and private salon performances of music and dance by devadasis in the

nineteenth century, the political mobilization of devadasi identity in the twentieth century, and the post-reform lives of women in

these communities today, "Unfinished Gestures" charts the historical fissures that lie beneath cultural modernity in South India.


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Power Politics: Equity and Environment in

Electricity Reform

Author: Navroz Dubash

Publisher: World Resources Institute

Year: 2002


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Drawing on past experience from six country studies, this report provides recommendations for including environmental concerns

and social public benefits as integral parts of reforms in the electric power sector.

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Lesson Study: Making a Difference to

Teaching Pupils with Learning Difficulties

Author: Brahm Norwich & Jeff Jones, Eds


Year: 2014

Call Number: 371.9

NOR

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Recommended by: Dr. Shivali Tukdeo

Lesson Study has been developed and used in Japan for over a century and is increasingly used in the Far East, USA and now in

Europe. Lesson Study shows how this powerful model of professional learning has been integrated with the principles of inclusive

practice by classroom teachers in the challenging area of teaching pupils in the spectrum from Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD)

to low attainment. The book illustrates how Lesson Study has been practised and explores the optimal conditions in schools for its

effective use.

Essential reading for trainee and practicing teachers with an interest in how professional practice can enhance reflective practice as a

means of school improvement and innovation for all pupils.

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Paulo Freire (Series- Bloomsbury Library of

Educational Thought)

Author: Daniel Schugurensky

Paulo Freire is one of the most influential thinkers in education. This text is a thoughtful and thorough introduction to Freire's work,

situating this in the context of his life, intellectual journey and the reception of his thinking around the world.

Daniel Schugurensky's text offers a coherent and accessible account of Freire's educational thought, looking at its contribution to

educational theory and practice and exploring the legacy of Freire for contemporary education and the relevance of his thought for

today's students.


Year: 2014

Call Number: 370.1

SCH

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Recommended by: Dr. Shivali Tukdeo

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The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education

in India

Author: Ajantha Subramanian

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Year: 2019


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Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to endorse their country as post‐racial, Indians who have benefited

from their upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country post‐caste. In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian challenges this

comfortable assumption by illuminating the controversial relationships among technical education, caste formation, and economic

stratification in modern India. Through in-depth study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)—widely seen as symbols of

national promise—she reveals the continued workings of upper-caste privilege within the most modern institutions.

Caste has not disappeared in India but instead acquired a disturbing invisibility—at least when it comes to the privileged. Only the

lower castes invoke their affiliation in the political arena, to claim resources from the state. The upper castes discard such claims as

backward, embarrassing, and unfair to those who have earned their position through hard work and talent. Focusing on a long history

of debates surrounding access to engineering education, Subramanian argues that such defenses of merit are themselves expressions

of caste privilege. The case of the IITs shows how this ideal of meritocracy serves the reproduction of inequality, ensuring that social

stratification remains endemic to contemporary democracies.

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Hindutva and Dalits: Perspectives for

Understanding Communal Praxis

Author: Anand Teltumbde

Publisher: Sage

Year: 2020


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Despite the teachings of Babasaheb Ambedkar against Hinduism and its pernicious caste system, which he forsook to become a

Buddhist, many Dalits have turned to Hindutva. The RSS under Balasaheb Deoras began to appropriate Ambedkar, engaging with

Dalits and Adivasis, Hinduizing their beliefs, providing social welfare and binding them in a political alliance.

Hindutva and Dalits: Perspectives for Understanding Communal Praxis takes a comprehensive view of the birth and growth of the

Hindutva movement and its specific impact on Dalits. Part I, Theoretical Perspectives, explores the attitude of Hindutva vis-à-vis

Dalits in its various manifestations. Part II, Hindutva in Operation, covers empirical evidence of its impact on Dalits. The

contributors, distinguished scholar-activists, offer a provocative analysis on why both Dalits and Adivasis are drawn to Hindutva.

As analysed by Tanika Sarkar in her incisive Foreword, Hindutva’s hegemonic agenda lets ‘subalterns develop a stake in their own

subordination, not in resignation or despair but in eager self-identification with it’. The great strength of this collection is that it asks

difficult questions that need to be asked and yet have no easy answers. The book, thus, makes an invaluable contribution to the

debate and takes it forward.

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India’s 2019 Elections: The Hindutva Wave

and Indian Nationalism

Author: Paul Wallace

Publisher: Sage

This book, the sixth in the series on India’s elections from SAGE, is arguably the first to critically analyze the 17th General Elections

held in India in 2019. It closely analyzes how the elections were conducted and what factors influenced the electorate in returning

Narendra Modi to power with a thumping majority. The book critically explores underlying factors such as the absolute dominance

of extreme nationalism based on majoritarian religious identity as well as the increased participation of women and the marginalized

sections of Indian society.

Year: 2020


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The initial chapters focus on national topics and are followed by fourteen analytical state and regional studies grouped into four

regional clusters. A highlight of the book is its strong focus on contentious issues such as the structure, stability and integrity of

electoral institutions as well as caste, tribal, minority and ethnic politics.

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The Serengeti Lion: a study of predator-prey

relations

Author: George B. Schaller

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Year: 1972

Call Number: 599. 7570967827

SCH

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Based on three years of study in the Serengeti National Park, George B. Schaller’s The Serengeti Lion describes the vast impact of

the lion and other predators on the vast herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle for which the area is famous. The most comprehensive

book available on the lion, this classic work includes the author’s findings on all aspects of lion behavior, including its social system,

population dynamics, hunting behavior, and predation patterns

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Caste Matters

Author: Suraj Yengde

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 2019


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In this explosive book, Suraj Yengde, a first-generation Dalit scholar educated across continents, challenges deep-seated beliefs

about caste and unpacks its many layers. He describes his gut-wrenching experiences of growing up in a Dalit basti, the multiple

humiliations suffered by Dalits on a daily basis, and their incredible resilience enabled by love and humour. As he brings to light the

immovable glass ceiling that exists for Dalits even in politics, bureaucracy and judiciary, Yengde provides an unflinchingly honest

account of divisions within the Dalit community itself-from their internal caste divisions to the conduct of elite Dalits and their

tokenized forms of modern-day untouchability-all operating under the inescapable influences of Brahminical doctrines.

This path-breaking book reveals how caste crushes human creativity and is disturbingly similar to other forms of oppression, such as

race, class and gender. At once a reflection on inequality and a call to arms, Caste Matters argues that until Dalits lay claim to power

and Brahmins join hands against Brahminism to effect real transformation, caste will continue to matter.

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Re-forming India:The Nation Today

Author: Niraja Gopal Jayal

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 2019


India’s social and political landscape has, in recent times, witnessed many significant transformations. This book offers a wide-

ranging review of how India has, over the last few years, fared on the most critical dimensions of our collective life-politics,

economy, governance, development, culture and society.

The project of change entailed processes of both reform and re-formation: if reform was about correcting or improving what was

considered unsatisfactory, re-formation was a bolder project that aimed to construct a new, anchored in a fundamental re-visioning of

India in social, cultural and even moral terms. In many ways, the programme of re-forming India may have outpaced that of

reforming India and even exceeded its own expectations.

This volume provides an overview of the prevailing political imaginary of nationalism and of the current trends of public discourse in

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Indian democracy; it seeks to identify and interpret the transformations in state institutions and the public sphere and evaluate their

implications for the future.

Re-Forming India brings together reflections, from leading commentators in their fields, on some of these transformations-from the

promise of economic revival and demonetization to the impact on gender relations, higher education and the media. Has the country

been transformed in ways that were promised? Or indeed in other ways that had not been anticipated?

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The Physics of Sports

Author: Michael Lisa

Publisher: McGrawHill Education

Year: 2016


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Recommended by: Prof. Dinesh Kumar S

There is a large and growing number of excellent books on physics and sports. While these books are well written, educational, and

often entertaining, they are simply not textbooks. Physics concepts such as: force, velocity, and torque, come into the discussion.

Interesting facts are given, and occasionally a formula is applied. However, the focus is typically on conveying interesting physics

related facts about a particular sport, rather than developing a general appreciation and facility for scientific reasoning. The Physics

of Sports is intended as a textbook for a 1 semester or a 1-2 quarter undergraduate course, for students - not necessarily intending to

major in Physical Science, Engineering, or a related field. With this course, it is hoped that a student's natural interest in athletics and

the direct relevance to concrete material will bridge the gap for students, turned off by the seemingly abstract stuff covered in many

undergraduate physics courses. The discussion being completely centered on real life examples, allows students to understand sports

by talking about Physics.

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Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting

Author: Peter J. Brockwell & Richard A.

Davis

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2016

Call Number: 519.55

BRO

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This book is aimed at the reader who wishes to gain a working knowledge of time series and forecasting methods as applied to

economics, engineering and the natural and social sciences. It assumes knowledge only of basic calculus, matrix algebra and

elementary statistics. This third edition contains detailed instructions for the use of the professional version of the Windows-based

computer package ITSM2000, now available as a free download from the Springer Extras website. The logic and tools of time series

model-building are developed in detail. Numerous exercises are included and the software can be used to analyze and forecast data

sets of the user's own choosing. The book can also be used in conjunction with other time series packages such as those included in

R. The programs in ITSM2000 however are menu-driven and can be used with minimal investment of time in the computational

details.

The core of the book covers stationary processes, ARMA and ARIMA processes, multivariate time series and state-space models,

with an optional chapter on spectral analysis. Many additional special topics are also covered.

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Power System Optimization Modeling in

GAMS

Author: Alireza Soroudi,

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2017


SOR

This unique book describes how the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) can be used to solve various power system

operation and planning optimization problems. This book is the first of its kind to provide readers with a comprehensive reference

that includes the solution codes for basic/advanced power system optimization problems in GAMS, a computationally efficient tool

for analyzing optimization problems in power and energy systems. The book covers theoretical background as well as the application

examples and test case studies. It is a suitable reference for dedicated and general audiences including power system professionals as

well as researchers and developers from the energy sector and electrical power engineering community and will be helpful to

undergraduate and graduate students.

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Recommended by: Mr. Vijay C.S.

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Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and

Lessons of American Child Prodigies

Author: Ann Hulbert

Publisher: Alfred A Knopf

Year: 2018


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Recommended by: Prof. Anitha B. K

Ann Hulbert’s in-depth exploration of the lives of sixteen extraordinary children over the course of the past century casts new light

on America’s current obsession with early achievement. The figures she profiles include math genius Norbert Wiener, founder of

cybernetics; two girls whose fiction and poetry stirred debate in the 1920s; the movie superstar Shirley Temple; the African-

American pianist and composer Philippa Schuyler; the chess champion Bobby Fischer; computer pioneers and “prodigious savants”

with autism; and musical prodigies, present and past. Hulbert probes the changing roles of parents and teachers as well as of

psychologists and a curious press. Above all, she delves into the feelings of the prodigies themselves, whose stories so intriguingly

raise hopes about untapped human potential and questions about how best to nurture it.

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Commentary on law of mines & minerals.

(Set of 2 Vols)

Author: Shah,M B & Singh,U V

Publisher: Whytes & Co

Year: 2016


SHA

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Geographies of Difference: Explorations in

Northeast Indian Studies

Author: Melanie Vandenhelsken Ed.


Year: 2018

Call Number: 954.1

VAN

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This book rethinks Northeast India as a lived space, a center of interconnections and unfolding histories, instead of an isolated

periphery. Questioning dominant tropes and assumptions around the Northeast, it examines socio-political and historical processes,

border issues, the role of the state, displacement and development, debates over natural resources, violence, notions of body and

belonging, movements, tensions and relations, and strategies, struggles and narratives that frame discussions on the region.

Drawing on current and emerging research in Northeast India studies, this work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of

politics, human geography, sociology and social anthropology, history, cultural studies, media studies and South Asian studies.


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Global Governance and India’s North-East:

Logistics, Infrastructure and Society

Author: Ranabir Samaddar & Anita

Sengupta


Year: 2019


SAM

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This book maps the convergence of governance and connectivity within Asia established through the spatial dynamics of trade,

capital, conflict, borders and mobility. It situates Indian trade and governance policies within a broader Asian and global context.

Focusing on India’s North-East, in particular on India’s Look and Act East Policy, the volume underscores how logistical governance

in the region can bring economic and political transformations. It explores the projected development of the North-East into a

gateway of transformative cultural interaction among people, just as the Silk Road became a conduit for Buddhism to travel along

with musical instruments and tea.

Comprehensive and topical, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of political studies, international relations,

governance studies, development studies, international trade and economics and for think tanks working on South and Southeast

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Money, Culture, Class: Elite Women as

Modern Subjects

Author: Parul Bhandari


Year: 2019


BHA

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Based on ethnographic research, this book explores the ways in which elite women use and view money in order to construct

identities – of class, status, and gender. Drawing on their everyday worlds, it tracks the intricate and contested meanings they attach

to money. Focusing on weddings, travel, and spirituality, Parul Bhandari delineates the entitlements and privileges as well as the

obsessions and vulnerabilities that underlie the construction of class, the shaping of elite cultures, and the curating of femininity. As

such, this book offers an innovative account of the interplay between money, modernity, class, and gender.


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Decolonizing Psychology: Globalization,

Social Justice, and Indian Youth Identities

Author: Sunil Bhatia


Year: 2018


BHA

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In recent years, the news media has directed a significant amount of attention to the effect of globalization on the second most

populous nation in the world: India. With the emergence of new economic opportunities and the influx of foreign popular culture and

commodities, India has experienced an enormous sea of change in the last few decades. In Decolonizing Psychology: Globalization,

Social Justice, and Indian Youth Identities, author Sunil Bhatia focuses on the psychological tensions that these changes have brought

upon Indian youth today.

Drawing on dozens of interviews, Bhatia offers readers a compelling glimpse and analysis of how these youth populations are

engaging with the emerging presence of globalization in their day-to-day lives. As Bhatia explains, young Indians use the term 'world

class selves' as a way to identify and describe the ways in which globalization has strengthened their standing in the world. By

frequenting urban cafes and bars, watching American television and cinema, traveling abroad, and regularly consuming foreign

commodities, Indian youth absorb the westernized culture and view themselves as peers to their western counterparts. At the same

time, however, these young Indians proudly hold onto their homeland's traditions governing family and religious values.

With remarkable clarity and nuance, Bhatia sheds an important light on the universalizing power and the colonizing dimensions of

Euro-American psychology. By integrating insights from postcolonial, narrative, and cultural psychologies to explore how Euro-

American scientific psychology became the standard approach, Bhatia reminds readers of whose stories are not being told, what

knowledge is not being considered, and whose lives are not included in the central understanding of psychology today.

2

Sustainable Transportation: Indicators,

Frameworks, and Performance Management

Author: Henrik Gudmundsson

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2016


GUD

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This textbook provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability in the context of transportation planning, management, and

decision-making. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, indicators and frameworks for measuring sustainable

development in the transportation sector are developed. In the second, the authors analyze actual planning and decision-making in

transportation agencies in a variety of governance settings. This analysis of real-world case studies demonstrates the benefits and

limitations of current approaches to sustainable development in transportation. The book concludes with a discussion on how to make

sustainability count in transportation decision-making and practice.

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Educated: A Memoir

Author: Tara Westover

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 2018


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4

Militarlisation of Space

Author: Kaza Lalitendra

Publisher: KW Publishers Pvt Ltd

Year: 2010


LAL

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Recommended by: Prof. Rajaram Nagappa

The first three chapters of the book examines the evolution of space for military use; the study of the legal framework governing the

use of outer space that has enabled the militarisation of space; and the complexities of defining the fine line that separates

militarisation and weaponisation of space. Chapter Four and Five provide an in-depth coverage on the military space capabilities of

China and select Asian countries. Chapter Six highlights India's civilian space capabilities. It argues that notwithstanding the

complex regional geo-political and geo-strategic environment, India has shown restraint in its space programme for military

purposes. Chapter Seven examines the exploitation of 'near space' as a transformational medium that has the potential to change the

war-fighting capabilities of nations. Chapter Eight illustrates the intricate relationship between missile defence and space. The

concluding chapter draws out the likely scenarios in the future uses of outer space in the context of various political, technical and

military challenges that may hamper India's march towards exploration and exploitation of outer space for its national development

and security. The book will be of immense value to graduate students of Defence and Strategic Studies as well as serving officers in

defence establishments.

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Who is the Scientist-Subject?: Affective

History of the Gene

Author: Esha Shah


Year: 2018


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This book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in

shaping objective science and the history of dominance of reductionism in molecular biology. It questions the dominant conception

of the scientist-subject as a neo-Kantian ideal self – that is, the scientist as a unified and wilful, self-determined, self-regulated, active

and autonomous, rational subject wilfully driven by social and scientific ethos – in favour of a narrative that shows how the

microcosm of reductionism is sustained, adopted, questioned, or challenged in the creative struggles of the scientist-subject.

The author covers a century-long history of the concept of the gene as a series of "pioneering moments" through an engagement with

life-writings of eminent scientists to show how their ways of being and belonging relate with the making of the science. The scientist-

self is theorized as fundamentally a feeling, experiencing, and suffering subject split between the conscious and unconscious and

constitutive of personality aspects that are emotional/psychological, "situated" (cultural and ideological), metaphysical, inter

subjective, and existential at the same time.

An engaging interdisciplinary interpretation of the dominance of reductionism in genetic science, this book will be of major interest

to scholars and researchers of science, history, and philosophy alike.

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Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures

in Settler Colonial Cities

A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in multicultural cities If city life is a "being together of strangers," what forms

of being together should we strive for in cities with ethnic and racial diversity? Everyday Equalities seeks evidence of progressive

Author: Ruth Fincher, et al

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Year: 2019

Call Number: 305.8

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political alternatives to racialized inequality that are emerging from everyday encounters in Los Angeles, Melbourne, Sydney, and

Toronto-settler colonial cities that, established through efforts to dispossess and eliminate indigenous societies, have been

destinations for waves of immigrants from across the globe ever since. Everyday Equalities finds such alternatives being developed

as people encounter one another in the process of making a home, earning a living, moving around the city, and forming collective

actions or communities. Here four leading scholars in critical urban geography come together to deliver a powerful and cohesive

message about the meaning of equality in contemporary cities. Drawing on both theoretical reflection and urban ethnographic

research, they offer the formulation "being together in difference as equals" as a normative frame to reimagine the meaning and

pursuit of equality in today's urban multicultures. As the examples in Everyday Equalities indicate, much emotional labor, combined

with a willingness to learn from each other, negotiate across differences, and agitate for change goes into constructing environments

that foster being together in difference as equals. Importantly, the authors argue, a commitment to equality is not only a hope for a

future city but also a way of being together in the present.

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Ceramics and Society: A Technological

Approach to Archaeological Assemblages

Author: Valentine Roux

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2019

Call Number: 930.1

ROU

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Pottery is the most ubiquitous find in most historical archaeological excavations and serves as the basis for much research in the

discipline. But it is not only its frequency that makes it a prime dataset for such research, it is also that pottery embeds many

dimensions of the human experience, ranging from the purely technical to the eminently symbolic.

The aim of this book is to provide a cutting-edge theoretical and methodological framework, as well as a practical guide, for

archaeologists, students and researchers to study ceramic assemblages. As opposed to the conventional typological approach, which

focuses on vessel shape and assumed function with the main goal of establishing a chronological sequence, the proposed framework

is based on the technological approach. Such an approach utilizes the concept of chaîne opératoire, which is geared to an

anthropological interpretation of archaeological objects.

The author offers a sound theoretical background accompanied by an original research strategy whose presentation is at the heart of

this book. This research strategy is presented in successive chapters that are geared to explain not only how to study archaeological

assemblages, but also why the proposed methods are essential for achieving ambitious interpretive goals.

In the heated debate on the equation stating that “pots equal people”, which is a rather fuzzy reference to assumed relationships

between (mostly) ethnic groups and pottery, technology enables us to propose with conviction the equation “pots equal potters”. In

this way, a well-founded history of potters is able to achieve a much better cultural and anthropological understanding of ancient

societies.

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Statistical and Econometric Methods for

Transportation Data Analysis

Author: Simon Washington, et al

Publisher: CRC Press

Year: 2020


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9

A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in

Assam Since 1900

Author: Arup Jyoti Saikia


Year: 2014


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Addressing an important gap in the historiography of modern Assam, this book traces the relatively unexplored but profound

transformations in the agrarian landscape of late- and post-colonial Assam that were instrumental in the making of modern Assamese

peasantry and rural politics. It discusses the changing relations between various sections of peasantry, state, landed gentry, and

politics of different ideological hues — nationalist, communist and socialist — and shows how a primarily agrarian question

concerning peasantry came to occupy the centre stage in the nationalist politics of the state. It will especially interest scholars of

history, agrarian and peasant studies, sociology, and contemporary politics, as also those concerned with Northeast India.

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Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying

Where We’re Coming From

Author: David Simpson

Publisher: Duke University Press

Year: 2002

Call Number: 128.4

SIM

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“Let me tell you where I'm coming from . . .”—so begins many a discussion in contemporary U.S. culture. Pressed by an almost

compulsive desire to situate ourselves within a definite matrix of reference points (for example, “as a parent of two children” or “as

an engineer” or “as a college graduate”) in both scholarly inquiry and everyday parlance, we seem to reject adamantly the idea of a

universal human subject. Yet what does this rhetoric of self-affiliation tell us? What is its history? David Simpson’s Situatedness

casts a critical eye on this currently popular form of identification, suggesting that, far from being a simple turn of phrase, it

demarcates a whole structure of thinking.

Simpson traces the rhetorical syndrome through its truly interdisciplinary genealogy. Discussing its roles within the fields of legal

theory, social science, fiction, philosophy, and ethics, he argues that the discourse of situatedness consists of a volatile fusion of

modesty and aggressiveness. It oscillates, in other words, between accepting complete causal predetermination and advocating

personal agency and responsibility. Simpson’s study neither fully rejects nor endorses the present-day language of self-specification.

Rather it calls attention to the limitations and opportunities of situatedness—a notion whose ideological slippage it ultimately sees as

allowing late-capitalist liberal democracies to function.

Given its wide scope and lively rendering, Situatedness will attract a range of scholars in the humanities and legal studies. It will also

interest all those for whom the politics of subjectivity pose real problems of authority, identity, and belief.

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Bridgital Nation: Solving Technology's

People Problem

Author: N. Chandrasekaran & Roopa

Purushothaman

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 2019

Call Number: 658.05

CHA

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Recommended by:

It is 2030. India is among the world's top three economies. All Indians use advanced technology to either do their job or get their job

done. All Indians have access to quality jobs, better healthcare and skill-based education. Technology and human beings coexist in a

mutually beneficial ecosystem.

This reality is possible. It is within reach. With Bridgital.

In this ground-breaking book, N. Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons, presents a powerful vision for the future. To the coming

disruption of artificial intelligence, he proposes an ingenious solution, where India is perfectly positioned to pave a unique path from

the rest of the world. Instead of accepting technology as an inevitable replacement for human labour, India can use it as an aid;

instead of taking them away, AI can generate jobs.

Chandrasekaran and his co-author, Roopa Purushothaman, chief economist of the Tata Group, survey the country for inspirational

stories of resilience and determination, and seek the ideal way to bring Indians closer to their dreams through on-ground application

of a cutting-edge approach called 'Bridgital'. This brilliant concept addresses India's biggest challenges by bridging the huge chasm

between rural and urban, illiteracy and education, aspirations and achievement. From healthcare to education to business, the model

can be applied in various sectors, and, by a conservative estimate, it can create and impact 30 million jobs by 2025.

One of the country's foremost industry leaders and pioneers, N. Chandrasekaran brings his expertise of over thirty years with the Tata

Group to offer a blueprint for building a prosperous India, where everyone is included in the growth story.

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Ecology, Conservation and Management of

Wild Pigs and Peccaries

Author: Mario Melletti & Erik Meijaard


Year: 2018


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Recommended by: Ms. Athira Balakrishnan

Wild pigs inhabit vast areas in Europe, Southern Asia and Africa, and have been introduced in North and South America, while feral

pigs are widespread in Australia and New Zealand. Many wild pig species are threatened with extinction, but Eurasian wild boar

populations, however, are increasing in many regions. Covering all wild pig and peccary species, the Suidae and Tayassuidae

families, this comprehensive review presents new information about the evolution, taxonomy and domestication of wild pigs and

peccaries alongside novel case studies on conservation activities and management. One hundred leading experts from twenty five

countries synthesise understanding of this group of species; discussing current research, and gaps in the knowledge of researchers,

conservation biologists, zoologists, wildlife managers and students. This beautifully illustrated reference includes the long history of

interactions between wild pigs and humans, the benefits some species have brought us and their role and impact on natural

ecosystems.

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Resisting Disappearance: Military

Occupation and Women's Activism in

Kashmir

Author: Ather Zia


Year: 2019


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In Kashmir’s frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public

park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins her mother in collective mourning. The activist women who form the

Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons (APDP) keep public attention focused on the 8,000 to 10,000 Kashmiri men

disappeared by the Indian government forces since 1989. Surrounded by Indian troops, international photojournalists, and curious

onlookers, the APDP activists cry, lament, and sing while holding photos and files documenting the lives of their disappeared loved

ones. In this radical departure from traditionally private rituals of mourning, they create a spectacle of mourning that combats the

government’s threatening silence about the fates of their sons, husbands, and fathers.

Drawn from Ather Zia’s ten years of engagement with the APDP as an anthropologist and fellow Kashmiri activist, Resisting

Disappearance follows mothers and “half-widows” as they step boldly into courts, military camps, and morgues in search of their

disappeared kin. Through an amalgam of ethnography, poetry, and photography, Zia illuminates how dynamics of gender and trauma

in Kashmir have been transformed in the face of South Asia’s longest-running conflict, providing profound insight into how

Kashmiri women and men nurture a politics of resistance while facing increasing military violence under India.

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Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains:

Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the

Central Himalayas

Author: Nachiket Chanchani


Year: 2019

From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial

sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep

meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of pilgrimage.

Nachiket Chanchani’s innovative study explores scores of stone edifices and steles that were erected in this landscape. Through their

forms, locations, interactions with the natural environment, and sociopolitical context, these lithic ensembles evoked legendary

worlds, embedded historical memories in the topography, changed the mountain range’s appearance, and shifted its semiotic effect.

Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains also alters our understanding of the transmission of architectural knowledge and provides

new evidence of how an enduring idea of India emerged in the subcontinent.


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Staking Claims: The Politics of Social

Movements in Contemporary Rural India

Author: Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff


Year: 2016


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The contributions to this volume explore movements against capital and the state in contemporary rural India in three complementary

ways. First, the simultaneous material and cultural claims of dispossession the movements make in particular rural contexts. Second,

the new forms of organization that shape contemporary claim-making practices as well as political subjectivities in rural India. Third,

the way the academia situates itself with respect to these movements, their organizations, activists, and participants. By delving into

these relatively new and pertinent questions in the study of social movements in contemporary India, the contributors analyze the

politics of subaltern agency, translocal activism, and academic knowledge-production in different, albeit interlinked, locations. The

volume puts forth the argument that these are modes of political action that share complex relationships with each other, and may

complement each other at times and yet contradict or even cancel out another at other times.


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Guide to the Electricity Laws

Author: Naushir Bharucha

Publisher: LexisNexis

Year: 2018

Call Number: 343.540929026

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Naushir Bharucha’s Guide to the Electricity Laws - An Exhaustive Commentary on the Electricity Acts, 2003 and the Electricity

Rules, 2005 with CERC Rules Regulations Ever since the publication of the edition in 1961, the statutes governing electricity laws in

the country have undergone a sea change. The current Electricity Act of 2003, consolidates three major Acts viz-a-viz Electricity Act,

1910, the Electricity Supply Act, 1948 and the Electricity Regulation Commissions Act, 1998. Naushir Bharucha's Guide to

Electricity Laws endeavors to serve as a guide that systematically and clearly provides an in-depth analysis of the provisions of

electricity laws in India. The previous edition of this book was published in 2004, just when the 2003 Act had come into force. In the

present edition, the revising editor has developed the work in the light of leading judicial pronouncements and the changes and trends

in this field. Being a practitioner himself, he has transformed the work into an easy reference by providing a practical point of view to

its intended readers. The book explores the development, changes and interpretation of the law since the previous edition. With the

implementation of section 16 of the Electricity Act, 2003, there has been an overhaul of regulations laid down by respective State

Commissions which empowers them to specify conditions applicable to the licensees covered under section 14 of the Act within one

year from the appointed date. This edition has been updated with latest amendments, rules, notifications, circulars and orders and

serves as a comprehensive legal reference covering important case law from 2003 up to 2017. This book is a useful guide for

practitioners; advocates representing the energy sectors; appellate tribunals; judges; law firms engaged in matters relating to Projects,

Infrastructure & Energy; Legal and Compliance departments of electricity generation/transmission/ distribution companies; the

Central and State Regulatory authorities.

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Human Being, Bodily Being:

Phenomenology from Classical India

Author: Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad


Year: 2018

Call Number: 128.6

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Recommended by: Prof. Sangeetha Menon

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad offers illuminating new perspectives on contemporary phenomenological theories of body and subjectivity,

based on studies of classical Indian texts that deal with bodily subjectivity. Examining four texts from different genres - a medical

handbook, epic dialogue, a manual of Buddhist practice, and erotic poetry - he argues for a 'phenomenological ecology' of bodily

subjectivity in health, gender, contemplation, and lovemaking. An ecology is a continuous and dynamic system of interrelationships

between elements, in which the salience accorded to some type of relationship clarifies how the elements it relates are to be

identified. The paradigm of ecological phenomenology obviates the need to choose between apparently incompatible perspectives of

the human. The delineation of body is arrived at by working back phenomenologically from the world of experience, with the

acknowledgement that the point of arrival - a conception of what counts as bodiliness - is dependent upon the exact motivation for

attending to experience, the areas of experience attended to, and the expressive tools available to the phenomenologist. Ecological

phenomenology is pluralistic, yet integrates the ways experience is attended to and studied, permitting apparently inconsistent

intuitions about bodiliness to be explored in novel ways. Rather than seeing particular framings of our experience as in tension with

each other, we should see each such framing as playing its own role according to the local descriptive and analytic concern of a text.

3

Advances in Solar Energy Research

Author: Himanshu Tyagi, et al, Eds

This book covers major technological advancements in, and evolving applications of, thermal and photovoltaic solar energy systems.

Advances in technologies for harnessing solar energy are extensively discussed, with topics including the fabrication, compaction

and optimization of energy grids, solar cells and panels. Leading international experts discuss the applications, challenges and future

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2019


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prospects of research in this increasingly vital field, providing a valuable resource for all researchers working in this field.

4

Energy Sustainability in Built and Urban

Environments

Author: Emilia Motoasca, Ed

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2019


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This book covers different aspects of energy sustainability in residential buildings and neighborhoods, starting from the construction

and design aspects, and moving on to HVAC systems and lighting, and the applications, harvesting, use and storage of renewable

energy. The volume focuses on smart and sustainable use of energy, discussing both the technological advancements and the

economic, social and environmental impacts. Novel approaches to recycling of waste and materials in the context of residential

buildings are also presented. This volume will be of interest to researchers and policy makers working in the fields of renewable

energy, sustainable design and city planning.

5

Industrialising Rural India: Land, policy and

resistance

Author: Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Patrik

Oskarsson, Eds


Year: 2018


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Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating

employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial

parks, mining, or Special Economic Zones has emerged as perhaps the most explosive issue in India over the past decade.

Industrialising Rural India sheds light on crucial political and social dynamics that unfold today as India seeks to accelerate industrial

growth. The volume examines key aspects that are implicated in current processes of industrialisation in rural India, including the

evolution of industrial and related policies; the contested role of land transfers, dispossession, and the destruction of the natural

resource base more generally; and the popular resistance against industrial projects, extractive industries and Special Economic

Zones.

Combining the work of scholars long established in their respective fields with the refreshing approach of younger scholars,

Industrialising Rural India seeks to chart new ways in the study of contemporary industrialisation and its associated challenges in

India. This cutting-edge interdisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars working on industrial development and land questions in

India and South Asia alongside those with an interest in sociology , political science and development research.

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The Politics of Caste in West Bengal

Author: Uday Chandra, Geir Heierstad,

Kenneth Bo Nielsen. Eds.


This volume offers for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the making and maintenance of a modern caste society

in colonial and postcolonial West Bengal in India. Drawing on cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, it explains why caste

continues to be neglected in the politics of and scholarship on West Bengal, and how caste relations have permeated the politics of

the region until today. The essays presented here dispel the myth that caste does not matter in Bengali society and politics, and make

possible meaningful comparisons and contrasts with other regions in South Asia.

Year: 2016

Call Number: 305.5122095414

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The work will interest scholars and researchers in sociology, social anthropology, politics, modern Indian history and cultural studies.

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Indigeneity, Landscape and History:

Adivasi Self-fashioning in India

Author: Asoka Kumar Sen


Year: 2018


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This book engages with notions of self and landscape as manifest in water, forest and land via historical and current perspectives in

the context of indigenous communities in India. It also brings processes of identity formation among tribes in Africa and Latin

America into relief. Using interconnected historical moments and representations of being, becoming and belonging, it situates the

content and complexities of Adivasi self-fashioning in contemporary times, and discusses constructions of selfhood, diaspora,

homeland, environment and ecology, political structures, state, marginality, development, alienation and rights.

Drawing on a range of historical sources – from recorded oral traditions and village histories to contemporary Adivasi self-narratives

– the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology and social anthropology, tribal

and indigenous studies and politics.

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Urban Renewal in India: Accommodating

People, Ideas and Lifeworlds in Mumbai's

Redeveloping Chawls

Author: Pablo Holwitt


Year: 2020

Call Number: 307.34160954792

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This book interrogates contemporary processes of neoliberal urban renewal in the Global South by studying the model of chawl

redevelopment in Mumbai, India.

The model of chawl redevelopment is used to address questions surrounding contemporary urban renewal. Focusing on attempts to

redevelop Mumbai´s central middle-class neighbourhoods, popularly known as Girgaum, into a modern downtown of a global

metropolis, the author sheds light on the impact this development model has on the everyday lives of people inhabiting transformed

urban environments. He examines, from an ethnographic perspective, apparently contradictory intentions of planners, investors,

residents, activists and politicians. A combination of detailed and vivid ethnographic accounts and incisive theoretical arguments, the

book shows that the highly contested and controversial approach of chawl redevelopment serves as an example of the manifold

ideological tendencies in India today, and how they combine, clash and continuously shape each other in surprising and unpredictable

ways.

Offering new insights in the topics of class dynamics in the era of globalization and neoliberalism, urban gating, sense studies, and

urban politics in South Asia, this book will be of interest to academics working on South Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, as

well as Urban and Global Studies.

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Youth, Class and Education in Urban India:

The year that can break or make you

Author: David Sancho


Year: 2018

Urban India is undergoing a rapid transformation, which also encompasses the educational sector. Since 1991, this important new

market in private English-medium schools, along with an explosion of private coaching centres, has transformed the lives of children

and their families, as the attainment of the best education nurtures the aspirations of a growing number of Indian citizens.

Set in urban Kerala, the book discusses changing educational landscapes in the South Indian city of Kochi, a local hub for trade,

tourism, and cosmopolitan middle-class lifestyles. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the author examines the way

education features as a major way the transformation of the city, and India in general, are experienced and envisaged by upwardly-

mobile residents. Schooling is shown to play a major role in urban lifestyles, with increased privatisation representing a response to


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the educational strategies of a growing and heterogeneous middle class, whose educational choices reflect broader projects of class

formation within the context of religious and caste diversity particular to the region.

This path-breaking new study of a changing Indian middle class and new relationships with educational institutions contributes to the

growing body of work on the experiences and meanings of schooling for youths, their parents, and the wider community and thereby

adds a unique, anthropologically informed, perspective to South Asian studies, urban studies and the study of education.

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Madrasas and the Making of Islamic

Womanhood

Author: Hem Borker


Year: 2018


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This in-depth ethnography looks at the everyday lives of Muslim students in a girls' madrasa in India. Highlighting the ambiguities

between the students' espousal of madrasa norms and everyday practice, Borker illustrates how young Muslim girls tactically invoke

the virtues of safety, modesty, and piety learnt in the madrasa to reconfigure normative social expectations around marriage,

education, and employment. Amongst the few ethnographies on girls' madrasas in India, this volume focuses on unfolding of young

women's lives as they journey from their home to madrasa and beyond, and thereby problematizes the idealized and coherent notions

of piety presented by anthropological literature on female participation in Islamic piety projects. The author uses ethnographic

portraits to introduce us to an array of students, many of whom find their aspirational horizon expanded as a result of the madrasa

experience. Such stories challenge the dominant media's representations of madrasas as outmoded religious institutions. Further, the

author illustrates how the processes of learning-unlearning and alternate visions of the future emerge as an unanticipated

consequence of young women's engagement with madrasa education.

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Environmental Management: Science and

Engineering for Industry

Author: I.V Muralikrishna & Valli

Manickam

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Year: 2017

Call Number: 333.72

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18184


Environmental Management: Science and Engineering for Industry consists of 18 chapters, starting with a discussion of International

Environmental Laws and crucial environmental management tools, including lifecycle, environmental impact, and environmental risk

assessments. This is followed by a frank discussion of environmental control and abatement technologies for water, wastewater, soil,

and air pollution.

In addition, this book also tackles Hazardous Waste Management and the landfill technologies available for the disposal of hazardous

wastes. As managing environmental projects is a complex task with vast amounts of data, an array of regulations, and alternative

engineering control strategies designed to minimize pollution and maximize the effect of an environmental program, this book helps

readers further understand and plan for this process.

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Role of Second Strike in No-First-Use

Doctrine : A Study of China and India

Author: Zhong Ai

Publisher: KW Publishers

Year: 2018

Advent of nuclear weapons in 1945 forever changed foreign relations of states that possessed nuclear weapons. Instead of victory in

war, deterrence and stalemate were the most desired objectives of their nuclear arsenals. The best use of nuclear weapons now lay in

their non-use and No-First Use (NFU) has since come the be seen as the crucial first step in ensuring deterrence credibility or even

complete disarmament. China and India announced their commitment to the NFU doctrine at the time of their first nuclear weapon

tests respectively in 1964 and 1998. In spite of various insinuations and interpretations both have stood firmly by this commitment as

this being the cardinal principle of their war fighting doctrines. This is what makes China and India fundamentally so distinct

compared to all other nuclear weapon states. Indeed, in taking NFU pledge immediately at the time of their first nuclear weapons

tests, China and India also became unique in defying the established conventional wisdom that saw having a ‘second strike’


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Recommended by: Dr.Prakash Pannerselvam

capability as a prerequisite for adopting NFU doctrine. This book examines these unique nuclear trajectories of China and India to

find answers to this puzzle in their respective strategic culture, political leadership, and military traditions that together moulded their

nuclear policies and programs.

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Raya : Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara

Author: Srinivas Reddy

Publisher: Juggernaut

Year: 2020

Call Number: 954.02

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In 1509 Krishnadevaraya, a prince from humble origins, ascended the throne of Vijayanagara. The empire he inherited was weak

from two messy dynastic succession, and ambitious enemy kings loomed large on all sides – a haughty king of Orissa in the east, five

upstart Deccan Sultans to the North, revolting Tamil rajas in the South and enterprising Portuguese soldiers from the West. But

Krishnadevaraya quickly rose to the challenge, and in the course of his remarkable twenty-year reign, he changed history forever. He

won every single battle he fought and unified the whole of South India under his banner. Krishnadevaraya is remembered today as

one of India’s greatest kings, not only because of his successes on the battlefield or the dazzling splendour of his empire, but because

he was India’s first truly global leader. He had to confront very modern problems, such as building international alliances and

negotiating overseas trade deals, while grappling with the challenges of globalism and multiculturalism. The Deccan of his time was

a cosmopolitan place where Hindus and Muslims, North Indians and South Indians, Persians and Portuguese, all intermingled as they

made their lives and fortunes. This cultural dynamism also inspired Krishnadevaraya to look back at India’s past and reflect on her

histories and traditions. As a philosopher-king who was also a celebrated poet in his own right, he presided over an Indian

Renaissance, when ancient texts and traditions were reinvigorated and infused with a fresh and modern vitality. Five hundred years

after krishnadevaraya’s death, he is still remembered and loved as a compassionate and wise king, one who is immortalised in films

and folk tales, poems and Ballads. This fascinating and riveting book is meticulously researched and beautifully written. Based on

Portuguese and Persian chronicles, as well as many overlooked Telugu literary sources, Raya is the definitive biography of one of the

world’s greatest leaders.

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Researching Early Childhood Education for

Sustainability: Challenging Assumptions

and Orthodoxies

Author: Sue Elliott, Eva Arlemalm-Hagser,

Julie Davis. Eds

Publisher: Routledeg

Year: 2020

Call Number: 372.21

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This book captures the now burgeoning research field of early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) and comprises insights

from an ever-widening and diverse pool of researchers, who are promoting, engaging, and explaining the latest ECEfS research in the

light of local, national, and United Nations global policy directives. With the increasing urgency of global climate disruptions,

resource depletions, and biodiversity losses alongside greater human dislocation, the international scope of research and theory in this

book provides a comprehensive guide to the role of sustainability in early childhood education, at a time when it is needed more than

ever.

Elliott, Arlemalm-Hagsér, and Davis have brought together a collection of studies that offer new insights and approaches to ECEfS

which challenge dominant narratives surrounding early childhood education and sustainability, including topics such as:

how diverse worldviews and cultures challenge perceptions of sustainability;

how bold national early education policies and urgent shifts in teacher education are imperative for driving transformative practices;

and,

how ECEfS curriculum and pedagogy can be incorporated successfully into early years settings.

This book will both inspire researchers and more deeply enable early years’ educators to practise sustainability with children, and so

will be of great interest to scholars, lecturers, and researchers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students, across the

increasingly intersecting fields of sustainability and early childhood education.

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The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital

Author: Alan Burton‐Jones and J.C.

The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital provides an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up-to-date survey of relevant concepts,

research areas, and applications of human capital. Macroeconomic research on human capital – the stock of human capabilities and

knowledge – has been extensively published but, until now, the literature had lacked a comprehensive analysis of human capital

within the organization. Specially commissioned contributions from over forty authors reveal the importance of human capital for

Spender, Eds


Year: 2013

Call Number: 331.11

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contemporary organizations, exploring its conceptual underpinnings, relevance to theories of the firm, implications for organizational

effectiveness, interdependencies with other resources, and role in the future economy. Unlike neoclassical macroeconomic concepts

of human capital, human capital in organizations is shown to be dynamic and heterogeneous, requiring new theories and management

frameworks. The systemic role of human capital is explored, revealing it as the lynchpin of social, structural, and other forms of

intangible and tangible capital. Connections between human capital and organizational performance are investigated from HR

management, procurement, alignment, value appropriation, and accounting perspectives. Links between micro and macro

perspectives are provided through analyses of inter-firm human capital mobility, national and regional human-capital-formation

regimes, and industry employment-relations practices. The book provides an up-to-date guide to the nature and role of human capital

in contemporary organizations and the roles that government, industry, and other extra-firm institutions can play in facilitating its

development.

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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural

Economics

Author: Richard H Thaler

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 2016

Call Number:330.019

THA

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Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are

humans—predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an

academic discipline back down to earth—and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.

Traditional economics assumes rational actors. Early in his research, Thaler realized these Spock-like automatons were nothing like

real people. Whether buying a clock radio, selling basketball tickets, or applying for a mortgage, we all succumb to biases and make

decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality assumed by economists. In other words, we misbehave. More importantly, our

misbehavior has serious consequences. Dismissed at first by economists as an amusing sideshow, the study of human miscalculations

and their effects on markets now drives efforts to make better decisions in our lives, our businesses, and our governments.

Coupling recent discoveries in human psychology with a practical understanding of incentives and market behavior, Thaler

enlightens readers about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly mystifying world. He reveals how behavioral economic

analysis opens up new ways to look at everything from household finance to assigning faculty offices in a new building, to TV game

shows, the NFL draft, and businesses like Uber.

Laced with antic stories of Thaler’s spirited battles with the bastions of traditional economic thinking, Misbehaving is a singular look

into profound human foibles. When economics meets psychology, the implications for individuals, managers, and policy makers are

both profound and entertaining.

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Social Theory in Education Primer

Author: Philip Wexler

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc

Year: 2009

Call Number: 306.43

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The Social Theory in Education Primer shows how classical sociology sets the frame for theory and research in education. Three

major paradigms are explained in their historical context, and are used as a key to making sense of contemporary work that

understands education from a sociological point of view. The central classical theorists considered are seen both in their own context,

and also as the founders of the major movements that have continuing influence. The social theories of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber

are used to frame and orient concepts for the different models of contemporary work. This primer is essential reading for courses

devoted to social theory and education; sociology of education; social foundations of education; history of education; history of

sociology; sociological theory; and sociology of knowledge.

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Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent

Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia

Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia

Author: Jason Cons & Michael Eilenberg,

Eds

Publisher: Wiley

Year: 2019


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Recommended by: Mr. Snehashish Mitra

• Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages

• Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field

• Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia

• Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect

• Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists

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Forts of the Deccan: 1200-1800

Author: Nicolas Faucherre & Nicolas

Morelle, Eds

Publisher: Aryan Books

Year: 2020

Call Number: 954.02

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Caste, Discrimination, and Exclusion in

Modern India

Author: Vani Kant Borooah, et al

Publisher: Sage

Year: 2015


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Recommended by: Dr.Bharat Chandra Rout

A comprehensive assessment of the broad issues that underpin social exclusion in India

This book posits the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) vis-à-vis their upper-caste Hindu peers and establishes how

caste is a lived reality in everyday life in modern India.

It explores areas where caste and religious exclusion are most visible, such as human development, inequality, poverty, educational

attainments, child malnutrition, health, employment, wages, gender, and access to public goods. With an in-depth theoretical

foundation and empirical analysis, it establishes that in each of these sectors, the performance of upper-caste Hindu households is far

better compared to that from the SC, ST, and Muslim households.

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Modernity and Spirit Worship in India: An

Anthropology of the Umwelt

This book investigates the entangled relations between people’s daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on

the practices of spirit (būta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities.

Author: Miho Ishii


Year: 2020


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Based on extensive fieldwork, this book links important anthropological theories on personhood, perspectives, transactions, and gift-

exchanges together with the Gestaltkreis theory of Viktor von Weizsäcker. First, it examines the relations between būta worship and

land tenure, matriliny, and hierarchy in the society. It then explores the reflexive relationship between modern law and current

practices based on conventional law, before examining new developments in būta worship with the rise of mega-industries and

environmental movements. Furthermore, this book sheds light on the struggles and endeavours of the people who create and recreate

their relations with the realm of sacred wildness, as well as the formations and transformations of the umwelt in perpetual social-

political transition.

Modernity and Spirit Worship in India will be of interest to academics in the field of anthropology, religious studies and the

dynamics of religion, and South Asian Culture and Society.

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Children's Theatre: Programme of New

Plays

Author: Vijay Padaki

Publisher: Bangalore Little Theatre &

Vitasta

Year: 2020

Call Number: 808.22

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Bangalore little theatre programme, titled work with schools and children, integrates three streams of work: new play development,

training new directors and promoting new talent for the stage. This volume includes four plays for the programme - The ungrateful

man, a tale from the Panchatantra; the magic drum, a collection of stories from the book by the same title by Sudhir Murty; Ali Oh

Baba, a retelling of the tale from the 1001 Arabian Nights; and the court jester, the tales of Tenali Rama.

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Four Classics on the Indian Stage


Publisher: Bangalore Little Theatre &

Vitasta

Year: 2020

Call Number: 808.22

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This is a book of plays containing four classics. These are English translations of an adaptation of the Sanskrit classic mrichhakatika,

an adaptation of the Tamil classic silappadikaram, an adaptation of smashana Kurukshetra in Kannada by kuvempu, an adaptation of

chomana dudi by shivarama Karanth brought to the public by the Bangalore little theatre.


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The History of Ideas: Programme of new

Plays


Publisher: Vitasta & Bangalore Little

Theatre

Year: 2020

Call Number: 808.22

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All the plays included in this volume are original scripts by blt. The Prophet and the poet is based on the historically significant

exchanges between Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. Tiger! Tiger! On the life of Tipu Sultan is based on a play by Dina

Mehta. Finding Ananda was commissioned by the Ministry of culture to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary year of Swami

Vivekananda. Monsters in the dark is based on the Pulitzer Prize book The emperor of all maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

Einstein’s dreams is an original adaptation for the stage of Alan lightman novel, based on Einstein’s early struggles.

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Fault Lines of Nationhood

Author: Gyanendra Pandey & Yunas Samad

Publisher: Roli Books

Year: 2007


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Though India and Pakistan emerged as independent nation states sixty years ago, debates about the basis of Indian and Pakistani

nationhood continue to reverberate through the politics of the two countries. Pakistan has been wracked by disputes over identity

from its very inception. It split into two countries in 1971 when the eastern wing broke away to form Bangladesh. It has since been

wrestling with issues of Punjabi dominance and Islamisation, which have put minorities of all sorts on the defensive. Independent

India under Nehru's leadership proclaimed secular and egalitarian goals but theory and practice were often divergent. In recent years,

the success of Hindu nationalist forces at the polls has raised new and uncomfortable questions for Indian minorities too.

In Fault Lines of Nationhood, Gyanendra Pandey and Yunas Samad reflect on the construction of national identity in India and

Pakistan from colonial times to the present day and examine how the working of democracy has created new majorities and

minorities and helped to politicise issues of religion and ethnicity, region and language, class and caste. This book is essential reading

for anyone interested in the dynamics of state building in India and Pakistan and the conflicting demands of national unity and social

and political inclusiveness.

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Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological

Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi

Author: Anand Vivek Taneja

In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the

spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a

Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand

Vivek Taneja's Jinnealogy provides a fresh vision of religion, identity, and sacrality that runs counter to state-sanctioned history.

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Year: 2018


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The ruin, Firoz Shah Kotla, is an unusually democratic religious space, characterized by freewheeling theological conversations, DIY

rituals, and the sanctification of animals. Taneja observes the visitors, who come mainly from the Muslim and Dalit neighborhoods of

Delhi, and uses their conversations and letters to the jinns as an archive of voices so often silenced. He finds that their veneration of

the jinns recalls pre-modern religious traditions in which spiritual experience was inextricably tied to ecological surroundings. In this

enchanted space, Taneja encounters a form of popular Islam that is not a relic of bygone days, but a vibrant form of resistance to state

repression and post-colonial visions of India.

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Science and Technology in Ancient Indian

Texts

Author: Bal Ram Singh, et al,Eds

Publisher: DK Printworld

Year: 2012


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A compilation of seminar papers by Indian and foreign experts brings alive ancient Indian developments in science, technology and

medicine. The book presents Vedic quest in science and metaphysics with a special emphasis on ancient science and contemporary

ideas.

5

Settlement Pattern Urban Growth and Craft

Technology in North India: An

Archaeological Perspective

Author: Santosh Kumar Singh

Publisher: Research India Press

Year: 2012


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18201


Settlement Pattern Urban Growth and Craft Technology in North India In the present monograph an attempt has been made to

discuss the factors that contributed for an understanding of the development of settlement patterns from rural to urban form in North

India. This monograph is the outcome of Dr. Singh's researches has during the last one decade, which represent papers published in

research Journals and other academic volumes. In addition, the papers have been added with fresh information revealed from the

newly excavated sites such as Pakkakot, Imilidih Khurd, Agiabir, Lahuradeva, Tokwa, Jhusi and others. He has also been an active

participant in some of the excavations. This monograph is an important research work specially represents for those working in the

field of South Asian Archaeology.

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Museums, Immigrants, and Social Justice

Author: Sophia Labadi


This interdisciplinary book argues that museums can offer a powerful, and often overlooked, arena for both exploring and acting

upon the interrelated issues of immigration and social justice. Based on three in-depth European case studies, spanning France,

Denmark, and the UK, the research examines programs developed by leading museums to address cultural, economic, social and

political inequalities. Where previous studies on museums and immigration have focused primarily on issues of cultural inequalities

in collection and interpretation, Museums, Immigrants, and Social Justice adopts a more comprehensive focus that extends beyond

Year: 2019

Call Number: 069

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the exhibition hall to examine the full range of programs developed by museums to address the of cultural, economic, social and

political inequalities facing immigrants.

Museums, Immigrants, and Social Justice offers compelling insights on the ability of museums to offer positive contributions to the

issues surrounding immigration and social justice at a time when both are pressing issues in Europe. It will be of interest to scholars

and students of museum studies, migration studies, sociology, human geography and politics.

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Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan:

Gender and Caste, Borders and Boundaries

Author: Virinder S. Kalra & Navtej K.

Purewal


Year: 2020


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Drawing on insights from theoretical engagements with borders and subalternity, Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan suggests

new frameworks for understanding religious boundaries in South Asia. It looks at the ways in which social categories and structures

constitute the bordering logics inherent within enactments of these boundaries, and positions hegemony and resistance through

popular religion as an important indication of wider developments of political and social change. The book also shows how borders

are continually being maintained through violence at national, community and individual levels.

By exploring selected sites and expressions of piety including shrines, texts, practices and movements, Virinder S. Kalra and Navtej

K. Purewal argue that the popular religion of Punjab should neither be limited to a polarised picture between formal, institutional

religion, nor the 'enchanted universe' of rituals, saints, shrines and village deities.

Instead, the book presents a picture of 'religion' as a realm of movement, mobilization, resistance and power in which gender and

caste are connate of what comes to be known as 'religious'. Through extensive ethnographic research, the authors explore the reality

of the complex, dynamic and contested relations that characterize everyday material and religious lives on the ground. Ultimately, the

book highlights how popular religion challenges the borders and boundaries of religious and communal categories, nationalism and

theological frameworks while simultaneously reflecting gender/caste society.

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Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics

in Rural Eastern India

Author: Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Publisher: Anthem Press

Year: 2020

Call Number: 333.309541734

NIE

18204


Over the past decade India has witnessed a number of land wars that have centred crucially on the often forcible transfer of land from

small farmers or indigenous groups to private companies. Among these, the land war that erupted in Singur, West Bengal, in 2006,

went on to make national headlines and become paradigmatic of many of the challenges and social conflicts that arise when a state-

led policy of swiftly transferring land to private sector companies encounters resistance on the ground. Land Dispossession and

Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India analyses the movement by Singur’s so-called unwilling farmers to retain and reclaim their

farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the movement’s internal

politics as well as on contentious issues rooted in everyday caste, class and gender relations.

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Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and

Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-

Century India

Author: Ravinder Kaur

The first book that examines India's mega-publicity campaigns to theorize the global transformation of the nation-state into an

attractive investment destination.

The early twenty-first century was an optimistic moment of global futures-making. The chief narrative was the emergence of the

BRICS nations—leading stars in the great spectacle of capitalist growth stories, branded afresh as resource-rich hubs of untapped

talent and potential, and newly opened up for foreign investments. The old third-world nations were rapidly embracing the script of

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Year: 2020


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unbridled capitalism in the hope of arriving on the world stage. If the tantalizing promise of economic growth invited entrepreneurs

to invest in the nation's exciting futures, it offered utopian visions of "good times," and even restoration of lost national glory, to the

nation's citizens. Brand New Nation reaches into the past and, inevitably, the future of this phenomenon as well as the fundamental

shifts it has wrought in our understanding of the nation-state. It reveals the on-the-ground experience of the relentless transformation

of the nation-state into an "attractive investment destination" for global capital.

As Ravinder Kaur provocatively argues, the brand new nation is not a mere nineteenth century re-run. It has come alive as a unified

enclosure of capitalist growth and nationalist desire in the twenty-first century. Today, to be deemed an attractive nation-brand in the

global economy is to be affirmed as a proper nation. The infusion of capital not only rejuvenates the nation; it also produces

investment-fueled nationalism, a populist energy that can be turned into a powerful instrument of coercion. Grounded in the history

of modern India, the book reveals the close kinship among identity economy and identity politics, publicity and populism, and

violence and economic growth rapidly rearranging the liberal political order the world over.

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The Religious Heritage Complex: Legacy,

Conservation, and Christianity

Author: Cyril Isnart & Nathalie Cerezales


Year: 2020

Call Number: 264

ISN

18206


The Religious Heritage Complex examines heritage-making of Christian-related legacies led by secular and clerical institutions. It

argues that the relationship between public policies and spiritual practices is not as clear-cut as some might think. In fact, the authors

show that religious activity has always combined care for the past with conscious practices of heritage-making, which they term “the

religious heritage complex.”

The book considers the ways patrimony, religion, and identity interact in different Christian contexts worldwide and how religious

objects and sites function as identity symbols. It focuses on heritage-making as a religious and material activity for the groups in

charge of a sacred inheritance and considers heritage activities as one of the forms of spiritual renewal and transmission.

Case studies explore various Christian traditions located in Europe, the Americas, and Africa, investigating the longstanding and

tightly-enmeshed connections that weave together religion and cultural heritage. Through comparing ecclesiastical and civil heritage

institutions, this book allows us to consider the ambiguity of religious heritage.

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Digital Mapping of Soil Landscape

Parameters: Geospatial Analyses using

Machine Learning and Geomatics

Author: Pradeep Kumar Garg, et al

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2020

Call Number: 631.49

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Recommended by: Dr.Mukund Kadursrinivas Rao

This book addresses the mapping of soil-landscape parameters in the geospatial domain. It begins by discussing the fundamental

concepts, and then explains how machine learning and geomatics can be applied for more efficient mapping and to improve our

understanding and management of ‘soil’. The judicious utilization of a piece of land is one of the biggest and most important current

challenges, especially in light of the rapid global urbanization, which requires continuous monitoring of resource consumption. The

book provides a clear overview of how machine learning can be used to analyze remote sensing data to monitor the key parameters,

below, at, and above the surface. It not only offers insights into the approaches, but also allows readers to learn about the challenges

and issues associated with the digital mapping of these parameters and to gain a better understanding of the selection of data to

represent soil-landscape relationships as well as the complex and interconnected links between soil-landscape parameters under a

range of soil and climatic conditions. Lastly, the book sheds light on using the network of satellite-based Earth observations to

provide solutions toward smart farming and smart land management.

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The Belt and Road Initiative: Opportunities

and Challenges of a Chinese Economic

Ambition

Author: David De Cremer, Ed

Publisher: Sage

Year: 2020


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In 2013, China’s President Xi Jinping launched what is now known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Since then, the initiative

has instilled apprehension, enthusiasm and uncertainty around the globe in equal measure. The Belt and Road Initiative:

Opportunities and Challenges of a Chinese Economic Ambition strives to reflect upon and synthesize the challenges and

opportunities faced by China and indeed the rest of the world pertaining to the implementation of such an ambitious project. It covers

perspectives from regions both in and around Asia, as well as from Europe, the United States and Africa. In addition to this, the

initiative is discussed through the lens of various disciplines such as geo-politics, marketing, currency, finance, leadership,

negotiation, security and the digital component of the Silk Road. The resulting compilation provides for a thoroughly extensive and

pluralistic examination of the BRI, lending the reader a peek into what the world may anticipate from China and this project in the

years to come.

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Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the

Commons in Delhi

Author: Amita Baviskar

Publisher: Sage

Year: 2020


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As cities become habitat for most of humanity, the question of their ecological capacity to sustain lives worth living becomes ever

more critical. Yet, when we listen to debates about city planning and governance, and observe urban environmental campaigns on the

ground, we notice that they have little to do with ecology or justice. To examine this contradiction, Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and

the Commons in Delhi looks at two decades of environmental politics in Delhi—across homes and workplaces, ordinary streets and

extraordinary spectacles, and the river and the Ridge. It argues that the terms of the discourse—what is an environmental issue, who

is authorised to speak, and which modes of action count as legitimate—are partial, particularistic and perverse. ‘Bourgeois

environmentalists’, who claim to speak in the public interest, for nature and society, have made the city what it is: unfair and

unliveable. Only citizenship and civility will save the commons—air, water, space and trees—upon which cities depend for survival.

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Basic Probability: What Every Math

Student Should Know

Author: Henk Tijms

Publisher: World Scientific

Year: 2019

Call Number: 519.2

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Written by international award-winning probability expert Henk Tijms, Basic Probability: What Every Math Student Should Know

presents the essentials of elementary probability. The book is primarily written for high school and college students learning about

probability for the first time. In a highly accessible way, a modern treatment of the subject is given with emphasis on conditional

probability and Bayesian probability, on striking applications of the Poisson distribution, and on the interface between probability

and computer simulation.

In modern society, it is important to be able to critically evaluate statements of a probabilistic nature presented in the media in order

to make informed judgments. A basic knowledge of probability theory is indispensable to logical thinking and statistical literacy. The

book provides this knowledge and illustrates it with numerous everyday situations.

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Women of Pride: The Devadasi Heritage

Author: Lakshmi Vishwanathan

Publisher: Roli Books

Year: 2008

Call Number: 305.43294509548

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Devadasi, raja dasi or kutcheri desi - devadasis have acquired a variety of definitions and roles over the years. Women of Pride

studies, in depth, the devadasi tradition and its transformation into a living cultural phenomenon in the context of Hindu tradition.

The book brings into focus the activities and identities of the devadasis and examines the functions and forms of the devadasi

tradition. The changing face of the tradition has been authenticated and given a voice by the author by featuring some of the most

prominent devadasis of our times. The book also examines the devadasi reform movement in a political, religious, and social context.

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The Ritual Art of Teyyam and

Bhutaradhane

Author: Sita K Nambiar

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 1996


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Recommended by: Ms. Vijayashree C.S

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River, Body and Legends

Author: Koumudi Patil, Shanthamani M &

Radha Gomaty

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 2012


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RTA RITU: An Exhibition on Cosmic

Order and Cycle of Seasons

Author: Madhu Khanna

Publisher: IGNCA

Year: 1996

Call Number: 069.5

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The Future of the Brain: Essays by the

World's Leading Neuroscientists

Author: Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Year: 2015

Call Number: 612.82

MAR

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An unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute

frontiers of science. Original essays by leading researchers such as Christof Koch, George Church, Olaf Sporns, and May-Britt and

Edvard Moser describe the spectacular technological advances that will enable us to map the more than eighty-five billion neurons in

the brain, as well as the challenges that lie ahead in understanding the anticipated deluge of data and the prospects for building

working simulations of the human brain. A must-read for anyone trying to understand ambitious new research programs such as the

Obama administration’s BRAIN Initiative and the European Union’s Human Brain Project, The Future of the Brain sheds light on the

breathtaking implications of brain science for medicine, psychiatry, and even human consciousness itself.

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Gold Dust of Begum Sultans

Author: Zubaida Sultan

Publisher: IGNCA & Rupa Publications

Year: 2016


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A powerful story set in post-1857 Rohilkhand, Western Uttar Pradesh, Gold Dust of Begum Sultans journeys from the plains to the

mountains—Mohammadpur, Aligarh, Nainital. In this intensely patriarchal setting, the book explores Akbar Ali Khan’s household,

paradoxically dominated by strong Begums across three generations—Qamar Zamani, Jahanara and Shehzadi. The Nawabs and

Sahibzadas watch helplessly as their fortunes dwindle and the strong, tempestuous matriarchs come to the fore.

Even while studying a crumbling feudal binary of the traditional and the modern, this novel captures the cultural ethos of one of the

richest riyasats—a culture in full display in the strong passions and extravagant indulgences of the patriarchs. As their antics come

under the scrutiny of the British, the novel considers the manoeuvrings of the women protagonists. All the while, a new India

struggles to be born.

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