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New Delhi: Satguru, 2008. New. As New. Contents Acknowledgements. Note on languages. Introduction. 1. Jomos of Kinnaur. 2. Gurus and disciples. 3. Song in Kinnauri Buddhism Githang and Mgurma. 4. Kinnauri Nun's self presentation in song and life story. 5. Conclusions. Appendices i. List of Jomos Lamas and scholars. ii. Chos Nyid Zangmo interview. iii. Githang. iv. Mgurma. v. Death of Negi Rinpoche told by Bogti and Tenzin Dolma. Bibliography. Index. Jomos are nuns celibate women devoted to the practic... more information

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New Delhi: New Age Books, 2004. New. As New. Contents Introduction. 1. Puzzles. 2. Vision quest introduction. 3. You cannot discover new lands until you are willing to lose sight of the shore. 4. Someplace else. 5. Cruising. 6. Morning thoughts. 7. Twelve noon at my computer. 8. Topics for discussion. 9. Vision quest dialogues the little toad. 10. To ponder. 11. My role models my heroes my idols. 12. Shakespeare to be or not to be. That is the question. I say to be and not to be. That is the quest. 13. Ac... more information

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New Delhi: Kaveri Books, 2009. New. As New. Contents Preface. Introduction. List of illustrations. 1. Condition of persons and lands. 2. Privileges and rights (Feudal and Municipal). 3. Private life in the castles the towns and the rural districts. 4. Food and cookery. 5. Hunting. 6. Games and pastimes. 7. Commerce. 8. Guilds and trade corporations. 9. Taxes money and finance. 10. Law and the administration of justice. 11. Secret tribunals. 12. Punishments. 13. Jews. 14. Gipsies tramps beggars and Cours d... more information

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Bhandarkar Oriental Res Inst. As New. Contents: Articles: 1. What Indian philosophy Owes Hegel?/Fernando Tola and Carmen Dragonetti. 2. Word separation and India/Stephan Hillyer Levitt. 3. Kiratarjuniya VIII (-B)/J.A.F. Roodbergen. 4. The biography of Caitya/Shruti Pradhan. 5. Mandukya or Catuspadatma-Siddhi/N. Jayashanmugam. 6. Metamorphosis of Saivism in Rajasthan, C. AD. 600-1000 : the cult, sects and monastic order/Shanta Rani Sharma. 7. The Mahabharata 12. 224-30 : a text-critical note/Ramkrishna Bha... more information

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Pune: Bhandarkar Oriental Res Inst, 2004. New. As New. Contents Articles 1. A glance at the word Varna in the Vedic literature/Uma Chakravarty. 2. On astronomical references in Vyasa Dhrtarastra Samvada in the Bhismaparvan of Mahabharata/B.N. Narahari Achar. 3. Indian origins of chess an overview/C. Pandurang Bhatta. 4. A discussion about the rare quotes from Candesvara Thakkura's Rajanitiratnakara/Swagata Pandit. 5. Kiratarjuniya IX ( A)/J.A.F. Roodbergen. 6. Characterizing classical anustup a study ... more information

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Oxford University Press. As New. Contents: Cities and monuments of eighteenth-century India from French archives: 1. Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer (CAOM), Archives de France, Aix-en-Provence. 2. Album Gentil, Dipartement des Estampes et de la Photographie, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. 3. Reflections. 4. Conclusion.5. Depot des Fortifications des Colonies (DFC), Centre des Archives d' Outre-Mer Archives de France, Aix-en-Provence. 6. Departement des Estampes et de la Photograph... more information

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Oxford University Press. As New. Contents: Foreword/Sardar Parkash Singh Badal, Chief Minister, Punjab. From the director's desk/Inderjit Singh Sandhu. Preface. Chronology of Punjab history. Chronology of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. 1. History of Punjab. History of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. 2. The court of Lahore. 3. The army of the Punjab. Phase I : tradition and early modernization, 1799-1822. 4. The army of the Punjab. Phase II : the modernization drive, 1822-1839. 5. Religion and education.... more information

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India: Manohar. New. Contents: Introduction. 1. India and the age of enlightenment, 1612-1849. 2. India and the orient in Fabri de Peiresc: 'Memoire pour les Indes' (1630). 3. The quest for Indian manuscripts by the French in the eighteenth century. 4. Company paintings or Firinghee paintings? French contribution to an eighteenth century school of painting in India. 5. Some aspects of the relations between Tipu Sultan and France, 1761-1799: Tipu Sultan's Embassy to Versailles in 17... more information

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Kolkata: Shishu Sahitya Samsad, 2004. New. As New. Contents Apologia. Roots of foreign words. Hints for using the dictionary. Indian context. Encyclopaedic dictionary of earth sciences i. supplement. ii. Appendix A. iii. Appendix B. A beginner in any discipline of earth sciences faces problems that are not solved by conventional text books. These include heap of terms that hardly make sense with even an excellent knowledge of the language the impossibility of testing any inference in most of the fields as... more information

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Oxford University Press. As New. Contents: Introduction. 1. India's fiscal deficits and their sustainability in perspective/Ashok K. Lahiri and R. Kannan. 2. Taxing services: strategy and challenges/M. Govinda Rao. 3. Fiscal discipline at the state level: perverse incentives and paths to reform/Mukesh Anand Amaresh Bagchi and Tapas K. Sen. 4. Growth accelerating fiscal devolution to the third tier/Indira Rajaraman. 5. Quality of government expenditure: a review/E.A.S. Sarma. 6. Government subsidies in... more information

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Permanent Black. As New. Contents: Introduction. I. Indus cities and the Aryans: Historical conquerors, mythical marauders or Vedic Harappans?: A. First formulations: Chanda vs. Chanda: 1. The Indus Valley in the Vedic period/Ramaprasad Chanda. 2. The Aryans: a study of Indo-European origins/V. Gordon Childe. 3. Survival of the prehistoric civilization of the Indus Valley/Ramaprasad Chanda. B. The debate continues: 4. Harappa 1946: the defences and cemetery R37/R.E.M. Wheeler. 5. The... more information

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Delhi: Permanent Black, 2005. New. As New. Contents Preface and acknowledgements. 1. A ruined city in Punjab and its first explorers. 2. From seals to a specialist. 3. John Marshall's early years in India. 4. Harappa makes a fleeting reappearance. 5. Among cities and Stupas. 6. An Italian in India. 7. From Calcutta to Kalibangan. 8. Excavating Harappa under a shadow. 9. Talent and trouble in Calcutta. 10. Maverick at Mohenjodaro. 11. Stringing scattered ideas. 12. Announcing the discovery. 13. An asto... more information

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India: Ess Ess. New. Contents: Preface. I. Is Librarianship a Profession? A Literature Survey: 1. Profession. 2. Definition. 3. Elements. 4. Attributes. 5. Status. 6. Organizational commitment and professional. 7. Essentials. 8. Role of library. 9. Community organization. 10. Intellectual exchange. 11. Library profession. 12. History. 13. Women components in librarianship. 14. Professionalism in librarianship. 15. Professional competency. 16. Stages in LIS profession. 17. Censure. 18. Low... more information

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Aryan. As New. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/Sharmistha Lahiri. 2. Art, exile and the case of James Joyce : a note/Lalita Subbu. 3. Albert Camus : Kingdom of exile-a biblical paradigm in exile and the Kingdom/Dominique Sarfaty- Varma. 4. The exile in the plays of Samuel Beckett/Hema V. Raghavan. 5. The land of the dead in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh and some reflections based on Indian response to the theme of exile/V. Rajakrishnan.6. Milan Kundera and 'Forgetting&... more information

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New Delhi: Aryan, 2007. New. As New. Contents Preface. 1. Introduction/Shaswati Mazumdar Claudia Wenner and Sharmistha Lahiri. 2. Colonial romanticism and the challenges of modernity/Namwar Singh. 3. Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi romantics rebels or reactionaries/Tapan Basu. 4. Romanticism and the roots of Brazilian nationalism/Dilip Loundo. 5. Alexander Pushkin a revolutionary romantic or a prudent realist/Abhai Maurya. 6. The poetry of Giacomo Leopardi between romanticism and modern... more information

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New Delhi: Response Books, 2007. New. As New. Contents Foreword/Richard E. Boyatzis. Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Indian leaders challenges in execution. 2. Research methods. 3. Introduction to the Indian CEO Model. 4. A case study of competencies in action. I. Cluster of competencies 5. Socially responsible business excellence. 6. Energizing the team. 7. Managing the environment. 8. Inner strength. II. What makes a CEO successful. 9. In a turnaround situation. 10. In improving a business. 11. In launchi... more information

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New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2005. New. As New. Contents Introduction/Somdatta Mandal and Himadri Lahiri. I. Theoretical Paradigms 1. Eat Me America some aspects of Indian writing in America/Mohan Ramanan. 2. Political realities and the colors of imagination/Jasbir Jain. 3. Traveling with walls the South Asian intellectual in the United States/Manju Jaidka. 4. The text as narrative reading ideology/Sukalpa Bhattacharjee. 5. Crossing borders in search of Aesthetics/Himadri Lahiri. II. Chinese American Voices... more information

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New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. New. As New. Contents Preface. Introduction. 1. Artefacts and antiquities in Bengal some perspectives within an emerging non official archaeological sphere/Sanjukta Datta. 2. On the surface things appear to be perspectives on the archaeology of the Delhi Ridge/Mudit Trivedi. 3. Human plant interactions in the middle Gangetic plains an archaeobotanical perspective (from the Mesolithic up to c. Third century BC)/Shibani Bose. 4. Landscapes of life and death consider... more information

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Sundeep Agarwala. As New. Contents: Vol. I: Introduction. Preface. Foreword. 1. Vishad-Yoga or depression of spirits. 2. Sankhya-Yoga or reasoning of spirits. 3. Karma- Yoga or action. 4. Gyan-Yoga or knowledge. 5. Karma-Sanyas Yoga or action and renunciation. 6. Dhyan or Abhyas Yoga or meditation or practice of Yoga. Index. Vol. II: 1. Knowledge of spiritual science. 2. Unity or Yoga with the spiritual sound (Brahm). 3. The majestic confidential knowledge. 4. The yoga of magnificence. 5. The... more information

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New Delhi: Sarup, 2006. New. As New. Contents I. It and PRIs. 1. E Panchayat role of IT in empowering PRIs/Rajesh K. Jha. 2. IT intervention in local governance/D.K. Ghosh. 3. Raj governance to Swaraj governance/Mahipal. 4. Panchayati Raj Rhetoric and reality/R.M. Varma. II. Empowerment of PRIs. 5. Panchayats story of promises and pitfalls/Rajesh K. Jha. 6. Second generation amends to Panchayati Raj/K. Siva Subrahmanyam. 7. Reforms in Panchayati Raj mending the amendments/K. Siva Subrahmanyam. 8. More pow... more information

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