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Rising India in the Changing Asia-Pacific: Strategies and Challenges, is an attempt to understand and examine changing geopolitical realities of the Asia-Pacific in the twenty-first century and emerging contours of India's responses to the new-emerging challenges as an emerging great power. This edited volume throws light on two decades of India's Look East policy, its efforts towards connectivity, regional cooperation and its overall foreign policy thrusts ...
This edition of Yoga-Darsana comprisies of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali with the commentary of Vyasa. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are foundational text of Yoga. Though brief, the Yoga Sutras are an enormously influential work on yoga philosophy and practice. In recent decades the Yoga Sutra has become quite popular worldwide for the precepts regarding practice of Raja Yoga and its philosophical basis. The most authoritative commentary is that of Vyasa.
India and Southeast Asia are connected to each other geopolitically, strategically and culturally. It is easy to trace out linkages between the two, but issues of constraints and complementarities need to be understood in proper perspective. The author’s book Southeast Asia and India: A Political Perspective (1987) had tried to evaluate perspective of Southeast Asia and India towards each other. The present volume may be considered a broader extension of ...
Ganganatha Jha's Multi-volume Manusmrti, originally published by the University of Calcutta between 1920 and 1939, is, as indicated by its subtitle "The Laws of Manu with the Bhasya of Medhatithi", mainly an edition and translation of the Mula text together with the 'explanation' of the most celebrated commentator. Medhatithi's Manubhasya has been characterized by one of the leading scholars on Dharmasastra, J. Duncan M. Derrett, as a ...
This is the modest attempt towards understanding the intricacies of Indonesian society and politics. Indonesia is witnessing transition from authoritarianism to democracy. Political culture is changing and multi-party system have emerged. Democratic institutions are evolving. The government policies are rapidly evolved to cope with growing economic and security challenges. However, the threat of instability looms large because of ethnic and socio-economic ...
Ethnic Politics in Southeast Asia and Quest for Identity, is a case study of five important minority ethnic groups in the region, i.e. Timorese, Patani, Rohingyas, Moro and Hoas and it is an attempt towards objective understanding of ethnic disputes. Thus this study has analysed ethnic policies of Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and the Philippines and their interaction with minority communities. Most of the publications on this issue have been written by ...
This study is an appraisal and analysis of the contemporary problems and diplomacy of South-East Asia and India and their impact on intra-regional politics and cooperation. It traces the factors responsible for the failure of the policy of “containmenr†of communism in Indo-China. It analyses the consequences that may follow from the conclusion of military alliances. It traces the significance of the non-aligned movement in south-East Asia and its ...
The book Khandanakhandakhadya composed by Shri Harsha-who wrote probably before the eight century-is the most famous and important treatise of the Vedanta. As its name implies, destructive criticism, of the most thorough going kind. The thesis upon which the entire work is based is that nothing can be explained-neither any factor or worldly phenomena nor the ultra-phenomenal consciousness or Brahman. All is inexplicable anirvachniyam; no adequate explanation ...
The book Khandanakhandakhadya composed by Shri Harsha-who wrote probably before the eight century-is the most famous and important treatise of the Vedanta. As its name implies, destructive criticism, of the most thorough going kind. The thesis upon which the entire work is based is that nothing can be explained-neither any factor or worldly phenomena nor the ultra-phenomenal consciousness or Brahman. All is inexplicable anirvachniyam; no adequate explanation ...
The Kavyalankara of Vamana is the basic text of the school of Riti, in Indian Poetics. It is in this book that 'Style' received full treatment. As the title suggests the text is written in sutra style. It is one of the very important texts on Indian Poetics from the point of view of literary theory and Indian literary criticism. This text left remarkable impact on later writers on Sanskrit Poetics.
The present book contains following lectures delivered by Ganganath Jha. The lectures are The Method adopted by Gautama; Pramana and Bhranti; Doubt; Remembrance; Cause; The Four Kinds of Rights Congnition; and Perception.
Yogasarasamgraha is an original work of Vijanabhiksu. It is the form of collected theories of Yogasutras or Yoga treatise. When deities and demons had churned the ocean they used Sumeru mountain as the churning rod in the process. From that churning, nectar came out and lord Visnu kept it in a jar. Likewise, Vijnanbhiksu has accepted Yoga as an ocean and the commentary Yogavarttika as the churning rod. He kept the originating of nectar (subject-matter), which ...