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Tourism is a socio-economic phenomenon comprising of activities and experiences of tourists and visitors away from their home environment, serviced by the travel and tourism industry and host destinations. Tourism serves to identify the visitors as a person who satisfies their needs during the travel and stay outside their residence by consuming tourism goods.
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) also called Narendranath Datta was a Hindu philosopher, born and died in Calcutta. He attempted to combine Indian spirituality with Western materialism, and became the main force behind the Vedanta movement in the West.
This book has very vividly, comprehensively and yet very concisely dealt with the life and thoughts of Swami Vivekananda. His commendation of the citizens of Japan while his visit to that place and his exhortation to ...
In India, corruption has been a slow burning. However, in 2010, it flared up with the revelation of a spate of scams and scandals across the country. Today, Anna Hazare is the face of India's fight against corruption. He has taken that fight to the corridors of power and challenged the government at the highest level. People, the common man and well-known pesonalities alike, are supporting him in the hundreds swelling to the thousands.However, it can safely ...
This volume, through dealing with the administrative units of the Mughal Empire, is a critical study of the entire Mughal land revenue apparatus. The papers presented in this volume give a comprehensive picture of the administrative jurisdiction, duties of the officials and the details of the working of the land revenue administration based on an in-depth study of the original Persian, English, Urdu and other sources found in different libraries and archives in ...
Ever since the Indian independence it has been normally understood that the Indian States and Estates which numbered nearly six hundred on 15th August 1947 were the symbols of incompetence, oppression and vices. The States had a very peculiar status in the political theory which grew up in India in the nineteenth century. They did not form part of the British Indian Empire nor were they sovereign powers. The States were neither feudatories of the Government of ...
It is nearly a century and a half since H.H. Wilson wrote A Glossary of Judicial and Revenue Terms of South India. During this period a lot of research has been done on the revenue and allied topics of South Indian history resulting in new interpretations of many important terms. Moreover, ever since the present author started doing research on South Indian history more than three decades ago. It has been his desire to compile a comprehensive and handy Glossary ...
Mughal history is a field that has fascinated scholars and students of history for at least four hundred years. In particular, the study of the agrarian set up has attracted many a scholar. This is not just another book on Mughal history providing anecdotes or description about the land revenue/agrarian system of the Mughal age. Rather, it is a critical analysis of the topics contained in this volume based on an in-depth study of original Persian and Urdu ...
Based on original Punjabi, Persian, Marathi and English sources related to Punjab and parts of South India, this book presents a collection of some of the articles on the crucial phase of the history of Punjab and the Khalsa presented by the author in various seminars.
In these articles the author has made a critical appraisal of : (i) the activities of Sikh Sardars/misls during the 18th century, and an assessment of the motivations of the contemporary and ...
An intensive study of the local histories not only throws light on many an hitherto unknown or little known facts but also enables us to reconstruct history as a whole, believed Professor Grover. This second volume in the series, The Collected Works of Professor B R Grover, is a collection of articles on 18th-19th century Punjab History-another forte of his expertise. He believed that “the identity, concepts, personality and territorial jurisdiction of the ...
Based on the study of contemporary and near contemporary original documents, this book is a revised version of the lectures delivered under the auspicies of the prestigious Dr. Kalaignar Thiru M. Karunanidh Endowment Lectures, Madras University in April, 1995. This is a study of an important pre-nineteenth century political and landed institution, the palegars, and the critical analysis of nature of the two phases of their struggle on south India, especially the ...