Rajendra Prasad
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The question of the partition of India into Muslim and Hindu zones assumed importance after the All-India Muslim League passed a resolution in its favour in March 1940 in Lahore. Most of India Divided was written in prison and it was published in 1946, a year before India was partitioned. It specifically examines the theory that the Hindus and Muslims of India were two nations, and concludes that the solution for the Hindu–Muslim issue should be sought in ...
Sustainability of agricultural systems is a major global concern due to population growth and a number of environmental factors. This book addresses the key to the development of sustainable agriculture-management of soil fertility. Combining data from temperate and tropical regions, it presents a complete picture of how various soils can best be managed under widely different environmental conditions. Soil Fertility Management for Sustainable Agriculture is an ...
The seventy-five papers, running into two volumes, address all the major issues concerning the quality management of aerospace systems. Covering the whole gamut of philosophy, science, engineering, technology, art and management, they discuss at length the important aspects of quality system, technologies for quality, development life cycle, process design and control, test and evaluation, and reliability engineering.
To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Indian Republic, the Words of Freedom series showcases the landmark speeches and writings of fourteen visionary leaders whose thought animated the Indian struggle for Independence and whose revolutionary ideas and actions forged the Republic of India as we know it today.
The phenomenal dawn and ongoing developments of the 21 century bear the testimony that, following the reverberations of ending cold war and bipolarism, India has been faced with a number of marked shifts, adjustments, readjustments and adaptations in her security perspectives and imperatives. Meanwhile, induced by the necessity to strike a reasonable balance between the traditional and relatively newer conceptions of national security in a fragile world, India ...
In this rigorous study, Rajendra Prasad examines the system of inference developed by Dharmakirti, the celebrated seventh-century Buddhist logician. In a departure from the existing body of research on Dharmakirti, which is largely historical in nature, Prasad concentrates on an analysis of Dharmakirti's philosophy, specifically his theory of inference. Prasad uses the tools of contemporary philosophical analysis to highlight the relevance of a classical ...
This book provides a bold, original and ciritical analysis of some basic concepts of Indian ethics, lifting them up from their regional roots to a general philosophical level, along with illuminatingly creative analysis of some practical issues of moral living. Professor Prasad shows, on logical grounds that a varnadharma cannot be both natural and obligatory, the prescription of acting desirelessly makes any desireless action justified, acting desirelessly ...
Judicious and efficient crop nutrition is possible only when functions in plants of different nutrients, their amounts and forms present in soil and reactions that they undergo in soils are well understood and the management practices are fine tuned to the crop plant needs. In most Indian and even foreign universities the knowledge on these three aspects is provided by three different departments, namely, plant physiology, soil science and agronomy and a large ...
The volumes of the Project on History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim to discover the central aspects of India's heritage and present them in an interrelated manner. In spite of their unitary look, these volumes recognize the difference between the areas of material civilization and those of ideational culture. The project is not being executed by a single group of thinkers, methodologically uniform or ideologically identical in ...