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The National Atlas of Bangladesh is a comprehensive collection of maps prepared to portray the spatial dimensions of the country's historical, politico-administrative, physical, environmental, infrastructural, demographic, economic, social, cultural and regional/local features. The large volume of maps, 425 in number, visually illustrate the impressive records of development in independent Bangladesh. The maps are accompanied by short texts, tables and figures. ...
The book delivers a profound analysis of the 60 monumental slabs which covered the dome of the as yet relatively unknown stupa at Kanaganahalli (Karnataka), one of the greatest discoveries of the Archaeological Survey of India in the 20th century. The study presents a stylistic examination of the reliefs and tentatively determines their original sequence. Using the Prakrit inscriptions on the slabs, as well as textual sources in Sanskrit, Pali, and Chinese, the ...
The rÑiṅ ma pas are the only minority school of Tibetan Buddhism whose iconography differs markedly from the mainstream iconography re-presented by the gSar ma pa or new schools. Scholarly works on rÑiṅ ma iconography are quite rare and have so far never covered the whole of the rÑiṅ ma pantheon. This book has been written as an attempt to fill this gap, trying to supply introductory as well as comprehensive information, meant for people ...
A premium lifestyle food superstore for people who understand and enjoy the finer nuances and aspects of food, Foodhall presents its first cookbook. Curated by one of the finest food and ingredients stores in the country, this book not just takes you around the world to enjoy recipes shared by star chefs – from modern European to Asian, contemporary Indian to Mediterranean, and not-to-be-missed dream desserts, it also brings together the food philosophy of ...
Yoga Guidebook is for the learners of yoga who would like to embark on a personal journey of liberation and transformation. From familiar to lesser-known facts, this guidebook helps the learners to give complete information of Yogic tradition. This book contains series of discussions with various key concepts used in Yoga Sutra by Patanjali which describes the human existence enigma. This guidebook does not only confine to the physical aspects of yoga itself but ...
The question of the Homeland of the Indo-European (IE) or “Aryan” language family is, as riddles in the otherwise prosaic field of historical linguistics go, of unusual importance. It pits essentially two theories against one another. Either ancestral Proto-Indo-European (PIE), mother of most Indian and European languages, was spoken in Northwestern India, some 6000 years ago. This was the dominant view for some forty years after the close kinship ...
Akka Mahadevi is one of the foremost feminist and spiritual icons of Indian history. Her powerful vachanas, written in twelfth-century Karnataka, trace a radical journey. Unlike other women bhaktas, Mahadevi worked within the female body, not around it – eventually walking naked, ‘breast to breast with the cosmos’, and moving beyond all binaries, including male–female, devotee–God. Steered by her own inner experiences, Mahadevi cut ...
The last 90 years have been a glorious period in Himalayan Exploration. As explorers from across the globe have attempted to discover the Himalaya, the Himalayan Club has played a pioneering role in chronicling their expeditions for posterity. The accompanying maps, from the Himalayan Journal, are a historical treasure capturing various facets of exploration over time. Legendary explorations like Shipton and Tilman’s route into Nanda Devi Sanctuary, Maurice ...
Buddhadeva Bose, the noted Bengali littérateur, once observed that the greatest treasure of Bangla literature is its children’s and young adults’ literature. The achievements of stalwarts as various as Rabindranath Thakur, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Sukumar Ray, Manik Bandyopadhyay, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Satyajit Ray and many others in ...
The book is an attempt to explore the basics of Architectural Journalism. This take on Architectural Journalism is a manifestation of the Author's thoughts; it basically revolves around the ideas of arousing public interest and reception towards the novelties of building design while subtly nodding towards the emerging realm of Architectural Journalism with an emphasis on conveying the right ideas to the right people in an order to equip them with a practical and ...
Do We Not Bleed? Reflections of a 21st-Century Pakistani is a passionate, illuminating book about contemporary Pakistan. Comprising original profiles of diverse Pakistanis-some of whom are internationally feted and many others who are relatively unknown-as well as essays that examine the major fault lines in Pakistani society, the book offers the reader an insider’s perspective on the state of affairs in the country today.
The book is divided into five ...
This book consists of twenty three research papers; afford a welcome enlargement of the scope of the religious, social and architectural discourse, which dealt with the some of the important issues like order of hierarchy in the realm of religions, religious patronage and reciprocity, temple-society interface, facets of temple culture and Buddhism and its cultural phase and other issues of the early medieval India.
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The present book reveals the presence of important medicinal plants with their traditional and genomic based importance in Uttarakhand. The medicinal plants are placed in the alphabetical order for ease to the reader. The numerous snaps will make the visual identification much easier. The purpose of the book is to broadly indicate the traditional and genomic information including botanical name, common name, taxonomy, genomic taxonomical ID, habit, habitat, ...
A first-of-its-kind Election Atlas of India depicts a journey of progression of parliamentary elections since independence in the context of changing socio-political and demographic scenario with many electoral parameters and aspects hitherto unavailable at one place. Spread over in over 432 pages in A-3 paper size format book, these parameters and aspects are depicted in the form of impressive graphs, charts and thematic maps based on GIS technology with ...
The Eighth edition of Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP-2018) is published by the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India in fulfillment of the requirements of the Drugs and Cosmetic Act, 1940 and the Rules there under.
IP-2018 has been brought out in 4 Volumes incorporating 220 new monographs (Chemical Monographs (170), Herbal Monographs (15), Blood and Blood related products (10), Vaccines and ...
Jayalalithaa was a superstar in every respect. Jayalalithaa-a Journey is a picture book on her life and times. This book attempts to bring to the reader a whiff of the personality, an understanding of the person she was and the adulation that she garnered. Jayalalithaa was a convent educated polyglot, a beautiful young woman at the height of a successful career as an actor, capable of taking her own political decision. There was, undeniably, more to the woman ...
Chapter 1: Introduction
Foreland Basin, Lower Tertiary successions, Siwalik Group
Chapter 2: Historical review of the vertebrate faunal discoveries
Chapter 3: Classification of the Siwalik Group
Classification proposed By Pilgrim
Classification for the Murree and Siwalik successions in Pakistan
Biostratigraphic Interval-Zones based on Magnetostratigraphy
Classification based on Energy Sequence
Chapter 4: Mammalian faunas of the Siwalik Group
Chapter 5: ...
In An Indian Sense of Salad: Eat Raw, Eat More, Tara Deshpande Tennebaum shows how to use fresh, local, easily available Indian vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, natural sweeteners and cold-pressed oils to prepare a range of raw and partially cooked salads from around the world. Tara deconstructs classic Indian dishes to their raw form, creating salads that make healthy and satisfying meals.
The innovative recipes in the book employ several lesser known ...