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This study, basically a monograph on Ksatriya clans in Buddhist India prepared by Bimala Charan Law, has already proved to be promising on the basis of his authentic work as a research scholar. The study is divided into two parts. The first -one deals with the Licchavis and the second is devoted to the Videhas, the Mallas, the Sakyas and other minor clans. As is well known, there is no systematic account available is no systematic account available in early Pall ...
About 500 years ago, Guru Nanak founded Sikh Religion, which laid emphasis on the philosophy of social responsibility, universal brotherhood, peace and equality. During that period, there was great turmoil, strife and bloodshed in India due to unjust and tyrannical rule. Guru Nanak was greatly touched by the human sentiments of the masses. In Guru Granth Sahib, the' Mulmantra' described as the gist of theology, lays stress on the oneness of Godhead and thereby ...
Medicinal plants a systematic account of the most important plants used in medicine. Most species have the misfortune to receive more then one name, a result of different views held either as to the limits of genera or of species, as well as of ignorance of the existence of a previous name. The description of the plant, which follows has been given in somewhat full detail, and in strictly scientific but not very technical language, presupposing some knowledge of ...
The Indian Vastusastra or the canons of Indian Architecture is a field of study in which very few scholars have worked in the last few years in India. The Indfian Vastusastra includes 'Brihat Samhita' Samarangaon Sutradhara' and the 'Isana-SivaGurudeva Paddhati'. We know from the South Indian inscription that Isana-Siva-Gurudeva was the preceptor of King Rajendra Choladeva of the Chola dynasty who has helped us a lot to form a chronology of the history of the ...
The Cucurbitaceae are among the most important plant families that supply man with edible products and useful fibres. The cultivate species of this family are not nearly as significant in man's economy as the cereals or the legumes, but in the tropics, subtropics, and milder portions of the temperate zones of both hemispheres, they are crops of more than ordinary importance. For the people of these areas, the cultivated Cucurbitaceae have a place in their ...
Many new methods have been devised to aid farmers in fertilizing their crops more effectively, by a large group of agricultural scientists working in the diagnostic field. This book is to bring together in one volume a comprehensive discussion of both the underlying theory and the practical application of the various techniques. To attain that objective, the services of a group of distinguished scientists were enlisted to prepare the various chapters. These ...
This hand book, although mainly written by Dr. F.X. Williams, is based upon the work of a number of years of members of the entomological students and might justly be termed the common knowledge of the scholars. This introduction is of a similar nature. A great deal has already been placed on record in a very scattered manner difficult for the individual to get at conveniently, and quite likely to be lost with the changing of the staff unless brought together in ...
"Allan Octavian Hume was an administrator with a deep insight and understanding of the problems of rural India. He was a friend of Indian Peasantry, the champion of the aspirations of the Indian people for self-government and the foremost advocated of India's unity and nationhood." Allan Octavian Hume (June 6, 1829 -July 31, 1912) was a Scottish Civil Servant, political reformer and the founder of the Indian National Congress. He was described by Dr. ...