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The author had adopted an unusual method to explicate the various aspects of Philosophy of Science in Tantric perspective. It is an adroit attempt in analyzing this novel theme. Emphasis is laid on integrative approach towards acquiring and enhancing knowledge. With aid of Telic principles (Teleology), it is shown that domain of holistic meta-science of Tantra Agamas encompasses the various branches of philosophy of science.
The present work contains the results of prolonged research in the light of the Puranic and Tantric texts, archaeology and anthropological data. The objective of the work is to make an in-depth study of various manifestations of the female divinities in Eastern India, especially in Bengal. An interesting light has been thrown on the cult of Mother-Goddess, the concept which covers different names and forms of the female divinities having bearing upon the ...
This book explicates the relationship between man, mosquito and the colonial state, all three of which were enmeshed in an interlocking relationship and together constituted the stuff of the tragic saga of malarial fever in Bengal. The primary objective is to capture the interface between an epidemic and its social setting. Though basically concerned with the Bengal situation, this study is an extended exercise in mapping out cross-regional epidemic linkages. ...
The People and Culture of Bengal : A Study in Origins is no doubt a highly ambitious project entailing multi-disciplinary treatment of geographical, archaeological, historical, ethnological, sociological, anthropological and related issues. The subject matter itself is a complex and vast one. This is an ethno-historical study of the Bengali people and their culture. No comprehensive attempt has been made before this to trace the ethno-historical origins of the ...
The Santal Insurrection of 1855-57 is an important episode in the annals of Bengal and Bihar during the mid-nineteenth century, which forms, in many ways, a transitional period in the history of India as a whole. Certain important original records had been discovered by author and utilised for a detailed and critical study of the subject in this thesis. He had often quoted extracts from the unpublished records, with a view to bringing these to light as far as ...
The Birjia—a lesser know primitive tribe of Chotanagpur plateau of Bihar are nurtured in the cradle of nature, environment is one of the important factors which influences the needs, customs, behaviour and mental make up of people, that is, the culture of people. This becomes more determining in case of the tribals who live amidst forests and for whom environment has a direct bearing on their occupation and consequently economy. The present volume highlights ...
Which was the first freedom struggle of India, if the Sepoy Mutiny failed to meet the historians' criteria? Dr. B. Kling wrote a most valuable book on the Indigo Disturbances in Eastern India : The Blue Mutiny. It had stirred the popular imagination and threw up lores and literature! British Crown could find a foil in the East India Co. till 1858 when it had to assume direct control of the Indian Empire and its affairs. In this period of historic transition one ...
The philosophical school of yoga formulated by Patanjali and supplemented with exhaustive interpretation by Vyasa has its dual aspects both theoretical and philosophical. That accounts for its special distinguished status in the whole range of Brahmanical schools of philosophy. The aphorism of Patanjali starts with the definition of yoga which is no other than restraint of the function of mind. Through the text we get elaborate analysis of mind, citta and its ...
It was decided by the Government of India in 1885 to make a comprehensive field survey for precise information about the way of life, manners and customs, rituals, marriage practices etc. of the tribes, castes, sub-castes of the country for better administration and ethnographic research. Civilian Risley was charged with Eastern India or the then ‘Bengal’. Six Years of intensive study and survey conducted by Mr. H.H. Risley, I.C.S. went before the publication ...
The first edition of this work was published in two separate volumes in 1923, 1925. Almost simultaneously in 1923 appeared the second edition of the Sahitya-darpana by Mahamahopadyaya Dr. P.V. Kane, to which was prefixed an introduction of 177 pages dealing with the history of Alamkara literature, subsequently elaborated in the third edition (1951) into 423 pages. Referring to these facts Dr. Kane writes: "Both of us were thus practically ...
The study recounts, as this title indicates, the story of migration between India and Nepal from the early Buddhists Age till the late 20 Century. If in the early Buddhist period Buddhist monks and Jain priests moved to the Himalayan Kingdom as a safe refuge with these books and manuscripts to escape the Muslim atrocities, the 20 century movement of other classes of the people of Indian origin was in the wake of the invitation of the Rana government of the ...