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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 is the joint product of the indefatigable labours of love of the two talented authors in their search for obscure and forgotten material for the history of India’s Freedom Movement. It will be an indispensable source book for the history of Modern India. For this contribution to history and learning the Mukherjees are entitled to proper recognition from the scholars and patriots of the country….. It is a pleasure to find such a rare example ...
An off-colour question, very often, ripples through the sensitive reader and the humble writer feels lost in a barrage of lofty questions: why this book? Why has he taken in the conservative radicals of Bengal? The response is not long in coming. Despite diffusion of a lot of literature on social and political thinking of India most masterminds of Bengal have been looked down upon by academics on both sides of the globe, more often with a sense of rejection than ...
The official study of Perso-Arabic epigraphy of the erstwhile Indian Sub-Continent commenced with the early years of this century, precisely from after being so published from 1907 A.D. onwards. Besides, publication of these records, in situ on mosques, mausoleums and other religious or secular edifices, was taken up by academic bodies in some parts of the land on their own initiative. Yet, except for their decipherment and translations, and in very many cases, ...
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 ...