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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 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 ...
The aim of the present work is an expository study of the obscure religious cults that inspired Bengali literature in the old and the medieval times. Religion has always been one of the main motives of literature. It has been so in all countries and particularly in India which is pre-eminently a land of religion. As a matter of fact, the history of the modern Indian literatures is so intimately related with the history of some of the most ...
North Indian Music has developed two facets of expressions—Raga or classical music and devotional-cum-light music. Classical songs grew in many ways through innumerable phases at different periods. So also, devotional songs evolved a methodological structure, while its counterpart, light music, especially lyrical songs and modern songs of today, imbibed a new technique. Therefore, forms, intricacies, aesthetic excellences, classical influences and rhythmic ...
Manipur, the land of gems is an unique land of wonderful people. The people of Manipur are known for matchless beauty and matchless skilled. They are known to produce crafts unique in their own way, some are known while some are unknown. The crafts grow with patronage of the Kings and nobles but set backs during Burmese invasion and after independence when patronage was withdrawn. The book covers all types of crafts for which the land is known giving detailed ...