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This book covers a wide range of topics, including planning of good building, site investigation and bearing capacity of soil, brick and stock masonry, Damp Prevention, Brick Masony, partition and cavity walls, Anti Termite Treatment, Building bye Laws, building Services, and Earthquake Proof Constructions, etc.
This book traces the origins and evolution of Indian political thinking from ancient times to the present, with relevant extracts from original texts. The volume displays the author’s catholicity of mind as well as his wide ranging interest and concerns about the Indian state and society.
The book is based on Sanskrit texts from Vedic Age to the age of Vatsyayana. This long period of history covers the study of Epic Age (Mahabharata), Smritis, Puranas, Jatakas, and also Chandragupta and Ashoka. At the beginning of 20 century when the socio-political consciousness were slowly emerging, dealing with such a subject required a tremendous moral courage.
Main objective of this book is to interpret India’s social and religious life in the 19 century Indian (Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs) to the English public. It also throws light upon the habits and mental peculiarities of the Indian people. Hinduism, with its enormous and varied following, its heterogeneous structure and its fascinating remoteness from European feeling and sentiment, afforded the largest choice of subjects and ...
This book is about the life and times of Swami Krishnanand, a God-realised saint of contemporary India. The book presents in simple language the eternal values of Indian culture, philosophy and spirituality through the medium of Swamiji’s life and teachings. Cotact with a living saint is a truly exhilarating experience. Swamiji observed total silence but was able to touch the lives of many through his spirituality, simplicity and love. This is an insightful ...
This volume published under the auspices of the Centre of French studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, comprises a collection of critical essays on Rabindranath Tagore and brings out the interaction of different social ethos of different cultural communities which initiate a process of creative assimilation of cultural values and norms as reflected in foreign language and literature based on a dialectical relationship between the consciousness of the ...