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Many of us go about in the world like rudderless ships, drifting with the tides of time, not able to steer our ship in right direction, not Knowing even the destination, not knowing even the destination. The goal that Gurus and saints set for man is very difficult, but not impossible to achieve. They call upon man-an image of imperfection-to improve so as become God-like. Isn’t it a tall order, considering the lowly nature that man often dispays? ‘ ...
This book explores new horizons of diaspora formulation as Tibetan diaspora has opened new perspectives for a diaspora to articulate identity and politicize the issue at the international level. It has underlined the rubrics of consolidation and mobilization of a diaspora in hostland. The art of diasporism becomes most evident and sharp if a diaspora is situated in the motherland of religion. In this context, the formation of government-in-exile by Tibetan ...
Meaningful participation of people in absence of democracy is not possible. In India Panchayati Raj Institutions have been revitalized to this end. The 73ed amendment of the Constitution has been proclaimed to be an effective instrument in this regard. How far the constitutional status granted Panchayati Raj Institution of various provisions regarding reservation of seats for different classes of society, have been effective and successful in ensuring effective ...
The book is a collection of author's well-researched and well-documented articles published in the leading journals and newspapers. It covers a wide range of subjects on Sikh religion and history. The object of the book is two-fold, first, to project a correct image of Sikhism and its ideals and institutions, and, second, to rebut distortions and misrepresentations of Sikh ideology and tradition. Sikhism occupies a unique place among the higher religions of the ...
The main aim of any source book is to offer available source materials on any particular subject at one place. The present endeavour in bringing out the inaccessible rare papers and other selected writings by the earliest western writers on the Sikh religion, in the form of this volume is inspired by the same concern. The source book promises to fill the long awaited gap of information for the interested scholars and general readers for further studies in the ...
This book enquires into the existence of relationship between religion and work in Iran. This study was conducted in one of the ancient cities of Iran which is very famous for carpet weaving. For the study the author did field work for four months in the year 1999 in the city of Kashan and nearby villages to interview and abserve the craft production. As a matter of fact, it comes to the conclusion that there is a constructive relationship between carpet ...
It is generally viewed that a country like Bangladesh which is weak, poor and heavily dependent upon the assistance of the international institutions and major powers of the world can not have any thing significant in its foreign policy which can be studied. The reality is contrary to the common perception. Foreign Policy of all the Least Developed Countries including Bangladesh is more important for their policy makers than any domestic policy. Policy ...
In this work, based on the original sources, various facets of the British paramountcy in operation in the Princely States have been examined and analysed with special reference to the Kapurthala State. It has been sought to be established that during the period 1858-1947 there was an ever-increasing intervention of the Imperial Government in the internal affairs of the States which was conspicuously evident in the matters of succession, coinage, opium trade, ...
The nature of country’s nationalism is in the main the outcome of interaction between a country’s history and tradition and the demands of social change and modernization. But in the long run, it becomes important as to which of the two variables of tradition and modernity influence more, in what degree and to what extent. For example, in modern India, socialism and secularism characterize our nation building efforts. But ...
Documents, apart from other forms of evidence, are the major basis for the construction of historical account of any specific space and time. Fortunately for the scholars of modern Indian history there is abundance of written evidence. But the access to all source material remains a difficult hurdle due to a number of circumstances. The political sensitivity remains a major check on the retrieving of documents. Udham Singh’s case was one such example. The ...
The treatises entered herein, which delve into the deeper aspects of Man's esoteric experiences are indeed brand new and may appear at first glance to be even revolutionary in nature. Never in the history of Religious evolution have such insights been revealed to the World's people. For perhaps the first time, actual spiritual progress can be scientifically measured, for as one advances along this path, the degree of spiritual growth can finally be calibrated ...
The monograph presents ample sources on the life and times of Guru Hargobind. As paucity of material usually leads to the embarrassment of historians and writers, resultantly very little work has been done on the subject. The present research having been based on the acknowledged conventional sources, portrays the Sixth Guru in Sikh tradition notwithstanding thorough historical scrutiny. It meticulously reveals how Guru Hargobind revolutionalised the minds of his ...
The greatest achievement of my life was the day I met Sri Sri Ma Anandamayee. My devotion and feelings for her cannot be expressed in worlds. It is only through her grace and blessings. That I got the strength and determination to write some of the divine Lila’s of Sri Ma. Being a student of medicine I am not able to express my thoughts very well. Sri Ma’s Lila mentioned in this book are either have been heard directly from the eyewitnesses or been taken ...
Arbind Kumar Singjh’s investigation into the workings of the National Adult Education Programme (NAEP) is a timely warning that the best intentioned ideas run the risk of being distorted by the bureaucracy which is expected to support them. The problem of illiteracy in India and its close interrelationship with poverty is perhaps the greatest problem the country faces today. A Micro Analysis of Adult Education in India takes Bhagalpur District as a ...
Research Methods in Social Sciences is a very necessary addition to the bookshelves of all serious scholars of the social science disciplines as well as those intending to study or make a mark in research in social science subjects. The intention of the writer of this useful volume is to put beginners in the field on the right track from the very start. Simultaneously, this volume will prove an invaluable reference book for confirming experienced researchers’ ...
Indian Army in East Africa contains all the elements of a good military study, including strategy, troop morale, topography and leadership. The manner in which the German General Vorbeck’s vastly outnumbered force was able to remain unconquered throughout the War applying a variant form of gureilla warfare surrendering only when Germany capitulated in Europe, reveals the personality of an outstanding leader. Pradhan’s thorough investigation of the role of ...
“The Congress Century†is a collection of papers highlighting various facets of the eventful century-long existence of the Indian National congress. It may be somewhat amusing, given the rhetorics of Congress leaders today against the reactionary orientations of civil services and the role of foreign hands in destabilizing India, that the Indian National Congress should have started as an organization with more than the usual concern with expanding Indian ...
Despite its profound socio-economic significance not much work has been done on gender gap in geography in India. Most of the geographical writings on gender issues in the country are based on secondary data. The present study employs primary data and thus, is of special importance of this regard. It focuses on varied inequalities between males and females in different spatial units of the study area. The data were collected from five sample settlements in Solan ...
The problems of the aged have attracted serious attention of sociologists and social psychologists in the recent years. In the west a number of scientific studies have been published in this area but there is a dearth of such studies in India. Randhawa’s exposition of the life, problems and possibilities of the aged in both rural and urban areas is well documented, tabulated and researched. The interaction of the aged with each other, with the younger ...
This volume a collection of selected published and unpublished research papers and articles of the author would be of interest to persons involved with education in different capacities such as students, teachers, administrators and researchers at all levels of education school and college as it covers a wide area of the educational scenario and provides both theoretical and practical orientation to the problems and issues discussed. Dealing with such a varied ...