Pragati Publication
29 books
The First book ever to Combine the Socio-historical-cultural study of the three Jewish communities of India, i.e the Bene Israel,the cochini an the Baghdadi, The three Judaizing Movements that emerged in India during the last Seventy Years.
This book is a collection of 28 articles from eminent scholars spread in various parts of the world who have done some serious work on the history of the Deccan during the medieval and modern periods. Professor A.R. Kulkarni to whom this work is dedicated as a felicitation volume has done commendable service to the world of scholars interested in the study of medieval and modern Deccan. Various aspects of the history of the Deccan such as society, polity, ...
Dr. Rammanohar Lohia and his ideas have been very influential during the post-independence era, especially for those who have tried to find a non-Marxist alternative to Gandhism in India. Whenever there has been a talk of forming and running a non-Congress government at the Centre, Lohia and his writings have become relevant. In the two most populous states of the country—UP and Bihar—Lohia and his ideas have exercised a great deal of influence and have been ...
This collection of essays was compiled to offer the readers an insight into the present state of Indian history studies in Russia. The contributors represent the national school of Indian studies which has worked out certain traditions, views and methods that may be close or similar to the approaches of the Indian or Western scholars and at the same time be somewhat different from them. The book is divided into three thematic parts. Part I discusses various ...
The volume encapsulates the results of ongoing research on different aspects of the archaeology of the Indian Ocean: archaeobotany; ethno-archaeology; maritime ethnography and numismatics. These issues have been discussed within the wider context of movements of communities across the Indian Ocean both fishing and sailing communities, as also travellers and traders. A range of textual sources, including those in Greek and Arabic have been analysed, together with ...
Original documents are of prime importance for understanding history; particularly of the trade union movement right from its incipient stages, when the British created a labour force long before it even thought of industrializing India. ICHR realizing the importance of providing scattered documents for scholars, set about to publish 22 volumes in the series Labour Movement in India – Documents with A.R. Desai as the General Editor. This volume is a part of 6 ...
The book is a perceptive study of Gandhi's concern with religion, based on Gandhi's abundant writing and remarkable practice of yamas and niyamas. It provides insightful material not only on humility which Gandhi valued so highly, and which has rarely received analytic attention, but also on the truth-ahimsa relation which is frequently talked about, but seldom critically appraised. Lucidly written, the book is enriched by phenomenological analyses of Gandhi's ...
In all probability, this is the first ever critical study of faith, grace and prayer in Sikh religious thought from the viewpoint of present-day philosophy. Dr. Satnam Kaur all along avails of the two major approaches in philosophy today, namely, those of phenomenology and linguistic analysis. Thus, care has been taken to unravel the fabric of the (Sikh gurus') living experience of faith, grace and prayer--with minimal damage to its intricate singleness; and, at ...
Original documents are of prime importance for understanding history, particularly of the trade union movement right from its incipient stages, when the British created a labour force long before it even thought of industrializing India. ICHR realising the importance of providing scattered documents for scholars, set about to publish 22 volumes in the series labour movement in India - documents with A.R. Desai as the general editor. This volume is a part of 3 ...
Original documents are of prime importance for understanding history, particularly of the trade union movement right from its incipient stages, when the British created a labour force long before it even thought of industrializing India. ICHR realising the importance of providing scattered documents for scholars, set about to publish 22 volumes in the series labour movement in India - Documents with A.R. Desai as the general editor. This volume is a part of 2 ...
Written by a group of distinguished scholars and illustrated with eighty-four colour photographs this collection of essays pertains to different aspects of ethno-archaeology with definite focus on crucial issues, such as the relevance of ethnohistoric accounts and the role of analogy as an explanatory tool in understanding the material culture and world view of past societies. It also discusses various problems that continue to plague this particular research ...
This book consists of nineteen articles by Mr. V.K.R. Menon written between 1928 and 1943. They include scholarly pieces as well as brief introductions, notes, reviews and comments on a variety of themes such as old Malayam, art, architecture, music they and paintings, epigraphically transcripts, granthavi-s and Ayurvedic treatment against snake poison. The principal merit of the articles is their thematic relationship to medieval and early modern history an ...
This book presents an in-depth study of Mughal relations with the rulers of Jodhpurs, major state of Rajasthan during the first half of the eighteenth century. Based on the eighteenth-century Persian and Rajasthani sources, the study focuses on the workings of the Mughal alliance with the Jodhpur Chiefs: the imperial power’s efforts to conciliate and incorporate the Rathor Chiefs of marwar in order to make them reliable, committed and zealous participants in ...
Original documents are of prime importance for understanding history, particularly of the trade union movement right from its incipient stages, when the British created a labour force long before it even thought of industrializing India. Realizing the important of providing scattered documents for scholars, the ICHR published in 24 volumes in the series on Labour Movements in India –Documents with A.R. Desai as the General Editor. This volume is a part of 2 ...
Explorations in the Deccan History is a collection of research articles of Professor A.R. Kulkarni presented in various seminars and conferences. It emphasizes the relevance of History of the Deccan in the relevance of History of the deccan in modern times by bringing out the socio-economic and cultural aspects of the four major components of the Deccan, viz., Maharashtra, Goa Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. It deals with, for instance, the role of the Marathas in ...
Original documents are of prime importance for understanding history, particularly of the trade union movement right from its incipient stages, when the British created a labour force long before it even thought of industrializing India. Realizing the important of providing scattered documents for scholars, the ICHR published in 24 volumes in the series on Labour Movements in India –Documents with A.R. Desai as the General Editor. This volume is a part of 2 ...
Merchants and Companies in Bengal: Kasimbazar and Jugdia in the Eighteenth Century offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of the South Asian merchants as well as the organizations of the textile trade in Bengal in the first half of the eighteenth century. Heavily archived from French and English sources, this book tells the story of the silk merchants at Kasimbazar and the cotton traders at Jugdia prior to EEIC's takeover of Bengal. The fragility and ...