Reliance Publishing House
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Chittorgarh remains replete with historic associations and holds a very special place in the hearts of Rajputs, as it was a bastion of the clan at a time when every other stronghold had succumbed to invasion. It is often called as the "Bhakti aur Shakti ki nagari" (land of devotion and strength). The first, Meera Bai, is the most famous female Hindu spiritual poet, whose compositions are still popular throughout North India. The saga of Rani Padmini and ...
Maj Gen M Z Kiani was officer in 1st Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment under Britishers. He won Sword of Honour and Gold Medal for the most outstanding Cadet in 1935 from Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. But he left all to join I.N.A under Netaji. He was Chief of General Staff under General Mohan Singh of I.N.A. He chose to move over in Pakistan after Partition in 1947 and wrote this book from there. This was published after his death through Maj. Gen. Chand ...
This book tries to bring to public domain an analysis of the role of Planning commission when continuation of same is under stake and preparation of fasten the same has already been under process. At the time when government is talking about cooperative federalism and state participation, this book helps students to understand development strategy adopted by India and the methodology followed to implement the same. It is pertinent to study same before adopting ...
This book attempts to examine the important issues concerning human rights of the adopted girl child in India. Providing insight into the socio-economic status of adoptive couples, it presents a critical assessment of the procedure of adoption and the role of adoption agencies in completing the socio-legal formalities of adoption.
Exploring the psychological, social and legal factors related to the adoption of girl child in India, it tries to find out the ...
The book deals with the growth of theory and methods in archaeology and the reconstruction of neolithic life ways. It is an outcome of intensive field work in different eco-systems - coastal, inland and hill tracts of Visakhapatnam region on the East Coast of India.The survey for neolithic cultural evidence and analysis of the data is carried using advanced scientific techniques. Aerial photographs, earth resistivity survey, plane table survey, stereo binocular ...
The very term spiritualism evokes a sense of unity that can be visualised in sustaining the very existence of human beings on the planet earth. Man is, by no means an ideal creature. He needs to be defined and redefined. Spiritualism helps to understand that the only knowledge that is of any value is to know that all worldly knowledge and activity is deceptive. The compilation concentrates on giving a fairly comprehensive overview of technical terms of Sanskrit ...
The study analyses the portrayal of women by African-American women writers from a universalist perspective. They study shows that the complex nature of an African-American woman’s experience is highlighted satisfactorily through a universalist approach. A comparative analysis is made of the portrayal of women by two contemporary African-American women writers, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. The parallels and contrasts in their individual ...
This volume, Jaintia Hills: A Meghalaya Tribe—its Environment, Land and People is an important study of a tribal population in transition. They are on international border with Bangladesh. A trans-border culture is a two way traffic. Jaintia Hills, a part of the state of Meghalaya, have immense possibility of development. It has growing trans-border trade relations with neighbouring Bangladesh in respect of rich mineral resources, particularly of coal and lime ...
Fall of Mevar or Mevar Patan is probably the greatest of all Dwijendra Lal Roy’s dramas. The theme is historical and takes us back to the beginning of the 17 century, to the reign of Jehangir, son of the renowned Emperor Akbar. The action centres round the small independent Hindu state of Mevar in the province of Rajputana. This province was divided up into a number of lesser states, ruled over by as many independent, chivalrous and war-like chiefs who were ...
First of its kind, this encyclopaedia will be very informative for the legislators, executives, bureaucrats, journalists, scholars, historians and information scientists besides the students appearing in the competitive examinations and the laypersons who seek information about the Union Ministers of Independent India. Each entry provides selective information such as their exact name, father’s name, date and place of birth, education, levels of ministership ...
America, with its nuclear arsenal capable of destroying the world several times over, could not defend itself against the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, that paralyzed the nation. The erstwhile Soviet Union, another superpower with equal quantity of nuclear weapons, could not survive the crisis that splintered it into several countries. India, instead of becoming more powerful by declaring itself a nuclear weapon state after the 1998 tests, has been ...
The tactical, strategic and ultimate objectives of the terrorist groups are achieved either by conventional or unconventional form of terrorism or violence. Terrorists or terrorist-outfits have now started shifting from conventional to mass destruction violence or unconventional form of terrorism, which includes the use of chemical, nuclear or/and biological weapons, the most heinous type of werfare. The perpetrators of violence seem to have assumed that ...
It is not often that one comes across an international mystery thriller at the highest level of world leaders, a sort of super-who-dunnit in this case featuring, President Soekarno of Indonesia Prime Minister Nehru of India and Chou-en Lai of Communist China in the dastardly act of mass murder. The incident is the act of sabotage that caused the crash of the chartered Air-India International Super-Constellation, the Kashmir Princes, carrying a party of Communist ...
Gandhian phase of national movement offered to the people a number of constructive programmes and political movements. The success of these programmes and movements depended on politicization and mobilization of the masses. In communicating and propagating the political ideas of the nationalist leaders to the masses the nationalist intelligentsia of Andhra played an effective and remarkable role. They were influenced by the Gandhian ideology and political ...