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Contents: Preface. 1. Sri Aurobindo's art, style and technique in eric/Amar Nath Prasad. 2. Sri Aurobindo's perseus the deliverer in the light of Rasavada/Ratri Roy. 3. The mysticism of Tagore's Gitanjaji/Adwait Chaitanya. 4. Spiritual conflict in R.K. Narayan's major novels: a comparative study/Smita Mujumdar. 5. Raja Rao's and R.K. Narayan's Malgudi: a comparative study/Jaya Srivastava. 6. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's heat and dust a postmodernist analysis/Gajendra ...
Events that chased human life from time to time had been a source of learning for all. Those events also helped us to face sorrows and delights with equal vigor and serenity. We often forget that life resolves around sorrow and delight. It is wise to accept them both with equal commitment. Because both of them are needed to improve the quality of life. Both of them play a major role in maintaining the equilibrium of life.
Biographies are not simply narrations of ...
This short text includes various anthelmintics and antimycotics. Chemistry and pharmacology of each of these have been described in an elegant manner. The uses of these in veterinary science have also been summarised. This short text is useful for chemistry, pharmacology, medicinal and veterinary students.
K.V. Dominic's monograph on the short stories of Rabindranath Tagore throws new light on various characters--men, women and children--with reference to Tagore's psychological realism, which is well-brought out through the mode of pathos. The book is noteworthy for its lucid exposition of the nuances of creative expression unique to Tagore. It is a welcome addition to the rich storehouse of criticism on Tagore.
In the North-East of India there are seven states called seven sisters namely, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura. To the north of Assam lies the Union Territory of Arunachal Pradesh, the land of the Rising Sun. Modern history of Arunachal Pradesh, begins with the inception of British rule in Assam after the treaty of Yandaboo concluded on 24 February 1826. Assam was known as Pragijotisha or the place of eastern astronomy ...
During the last decade, the various universities have revised the syllabi in mathematics. The present text entitled "Differential Calculus" has been written in such a way that it covers the latest syllabi. In this text, all theorems and axioms have been explained by a large number of solved examples. This text will prove to be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics.
This text will prove definitive and ideal reference tool to research scholars, academicians and educationists.
Shashi Deshpande : A Critical Elucidation is a modest attempt to the various aspects of the literary world of Shashi Deshpande. It is a collection of scholarly research papers contributed by various English teachers and scholars from the different parts of India. It features articles concerning all the chief fictions and short stories of Shashi Deshpande. Her novels discussed in this book are Root and Shadows, That Long Silence, The Dark Holds No Terrors, The ...
The Medicinal Plants of the World" is the outcome of the persistent demand made by Tradesmen, Vaidyas, Hakims, Research Scholars and teachers. This book has been written due to our long association with the subject and the medicinal plants extending over a long time and according to the new researches in all Indian Universities and other countries of the world. The book gives a ready reference source in the alphabetic sequence the generic names of the plants ...
This title is a historical analysis of origin and development of Buddhist sects and sectarianism in the history of the succession of schools, it is found that the first schism in the sangha was followed by a series of schisms leading to the formation of different sub-sects, and in the course of time eleven such sub-sects arose out of the Theravada while seven issued from the Mahasasnghikas. All these branches of Buddhist sects appeared one after another in close ...
Anthropology emerged in India as a colonial heritage mainly to understand the manners and customs of the so called 'other cultures'. Thus, pre-independent Indian anthropology to some extent was synonymous to tribal ethnography. In the fifties, Indian anthropology extended its horizon by incorporating studies in the realm of village, urban and complex societies that obviously incorporated non-tribal communities at one hand and Indian civilisation, sacred ...
Though contemporaries—born in 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1906 respectively—Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao and Bhabani Bhattacharya are conspicuously different from one another, and every one of them is a class by himself. They immediately bring to our mind the four great English novelists of the eighteenth century—i.e., Richardson, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne. Like their illustrious British predecessors, they can appropriately be called ‘the four ...
The volume includes discussions on the American tradition of poetry as reflected in and enriched by the poetry of Robert Frost; then moving through Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Sylvia Plath and Philip Roth and finally focuses on Ernest Hemingway. Seven highly perceptive studies by eminent scholars on different aspects of Hemingway offer substantial meat as much for Hemingway scholars as for anybody interested in this great Nobel Laureate of keen active ...
Teaching of home science has acquired new dimension. The knowledge of childcare, the importance of balanced food and home keeping are now engaging the attention of educationists all the world over. Home science thus has acquired an important place in the school curriculum. This book covers all the areas of home science and is expected to meet the requirements of students teachers and the curriculum framers.