Arts, Literature and Humanities

Caste and religion are not just practices. They are two main pillars of Indian society which determine the social structure, status, hierarchy and ...

Contemporary Indian Philosophy attempts a systematic and critical evaluation of the philosophy of contemporary Indian thinkers. It is a vast subjec...

The present book is an attempt to explore and examine the nature and status of consciousness in the intellectual traditions of the East and the Wes...

God did not make the man in His own image; it is the man who cast God in his image. Anthropomorphism is the new mantra. Since the Divine has been c...

It is a partially autobiographical novel about an upper-class Anglo-American family in former British India. The story of the novel moves round the...

Child Labour in a Third World Urban Situation is based on author’s decade-long fieldwork in Kolkata and contains ethnographic details on the child ...

These volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include transaltions of all the most important works of the seven non-christian religions.

Bridging Souls—A Journey from Mahabharata to Bharata is a thought-provoking and scholarly book that juxtaposes the events of Mahabharata with the s...

महात्मा बुद्ध विश्व की एक ऐसी विभूति थे, जिन्होंने दुःख, नैराश्य एवं मुत्युबोध में डूबी हताश मानवता को मुक्ति का पथ दिखाया। उन्होंने मानव मात्र की ...

Behaviour emanates from relationships and relationships are sustained from behaviour. Both are mutually inclusive. There are innumerable types of h...

भारतीय समाज, संस्थायें एवं संस्कृति पर यह पुस्तक समस्त भारतीय विश्वविद्यालयों में समाज शास्त्रा विषय में Indian Society, Indian Society and Social...

भारत में सिनेमा ने ‘धर्मिकता’ से लेकर ‘नग्नता’ तक एक लम्बी दूरी तय की है। भारतीय सिनेमा की यह यात्रा सामाजिक सुधरों-सरोकारों, स्वाध्ीनता संग्राम वे...

यह पुस्तक मध्य प्रदेश, उत्तर प्रदेश एवं राजस्थान के समस्त विश्वविद्यालयों में बी॰ए॰ (समाजशास्त्र) विषय पर भारत में सामाजिक परिवर्तन, सामाजिक परिवर्...

भारत की लगभग पचास प्रतिशत आबादी महिलाओं की है। पचास करोड़ महिलाओं में लगभग 13 करोड़ महिलाएँ 'श्रमिक की भूमिका' में देश के आर्थिक विकास की प्रक्रिया म...

Seeks to bring into bold relief the distinctive objectives of the Concept of Bhakti in Vaisnavism. Sri Chaitanya’s bhakti movement brought about a ...

"The author is a staunch theist firmly persuaded of the existence of a Supreme Being as good as He is powerful, Who has formed all things...the aut...

यह पुस्तक जैसा कि इसके नाम से ही स्पष्ट है, भारतीय विश्वविद्यालयों में समाजशास्त्र विषय में औद्योगिक समाजशास्त्र की पाठ्य पुस्तक के रूप में लिखी गई...

Considered by some as Science while by others a mere blind faith, Astrology is a complex subject that needs to be studied in proper perspective. In...

यह पुस्तक समस्त भारतीय विश्वविद्यालयों में बी॰ ए॰ तथा एम॰ ए॰ समाजशास्त्रा विषय में अपराध्शास्त्रा, दण्डशास्त्रा, सामाजिक विघटन, भारत में सामाजिक वै...

This is a comprehensive textbook on Anthropology. It covers the following papers taught to M.A. (Sociology) and M.A. (Anthropology) at Indian Unive...

The book provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the subject. The author is a well-known authority in the field of Psychology.

The work maintains just the convenient middle course between the simple narrative of the Mahabharata story and the researches into its truth. The a...

प्रस्तुत पुस्तक अम्बेडकर की अन्तर्वेदना अत्यन्त सारगर्भित एवं कुतूहलपूर्ण है। डॉ. अम्बेडकर ने न केवल अस्पृश्य समाज के उद्धार के लिए अथक प्रयत्न किए...

Child abuse is a global phenomenon. In societies like the Western where there are deviant approaches to child rearing, this has been a problem for ...

प्रस्तुत पुस्तक में पच्चीस लेख या निबन्ध संगृहीत हैं, जिनमें आधुनिक युग वेफ प्रमुख साहित्यकारों एवं उनकी महत्त्वपूर्ण कृतियों पर निजी दृष्टिकोण से ...

हिन्दी साहित्य के विकास में आचार्य हजारी प्रसाद द्विवेदी का महघ्घ्वपूर्ण योगदान है। उन्होंने हिन्दी गद्य की विभिन्न विद्याओंघ्घ्समीक्षा, साहित्येति...

The socio-economic and working conditions of the tea plantation labours in India requires immediate attention. The employment in the tea plantation...

The values are the principles of behavioural conduct, that help in distinguishing between right and wrong, or good and bad. They guide the human be...

Designed for students of the social sciences, public administration, social administration and social work, this dictionary will also be useful to ...

Philosophers of all persuasions claim that it is only phenomenology that can show us the way out of the philosophical cul de sac and can lead us to...

There have been some major transformations in Indian society over the past twenty to thirty years. With this change have come enormous opportunitie...

Global pandemics, smart technologies, demographics and climate change are just some of the external disruptors that may impact the home’s evolution...

Designed Landscapes is a case-by-case study of 37 significant, existing works of landscape design worldwide, largely constructed since the Renaissa...

Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow explores how cutting-edge archaeological theories have implications not only for how we study the past but also ...

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these respond under extraneous circums...

Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So...

This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people as represented in literature. It e...

Vyankatesh Madgulkar (1927–2001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as ‘rural’ (grameen) fiction in Marathi in ...

This book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later 1600s and 1700s up to the Haitian...

This book explores the cognitive constraints and principles of variation in structures of linguistic meaning across languages. It unifies cognitive...

This book studies the significance and representation of the 'city' in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists, and dramatists.

This book discusses the role and significance of symbols and symbolism in graphical communication toward the establishment of meaningful architectu...

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics of its day. It sets the stage f...

This book explores Tagore’s socio-political ideas through his novels, short stories, and essays. It looks at Tagore beyond his literary achievement...

This book looks at Rabindranath Tagore’s, experiments and journey as an educator and the influence of humanistic worldviews, nationalism and cosmop...

This volume addresses cultural and literary narratives of trauma in South Asian literature. Presenting a novel cross-cultural perspective on trauma...

The advent of print heralded a significant chapter in the history of colonial modernity in South Asia that led to the emergence of new literary cul...