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This book offers a comprehensive new interpretation of the complex and seemingly contradictory nature of Indian democracy and polity. It explains the postcolonial Indian polity by presenting an alternative historical narrative of the British Empire in India and India's struggle for independence.

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The Guru Granth Sahib is an important study that looks at the genesis, development and contemporary status of the Adhi Granth as a Sikh scripture, offering a new perspective on the processes of canon formation, and those by which meaning and authority are vested in the Adi Granth.

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This volume examines whether there were South Asian concepts of race, or, as has often been argued, race became an issue in the subcontinent only under Western influence after the eighteenth century.

Divided into two sections, the thirteen essays included in this volume address diverse issues pertaining to modern India. The first section examines a few strands among the many that are woen in the texture of India's plural existence: language, translation, films, migration, nostalgia for a lost home, literary debates that cut across regions, while most essays in the second section go back in time to inquire the questions of religion, politic...

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Naalukettu: The House Around the Courtyard is the story of a young boy, Appunni, set in a matrilineal Nair joint family (a taravad) in the author's native village, Kudallur. Fascinated with accounts of the prestigious Naalukettu taravad from which his mother was expelled, Appunni visits the house only to be despised and rejected by all. Appunni grows up to earn enough money and returns to buy his ancestral home, but his victory soon turns into...

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This is the autobiography of the late Sálim Ali, one of the world's greatest ornithologists and co-author of the definitive Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. With wit and elegance, he observes his own life and the changing world around him. His close associations with many eminent people - including Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, Sidney Dillon Ripley, and E.P. Gee - feature prominently in this immensely readable book.

This imaginative approach to the work of the Urdu poet Ghalib (1797-1869) presents highly original renderings, made by seven well-known American poets, of Ghalib's ghazals.

This book is a collection of translations from original Chinese and Uigur sources on Hsuan-Tsang's life after his return to China from India. The editor has provided a commentary that historically contextualizes the documents examined, as well as a biographical sketch of the traveller.

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Nietzsche famously attacked traditional morality, and propounded a controversial ethics of "life-enhancement." Simon May presents a radically new view of Nietzsche's thought, which is shown to be both revolutionary and conservative, and to have much to offer us today after the demise of old values and the "death of God.

This book advocates the integration of western technological and managerial skills with a holistic cultural ethos and system of values. From an overall perspective of the vedantic ethical vision and its application to management and corporate morality, the book examines what the vedantic ethical system can teach us about individual motivation, the character of true leadership and the transformation of the work ethic.

The essays in this volume deal with various aspects of inequality with special reference to contemporary India but has been viewed in a comparative perspective. They deal with different forms and dimensions of inequality and with alternative conceptions of equality.

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