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Monitoring the population plays a key role in helping meet the national level challenges arising out of the rapid rise in India’s population. With the increasing concern of every educated citizen in the country for our rapidly growing population it has become necessary to impart essential knowledge about the population phenomenon to our younger gen­eration. The book has been written utilizing the latest data to the extent it has been possible. This book can cater to the needs of all those who are keenly interested in India’s demographic challenges. A conscious effort has been made to have a clear and comprehensible exposition with minimum of technical materials to help general readers of the subject. The book has also been prepared in a language that is understood by those who have not had an advanced training in mathematical demography. About the Author J.P. Singh an author and lexicographer holds a PhD in Demography from the Australian National University (Canberra). He had an advance training in population and economics at the ISS Hague (the Nether­lands) and attended a Summer Training Programme at the Institute of Population EastWest Center of University of Hawaii (USA). He has worked as a Professor Sociology Additional Director of Population Research Centre (sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India) and Pro ViceChancellor of Patna University (Patna). He has also worked as Director (Higher Education) and DirectorcumChairman Bihar Hindi Granth Academy Government of Bihar. He has published more than 100 research papers and book reviews in professional journals from India and abroad and has published more than 40 books in the field of demography anthropology and sociology

.Nationalism is a widely discussed theme which is a subject of many scholarly debates and discussions both in public and intellectual circles. Essays in National Idealism covers nationalism through the lens of an artist. Coomaraswamy discusses how nationalism could be expressed through the kaleidoscope of arts. The book describes the revival of Indian art which was once degenerated. Some of the interesting themes covered include the idea of struggle the perception of BharatMata the methodology to study of Indian art and the influence of the Greeks on Indian art. Similarly the book touches upon certain issues such as the concept of education Swadeshi ideology Christian missionary activities understanding Indian music and the interrelationship between music and education in India. About the Author Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (22 August 1877–9 September 1947) is a Ceylonbased metaphysician historian theorist and philosopher of Indian art. He brought the Indian tradition of art into the western world. He was also seen as the bridgemaker between western and Indian art and philosophy as he was much inspired by Hindu and GrecoRoman traditions. His works were influenced by the Traditionalist and Perennial Schools of Philosophy. He authored several books which were based on the traditional arts metaphysics and social criticism. He was also the curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

The monograph Introduction to Indian Art presents a preliminary glimpse into the world of Indian art during premodern times. This volume presents how 'art in India' and 'art in the western world' are different entities. This book explains how art in the Indian context has been passed over to different generations and describes how the issues concerning mediocracy and peculiarity of artists changes in art form owing to theological understanding were espressed. Divided into 18 chapters Coomaraswamy covers the history of India from the time of the Indus Valley Civilization. This book touches upon the arts based on different religions and kingdoms that ruled over the Indian subcontinent in ancient and medieval India. These include Aryan Dravidian Vedic preMauryan Mauryan Buddhist postMauryan Puranic Hinduism Kushanas Andhra Gupta Jaina Rajputana Indonesian and other medieval era influences from both northern and southern parts of India. This volume will be of great interest to the scholars researchers and professors in Indian art aesthetics and history as it is a prelude to the scholarly writing made in the Indian art tradition. About the Author Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (22 August 18779 September 1947) is a Ceylonbased metaphysician historian theorist and philosopher of Indian art. He brought the Indian tradition of art into the western world. He was also seen as the bridgemaker between western and Indian art and philosophy as he was much inspired by Hindu and GrecoRoman traditions. His works were influenced by the Traditionalist and Perennial Schools of Philosophy. He authored several books which were based on the traditional arts metaphysics and social criticism. He was also the curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

The Sentinel Islanders also called the Sentinelese are one of the five Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. They live in the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman group of Islands situated in the Bay of Bengal. They are perhaps the only truly isolated huntergatherer tribal community in the world today. Of the five PVTGs the Sentinel Islanders are usually described as the ‘most uncon­tacted’ and ‘most reclusive’ people on earth. Till today this group has maintained their independent existence repelling all attempts to directly engage with and contact them. They remained steadfast in opposition to all the efforts of the colonial and postcolonial administration to contain them with the might of their bows and arrows. Incredibly they also managed to survive the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami which had a devastating effect on the people of the lsland groups. Curiosity about their lifestyles has endured all these years in all sections of society since 1771 when an East India Company vessel sailing past their island spotted the presence of lights there. It was however in NovemberDecember 2018 that the Sentinelese received international attention when an American national went missing after having ventured to encroach upon their land. It was alleged that a Sentinelese killed him after warning him twice to leave the island. This has further reinforced the image of ferocity of a people who do not want any interference from the outside world in their subsistence patterns and long to remain as the ‘masters of their island’. In this book an attempt has been made to understand their way of life from an anthropological perspective in the light of available historical and anthropological evidences. About the Author Mundayat Sasikumar obtained his master’s and doctorate degrees in Anthropology from the University of Calicut. He has conducted extensive research work in the tribal areas of Kerala Tamil Nadu Meghalaya and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. He was the former Director of the Kerala Institute for Research Training and Development Studies of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (KIRTADS) Kozhikode and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) Kolkata. Presently he is serving as the Joint Director in the Anthropological Survey of India. Recently he authored Matriliny among the Khasis: A Study in Retrospect and Prospect (2019).

The Dance of Shiva by Coomaraswamy explores the metaphysical part of India. It explains India’s contribution to the entire humanity. This book addresses the Indian ethos in a more detailed manner since Indian philosophy is often misinterpreted by the Westerners. Topics associated with fine arts philosophy and music are covered in this book these include the Hindu and Buddhist perception of art from the aesthetical and historical points of view. Popular sculptures such as Nataraja another incarnation of Shiva represented as the God of dance and multiplearmed images in Indian art are studied extensively. There is also a section on Indian music which is also studied in great detail. Besides this volume also covers the issue of the status of Indian women Sahaja philosophy the intellectual community Indian youth and individualism. About the Author Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (22 August 1877–9 September 1947) is a Ceylonbased metaphysician historian theorist and philosopher of Indian art. He brought the Indian tradition of art into the western world. He was also seen as the bridgemaker between western and Indian art and philosophy as he was much inspired by Hindu and GrecoRoman traditions. His works were influenced by the Traditionalist and Perennial Schools of Philosophy. He authored several books which were based on the traditional arts metaphysics and social criticism. He was also the curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Hunting and gathering constitute the oldest human mode of subsistence and the only one for which there is an uninterrupted record from the human origins to the present. Today there are a handful of huntergatherers who subsist exclusively through the hunting of wild animals fishing and gathering of wild plants. The Jarawa of the Andaman Islands are one among them. Within the spectrum of foraging societies the Jarawa be­long to the category of ‘immediate return’ foragers as they tend to consume most of the food resources immediately. The present study provides a detailed account of the foraging and adaptive strategies of the Jarawa. The interaction of the Jarawa with the outside world is one of multifaceted inequality which places them in an extremely weak position against the outsiders. The huntinggathering societies appear extremely vulnerable in the event of a direct or indirect threat from various forces particu­larly encroachment of their territories by ‘others’ invasion of modern­ization etc. as an aftermath of contact with the outsiders. The current work discusses the impact of contact on the resource base health population habits and material culture of the Jarawa in the posthostility phase (post1997 period). The present work on the Jarawa will be of immense help to research­ers studying human adaptation in the remote past. Furthermore it will also help administrators and policymakers in designing meticulous policies for the protection and development of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups of India. About the Author Umesh Kumar is presently working as Senior Ecologist in the Anthropo­logical Survey of India Kolkata. He has worked across different areas of human ecology and completed a number of projects encompassing both tribal and nontribal populations important among them are the study of tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands impact assessment of the tsunami at Little Andaman Island and biosphere reserves of India. He has also published more than 24 papers and edited a book. Currently he is engaged in the study of denotified seminomadic and nomadic communities of India.

The Dance of Shiva by Coomaraswamy explores the metaphysical part of India. It explains India’s contribution to the entire humanity. This book addresses the Indian ethos in a more detailed manner since Indian philosophy is often misinterpreted by the Westerners. Topics associated with fine arts philosophy and music are covered in this book these include the Hindu and Buddhist perception of art from the aesthetical and historical points of view. Popular sculptures such as Nataraja another incarnation of Shiva represented as the God of dance and multiplearmed images in Indian art are studied extensively. There is also a section on Indian music which is also studied in great detail. Besides this volume also covers the issue of the status of Indian women Sahaja philosophy the intellectual community Indian youth and individualism. About the Author Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (22 August 1877–9 September 1947) is a Ceylonbased metaphysician historian theorist and philosopher of Indian art. He brought the Indian tradition of art into the western world. He was also seen as the bridgemaker between western and Indian art and philosophy as he was much inspired by Hindu and GrecoRoman traditions. His works were influenced by the Traditionalist and Perennial Schools of Philosophy. He authored several books which were based on the traditional arts metaphysics and social criticism. He was also the curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Through an ethnographic study conducted between 2013 and 2016 this book explores the politics of competing and sometimes overlapping masculinities represented by the state armed forces and the nonstate actors in the Kashmir valley. In addition the book broadens the under­standing of women’s agency through its engagement with the construc­tion performance and interplay of masculinities in the conflict. Combining existing elements of both feminist research and critical scholarship on men and masculinities the book highlights the significance of foregrounding the interplay of men’s identities in conflicts to understand agency in a meaningful way. Through the focus on the simultaneous play of multiple masculinities the book also questions the oversimplified and monolithic usage of masculinity being associated only with violence in conflicts. The empirical data in the book includes interviews and narratives of multiple stakeholders belonging to diverse vantage points in the Kashmir conflict. Some of these include activists widows wives of the disappeared exmilitants surrendered militants participants of the stonepelting movement mothers of sons killed in the conflict women representatives of the village Halqa Panchayats and army personnel. The book also draws from alternative material in the form of graffiti folk songs poetry on graves and slogans. Through anecdotal reminisc­ence the author reflects on the challenges of field research in Kashmir that served as an opportunity for selfcontemplation. About the Author Amya Agarwal is a senior researcher at the ArnoldBergstraesserInstitut at the University of Freiburg and teaching fellow at University College Freiburg Germany.

In 1959 the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa leaving the People’s Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and in doing so brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky burials Guomindang spies working with Tibetans in Nepal traders carrying salt across the Himalayas and Tibetan Muslims rioting in Lhasa. What Chinese policymakers confronted in Tibet Khan argues was not a ‘third world’ but a ‘fourth world’ problem: Beijing was dealing with peoples whose ways were defined by statelessness. As it sought to tighten control over the restive borderlands Mao’s China moved from a lighter hand to a harder heavier imperial structure. That change triggered longlasting shifts in Chinese foreign policy. Moving from capital cities to farflung mountain villages from top diplomats to nomads crossing disputed boundaries in search of pasture this book shows Cold War China as it has never been seen before and reveals the deep influence of the Tibetan crisis on the political fabric of presentday China. About the Author Sulmaan Wasif Khan is assistant professor of international history and Chinese foreign relations at the Fletcher School Tufts University.

The issue of time and infinity or eternity has been studied across every civilization since antiquity and nearly by all religions. This volume by Coomaraswamy covers the concepts of time and eternity from Hindu Buddhist Islamic Christian and modernday spiritual movements. It covers passages collected from the Vedas Upanishads and other Hindu sacred scriptures Buddhist sangha literature Sufi kalams Biblical literatures and the commentaries and treatises written by the Christian ascetics monks and theologians. Coomaraswamy in his book adopts a comparative approach in describing all these traditions. About the Author Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (22 August 1877–9 September 1947) is a Ceylonbased metaphysician historian theorist and philosopher of Indian art. He brought the Indian tradition of art into the western world. He was also seen as the bridgemaker between western and Indian art and phil­osophy as he was much inspired by Hindu and GrecoRoman trad­itions. His works were influenced by the Traditionalist and Perennial Schools of Philosophy. He authored several books which were based on the traditional arts metaphysics and social criticism. He was also the curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.