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Tibet and Nepal

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A.H. Savage Landor recounts his travel experiences across Tibet and Nepal. The book opens with the author stating why he chose to embark on such an expedition and how he went about recruiting his team. The work is dotted with incidents and challenges that Landor had encountered and thus this travelogue makes for an interesting and amusing read as he has been quite candid in his expressions and descriptions. Also he makes no effort to hide his own inadequacies fears and worries. In addition to narrating his journey he has also described the local population their physical features and mentality culinary habits customs games the villages flora and fauna lamas and monasteries and even dogs. We read of altitude sickness avalanches hostilities and hindrances that he faced from the political entities and administration as well as the local populace. Landor’s style is easy engaging and casual and his work at times borders between a travelogue and a novel as it also contains dialogues. This book is well-illustrated with numerous paintings and sketches all done by the author himself of portraits of ordinary Nepalese men and women lamas and beautiful landscapes of glaciers the author’s camp Tibetan temples Tibetan goats Tibetan dogs Nui Glacier etc. About the Author Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1865-1924) an English explorer was a painter and anthropologist and authored several books on his journeys.

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Air Defence Gunners at War: India-Pakistan War 1971

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The India-Pakistan War of 1971 was the third round between the two South Asian neighbours but this war was different in many ways from the earlier conflicts. It was not a long drawn slugfest as the three services operated together in perfect sync in what was a lightning campaign that ended with a clear victory for India and the liberation of Bangladesh. It was a victory made possible by the contributions of all arms and services. As the war started on 3 December with the pre-emptive strikes by the Pakistani Air Force Air Defence Gunners were the first to fire. Throughout the fourteen day campaign the Air Defence Artillery played a vital role from ensuring the defence of strategic assets to defending the field formations from enemy air attacks. While many books have been written about the war all of them have overlooked the role of Air Defence Artillery relegating its contributions to the margins. For the first time this book narrates the story of Air Defence Artillery in the 1971 war as it looks at the performance of Air Defence Artillery and highlights both its achievements and failings. This is the story of the unsung heroes of the Indian and Pakistani Air Defence Artillery who performed valiantly during the war fighting against all odds. The narrative is woven together making use of official records and personal recollections as it tells the captivating story of the Air Defence Artillery in the biggest military conflict fought between India and Paki-stan to date. About the Author Col Mandeep Singh a veteran Air Defence Gunner is a prolific writer and has authored five books on Air Defence Artillery including the history of Air Defence Artillery during World War II and the India-Pakistan War of 1965. His other works include the Anti-Aircraft Artillery in Combat 1950-1972; Air Defence Artillery in Combat 1972 to Present and History of Indian Air Defence Artillery 1940-1945.

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The Opening of Tibet : An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent there by the English Government in the Year 1903-4

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Percival Landon was the special correspondent of the Times of London who accompanied the military expedition of Col. Younghusband in 1904. This book is not only a narrative of the march but also describes what the first Western eyes saw. It is often political in its tone but also gives us an insight into the daily lives of Tibetans their religion mannerisms and customs though not in exhaustive detail. It gives a non-militaristic and journalistic view of the operation of 1904. The book has an introduction written by Col. Younghusband. About the Author Perceval Landon (1869-1927) was an English writer traveller and journalist now best remembered for his classic and reprinted ghost story Thurnley Abbey.

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Chariot in Indian History

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The invention and development of the chariot around the third millennium revolutionized the art of warfare and dominated the battlefields for some 3000 years. It seems to have evolved in the borderlands between the steppes and the riverlands. It is believed that the Aryan borrowed the idea of chariot from Sumerians around 2000 bc. It is presumed that these Aryans entered Iran and departed in three branches. One marches westward towards Syria another eastward towards India and a third stays back in Iran. The absence of chariot in Indus valley civilization suggests that chariot arrived in India with Aryans who settled here around 1500 bc. They used it as a lethal war machine to conquer the natives. The Chariot has played a vital role in Indian warfare through the ages spanning over Vedic Epic and Puranic times as attested to by literary and archaeological evidence. The Turk invasion marked by the dominance of cavalry arm brought the curtain down on chariot as a war machine. However it survived in the Indian milieu in some other incarnations. About the Author U.P. Thapliyal an alumnus of Allahabad and Delhi Universities was Director History Division Ministry of Defence till 1996. He has authored compiled and edited more than thirty books on the military history of India including Warfare in Ancient India; Military Flags of India: From the Earliest Times etc. His research papers have been published in reputed history journals. He has also been a Senior Academic Fellow with ICHR.

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The Death of Himu

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This rather slim book seeks to find a satisfactory answer to one of Indian history’s great controversies: the circumstances under which Himu died. Himu who had proclaimed himself king after Humayun’s death was defeated by the Mughal army at Second Battle of Panipat in 1556 which ensured Akbar’s ascension to the Mughal throne. Some historians have discarded the popular belief that Akbar’s guardian Bairam Khan killed Himu. The Himu incident reveals Akbar as he was in his younger days when his liberal wise and philosophic outlook had not yet developed. The author of this book draws upon several references and historians in this work for searching and establishing the true facts of Himu’s death. Indologist and historian Vincent Smith based on the writings of Ahmad Yadgar and Pelsart van den Broecke was the first to reject the accepted version that Akbar had magnanimously refused to execute the almost-dead Himu and that in all probability he listened to Bairam Khan and struck off his head. The book systematically goes through various historical works that support or reject either of the views on Himu’s death. Sukumar Ray quotes various authorities and these are followed by the English translations. He refers to writers Abu-l Fazl Firishta Badauni Yadgar Faizi Sirhindi and Van den Broecke to name a few arguing the validity of each viewpoint rejecting or accepting these based on historical evidence and in-depth corroboration before he finally arrives at the conclusion. About the Author Sukumar Ray was a research scholar at Dacca University.

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The Arya Samaj as a Fundamentalist Movement: A Study in Comparative Fundamentalism

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The Arya Samaj was an important movement in the development of contemporary India. Arya Samajists have been prominent not only in the history of the religions of South Asia but also in education politics social reform journalism and even business. Though they have often been seen as progressives these men and women have understood themselves to be participating in the revival of the ancient religion of the Vedas. Based in part on fieldwork conducted in India from 1985 through 1987 this book offers a new perspective on the Arya Samaj comparing it with fundamentalist groups in other religious traditions. In the introduction Llewellyn proposes a definition of fundamentalism which he then applies to Christian and Islamic groups in the first chapter. The Arya Samaj is analyzed in terms of this same definition in chapter two. The third chapter is a study of scripture in the works of Swami Dayanand Sarasvati the founder of the Arya Samaj. The context of the Arya Samaj’s interpretation of the Vedas is examined in the fourth chapter. The book concludes with a brief discussion of the politics of fundamentalist movements and the politics of studying fundamentalism. In recent years historians of religions political scientists anthropologists sociologists historians and others have turned their attention to the study of fundamentalist movements across cultures. A detailed study of one movement in a broader comparative framework The Arya Samaj as a Fundamentalist Movement is a substantial contribution to this new field. About the Author J.E. Llewellyn studied at Duke University and the University of Chicago and got his PhD from the University of Chicago. In the 1985-1986 academic year he was a doctoral fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies living in Hardwar and doing the research for this book. While a graduate student in Chicago he worked for the Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a consultant on non-Western religious traditions. He taught in the Department of Religious Studies at Southwest Missouri State University.

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Citizen Historian: Explorations in Historiography

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This is a collection of essays on historiography written in the period between 1961 and 1994. Some of these were published in learned journals and books in Europe India and Australia while others appear in this book for the first time. Together they are

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The Mauryan Polity

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In The Mauryan Polity the author has examined the extent and char-acter of the Mauryan Empire its central administration and local and provincial governments and concludes with a chapter on religion in the Mauryan State. He also has shown the similarity in the inscriptions in Asoka’s edicts and Kau_tiliyan polity by comparing the two. By way of new interpretations suggested for different terms and passages of the edicts the author holds that one can reconstruct the political history of Asoka and his predecessors and based on such reconstruction he has attempted to establish the character of the government of that era. The work is an amplification of five lectures delivered by the author at the University of Madras in 1929-30. The volume is based on three main sources: Arthashastra by Kau_tilya inscriptions on Asoka’s edicts and the surviving fragments of Megasthenes’ work Indika. The author has critically examined the authenticity of his three main sources of information and maintains that Kau_tilya’s work and Asoka’s edicts are highly reliable; the fragments of Megasthenes’ work have been used to supplement the primary sources. The author has referred to several other sources such as translations by McCrindle and Cowell and Thomas and others; journals and reports including those of the ASI of the Bombay Historical Society of the Royal Asiatic Society of both London and Bengal among numerous others; as well as several works that include those of Buhler K.V.R. Aiyangar Vincent Smith Cunningham Sir Henry Maine Rapson and others. About the Author Vishnampet R. Ramachandra Dikshitar (1896-1953) was a historian and Indologist from Tamil Nadu. He was a professor of history and archaeology in the University of Madras.

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Studies in Aurangzib's Reign

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Studies in Aurangzib’s Reign has a total of 18 essays. Of the six new essays that have been included in the present volume three are devoted to Aurangzeb’s sons – Bahadur Shah I Muhammad Azam Shah and Kam Baksh; one on Shah Jahan’s daughter Jahanara; while the other two are dedicated to trade and commerce in Aurangzeb’s empire and to letters written by him. The remaining 12 chapters published earlier have been thoroughly revised/rewritten. While the essays on Emperor Aurangzeb and his children analyse their life and times the other chapters are on – the conquest of Chatgaon the efforts of Shaista Khan in Bengal and the Orissa of the seventeenth century. The chapter on trade and commerce in Aurangzeb’s empire deserves special mention. One gets a glimpse of the trading and manufacturing climate; the trade of the Dutch Company and the English Company were doing well while that of the Portuguese was by now negligible; the main exports of the time; and the products imported their country of origin and the trade routes. The chapter on Aurangzeb’s letters will be of particular interest to researchers scholars and students of Mughal India. About the Author Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was a scholar of medieval Indian history specializing in Mughal dynasty. He studied at Presidency College Calcutta. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University in 1899 and knighted in 1929.

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Studies in Mughal India

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There are 22 essays in Studies in Mughal India. There are 12 new essays and 10 essays published earlier have been thoroughly revised. The essays provide a glimpse of India during the reign of the Mughals. The author’s narration includes the daily schedules of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb Shah Jahan’s fondness for emeralds and precious stones Mumtaz Mahal and the Taj Mahal Aurangzeb’s ascension to the throne his campaigns his triumphs and failures his bigotry and the positive and negative traits in Aurangzeb’s character. Other chapters that make the book a rather engrossing read include the regulations that Aurangzeb had established for collection of revenue: the emperor had set detailed instructions on the steps to be taken if the revenue was to be collected from the landowner or cultivator the type of landholding along with dos’ and don’ts’. Sir Jadunath also gives us a detailed narration of historical events like the conquest of Chatgaon that took place in ad 1666 efforts made by Shaista Khan to suppress piracy Shaista Khan’s civil administration; Orissa in the seventeenth century; and art and education in Muslim India. Chapters on William Irvine the historian of the later Mughals and Khuda Bakhsh add to the value of this book. Based on translations of Persian texts and letters and other source material this work by Sir Jadunath will be of immense help to scholars intellectuals and students of Mughal India. About the Author Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was a scholar of medieval Indian history specializing in Mughal dynasty. He studied at Presidency College Calcutta. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University in 1899 and knighted in 1929.

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