Categories: History

Eternal Ramayana: The Ramayana of Tulsidas

₹1,615.95 M.R.P.:₹ 1,995.00 You Save: ₹379.05  (19.00% OFF)
<p>The Ramayana of Tulsidas ranks among the greatest and most popular religious classics of the world. One reason for its universal popularity and why it still casts a spell is because it is based on certain moral and spiritual values which have universal appeal. While Valmiki Ramayana is composed in Sanskrit Tulsidas deliberately chose to write in the common man’s language Awadhi – a dialect of Hindi. When Valmiki wrote his Ramayana India was at its peak of cultural refinement. At the time when Tulsidas wrote there was widespread degradation in the values of life. Society was vitiated by the rivalry among different faiths and sects to acquaint the mass with what was best in the Hindu scriptures in understandable language. It became extremely popular with the common man – labourers peasants householders Indian labourers who were shipped by the colonial English rulers to Mauritius Fiji Suriname and West Indies who carried it with them and made it known to others. About the Author Tulsidas (b. 1497) was a Ramanandi Vaishnava saint and poet re­nowned for his devotion to Rama. F.S. Growse originally belonged to the Bengal Civil Service. He was first appointed as Joint Magistrate Mathura in 1871 and the following year he became Collector and District Magistrate. On this post he served for six years before his transfer to Bulandshahr in 1878. He founded the Mathura Museum in 1874. Besides his stray articles on the archaeo­logical discoveries of Mathura in different journals he made a wonderful contribution by writing the Mathura Memoir which is till date a celebrated work on the history and culture of the region. He has devoted a complete chapter to the Buddhist city of Mathura and its antiquities. Even a renowned archaeologist like Cunningham recognized him as a great scholar.</p>

Our Missions in India 1834-1924

₹1,260.05 M.R.P.:₹ 1,595.00 You Save: ₹334.95  (21.00% OFF)
<p>This volume aims at giving a plain narrative of the missionary service rendered by the Presbyterian Church in the USA through its missions in India. The Western Foreign Missionary Society having decided to undertake missionary work in India had sent a circular letter to the Theological Seminary Allegheny Pennsylvania calling for volunteers. In reply letters were received from two students – John C. Lowrie and William Reed offering themselves as missionaries. On May 1833 they set sail for Calcutta. Thus began their long journey of preaching the Gospel to Hindus Buddhists and Muslims; expansion in north India; Anglo Indian education; its work during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857; a mission to the Afghans; the Kapurthala Mission; medical missionary work; preaching in towns and villages setting up of schools and col­leges. Perhaps one of its most important contributions was the training given in Mission schools and colleges in various sports – cricket football badminton tennis and hockey. It also contains the administra­tive details and challenges the Missions encountered. About the Author Elwood Morris Wherry (1843-1927) was an American Presbyterian missionary to India where he spent forty years of his life. For five years Wherry taught the Old Testament literature and church history at theological seminary in Saharanpur. He also translated many textbooks into the vernacular. In 1888 he resigned from the Mission Press of which he was in-charge to return to the USA. He returned to India in 1898 where he remained till 1923 engaged in missionary work.</p>

The Technique of Casting Coins in Ancient India

₹596.25 M.R.P.:₹ 795.00 You Save: ₹198.75  (25.00% OFF)
<p>While the coins of Ancient India have been a subject of several studies the techniques involved have received scant attention. In this book an attempt has been made to bridge this gap in our knowledge by describing some of the modes of casting coins in ancient India. The author was accidentally introduced to the field of numismatics due to a chance discovery at Rohtak of an ancient mint site of pre-Christian era. Among other relics it included thousands of terracotta moulds a few virgin coins still lying within their moulds etc. The book covers materials discovered such as Bronze dies from Eran (third century bc) Rohtak moulds (100 bc) Taxila moulds (eleventh-fourteen centuries ad) Kadkal moulds (fifteenth century bc) Mathura moulds (first century ad [ad 388]) Kashi moulds (ad 375-417) and the techniques involved in casting them. The book also abounds in sketches of moulds coins and excavation sites. About the Author Birbal Sahni (1891-1949) was an Indian palaeobotanist. He was also the founder of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany at Lucknow and served as the President of the National Academy of Sciences.</p>

Memoir of the Life of the Late Nana Farnavis

₹862.50 M.R.P.:₹ 1,150.00 You Save: ₹287.50  (25.00% OFF)
<p>Nana Farnavis is looked upon by the Marathas as the last of the greatest statesman of their race. The work is based on original mss family records and verbose conversations with the relations and personal attendants of Nana Farnavis. Nana was an influential minister and statesman of the Maratha Empire during the Peshwa administration in Pune. He played a pivotal role in holding the Maratha Confedaracy together in the midst of internal dissension and the growing power of the East India Company. James Grant Duff once stated that Nana Farnavis was called ‘the Maratha Machiavelli’ by the Europeans. Only 250 copies of the original edition were published and it is still the only biography in English of the greatest of the Maratha statesman. About the Author A. Macdonald was a Captain in the 18th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry.</p>

The Silappadikaram

₹1,330.00 M.R.P.:₹ 1,750.00 You Save: ₹420.00  (24.00% OFF)
<p>This translation of the ancient Tamil epic poem by Ilango Adigal speculated to be written in the second century ad was first published in 1935. It was part of a project to bring to light the priceless literary treasures of Tamil for non-Tamil readers.</p>

Valiant Voyaging: A Short History of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the Second World War 1939-1945

₹971.25 M.R.P.:₹ 1,295.00 You Save: ₹323.75  (25.00% OFF)
<p>The year 1854 will always be perceived typical of the reign of private enterprise. The power of the middle class its prophets priests and kings was growing steadily. Steam was everywhere beginning to replace sail. This opportunity was grasped in both hands by William Macknnon a young Scot. He along with his partner profited enough to transfer their headquarters to Calcutta and soon formed in 1854 the Burmah Steam Navigation Company. Their fleet numbered 17 and regular voyages were made from Calcutta to Singapore Chittagong Andamans Madras Karachi Bombay and later Persian Gulf Britain East Africa Colombo Brisbane and spread to the Far East. Many of its ships even carried English troops during the South African War and in the China Expedition. However after the opening of the Suez Canal it faced stiff competition. By the end of its career it owned almost 500 ships and managed 150 for other liners. This book is a short history of the Company during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. About the Author Hilary St. George Saunders (1898-1951) was a British author born in Clifton near Bristol. He was a chronicler of the Second World War.</p>

Story of Cawnpore

₹862.50 M.R.P.:₹ 1,150.00 You Save: ₹287.50  (25.00% OFF)
<p>General Thomson wrote this book from memory solely to refute alle­gations made that the garrison at Cawnpore lacked courage to deal with the Sepoy Mutiny which first broke out there. The author was one of the four to have escaped the massacre committed by the Nana and the Indian sepoys and lived to tell the tale. Seeing the discontentment brewing among the native sepoys in December 1856 Thomson’s regi­ment was called from Cuttack to Cawnpore. The Company included more than a thousand Europeans. On 5 June 1857 on account of a rumour that Indian troops were to be massacred it influenced the sepoys to rebel against the East India Company. Amidst the chaos Nana Sahib the Peshwa Emperor arrived in Cawnpore stating at first that he intended to support the British. However he joined the rebels. The British were unprepared but despite it held on valiantly for a long time almost three weeks in a makeshift fort before they surrendered. Most of them died due to bombardment cholera dysentery and small-pox. About the Author Capt. Mowbray Thomson was an officer in the British East India Com­pany. He was one of the handful of survivors in the Cawnpore siege with a remarkable tale to tell.</p>

Change in Bengal Agrarian Society c. 1760-1850

₹1,074.85 M.R.P.:₹ 1,295.00 You Save: ₹220.15  (17.00% OFF)
<p>Change in Bengal Agrarian Society c. 1760-1850 seeks to trace the course of change in the agrarian society of Bengal under the rule of the East India Company with special reference to the impact of the Permanent Settlement introduced in Bengal and Bihar on 1 May 1793 and later in Madras and Varanasi presidencies and most of northern India. Divided into three parts Part One is an attempt to describe the nature of land tenures and the different categories of land rights as they prevailed before the Permanent Settlement. Part Two is an exploration of five localities covering districts from West North and former East Bengal and covers a wide spectrum of geographical and social con­ditions including the lie of the land the composition of the popula- tion the conditions of land tenure before the Permanent Settlement the resultant rent-sharing structure etc. Part Three deals with changes and continuity in the rural order as it emerged in the nineteenth cen­tury from the 1790s. The work is based on wide ranging original source material. Ananda Bhattacharyya’s Introduction to this remarkable work places it in context. About the Author Ratnalekha Ray obtained her Ph.D. on Permanent Settlement in Bengal from the Cambridge University UK. She taught History at Jadavpur University Kolkata. Later she went to the Netherands. She has contributed several articles to prestigious journals and her last article was on Maheshganj Pal Chowdhury the oldest family of the Pal Chowdhuries of Maheshganj before her untimely demise in 1985. Ananda Bhattacharyya is Assistant Director Directorate of State Archives Government of West Bengal Kolkata. He is the author of a large number of books and has also edited and introduced several publications.</p>

Mesmerism in India and Its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine

₹637.50 M.R.P.:₹ 850.00 You Save: ₹212.50  (25.00% OFF)
<p>Mesmerism in India and its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine by Dr James Esdaile is a testimony of the power of mind over matter. The Psychic Research Company of England had rescued this book from oblivion in 1902 because it contains the simplest clearest and most convincing data on the power of the mind to control agonizing pain. To Dr Esdaile the marvel lay in Mesmerism. The Society felt that in the times to come man shall be able to help himself through mesmerism and be able to control pain and restore health while he is in a normal waking condition. The author experimented it successfully among the natives of Bengal James Esdaile commissioned the duty of editing the case studies presented in this book to his brother David Esdaile who did so on the basis of long correspondences mailed to him by Dr James from India. About the Author James Esdaile (1808-59) was a Scottish surgeon who served for twenty years under the East India Company in India. He was a notable figure in the history of mesmerism and is considered a pioneer of painless surgeries under hypnosis.</p>

Settlement and Local Histories of the Early Deccan

₹1,551.00 M.R.P.:₹ 1,650.00 You Save: ₹99.00  (6.00% OFF)
<p>This book is a detailed account of the multi-faceted history of the Deccan. Beginning with its historical foundations it goes on to delineate how it is the key to understanding its social economic political and ideological evolution. Containing nine essays this volume attempts to look at regional history from the perspective of given localities that provides the many facets of early Deccani society and culture. Hitherto this was mainly articulated in terms of the broad categories of language and religion in the many historical studies of present-day linguistic states. In focussing on local spatial contexts as the primary layer of historical reality the book has relied on multiple sources of information largely extant archaeological material while also drawing information from inscri­ptions textual material and oral memory. The book also reflects on the important events of various periods by placing them as part of larger social and economic processes emanating from the local. The essays in this collection have been presented thematically moving from general issues discussed in Part I to the more particular in Part II and finally to reflect on the multiplicity and simultaneity of different kinds of processes in a constant state of negotiation in Part III. The historical sensibilities of people in various locations right from Kotalingala and Dhulikatta to Phanigiri Patancheru Kondapur and Nanakramguda and from Thotlakonda to Nagarjunakonda Amaravati Vaddamanu and Shravan Belgola have been recounted. About the Author Aloka Parasher Sen Ph.D. (London) taught History at the University of Hyderabad. Since 2018 she is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sanskrit Studies University of Hyderabad. Her major publications are in the area of her interest i.e. social history namely early Indian attitudes towards foreigners tribes and excluded castes and different aspects of the social economic cultural and religious history and archaeology of the Deccan.</p>