1. Introduction: discovering Islam.

I. The pattern of Islamic history: 3.

Muslim ideal: holy book and prophet. 3.

A theory of Islamic history: (a). Ideal caliphs.

(b). Arab dynasties: Umayyads and Abbasids.

(c). The flowering of Islamic civilization.

(d). Decline and fall.

(e). Shias: revolution in the revolution.

(f). Mahdism and millenarian movements.

4. The great Muslim Empires: Ottomans, Saffavids and Mughals: (a).

Ottomans: facing Europe. (b).

Saffavids: Shia state. (c).

Mughals: encounter with Hinduism. (d).

Obsession and synthesis. 5.

Sufis and scholars: (a). Sufis, saints and mystics.

(b). Two scholars of Islam: Al Beruni and Ibn Khaldun.

6. Islam of the periphery: (a).

On the periphery. (b).

The Muslim minority in China. (c).

Muslims in the USSR. 7.

Under European rule: the colonial impact on Muslim society: (a). The disintegration of society.

(b). The myth of the noble savage: Muslim tribesman.

II. Contemporary Muslim society: 8.

Princes and paupers: Muslim (less)

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Critiques: 1. Displacement as a conservation tool: Lessons from the Kuno wildlife sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh/Arpan Sharma and Asmita Kabra.

2. Of paper tigers and invisible people: The cultural politics of nature in Sariska/Radhika Johari.

II. Reappraisal: 3.

Deconstructing sea turtle conservation in India/Kartik Shanker. III.

Emergent paradigms: 4. The politics of participatory conservation: The case of the Kailadevi wildlife Sanctuary, Rajasthan/Priya Das.

5. The ecology of income: Can we have both fruit and forest?/Nitin D.

Rai. IV.

Innovation: 6. Threatened forests, forgotten people/Aparajita Datta.

7. Rainforest restoration and wildlife conservation on private lands/Divya Mudappa and T.

R. Shankar Raman.

8. The hunter and the hunted: Conservation with marginalized communities/Bahar Dutt, Rachel Kaleta and Vikram Hoshing.

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The Arts: i. Architecture: 1.

Central Asia Architecture: The persistence of pre-modernism/Romi Khosla. 2.

Sufi remains. A Kazakh story of today/Kalpana Sahni.

3. Synthesis in the sky/K.

T. Ravindran.

ii. Music: 4.

The fate of the Shashmaqom in Uzbekistan in the twentieth century/Dilorom Karomat. iii.

Visual arts: 5. The syncretic nature of early Central Asian Art/Radha Banerjee.

6. Traveling cultures/Gulammohammed Sheikh.

iv. Literature: 7.

Ramayana and Alpomysh: Two epics, two heroes/Qamar Rais. 8.

Manas: The socio-cultural heritage of the Kyrgyz People/Neelima Singh. 9.

Literature in the Khanate of Bukhara in the nineteenth century/Saifullah Saifi. 10.

Abai: A prophet of renaissance, a bard of enlightenment/Abhai Maurya. v.

Cinema: 11. The encounter of modernities: Cinematic adaptations of two stories by Aitmatov/Rashmi Doraiswamy.

II. New Horizons: vi.

Thinkers, travelers, explorers: 12. Remembering Al Farabi/Devendra Kaushik.

13. Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943): The expeditions and the collections/Arup Banerjee.

14. Kyrgyzstan in history: Accounts of Russians (less)

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Introduction. 2.

The prominent museums: i). National Museum, New Delhi.

ii). Indian Museum, Calcutta.

iii). Prince of Wales museum, Bombay.

iv). Madras Museum, Chennai.

3. Museums of eastern region.

Bengal, Bihar, Orissa. 4.

Museums of northern region : Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab (Pakistan), Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. 5.

Museums of central region : Madhya Pradesh. 6.

Museums of western region : Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan. 7.

Museums of the southern region : Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu. 8.

Discoveries of twentieth century: i). Hoard of bronzes from Tharad (Banaskantha).

ii). Vasantgadh bronzes.

iii). Prominent Jaina epigraphs.

4. Discoveries reported by the Archaeological Survey of India.

9. Foreign museums : i).

Museums of Europe. ii).

American museums. Index.

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