Introduction. 1.

The concept of God. 2.

The case for God. 3.

The case against God. 4.

God, suffering and human beings. 5.

Revelation, faith and knowledge. 6.

Epistemology and ontology. 7.

Religious language. 8.

Religious language and truth. 9.

The problem of religious pluralism. 10.

Human destiny: western perspectives. 11.

Human destiny: Indic perspectives. Recommended reading.

"The philosophical significance of Jainism extends far beyond its statistical presence in India and the world, for it lies in the unique quality of its thought. This book is an attempt to take its insights into account for the light they shed on issues customarily debated in the Philosophy of Religion as it has evolved in the West.

It is in line with other works of the author of a similar nature: A Hindu Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion (1990); The Philosophy of Religion: A Buddhist Perspective (1995) and The Philosophy of Religion and (less)

1. Background of Indian Muslim politics: rebellion of 1857 and leadership by feudal elements.

2. First stage of modern Muslim politics.

3. Second stage of Indian Muslim politics.

4. Third stage of Muslim politics: period of confusion and the demand for Pakistan.

5. Real reasons of our political backwardness.

6. The ideology and practices of Jamaa’t-I-Islami.

7. Khilafat-i-Rashida and Democracy.

8. Islamic monarchy, imperialism and the revivalist movements in Islam.

9. Contemporary demands and progressive Muslim thought.

Appendices. Index.

"This book was first published in Urdu in 1963. It was written at a time when Islamic fundamentalism was being aggressively propagated among the Indian Muslims.

The author counters the time space independent and eternal vision of bookish Islam with historical perspective, in which Islam emerged and spread, to explain the reasons why Islam turned into a hurricane of change and why today it is not so. It is underlined by (less)

Foreword. Preface.

Acknowledgements. 1.

Introduction. 2.

Brahma. 3.

Siva: i. Linga-vigraha.

ii. Mukhalinga.

iii. Siva images.

iv. Brahmanical triad.

v. Trimurti Dattatreya.

vi. Mahesamurti.

vii. Uma Mahesvara.

viii. Gangadharamurti.

ix. Ardhanarisvara.

x. Tripurantaka Siva.

xi. Gajasurasamharamurti.

xii. Ravananugrahamurti.

xiii. Vinadhara Siva.

xiv. Siva-Natesa.

xv. Lakulisa-Lord of the Staff.

xvi. Bhairava.

xvii. Ganesa.

xviii. Karttikeya.

4. Matrkas/mother Goddesses: i.

Durga/Mahisasurmardani. ii.

River Goddesses--Ganga and Yamuna. iii.

Snake Goddesses. Vol.

II. 5.

Visnu: i. Visnu Vasudeva.

ii. Vaikuntha Visnu.

iii. Caturanana Visnu.

iv. Garudasana Visnu.

v. Pancaviras.

vi. Narasimha.

vii. Balarama.

viii. Surya.

ix. Vamana.

x. Sesasayi Visnu.

xi. Vasudeva Kamalaja.

xii. Harihara.

xiii. Laksmi.

xiv. Prabhavali showing manifestations of Visnu.

xv. Visnupada.

6. Kamadeva/Maithuna: i.

Kamadeva. ii.

Maithuna. 7.

Miscellaneous images: i. Indra.

ii. Candra (Moon-God).

iii. Dvarpala.

iv. Siddha.

v. Salabhanjika.

Appendices: 1. Kutbal tile.

2. Names of one hundred and one temples referred in the Visnudharmottara (3.

chs 86-88). 3.

Sankha, 5th/6th century (less)

1. Dynamics of Gandhian thought/Aditya Angiras.

2. Rediscovering Gandhi education for truth and non-violence/Poonam Bawa and H.

S. Rathore.

3. Challenges of globalization and the Gandhian alternative/Arvind Adityaraj.

4. The Gandhian Gospel and its relevance to the twenty first century/Ganesh Prasad and Anand Kumar.

5. Gandhi and Indian nationalism/Sanjeev Kumar.

6. Cesar Chavez: Mexican Gandhi/K.

D. Chopade.

7. Significance of non-violence for peace/Ram Naresh Thakur and Sruendra Raoy.

8. The non-violence: the key of Gandhian studies/Himanshu Shekhar and Hemlata Jha.

9. Mahatma Gandhi: apostle of peace/D.

Nirmala Devi. 10.

Models of peace and Gandhi in modern democratic system/Shyam Chandra Gupta. 11.

The concept of non-violence in Indian philosophies/Kamal Manohar. 12.

Truth and non-violence: core principles of Gandhi/Hossien Nemat Zadeh Gara. 13.

Training in non-violence/B.S.

Bedi. 14.

Role of educational institutions in promotion of peace and non-violence/Dayanidhi Prasad Roy and Reena Roy. 15.

Gandhi’s education: essence of the complete man/Ranjit Kaur. 16.

Media in Gandhian (less)

Mahatma Gandhi and the sources of Dharma in Hinduism. 2.

Mahatma Gandhi and untouchability. 3.

Mahatma Gandhi and the caste system. 4.

Mahatma Gandhi and the Asrama system. 5.

Mahatma Gandhi and the Ramayana. 6.

Mahatma Gandhi and the Bhagavad-Gita. 7.

Mahatma Gandhi and Sadharana Dharma. Conclusion.

Bibliography. Term Index.

Author Index. Name Index.

Subject Index. "Gandhi's struggle for the Indian independence will ever remain in the mind of all generations but no less significant was his fight for social equality of the untouchables.

He himself had suffered its pain as he was excommunicated by his caste on his return from England. For Gandhi, untouchability was that vicious aspect of Hinduism that must be eradicated.

He had his own interpretation of Hinduism and called himself a "Sanatani Hindu" who believed in the equality of all castes and religions. An attempt has been made in this book to interpret Gandhi's "Hinduism" in terms (less)

It discusses material from classical Hindu texts relating to the themes of the divine realm such a brahman, devi, ishvara, trimurti, and so on, as well as of the mundane realm, such as jiva, samsara, karma, dharma, and so on. It also covers the concepts which link the two realms, such as those of maya, and the overcoming of it through yoga, to attain moksha.

Some selections also throw light on what classical Hinduism has to say about the human being as a social being, through such concepts as varna, ashrama, and the purusharthas (less)

" Chopra takes us on a series of events affecting the Chopra households, including a hilarious cross-country plane trip with an untranquilized dog, an expensive trip to Italy, and the events surrounding an elderly relative's grave illness. Along the way, we learn the valuable lessons that man's best friend can teach us: "dogs-like the universe-don't hold grudges.

They forgive and evolve." The younger Chopra even relates an incident in which his dog was a better judge of character than he was.

The one sour note is a lengthy detour on Michael Jackson, whose death occurs while Gotham is on a bike trip in Italy, contributing little to the book (less)

Introduction to biotechnology. 2.

Biotechniques. 3.

Benefits of genetic manipulation. 4.

Agricultural applications of biotechnology. 5.

Biotechnology in livestock production. 6.

Biotechnology for food security. 7.

Applications of marine biotechnology. 8.

Industrial applications of biotechnology. 9.

Applications of biotechnology in health care. 10.

Biotechnological applications in environment. 11.

Impact of biotechnology on biodiversity. Bibliography.

Index. "Biotechnology is the culmination of more than 8,000 years of human experience using live organisms and the process of fermentation to make useful products.

It can be viewed as a group of useful, enabling technologies with wide and diverse applications in the industry, commerce and environment. Historically, biotechnology evolved as an artisanal skill rather than a science, exemplified in the manufacture of beers, wines, cheese etc.

Today biotechnology is applied to manufacturing processes used in health care, food and agriculture, industrial processes and environmental cleanup, among other applications. This book offers a comprehensive description of the applications (less)

The Historical Perspective: 1. The historical argument.

2. The moral argument.

3. The cultural argument.

4. The argument by natural law.

5. The argument by law.

6. The argument by negative rights.

II. The Secular Perspective: 7.

The secular argument. 8.

The argument via individualism. 9.

The egalitarian argument. III.

The Economic Perspective: 10. The capitalist argument.

11. The liberal argument.

12. The argument of democratic capitalism.

IV. Rational and Philosophical Perspectives: 13.

The universalist argument. 14.

The argument via rationality. 15.

The philosophical argument. 16.

The argument from ethical relativism. V.

The Perspective of Modernity: 17. The modernity argument.

18. The habitative argument.

19. The argument by design.

20. The package-deal argument.

VI. The Religious Perspective: 21.

The religious argument. 22.

The homo sapiens argument. 23.

The deontological argument. 24.

The Christian argument. 25.

The argument by human suffering. VII.

The Colonial Perspective: 26. The colonial argument.

27. The imperialist argument (less)

H. Rajasab, K.

Parveen, Mohammed Shabbir, S., and Nicky Johnson.

2. Biocontrol of substrate fungi for better growth behaviour and yield of Oyster mushroom/R.

C. Ram.

3. Addition of some new forest fungi to the microbial biodiversity/T.

Prameela Devi and P.N.

Choudhry. 4.

Diversity of foliar fungi in North-eastern Uttar Pradesh: seven new taxa of hyphomycetes/Kamal and Sanjeeva K. Majumdar.

5. Distribution mapping of Indoor fungi from various locations in Northern California/T.

Dubey and A. Kambal.

6. Studies on diversity of Indian fresh watermoulds I occurrence, diversity and distribution of riverine watermoulds/R.

V. Gandhe and Kanchanganga Gandhe.

7. Biodiversity of fungi in agricultural waste during composting/A.

A. Fulzele and R.

P. Thakre.

8. Temperate species of lichens from chail/M.

P. Sharma and Navneet Kaur.

9. Diversity of diseases in agroforestry tree species in Central India/V.

S. Dadwal and Jamaluddin.

10. Studies on some viable aspects of cultivation of white button mushroom (agaricus bisporus) (Lange) (less)

The English writings of Raja Rammohan Ray/Bruce Carlisle Robertson. 2.

The Hindu college: Henry Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt/Sajni Kripalani Mukherji. 3.

The Dutt family Album: and Toru Dutt/Rosinka Chaudhuri. 4.

Rudyard Kipling/Maria Couto. 5.

Two faces of prose: Behramji Malabari and Govardhanram Tripathi/Sudhir Chandra. 6.

The beginnings of the Indian Novel/Meenakshi Mukherjee. 7.

The English writings of Rabindranath Tagore/Amit Chaudhuri. 8.

Sri Aurobindo/Peter Heehs. 9.

Two early-twentieth-century women writers: Cornelia Sorabji and Sarojini Naidu/Ranjana Sidhanta Ash. 10.

Gandhi and Nehru: the uses of English/Sunil Khilnani. 11.

Verrier Elwin/Ramachandra Guha. 12.

Novelists of the 1930 and 1940/Leela Gandhi. 13.

R.K.

Narayn/Pankaj Mishra. 14.

Nirad C. Chaudhuri/Eunice deSouza.

15. Novelists of the 1950s and 1960s/Shyamala A.

Narayan and Jon Mee. 16.

On V.S.

Naipaul on India/Suvir Kaul. 17.

Poetry since Independence/Rajeev S. Patke.

18. From sugar to Masala: writing by the Indian Diaspora/Sudesh Mishra.

19. Looking for A.

K. Ramanujan/Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (less)