; Chemistry and pharmacology of selected Asian and American medicinal species of Justicia; Biological activities of Anoectochilus formosanus Hayat and its active component (less)

Historical perspectives: 1. Linguistic and literary scene in India : a historical perspective.

2. Basic unity of Indian literature.

3. Indian literature abroad.

4. Government and languages.

II. Growth and development of Indian languages: 1.

Apabhramsha. 2.

Assamese. 3.

Austri-khasi languages. 4.

Bangla. 5.

Dogri. 6.

Gujarati. 7.

Hindi. 8.

Kannada. 9.

Kashmiri. 10.

Konkani. 11.

Maithili. 12.

Malayalam. 13.

Manipuri. 14.

Marathi. 15.

Nepali. 16.

Oriya. 17.

Prakrit. 18.

Rajasthani. 19.

Sindhi. 20.

Tamil. 21.

Telugu. 22.

Tibeto-Burman languages. 23.

Urdu. III.

Linguistic studies : a survey: 1. Bangla.

2. Dogri.

3. Gujarati.

4. Hindi.

5. Konkani.

6. Maithili.

7. Marathi.

8. Nepali.

9. Oriya.

10. Punjabi.

11. Rajasthani.

12. Sindhi.

13. Urdu.

IV. Evolution of Indian literature: 1.

Apabhramsha. 2.

Assamese. 3.

Bangla. 4.

Dogri. 5.

English. 6.

Gujarati. 7.

Gujarati-parsi. 8.

Hindi. 9.

Kannada. 10.

Kashmiri. 11.

Konkani. 12.

Maithili. 13.

Malayalam. 14.

Manipuri. 15.

Marathi. 16.

Nepali. 17 (less)

Basham's 'The Wonder that was India' is a brilliant early history of one of the oldest civilizations. When it was first published in the United Kingdom in 1954, it became an instant hit, as it would in the United States a few years later.

Since then it has consistently found an avid readership all over the world, been translated into many languages, and has educated and entertained generations of general readers, serious students and travelers to India. This edition celebrates its fifty years in print with a foreword by Thomas R.

Trautmann, professor at the University of Michigan and once Basham's student, which brings alive the man and the academic behind this cherished volume and illuminates the historical influences upon it.The Wonder that was India is a classic that anybody with an interest in the civilizational beginnings of India must read.

It is a work of uncompromising scholarship and a labour of love (less)

Introduction. II.

Bhasa's plays: 1. Abhisekanatakam.

2. Avimaraka.

3. Balacarita.

4. Daridra Carudattam.

5. Dutaghatotkacha.

6. Dutavakya.

7. Karnabhara.

8. Madhyam-Vyayoga.

9. Pancaratra.

10. Pratijnayaugandharayanam.

11. Pratimanatakam.

12. Svapnavasavadatta.

13. Urubhanga.

14. Yajnaphala.

III. Bhasa Mahotsavam.

IV. Kutiyattam and Bhasa plays.

V. Bhasa plays in performance: 1.

Abhisekanataka. 2.

Avimaraka. 3.

Balacharitam. 4.

Daridracarudatta. 5.

Dutaghatotkacha. 6.

Dutavakya. 7.

Karnabharam. 8.

Madhyamavyayoga. 9.

Pancaratra. 10.

Pratijnayaugandharayana. 11.

Pratimanatakam. 12.

Svapnavasavadatta. 13.

Urubhangam. VI.

Bibliography: 1. Principal works (text).

2. Translations.

3. Bio - critical notices.

Index. "This is the first and probably the last encyclopaedia of Indian theatre of this millenium.

A multi-volume reference work, the first few of which will be a definite guide to great masters of ancient Indian drama such as Bhasa, Kalidasa, Bhavabhuti, Bodhayana, Sudraka, Vishakhadutt etc. The later volumes will be so designed to give a cornucopia of information.

The Indian stage from its beginnings to the (less)

Basham's 'The Wonder that was India' is a brilliant early history of one of the oldest civilizations. When it was first published in the United Kingdom in 1954, it became an instant hit, as it would in the United States a few years later.

Since then it has consistently found an avid readership all over the world, been translated into many languages, and has educated and entertained generations of general readers, serious students and travelers to India. This edition celebrates its fifty years in print with a foreword by Thomas R.

Trautmann, professor at the University of Michigan and once Basham's student, which brings alive the man and the academic behind this cherished volume and illuminates the historical influences upon it.The Wonder that was India is a classic that anybody with an interest in the civilizational beginnings of India must read.

It is a work of uncompromising scholarship and a labour of love (less)

Human remains: Introduction. 1.

Prehistoric skeletal record of man in South Asia/Kenneth A.R.

Kennedy. II.

Prehistoric roots of religious beliefs: Introduction. 1.

An upper Palaeolithic shrine in India/J.M.

Kenoyer, J.D.

Clark, J.N.

Pal and G.R.

Sharma. 2.

Neolithic hunting scene on a stone slab from Burzahom, Kashmir/B.M.

Pande. 3.

A prehistoric deity of Western India/M.K.

Dhavalikar. III.

First steps in historical archaeology: sculpture, architecture, coins, and inscriptions: Introduction. 1.

An account of the sculptures and inscriptions at Mahamalaipur/Benjamin Guy Babington. 2.

An account of some sculptures in the cave temples of Ellora/Robert Melville Grindlay. 3.

Remarks on certain sculptures in the cave temples of Ellora/Lieut Colonel James Tod. 4.

On the three-faced busts of Siva in the cave temples of elephanta, near Bombay; and Ellora, near Dowalatabad/H.W.

Sykes. 5.

Notice of a visit to the cavern temples of adjunta in the East-Indies/James Edw. Alexander.

6. Description of the ruins of Buddha Gaya/Francis (less)

It shall be attractive and useful to the active politicians, Members of the Houses of Parliament or State Legislatures, political parties, lawyers, journalists and scholars of Law, Constitutional History or Political Science (less)

K. Mitra, G.

P. Mandal and A.

K. Hazra.

2. Some Hitherto unknown mites (Acari) from Bangladesh/A.

K. Sanyal, S.

K. Gupta, M.

Z.R.

Majumder and Nasreen Choudhury. 3.

Some new records of mites (Acari) from Bangladesh/S.K.

Gupta, A.K.

Sanyal, M.Z.

R. Majumder and Nasreen Choudhury.

4. Record of new localities and a natural sanctuary for Horaichthys setnai Kulkarni (Pisces : Beloniformes : Adrianichthyidae) from Kerala/K.

C. Gopi, Dinesan Cheruvat and Muhamed Jafer Palot.

5. New locality-record of distribution of Horadandia atukorali Deraniyagala (Pisces : Cyprinidae : Rasborinae) along the west coast in Kerala, India/K.

C. Gopi, Jyothi Ramachandran and Muhamed Jafer Palot.

6. Fishes of Pulicat Lake/K.

Rema Devi, T.J.

Indra and M.B.

Radhunathan. 7.

On a collection of Scarabaeid beetles (Coleoptera) from Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve, Madhya Pradesh/Kailash Chandra and R.K.

Singh. 8.

Life cycle of Amblyseius multidentatus (Swirski & Shechter) at room temperature feeding upon Eotetranychus fremonti Tuttle & (less)

The Puranic foundations of religious syncretism. 21.

The first great reformation : Sankara and the triumph of high intellectual tradition. 22.

The golden age of Brahmanical art. 23.

The supra-human tension in medieval sculpture. 24.

The synthesis of Tantrika culture. 25.

The heirs of Buddhism : the Vajra, Natha and Sahaja movements. VII.

Conflict and re-synthesis: 26. India and Islam : the phase of conflict.

27. The condition of the people in Turko-Afghan times.

28. India and Islam : the rapprochement or Hindustani phase.

29. The second great reformation : Ramananda and the people's Movements of Bhakti and social revolt.

30. Fresh bridges between Hinduism and Islam.

31. The Chaitanya Vaishnava Movement : renaissance in religion and literature.

32. Towards a national Padshahi under the Mughals.

33. The spiritual intimacy between Bhakti' and Sufism.

34. The rise of Sikh religious nationalism.

35. The restoration of the Hindu (less)

R.B.

Alfred, A. Murmu, P.

C. Mazumder and S.

Chaudhuri. 2.

A report on the occurrence of the Sea Skater, Halobates galatea Herring (Insecta : Hemiptera : Gerridae) in a mangrove habitat at Dharmadam, Kannur district, Kerala, India/C. Radhakrishnan and G.

Thirumalai. 3.

On a small collection of Muscid flies (Diptera : Muscidae) of Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, India/B.C.

Nandi and Shuvra Kanti Sinha. 4.

Status and distribution of Turtle fauna (Testudines : Reptilia) in the Malabar part of Kerala, India/Muhamed Jafer Palot and C. Radhakrishnan.

5. Checklist of the Hirudinea (Leeches) of India/Chandra Kanta Mandal.

6. Notes on mid-winter waterbird population of some selected wetlands of Bankura and Puruliya districts, West Bengal/N.

C. Nandi, S.

Bhuinya and S.R.

Das. 7.

Notes on aquatic entomofauna of Narathaly lake of Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal/N.C.

Nandi, P. Mukhopadhyay, S.

K. Gosh and S.

K. Das.

8. A checklist of aquatic (less)

Renaissance and Transformation: 1. Administration and economy.

2. Education.

3. Literature.

4. The press.

5. Architecture and painting.

6. Religious and social reforms.

II. A passage to freedom: 1.

Liberal phase of Freedom Movement. 2.

Militant nationalism. 3.

The rise of communalism. 4.

Contemporary India : background. Index.

"The present volume, the seventh in the ongoing series Cross-Currents of Indian History and Culture, is a study of the Gandhian Era in Indian politics. It covers the period 1920 to 1947 when India achieved independence.

The volume is divided into two parts : (1) Renaissance and transformation; and (2) A passage to freedom. The first part deals with administration and major trends of Indian economy, educational polices, development of literature in various Indian languages, growth of religion, social reform movements and major achievements in the field of art.

Part two is devoted to the saga of freedom struggle under the leadership of Mahatma (less)

Ancient India: 1. Pre-history.

2. Indus Valley.

3. Vaidic period.

II. Early India: 1.

Mauryan art. 2.

Shunga art. 3.

Kushana art. III.

Classical India: 1. Gupta art.

IV. Medieval India: 1.

Post-Gupta art. 2.

South India. 3.

Eastern India. 4.

North India. 5.

Central India. 6.

Western India. V.

Mughal period: 1. Mughal painting.

VI. Rajput period: 1.

Rajasthani painting. 2.

Pahari painting. VII.

Modern period: 1. Introduction to modern art.

2. Modern painting.

3. Modern sculpture.

Glossary. Bibliography.

Index. "Present work Handbook of Indian Art has been based upon the study and progression of artistic styles of paintings and sculptures from pre-history to the modern period.

Documentation of the sights bearing a marked cultural and art historical importance have been incorporated to highlight the flourishing ties that India maintained during ancient and medieval periods with the surrounding countries. Various artistic strands with amazing synchronization of cultural synthesis illustrating Indian life (less)