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To his own surprise the curse came out in the form of a beautiful verse. Thus was born the sloka with which India's greatest epics were written.

Valmiki himself wrote the Ramayana in 24000 verses. The Hindi translation of the Amar Chitra Katha based on Valmiki's Ramayana brings to life the much loved story of Rama and his search for truth and righteousness (less)

I. The emergence of the raga-rasa concept: 1.

The concept of rasa. 2.

Interpretations of the term rasa. 3.

Aesthetic relevance. 4.

Categories of rasas. 5.

Subdivisions and interdependence of rasas. 6.

The raga concept in Indian music. II.

Raga-rasa as expounded in ancient, medieval and modern works: 1. Raga-rasa as expounded in the ancient Sanskrit works.

2. Rasa-rasa as expounded in the medieval treatises.

3. Raga-rasa as expounded in modern works.

III. Indian and western interpretations on rasa-emotion: 1.

Western views on music-emotion. 2.

Similarities and dissimilarities between the Indian and western views. IV.

Approaches used to study raga-rasa in the acoustical perspective: 1. Traditional profile of raga Yaman.

2. Melodic movement analyser.

3. LVS system.

4. Methods adopted for acoustical analysis of raga-rasa.

V. Results accrued from the experiments: 1.

Pitch measurements for individual notes. 2.

Details of vocal inflections. 3.

Observations pertaining to the melodic movement of the raga (less)

Over The Years, The Hindi Film Song Has Travelled A Long Way, Influencing And Being Influenced By Popular Taste. Considered Downmarket Not So Long Ago, It Is Undoubtedly The Most Popular Musical Genre In India Today, Pervading Almost All Aspects Of Indian Life,Weddings, Funerals, Religious Festivals, Get-Togethers And Political Conventions,And Emerging As A Medium To Articulate Every Shade Of Joy And Sorrow, Love And Longing, Hope And Despair (less)

Coming face to face with the lord of death, Nachiketa found the key to immortality. The lessons the two seekers learned were priceless, for they opened to others the door to eternal bliss (less)

Shaw's short stories. 2.

The significance of Frankenstein. 3.

Wordsworth and the Cartesian revolution. 4.

The other harmony of Professor Godbole. 5.

The fertility motif in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve. 6.

The making of the American language. 7.

"Perpetuated piracy": Mark Twain's attitude to monarchy. 8.

An American passage to South India: the fiction of Robin White. 9.

The revolutionary as playwright: Dario Fo's iconoclastic art. 10.

The Hemingway menagerie. 11.

English language teaching in the twenty-first century. 12.

John Keats as a literary critic. 13.

Huckleberry Finn's adventures with women. 14.

"A supersaturated solution": Margaret Atwood's views on language. 15.

Canadian contribution to literary criticism. "This anthology of fifteen papers is brought out on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the author as teacher, researcher, critic and reviewer in India and abroad.

These essays are selected from over sixty papers the author has published in well-known journals and (less)

Acknowledgements. Glossary.

1. Introduction.

2. Illustrated key to the families.

3. Systematic account: Family: 1.

Carcharhinidae. 2.

Sphyrnidae. 3.

Pristidae. 4.

Dasyatidae. 5.

Myliobatidae. 6.

Rhynchobatidae. 7.

Elopidae. 8.

Megalopidae. 9.

Anguillidae. 10.

Muraenidae. 11.

Ophichthidae. 12.

Muraenesocidae. 13.

Synbranchidae. 14.

Matacembelidae. 15.

Clupeidae. 16.

Pristigasteridae. 17.

Engraulidae. 18.

Synodontidae. 19.

Chanidae. 20.

Notopteridae. 21.

Cyprinidae. 22.

Cobitidaenn. 23.

Bagridae. 24.

Siluridae. 25.

Schilbeidae. 26.

Pangasiidae. 27.

Sisoridae. 28.

Clariidae. 29.

Heteropneustidae. 30.

Ariidae. 31.

Plotosidae. 32.

Hemiramphidae. 33.

Aplocheilidae. 34.

Atherinidae. 35.

Belonidae. 36.

Syngnathidae. 37.

Scorpaenidae. 38.

Tetrarogidae. 39.

Platycephalidae. 40.

Cichlidae. 41.

Anabantidae. 42.

Osphronemidae. 43.

Channidae. 44.

Centropomidae. 45.

Ambassidae. 46.

Serranidae. 47.

Nandidae. 48.

Teraponidae. 49.

Sillaginidae. 50.

Rachycenridae. 51.

Echeneidae. 52.

Carangidae. 53.

Leiognathidae. 54.

Lujanidae. 55.

Lobotidae. 56.

Gerreidae. 57.

Sparidae. 58.

Haemulidae. 59.

Sciaenidae. 60.

Monodactylidae. 61.

Drepanidae. 62.

Scatophagidae. 63.

Mugilidae. 64.

Sphyraenidae. 65.

Polynemidae. 66.

Siganidae. 67.

Trichiuridae. 68.

Scombridae. 69.

Blenniidae (less)

It would be like hearing Christopher Columbus on the New World.Hawking presents a series of seven lec-tures--covering everything from big bang to black holes to string theory--that capture not only the brilliance of Hawking's mind but his characteristic wit as well.

Of his research on black holes, which absorbed him for more than a decade, he says, "It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar."Hawking begins with a history of ideas about the universe, from Aristotle's determination that the Earth is round to Hubble's discovery, over 2000 years later, that the universe is epanding.

Using that as a launching pad, he eplores the reaches of modern physics, including theories (less)

Recent researches show that Tipu was "more sinned against than sinning". As B.

S Gidwani points out, Tipu was the only ruler in the eighteenth century who did not side with the English at any time in a war against his fellow countrymen. Had Tipu succeeded in forming a united front with the support of the Nizam and the Marathas, the British would not have enslaved the country as easily as they did.

The fall of Tipu paved the way for British supremacy in India. Even Nana Phadnavis, a bitter opponent of Tipu, acknowledged his vital role.

"Tipu is finished," he remarked, "Poona wll now be the next victim. Evil days are ahead.

There seems to be no escape from destiny." In preparing this script the works of M.

H.Khan, Denys Forrest, Fazal Hasan and T.

T.Sharma have been consulted (less)

Land rights for women: making the case. 2.

Conceptualizing gender relations. 3.

Customary rights and associated practices. 4.

Erosion and disinheritance: traditionally matrilineal and bilateral communities today. 5.

Contemporary law: contestation and content. 6.

Whose share? Who claims? The gap between law and practice. 7.

Whose land? Who commands? The gap between ownership and control. 8.

Tracing cross-regional diversities. 9.

Struggles over resources, struggles over meanings. l0.

The long march ahead. "This is the first major study of gender and property in South Asia.

In a pioneering and comprehensive analysis Bina Agarwal argues that the single most important economic factor affecting women’s situation is the gender gap in command over property. In rural South Asia, the most significant form of property is arable land, a critical determinant of economic well-being, social status, and empowerment.

But few women own land; fewer control it. Drawing on a vast range of interdisciplinary sources and her (less)

Land rights for women: making the case. 2.

Conceptualizing gender relations. 3.

Customary rights and associated practices. 4.

Erosion and disinheritance: traditionally matrilineal and bilateral communities today. 5.

Contemporary law: contestation and content. 6.

Whose share? Who claims? The gap between law and practice. 7.

Whose land? Who commands? The gap between ownership and control. 8.

Tracing cross-regional diversities. 9.

Struggles over resources, struggles over meanings. l0.

The long march ahead. "This is the first major study of gender and property in South Asia.

In a pioneering and comprehensive analysis Bina Agarwal argues that the single most important economic factor affecting women’s situation is the gender gap in command over property. In rural South Asia, the most significant form of property is arable land, a critical determinant of economic well-being, social status, and empowerment.

But few women own land; fewer control it. Drawing on a vast range of interdisciplinary sources and her (less)

Ruskin was only seventeen when he first started writing to be published in 1951. Even as his first novel The Room on the Roof was being published in England, he returned 'home'to India in 1955.

After a few years of wandering in the plains, he scampered up the foothills north of Dehra, and has spent the last forty years in Landour and Mussoorie, living close to nature, amongst good friends and those he loves. And this is where Ruskin-the icon of the mountains and its unsung tales-has written many of his finest stories, essays, poems, novels and verse (less)

2. Geodynamic setting of the Central Indian tectonic zone in Central, Eastern and Northeastern India/S.

K. Acharyya.

3. Role of geology in national development/P.

K.B.

Chakravorty. 4.

Geological information system in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh/S.S.

Kanwar, B.K.

Bandyopadhyay, R.S.

Shukla, P.K.

Sinha, S. Chakraborti, A.

K. Huin and G.

S. Gonnade.

5. Present status of mineral resources in the country, future perspective and opportunities/Anupendu Gupta, Gautam Mukhopadhyay and Balaram Chattopadhyay.

6. Coal resources of India and future perspectives with focus on Central Indian coalfields/A.

B. Dutt, R.

K. Datta and R.

N. Das.

7. Airborne geophysical surveys by Geological Survey of India-an update/S.

V.G.

Krishna Rao and H.M.

Ramachandra. 8.

Role of minerals in the industrial and economic growth of the country/K.S.

Raju. 9.

New approach for exploration of atomic minerals and contribution in national development/A.K.

Bhattacharya. 10.

Strategy of mineral exploration—post liberalisation era/S.B.

S. Chauhan.

11. Palaeoenvironments of (less)

Family Acanthuridae: 1. Field biology.

2. Reproductive biology.

3. Aquarium biology.

Key to species. 1.

Acanthurus dussumieri Valenciennes, 1835. 2.

Acanthurus leucosternon Bennett, 1832. 3.

Acanthurus lineatus (Linnaeus, 1758). 4.

Acanthurus mata Cuvier, 1829. 5.

Acanthurus nigricauda Duncker & Mohr, 1929. 6.

Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Forsskal, 1775). 7.

Acanthurus olivaceus Forster, 1801. 8.

Acanthurus pyroferus Kittlitz, 1834. 9.

Acanthurus thompsoni (Fowler, 1923). 10.

Acanthurus triostegus (Linnaeus, 1758). 11.

Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835. 12.

Ctenochaetus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825). 13.

Ctenochaetus strigosus (Bennett, 1828). 14.

Naso brevirostris (Valenciennes, 1835). 15.

Naso hexacanthus (Bleeker, 1855). 16.

Naso lituratus (Forster, 1801). 17.

Naso unicornis (Forsskal, 1775). 18.

Naso vlamingii (Valenciennes, 1835). 19.

Paracanthurus hepatus (Linnaeus, 1766). 20.

Zebrasoma scopes (Cuvier, 1829). 21.

Zebrasoma veliferum (Bloch, 1797). Family Siganidae: 1.

Field biology. 2.

Reproductive biology. 3.

Aquarium biology. Key to species.

22. Siganus argenteus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825).

23. Siganus canaliculatus (Park, 1797).

24. Siganus corallinus (less)

Bhajan. 2.

Ceremonial songs. 3.

Seasonal songs. 4.

Jhonjhi-Tesu festival. 5.

Miscellaneous. Glossary.

Bibliography. "Blowing of a conch-shell and and/or ringing of a hand bell and/or singing a song to welcome the evening twilight in front of a tulsi plant is a nostalgic scene from India's past.

For the majority of the young Indian population, this daily routine is only depicted on picture postcards or in Bollywood movies. Folk songs in this book were recorded in the 1970's.

Since independence, India has been undergoing fast technological advances; a wave of new internationalism is absentmindedly sweeping away rural traditions. Singing and playing of traditional folk songs and ensembles for appropriate ceremonies are becoming less and less popular; instead, movie songs and modern brass bands are appreciated.

Each folk song in this collection is like an artefact in an archaeological museum. These songs tell the story and customs of celebrating life-cycle ceremonies, welcoming seasons, (less)