It was also a time of accelerated history, when every decision--whether considered or arbitrary--had a lasting effect on its vast and diverse populace. In the decades since, India has evolved into a globally prominent nation of enormous promise and achievement, great contradictions and conflict.

In this landmark book, Patrick French, author of the acclaimed bestseller Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division, chronicles the epic change. With his superb sense of history and political insight, and an eye for the extraordinary that is as keen as his understanding of the everyday, he builds a compelling narrative of the social and economic revolutions that are transforming India in fundamental ways (less)

Payne. 1.

Pure land Buddhism in Tibet? From Sukhavati to the field of great bliss/Matthew T. Kapstein.

2. Shengchang's pure conduct society and the Chinese Pure land patriarchate/Daniel Getz.

3. By the power of one's last Nenbutsu: deathbed practices in early medieval Japan/Jacqueline I.

Stone. 4.

Amida's secret life: Kakuban's Amida Hishaku/James H. Sanford.

5. "Show me the place where my mother is!": Chujohime, preaching, and relics in late medieval and early modern Japan/Hank Glassman.

6. "Just behave as you like; prohibitions and impurities are not a problem": radical Amida cults and popular religiousity in premodern Japan/Fabio Rambelli.

7. Ungo Kiyo's Ojoyoka and Rinzai Zen Orthodoxy/Richard M.

Jaffe. 8.

From generalized goal to tantric subordination: Sukhavati in the Indic Buddhist traditions of Nepal/Todd T. Lewis.

9. Buddha one: a one-day Buddha-recitation retreat in contemporary Taiwan/Charles B.

Jones. Character glossary.

Contributors. Index.

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The wind beneath my wings/Nabaneeta Dev Sen. 2.

A heritage of heresy within tradition/Vina Mazumdar. 3.

A daughter of Awadh/Zarina Bhatty. 4.

A struggle for space/Hema Sundaram. 5.

The Tyranny of tradition/Leela Gulati. 6.

Wings come to those who fly/Maithreyi Krishna Raj. 7.

The times that are a-changing/Priti T. Desai.

8. Uneven earth and open sky/Saroja Kamakshi.

9. Abode of colour/Vijaya Mehta.

10. Striking new roots/Sushil Narulla.

11. Matriliny within patriliny/Jasodhara Bagchi.

12. Three generations of women/Mary Roy.

Afterword: the colonised coloniser/Arlie Hochschild. Select bibliography.

About the editors and contributors. "Several books have been written about the position of women in India's patriarchal society.

This collection of twelve narratives, however, focuses not so much on women's subservient position vis-a-vis men, but on women's relations with each other. With the authors locating their personal struggles within those of three generations of women in their families, these narratives span a period of over 100 (less)

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.There can be no doubt that Patrick French is the most impressive Western historian of modern India currently at work' Frank McLynn, Glasgow Herald At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire cracked into three pieces.

The greatest mass migration in history began, as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled south, over a million being massacred on the way. Britain's role as world power came to an end, and the course of Asia's future was irrevocably set.

Using a compelling mixture of scholarship, travel and personal narrative, Patrick French offers a radical reinterpretation of the events surrounding India's independence and partition, including the disastrous mistakes made by politicians, and the bizarre reasoning behind many of their decisions. Exploring the interplay between characters such as Churchill, Mountbatten and Gandhi, it reveals a fascinating tale (less)

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Vimalaprabha Commentary: 1. Patala 1 Lokadhatu-patala.

2. Patala 2 Adhyatma-patala.

3. Patala 3 Abhiseka-patala.

4. Patala 4.

II. Pancaraksa: 1.

Mahapratisara. 2.

Mahasahasrapramardini. 3.

Mahamayuri. 4.

Mahasitavati. 5.

Mahamantranusarini. From the Preface: "The present volume is a facsimile edition of two ancient Sanskrit manuscripts from Tibet, which were actually used by Indian scholars and Tibetan Lotsavas for translation into Tibetan.

They are valuable for the comments of the Lotsavas written in the cursive Tibetan script dbu.med on the palm-leaves themselves.

The two texts are: (Vimalaprabha commentary on the Kalacakra-tantra (KT) and (ii) Pancaraksa. The Vimalaprabha was translated into Tibetan by Somanatha of Kashmir and Ses.

rab.grags the Lotsava of Hbro.

It was revised by San.ston Mdo.

sde.dpal and Tshul.

khrims.dar (Toh.

845). Somanatha went to Magadha to study the Kalacakra under Kalacakraprada Junior or Naropa.

He studied the Tibetan language and went to Tibet after the death of Atisa. He had generous Tibetan patrons who subsidised (less)

It was also a time of accelerated history, when every decision--whether considered or arbitrary--had a lasting effect on its vast and diverse populace. In the decades since, India has evolved into a globally prominent nation of enormous promise and achievement, great contradictions and conflict.

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R. Tolkien, begun in 1916, when he was twenty-five years old, and left incomplete several years later.

It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor, for the Lost Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend and association, they are set in the narrative frame of the great westward voyage of a mariner named Eriel (or AElfwine).

His destination is Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle where Elves dwell; from them he learns their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. The Tales include the earliest accounts of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmography of their invented world.

The Book of Lost Tales is published in two volumes. The first contains the Tales of Valinor; and this second past includes Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin.

Each tale is followed by a commentary, together with associated poems, and each volume contains extensive information on names and vocabulary of the earliest Elvish languages. Additional books in this series will extend the history of Middle-earth as it was refined and enlarged in later years and will include the long Lays of Beleriand, the Ambarkanta or Shape of the World, the Lhammas or Account of Tongues, annals, maps, and many other previously unpublished writings of J.

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Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set.

Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. Travelling around thirty-eight of the lower states - united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity - he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land.

'The Lost Continent' is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill (less)

Younghusband spent much of his early life as a leading player in the Great Game - the battle of wits over the uncharted territory of High Asia - and his presumed death as a spy in the Pamirs almost sparked off a war between British India and Tsarist Russia. But despite being a classic Edwardian, full of pomposity and repression, in the post-First World War era, he led the way in outlandish, mystical philosophical and sexual free-thinking (less)

. vividly drawn with novel-like touches' Hanif KureshiAt midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces (less)

Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history, agitated for its freedom, and risked arrest to travel through its remote interior.

His love and knowledge inform every page of this learned, literate, and impassioned book.Talking with nomads and Buddhist nuns, exiles and collaborators, French portrays a nation demoralized by a half-century of Chinese occupation and forced to depend on the patronage of Western dilettantes.

He demolishes many of the myths accruing to Tibet-including those centering around the radiant figure of the Dalai Lama. Combining the best of history, travel writing, and memoir, Tibet, Tibet is a work of extraordinary power and insight (less)

Younghusband spent much of his early life as a leading player in the Great Game - the battle of wits over the uncharted territory of High Asia - and his presumed death as a spy in the Pamirs almost sparked off a war between British India and Tsarist Russia. But despite being a classic Edwardian, full of pomposity and repression, in the post-First World War era, he led the way in outlandish, mystical philosophical and sexual free-thinking (less)

I. Introductory and Early Career: 1.

Dipamkara in the religious history of India and Tibet. 2.

Misunderstanding Dipamkara and his message. 3.

The sources. 4.

The name. 5.

How many Dipamkaras? 6. Birth and lineage.

7. Early career.

8. Tantrika initiation.

9. Buddhist ordination.

10. Suvarnadvipa and Dharmakirti.

11. Back to India : peace mission.

12. Indian monasteries.

13. Vikramasila vihara.

14. Odantapuri and Somapuri.

15. Dipamkara at Vikramasila.

II. Tibetan Background: 16.

How the Tibetans tell their own history. 17.

Tibetans and their first king. 18.

Early legendary kings. 19.

Bon religion. 20.

Mysterious helper. 21.

Sron-btsan-sgam-po. 22.

Thon-mi Sambhota. 23.

Khri-sron-lde-btsan. 24.

The ministerial intrigues. 25.

Santaraksita, Padmasambhava and Kamalasila. 26.

Ral-pa-can. 27.

gLan Dar-ma. III.

Atisa in Tibet: 28. The subsequent propagation of the doctrine.

29. The pious king Ye-ses-'od.

30. Tibet on the eve of inviting Atisa.

31. Jayasila and Viryasimha.

32. Journey to (less)