Devadasi custom justification for the study. 2.

The development of the Devadasi System. 3.

Stronghold of the system. 4.

Management of the system. 5.

Selection and functions. 6.

Relations of Devadasis. 7.

Opposition to the custom. 8.

Devadasi cult: a sociological approach. 9.

Genesis of Devadasi cult. 10.

Devadasi cult: a case study of Belgaum. 11.

Devadasis of Yellampura village. 12.

Continuity of Devadasi cult. 13.

Reformation and rehabilitation of Devadasis. 14.

Recommendation. 15.

Devadasi an anthropological study. 16.

Devadasi custom. 17.

Devadasi custom and the shrines. 18.

From sacred servant to prostitute. 19.

An assessment. "Multiplicity of sexual crimes today is a horrifying legacy of modern civilized societies.

It will therefore be worthwhile to study religious and social customs of Devadasis prevalent in India through the ages. Scholars from various disciplines have carried out extensive research on the subject.

The material selected for this work will provide inputs for us to (less)

Glossary. 1.

Introduction. 2.

Demographic profile of the aged in India and Orissa. 3.

Village demography and socio-economic profile. 4.

Demographic background of the aged in study villages. 5.

Social situation and the problems of the aged. 6.

Constitutional safeguards, welfare measures and recommendations. 7.

Summary and conclusions. Bibliography.

Appendices. Index.

"The traditional Indian social system has been changing very fast because of the steadily engulfing forces of modernization, urbanization, industrialization and other such processes. It has drastically affected the rural family structure in general and the age-old Indian joint family system in particular.

In urban fringes the joint family system has been disintegrated to a large extent and therefore, the social and economic significance of this institution has significantly diminished. The fact of consumerism and individualistic attitude of the younger generation has necessitated them to drift away from their villages to gain more comfort and achieving future goals in urban areas (less)

1. Topography of Dacca.

2. History of Old Dacca (To A.

D. 1608).

3. Mughal Dacca (1608-1765).

4. Mughal nobility.

5. Mughal life.

6. Dacca under the British (1765-1947).

7. Dacca the capital of East Pakistan.

8. Mughal monuments in Dacca.

9. Modern monuments in Dacca.

10. Dacca neighbourhood.

Index. "The book is a reprint of the second edition of A.

H. Dani's Dacca : A Record of Its Changing Fortunes, which is a much enlarged version of its first edition (1956).

Though written primarily with the avowed intention of producing a book for the visitors to Dacca (as it was spelt then) as a handy guide to the historic past of the city, the second edition turned out to be much more comprehensive and full of the author's thoughts on various social and cultural issues. Drawing upon the various earlier works, Dani undertook extensive field work to record in greater details the historic (less)

First published in 1935, this book offers refreshing insights into British India and contains over two hundred rare and fascinating photographs. Beyond the apparent purposes of these images--as picturesque views, scientific records of the architectural past and socio-cultural survey - deeper consideration influenced the way these images have been presented.

These views are enduring records of minds as well as monuments, and exist today as artefacts of the visual culture of the Raj. A millennium and a half separates the first photograph in this book from the last.

The noble simplicity and reposeful grandeur of the first reveals hellenistic influence (less)

Digital libraries. 2.

Digital library infrastructure. 3.

Information dissemination. 4.

Technology trends. 5.

Digital preservation. 6.

Acquisition, retrieval and rendering. 7.

Information technology investments. 8.

Meta-information environment. 9.

Academic digital libraries. 10.

Text encoding. 11.

Indexing and access for digital libraries. 12.

Metadata libraries. 13.

Cataloging and metadata. 14.

Multimedia content management. 15.

Electronic publishing. 16.

Support for online learners. 17.

Reforming copyright. 18.

Digital library developments. Index.

"The changes in technology using electronically stored and retrieval information has changed the way patrons and students are able to access, retrieve and use information. The instantaneous access of information through the internet has made vast amounts of information and data available to anyone with a computer, a modem and a provider.

Digital information is changing the role of librarians from a person who students ask for assistance in finding information in a place called a library to someone who needs to provide services (less)

1. The international aspects of the needs of environmental assessment.

2. Environmental assessment in perspective.

3. EIA process.

4. Methodology.

5. Social impact assessment.

6. The urban environmental impact assessment.

7. EIA in developed countries and aid agencies.

8. EIA and international conventions.

9. Environmental Risk Assessments (EnRa).

10. Monitoring and mitigation.

11. Environmental assessment and cont-benefit analysis for sustainability assurance.

12. EIA reporting.

"The importance of environmental protection and conservation measures has been increasingly recognized during the past two decades. It is now generally accepted that economic development strategies must be compatible with environmental goals.

This requires the incorporation of environmental dimensions into the process of development. It is important to make choices and decisions that will eventually promote sound development by understanding the environment functions.

A increasing number of developing countries are accepting the principle of environmental screening of development projects at the planning stage and hence are looking for (less)

Fundamentals of library cataloguing : an introduction. 2.

Cataloguing today. 3.

Cataloguing : the changing scenario. 4.

Major problems of cataloguing. 5.

Library standard. 6.

Towards future. 7.

Organising for access. Glossary.

Bibliography. Index.

"In the world of library and information technology, a catalogue is a key to knowledge and learning. In a library, cataloguing is the most important work.

As a matter of fact, catalogue is a list of books, maps, coins, stamps, sound recordings, or materials in any other medium that constitute a collection. Its prime purpose is to record, describe and index the holdings of a specific collection.

Besides cataloguing, bibliographic control is a transcription of the complete cataloguing record : (i) to provide all the information necessary to describe an item accurately both physically and intellectually in order to distinguish it from every other item, and (ii) to provide its location in the classified collection. When such a (less)

Introduction. 2.

Women and economic development. 3.

Employment and occupational structure of women in Punjab. 4.

Analysis of women's participation in work. 5.

Shifts in occupational participation--1961-81. 6.

Determinants of changes in the occupational structure of woman. 7.

Summary and conclusions. Annexure.

Bibliography. "Uptil recently, in India as in many other developing countries, the role of women in the economic activity of the nation was practically ignored.

The increasing participation of women in the work-force, the multiple role of women as mothers, homemakers and paid workers and misunderstandings of the nature of unemployment among women, therefore, suggest the usefulness of describing trends and relationships, in labour force participation as a background for asessing the volume of employment, occupational structure and the impact of economic growth. In this light, the present study analyses in depth the changing role of women in occupational structure with the economic development of the society.

"The book will (less)

Narayana Murthy, who shows us that a society working for the greatest welfare of the greatest number samasta jananam sukhino bhavantu must focus on two simple things: values and good leadership. Drawing on the remarkable Infosys story and the lessons learnt from the two decades of post-reform India, Narayana Murthy lays down the ground rules that must be followed if future generations are to inherit a truly progressive nation (less)

India women : the new configurations/Indu Prakash Singh. 2.

Changing status of Indian women : a myth or reality/Anupama Shandilya. 3.

Changing status of women in India/G. Narayana and A.

Lakshmi. 4.

Status and role of contemporary women in rural India/Poonam Gupta. 5.

Decision roles of women in rural and semi-urban activities/S. Giriappa.

6. The changing status of tribal women in India/Manju Manral.

7. Social adjustment of women in urban India/Sarojini Wasson.

8. Feminist perspectives : some thoughts/Anuradha Bhoite.

9. Women's issues: need and modes of awareness raising/Chhaya Datar.

10. Gender and work/Amarnath R.

Das and Ch. Umamohan.

11. Divorces in Indian society/Rekha Pandey.

Index. "This book deals with the most important issues of changing status and emerging problems of women in Indian society.

The status of Indian women has undergone change with more and more women, particularly in urban India, becoming economically independent. This has made them more mobile in various (less)

Overview of Himalayan biodiversity/U. Dhar.

II. Current status of biodiversity in the Himalaya.

1. Floristic diversity/D.

K. Singh and P.

K. Hajra.

2. Himalayan bamboo diversity and its conservation: a case study/C.

M.A.

Stapleton. 3.

Faunal diversity/A.K.

Ghosh. 4.

Crop diversity/B.D.

Joshi and J.C.

Rana. 5.

Livestock diversity/D.S.

Balain. 6.

Wetland biodiversity/C.L.

Trisal. III.

Socio-economic context: 1. Indigenous approaches to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development/P.

S. Ramakrishnan and K.

G. Saxena.

2. Case study of eastern Himalaya/Ajay Rastogi and Ruchi Pant.

3. Case study of western Himalaya/Vandana Shiva.

4. Case study of trans Himalaya/Helena Norberg Hodge.

IV. Conservation approaches and options: 1.

Loss of biodiversity and need for conservation/Amber Ahuja. 2.

Impact of trade on Himalayan biodiversity/Vivek Menon. 3.

Biodiversity conservation approaches: in-situ/Virinder Sharma. 4.

Biodiversity conservation approaches: ex-situ (role of biotechnology)/L.M.

S. Palni.

V. Policy and management issues: 1.

Monitoring and management of biodiversity/Virinder Sharma and Amber Ahuja. 2.

Biodiversity and international issues/Devinder Sharma. 3.

Biodiversity (less)

Introduction. 2.

Status of women in ancient India. 3.

Health status of women. 4.

Women and economy. 5.

Women in employment. 6.

Women in governance. 7.

Women's freedom and equality. 8.

Status of women in Northeast India. 9.

Women's participation in disaster management. 10.

Women's welfare programmes. 11.

National Policy for the Empowerment of Women (2001). 12.

Violence against women. Bibliography.

Index. "The book, one in the series of books on women and India, explores the constantly changing perspectives and perceptions on Indian women, especially within a globalising context.

It delineates for the readers the many roles that women occupy in the many Indian that reside within the heart of this nation, and how these roles are gradually emerging towards an image of the Indian woman who is both emancipatory, as well as earthily Indian. Not only this, it also provides a framework from where the challenges and issues to this image (less)

Moreover, the UN and other worldorganisations have made certain efforts to improve women's position effectingnations of the world. However, the pressure of old traditional customs and normscontinue to determine the society's attitude towards women.

As the North-eastregion is very much a part of India the problem faced by women of India isequally shared by women of North-east in addition to their unique problems.Therefore, a study of this kind is necessary so that the problems of women inthis region can be reduced if not resolved.

The present volume includes variousaspects of problems against women of the North-east. The importance of the worklies in inventing some valuable innovative ideas, (less)

Introduction. 2.

Changing libraries. 3.

Collection development in an electronic age. 4.

Machine learning to analyse quality. 5.

Search engine technology. 6.

Dynamic disseminations of multimedia objects. 7.

Online games and information services. 8.

Digital preservation systems. 9.

Metadata for digital preservation. 10.

Assessing preservation environment. 11.

Access and user interfaces. 12.

Educating through electronic libraries. 13.

School libraries in electronic age. 14.

Challenges of electronic reference. 15.

Issues in digital libraries. Bibliography.

Index. "Libraries today have shunned the mantle of being mere repositories of books and other print material.

The advent of technology has seen the introduction of electronic services, like computerised subscription and the internet, making their presence felt in present age libraries. Library trends have seen innumerable changes since the first printed materials were in use.

The present book explores at length the various upheavals and changes in the use of libraries as they now are gradually evolving from (less)

: 1985; compilation of forty essays published between 1975-1982 (less)

Hence women themselves resist change unless they are trained to think out of the box of patriarchy. Nag society is steeped in patriarchal values, and gender seems to be only a politically correct stance we talk at meetings and discussions.

Gender disparities still abound. We have come a long way, but we have only made progress toward changing the situation rather than eradicating it.

The present volume meticulously prepared by the two young Nag scholars is also in line with the same trend. The collection of essays contributed by the cross-sections of professional sociologists, journalists, administrators and a few young researchers provides a panoramic view of the changing gender equation in Naga society.

Definitely, this edition will be a beneficial reading for all the sections of people in Nag land and (less)