K. Sitrampalam.

2. Towards understanding militant Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka/Ravi Vaitheespara.

3. Brides as bridges? movements, actors, documents and anticipation in constructing Tamil ness/Sidharthan Maunaguru.

4. Configuring spaces and constructing nations in Sri Lankan Tamil literature/Chelva Kanaganayakam.

5. Painting the artist's self : location, relocation and the metamorphosis/T.

Shanaathanan. 6.

Being Tamil in a different way: a feminist critique of the Tamil Nation/Radhika Coomaraswamy and Nimanthi Perera Rajasingham. 7.

Making sense of the census in Sri Lanka: up-country Tamils and Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism/Daniel Bass. 8.

The economics of Tamil Nationalism: evolution and challenges/V. Nithiyanandam.

9. Nationalism in the era of neo-liberalism: the changing global parameters of self determination and statehood/Rajesh Venugopal.

Appendix. Bibliography.

Index. "Sri Lanka, the 'Teardrop Isle', has been under international attention for more than two decades for its ethnic conflict and Civil War, and recently, under intense media scrutiny for what seems (less)

Apart from being a rich source of the wisdom of the bygone ages, these 'edged tools of speech' have always been used as stylistic adornments in rhetorical practice. The present work is a comprehensive collection of these proverbs.

Since a mere translation of a real proverb will not in most cases bring the reader into contact with its homely meaning an attempt has been made in this volume to make the application of each proverb clear which facilitates the grasping of the real meaning. In addition to translation the work contains the English equivalents of the Tamil proverbs.

The proverbs are classified under appropriate heads and (less)

1. Introduction.

2. Bovine sex ratios in India: theories and empirical findings.

3. Bovines in Tamil Nadu economy: a historical perspective.

4. Trends and determinants of Bovine sex ratios in Tamil Nadu.

5. Changes in the distribution of Bovine holdings in Tamil Nadu.

6. Milk production in Tamil Nadu: factors and sources of Growth.

Conclusion. Annexure: note on livestock statistics in Tamil Nadu.

Bibliography. Index.

"This book deals with the dynamics of bovine economy of India with a special focus on Tamil Nadu. Factors like agro-climatic conditions, performance of agriculture, mechanization, irrigation, cropping pattern, ownership and distribution of land have significant influence on the size, composition and productivity of bovines across regions in India.

The observed trends in work and milk animal population and the trends in milk production, demand and consumption indicate that dairying has been gaining importance in the bovine economy of Tamil Nadu. The changes in size, composition and (less)

Author's point. 1.

The Jattirai festival of Purariyamman: the Visiting Goddess of Tiruttani. 2.

A study of Kaman Kadaippadal: the Ballad on the Cupid reduced to ashes in the 'netragni' of Siva. 3.

Tamil Siddhas and Virasaiva Saranas: Souls searching for ultimate reality and heavenly bliss. 4.

Basavesvara and Ramalinga Swami: more than just mystics. 5.

Re-organisation of Bhakti Movement in Tamil Nadu: the cult of 'Vallalar' Ramalinga Swami. 6.

Nandanar: a Dalit merged in the effulgence of Siva. Bibliography.

Index. "Much has been written on Tamil Bhakti Movement and on its literature by scholars with divergent agendas.

However, the present work tries to highlight the aspects of 'Beyond Bhakti', i.e.

other than the so-called Bhakti sentiments and practices. It attempts to study the unique Bhakti sentiment of folk people with the first hand knowledge and information to highlight its specific nature.

The book questions certain aspects of age old socio-cultural conventions (less)

2. Vijaya the conqueror.

3. From Vijaya's death to Mutasiva.

4. Buddha and Buddhism.

5. Devanampiya Tissa.

6. The first Tamil invasion.

7. The kings of Ruhuna.

8. The triumph of Comunu.

9. Dutugemunu's buildings.

10. Valagam Ba.

11. The Cholians.

12. The last of the Mahavansa kings.

13. The Gupta period in India.

14. Progress in arts and literature.

15. Two famous visitors.

16. Sigiriya.

17. Growth of Tamil influence.

18. The rise of Polonnaruva.

19. Civil strife among the Sinhalese.

20. Ancient trade of Ceylon.

21. Vijaya Bahu I.

22. A time of disorder.

23. Parakrama's early life.

24. How Parakrama became king of Lanka.

25. The reign of Parakrama.

26. Another Tamil invasion.

27. Pandita Parakrama Bahu.

28. The last phase I.

29. The last phase II.

30. The arrival of the Portuguese.

31. The discovery of Ceylon.

32. Extension of Portuguese influence.

33. The Kandyan kingdom.

34. Dutch (less)

I. The challenge of societal reorganization: 1.

Overwhelming change and faltering institutions, 1948-2002/Barrie M. Morrison.

II. Tensions of class and caste, group rights and individual freedoms: 2.

Religious and ideological intransigence among the Sinhalese/Bruce Matthews. 3.

Religious ideology among the Tamils/Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam. 4.

Tightening social cohesion and excluding 'others' among the Sinhalese/Bruce Matthews. 5.

From differences to ethnic solidarity among the Tamils/Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam. Selection of Tamil poetry translated by Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam.

6. The rise of militant Tamil nationalism, its assumptions and the cultural production of Tamil women/Sivamohan Sumathy.

III. The struggle to build a better life, a better society: 7.

Struggling to create self-help organizations in an urban slum: Mahiyawa/Sri Ranjith. 8.

Expanding world demand for gems: the old poor and the new rich in Ratnapura/Karunatissa Atukorala. 9.

Bonded tea estate workers: still waiting at the gates/M. Sinnathamby.

10. Satyodaya, NGOs and civil society: mobilizing across class community in a globalizing economy/Paul (less)

Slender, doe-eyed Valliamma, a Tamil labourer on one plantation, is in love with Soma, a Sinhala fish vendor and the father of her illegitimate son. Valliamma is exploited by individuals, a brutal social and economic system and, ultimately, the politics of a state.

Her fate symbolizes the dilemma and tragedy of her community, the so-called ‘Indian’ Tamils of Sri Lanka. Struggling for a place in the land of her birth and that of her child, caught between issues of race and language, Valliamma is denied the shelter and refuge she seeks there.

The novel ends as a journey begins, once more in search of refuge. ‘This sensitive, disturbing novel compels one’s concern for individual human tragedies (less)

P. Nathan, S.

Ghosh and C. Shrikantappa.

2. Field character and geochronology of Punjaipuliyampatti, Sirumugai and Karamadai stocks of Central Tamil Nadu/S.

Raju, K. Basak, R.

Vijaykumar and J. Prabhakar.

3. UHT Granulites from Madurai Block, Southern India : distribution, petrology and quantitative P-T Paths/D.

Prakash and S.N.

Lal. 4.

Metamorphic evolution of granulites around Rajapalayam Area, Madurai Block, Southern Granulite Terrain, Tamil Nadu/P. Rajesh Durai, V.

Srinivasan and A.K.

Swain. 5.

Varsha Nadu granite of the Pan-African Southern Granulite Terrain of Tamil Nadu: implications on genesis/K.G.

Asha Manjari and Sharana Basava. 6.

Pan-African Mandi Granite in the Lesser Himalaya : its field relationship and SHRIMP U-Pb Zircon dating/Sandeep Singh and A.K.

Jain. 7.

Mineral chemistry of major and accessory phases of Mandi Granite: response of a Pan-African Granite of Lesser Himalaya to the influence of Himalayan Metamorphism/Amitava Kundu, S. Sundararaman, N.

C. Pant (less)

Introduction. 2.

Setting the scene: the people. 3.

The dance: spread and perpetuation. 4.

Structure and content of the dance. 5.

Dance and lifestyle. 6.

Cultural construction of emotions. 7.

Reflections. Appendices: 1.

The non-Brahmin manifesto. 2.

Madras Devadasi act. 3.

The picture test. Bibliography.

Index. "Art is a vital component of culture in a generic sense and of being cultured in a specific sense.

This book identifies the interplay between dance and lifestyle in the specific context of Tamil Brahmin culture. It sets out an agenda which raises fundamental issues concerning cultural construction of identity in the matrix of symbolic configurations, experience and expression of emotions, rituals, dance, and life philosophy.

The rhythms of Tamil Brahmin culture integrate creativity, self-expression and collective identity in various processes of life at one level and merge with the universal rhythm of cosmic order at the other. The concern is with appreciating cultural rhythms that (less)

Sahyadri: Western Ghats biodiversity information system/T.V.

Ramachandra and A. Suja.

2. Biodiversity in Phytochemical research and development/T.

T. Sreelekha, Prabha Balaram and P.

K.K.

Nair. 3.

Biodiversity assessment and its conservation strategies: an overview/N. Ramakrishnan.

4. Woody species diversity and conservation of tropical semi-evergreen forest in the Shervarayan Hills of Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India/K.

Kadavul and N. Parthasarathy.

5. A study of forest biodiversity using GIS and remote sensing techniques: a case study of Uttara Kannada district/ Prakash K.

L. and R.

K. Somashekar.

6. Impact of industrial effluents and agrochemicals on biodiversity loss in aquatic environment/A.

G. Murugesan and C.

Rajakumari. 7.

Wetlands, water resources and biodiversity: an integrated approach for Wetland restoration/N. Ramakrishnan and A.

L.A.

Chidambaram. 8.

Biodiversity and its values: an overview/N. Ramakrishnan, G.

Pandian, S. Sampath Kumar & P.

Hariprasad. 9.

Study on the medicinal plants diversity in and around Tiruvannamalai Hill, Tiruvannamalai district, Tamil Nadu/M. Magendiran and N.

Ramakrishnan. 10.

Structure (less)

Preface. 1.

Introduction. 2.

Theories on political violence: an analytical framework. 3.

Preconditions of political violence in Sri Lanka: the 1971 Insurrection. 4.

Precondition of Tamil Guerrilla Warfare. 5.

Origin, development and form of Guerrilla organisations. 6.

Ideologies, strategies, and programmes. 7.

Pattern of political violence: 1971-1987. 8.

Conclusion. Appendices: i.

Tamil Guerrilla organisations. ii.

The theory of the J-curve. iii.

The theory of Tanter and Midlarsky. iv.

Ownership of land area under export crops prior to 1972 land reform (percentage). v.

Sri Lankan ethnic population by districts. vi.

Proposed Eelam State. vii.

Map showing the areas of the insurrection of 1971. viii.

Infrastructure of counter-insurgency. ix.

Annexure C. x.

Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement in 1987. Bibliography.

Index. "This book is the revised version of his doctoral thesis on "Political Violence in the Third World: A case studies of Sri Lanka: 1971-1987".

It is a systematic, empirical study of the left-wing insurrection by (less)

Introduction: childbirth and modernity in Tamil Nadu. 1.

The professionalization of obstetrics in "Colonial India" the "Problem" of childbirth in colonial discourse. 2.

Maternal and child health services in the postcolonial era. 3.

Bangles of Neem, bangles of gold: pregnant women as auspicious burdens. 4.

Invoking Vali: painful technologies of birth. 5.

Moving targets: the routinization of IUD insertions in public maternity wards. 6.

"Baby Friendly" hospitals and bad mothers: maneuvering development during the postpartum period. Conclusion: Reproductive Rights, "choices", and resistance.

Epilogue. Appendices: 1.

Sample interview questionnaires. 2.

Official structure of maternal-child health care institutions and practitioners in Tamil Nadu, 1995. Glossary.

Notes. Bibliography.

Index. "Even childbirth is affected by globalization-and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births assisted by midwives toward hospital births that increasingly rely on new technologies.

And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, (less)

A. Ansari and P.

Dwarakan. 2.

Epipogium roseum (D. Don) Lindl.

--a rare saprophytic orchid and new record from Salem district/A.A.

Ansari and P. Dwarakan.

3. Luisia abrahami Vatsala (Orchidaceae)--a new record for Tamil Nadu/A.

A. Ansari and P.

Dwarakan. 4.

Studies on the orchids of National Orchidarium and Experimental Garden, Yercaud, Tamil Nadu/A.A.

Ansari and P. Dwarakan.

5. Conservation of orchids--a review on few species of Shevaroy and Kolli hills/A.

A. Ansari, P.

Dwarakan and P.G.

Diwakar. 6.

Thrixspermum muscaeflorum Rao & Joseph--a new record to Arunachal Pradesh India/Sadanand N. Hedge.

7. Orchids of western Ghat : their distribution and classification/Muktesh Kumar.

8. A new contributions to the orchid flora of northeast India during 1950-1990, with special reference to Arunachal Pradesh--a review/A.

Nageswara Rao. 9.

Four new records of orchids from Arunachal Pradesh, India/A. Nageswara Rao.

10. An up-to-date census of Indian (less)

This study also traces out the development of sculptures and paintings from the earliest times to the Vijayanagara-Nayaka period. Besides, this work focuses the sociological factors such as pattern of dress, ornaments, coiffure, performance of dance and music, use of household articles, condition of army and war weapons, the mode of transports, social customs, festivals, and entertainment as depicted in the sculptures and paintings of this period (less)

Biochemical composition of wild copepods, Acartia Erythraea Giesbrecht and Oithona brevicornis Giesbrecht from Coleroon Coastal waters, Southeast Coast of India/M. Rajkumar, K.

P. Kumaraguru Vasagam and P.

Perumal. 2.

Studies on the toxic effects of arsenic on glucose content in freshwater fish, Labeo Rohita (Hamilton)/K. Pazhanisamy.

3. Microbial resources of the mangrove and Vellar-Estuary, Southeast Coast of India/Surajit Das, P.

S. Lyla and S.

Ajmal Khan. 4.

A study on the physico-chemical characteristics of water in Vallur Village of Tiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu, India/M. Sangeetha, P.

Lakshmi Devi, P. Indumathy, J.

Jayanthi and M.G.

Ragunathan. 5.

Zooplankton diversity of Goutami Godavari Estuary, Yanam, Pondicherry (U.T.

)/K. Sree Latha and S.

Rajalakshmi. 6.

Research on Bioactive compounds producing marine actinobacteria/K. Sivakumar, Maloy Kumar Sahu, J.

Rajkumar, T. Thangaradjou and L.

Kanna. 7.

Physico-chemical factors of the waters of Vattambakkam lake in Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India/R. Eswaralakshmi, J.

Jayanthi and M.G.

Ragunathan. 8.

Water quality Index (less)

2. Early history origin of Jaffna, Tamil Kings, Portuguese days, Dutch rule, British regime.

3. Races and creeds Tamils, Naddukoddai Chetties, Moors, other races, religions.

4. Tamil language and literature general, Jaffna poets, prose writers.

5. Education colleges, boarding schools for girls, convents, industrial schools.

6. Journalism newspapers, magazines.

7. Agriculture wells, rice, dry grains, vegetables, breadfruit, jak fruit, grape vine, ground-nut, pine apple, pomegranates, mangoes, tobacco, cocoanut, Palmyrah, tamarind, Margosa, Suria, Iluppai.

8. Industries and occupations machinery, dyeing, oil mills, weaving, cigar-making, basket and mat making, goldsmith occupations.

9. Things of interest ruins, curiosities, buildings etc.

of interest. 10.

Principal roads with their distances, noting places of interest Jaffna to (1) Elephant Pass, (2) Point Pedro, (3) Kangasenturai, (4) Kaits, (5) Punnalai via Manipay, (6) Kodigamam to Point Pedro, (7) Point Pedro to Punnalai. 11.

Towns and villages. 12.

Public institutions and offices post and (less)

Sri Lanka and India. 2.

Sri Lankan national consciousness. 3.

Widening Gulf. 4.

Creeping separatism. 5.

Rise of Tamil militancy. 6.

Indian involvement in the ethnic conflict. 7.

Anti-Tamil Riots of 1983. 8.

India's mediatory role. 9.

India's concern at escalating violence. 10.

Rajiv Gandhi takes over. 11.

Thimpu talks. 12.

Towards confrontation. 13.

Confrontation in Jaffna. 14.

The crisis peaks. 15.

Towards a peace agreement. 16.

India and the peace agreement. 17.

LTTE and the Indian peace keeping force. 18.

Proposal for a treaty of peace and friendship. 19.

LTTE's intransigence. 20.

One year after the peace agreement. 21.

Presidency of the Ranasinghe Premadasa. 22.

Deinduction of the Indian peace keeping force. 23.

The North-East provincial council. 24.

Assassinations and the second peace process. 25.

Extradition of Prabakaran. 26.

Devolution package. 27.

Epilogue. 28.

Postscript-2004. Index.

"Sri Lanka has been in turmoil ever since her independence. The Tamils, whether of Indian (less)

1. Abortion use and practice: evidence, challenges and emerging issues/Leela Visaria, Vimala Ramachandran, Bela Ganatra and Shveta Kalyanwala.

2. Abortion care in Urban Slums: the case of Ahmedabad/Alka Barua.

3. Women, work and abortion practices in Tamil Nadu/S.

Anandhi. 4.

Abortion among married women/Anjali Radkar. 5.

Sex-selective abortion in Gujarat and Haryana: some empirical evidence/Leela Visaria. 6.

Community perspectives on abortion: An ethnographic exploration of rural Pune/Sudhakar Morankar, Bhupali Mhaskar, Vidula Purohit, Mrudul Patil and Abhay Kudale. 7.

Post abortion care in the public health system/M. Prakasamma.

8. Induced abortion: A study of rural Tamil Nadu/P.

Balasubramanian, T.K.

Sundari Ravindran and U.S.

Mishra. 9.

Pregnancy wastage among the poor in coastal Karnataka/K. Susheela and K.

Nagaraj. 10.

Informal providers of abortion services: an exploration/Bela Ganatra and Leela Visaria. About the editors.

Index. "India was a pioneer in legalizing induced abortion, or Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) in 1971 (less)

Bala-kanda. 2.

Ayodhya-kanda. 3.

Aranya-kanda. 4.

Kiskindha-kanda. 5.

Sundara-kanda. 6.

Yuddha-kanda. Index.

"The story of Rama has been dominating the Indian religious scene from the time immemorial. Though the scholars have tried to trace out the genesis of the story in fragments from the Vedic Literature, but it goes to the credit of the Adikavi Valmiki to compose the theme in the form of a definite story of poetic excellence.

With the composition of the work of Valmiki, its popularity went on increasing. Not only the same was played in audio-visual or performing art, but soon as urge was developed by the people speaking different languages to listen to the story in their own languages.

As a result of this the story was composed in different languages of the various regions, besides Sanskrit. A number of Ramayana stories were composed in the medieval period and possible Kamba Ramayana (Tamil) was the earliest (less)

It covers an area of about 75,000 sq. km.

With an average width of 200 km in the north and 100 km in the South. They extend over a length of 1750 km between the rivers Mahanadi and Vaigainal along East Coast.

In the present volume Systematic Enumeration of families from Stylidaceae to Plantaginaceae is given. Families are arranged according to Bentham and Hooker’s system with incorporation of recent changes.

Under each family key to the genera, followed by genus with its authority, keys to the species and species enumeration is given. The genera under the family and species under the genus are arranged in alphabetical sequence.

Keys (less)

2. Portfolio: temple and town/Bharath Ramamrutham.

3. Chidambaram and the dance of Siva in South Indian myth and poetry/Indira Viswanathan Peterson.

4. Chidambara Rahasya: the "secret" of Chidambaram/B.

Natarajan. 5.

Ritual life of the Nataraja temple/Paul Younger. 6.

The Nataraja Murti and Chidambaram: genesis of a cult image/John Guy. 7.

Chola architecture and sculpture at Chidambaram/Gerd J.R.

Mevissen. 8.

Paintings in the Shivakamasundari shrine at Chidambaram/David Smith. 9.

The temple at Tiruvalangadu and the myth of the dance competition/Michael Wood. 10.

The dancing lords of Tillai and Arur: a comparative study/Rajeshwari Ghose. 11.

The blessed and the banal: Shiva Nataraja in the 20 century/Pratapaditya Pal. Glossary.

Index. "Among Tamil Nadu's innumerable temples, Chidambaram occupies a unique place as the home of Nataraja, the dancer form of Shiva.

This is now one of the most celebrated images of any Hindu deity, renowned throughout India and indeed all over the (less)

2. M.

Krishnan: a biographical sketch/Ramachandra Guha. 3.

The Craft of a unique photographer/T.N.

A. Perumal.

4. The fine art of photography/M.

Krishnan. 5.

An ebullience of elephants. 6.

An hour with a king. 7.

Elephant children. 8.

One-eyed Tara. 9.

My distinguished neighbour. 10.

A day's Span of life. 11.

The ear that hears. 12.

The spirit of the forest. 13.

Sambar and son. 14.

A strident alarmist. 15.

The mouse deer. 16.

The misanthropoid. 17.

Monkeying in the deep. 18.

Giant squirrel. 19.

The fretful porpentine. 20.

A spiky customer. 21.

Wild boar. 22.

The biscobra. 23.

Snakebird and median egret. 24.

Caspian tern. 25.

A brightness in the grass. 26.

Leopards in the dark. Index to photographs.

"M. Krishnan (1912-1996) was endowed with a wide range of interests and amazing prowess as a writer in both his native Tamil and English.

He wrote on anything (less)

1. Andhra Pradesh.

2. Assam.

3. Bihar.

4. Chandigarh.

5. Chattisgarh.

6. Delhi.

7. Gujarat.

8. Haryana.

9. Himachal Pradesh.

10. Jammu and Kashmir.

11. Jharkhand.

12. Karnataka.

13. Kerala.

14. Madhya Pradesh.

15. Maharashtra.

16. Manipur.

17. Meghalaya.

18. Orissa.

19. Punjab.

20. Rajasthan.

21. Tamil Nadu.

22. Uttaranchal.

23. Uttar Pradesh.

24. West Bengal.

From the introduction: "Education is the cornerstone upon which is based the entire structure of action and thought of a nation and country. Religion is the mainstay of the Islamic culture which is mainly based on education.

This is the reason that in Islam education has been given a primacy of place. In numerous verses the Holy Quran has attached great importance to the pursuit of knowledge.

In the very first revelation of the Holy Book the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was given a command to read and write. In a number of sayings (less)