Research context theoretical frame and methodology. 2.

Research area and ethnography. 3.

Description and analysis of resource use. 4.

Socio-economy, patterns and strategies of resource use. 5.

Conclusions. Annexes.

Glossary. Bibliography.

Index. "Here is the third volume in the series Man and Forest: a series trying to highlight the relevance of ‘indigenous knowledge’ of various tribal communities in the sustainable management of forests/local resources against the growing challenges of environmental hazards and declining resource base.

The volume takes the reader to the Dayak Benuaq village of Lempunah in Borneo (East Kalimantan, Indonesia) where, for over three hundred years, the local tribal population has made extensive use of its forest resources. More than a hundred locally-differentiated rice varieties and 150 other crops are cultivated over a mosaic forest of 9,200 ha.

Besides maintaining a high level of bio-diversity, Lempunah villagers are managing an enormous reservoir of flora and fauna for their extended subsistence (less)

General and fundamentals: 1. General introduction/Ashok Pandey and Sumitra Ramachandran.

2. General properties of enzymes/Sandra A.

Furlan and Hari K. Pant.

3. Enzyme kinetics and modelling of enzymatic systems/Emmanuel M.

Papamichael and Leonidas G. Theodorou.

4. Thermodynamics of enzyme catalysed reactions/Robert N.

Goldberg and Yadu B. Tewari.

5. Regeneration of cofactors for enzyme biocatalysis/Ryan D.

Woodyer, Tyler W. Johannes and Huimin Zhao.

6. Biocatalysis in organic media using enzymes/Adrie J.

J. Straathof.

7. Biotransformations with crude enzymes and whole cells/Pierre Fontanille, Jean-Bernard Gros and Christian Larroche.

8. Enzymes as tools for the stereospecific formation of carbon-carbon bonds for the synthesis of monosaccharides and analogs/Jean Bolte, Virgil Helaine, Laurence Hecquet and Marielle Lemaire.

9. Enzymes engineered for new reactions - novel catalysts for organic synthesis/Per Berglund.

II. Industrial enzymes: 10.

Alpha amylase/T. Satyanarayana, J.

L. Uma Maheswar Rao and M.

Ezhilvannan. 11.

Glucoamylase/Carlos R. Soccol, Pappy J.

Rojan, Anil K. Patel, Adenise L.

Woiciechowski, Luciana (less)

I. General: 1.

New tools for isolation and identification of micro-organisms/Cecile Militon, Corinne Petit-Biderre and Pierre Peyret. 2.

Immobilization - Microencapsulation/P. Fernandes and J.

M.S.

Cabral. 3.

Nanobiotechnology and bioprocesses/Arup Mukherjee. II.

Bioprocess optimization, design of bioreactors and downstream processing: 4. Biosensors/Beatriz Lopez-Ruiz, Marta Sanchez-Paniagua Lopez, Arturo Jose Miranda-Ordieres and Noemi Santos-Alvarez.

5. Metabolic engineering and other methods for strain improvement/Anne Ruffing and Rachel Ruizhen Chen.

6. Fermentation media: Design and properties/Jean-Bernard Gros.

7. Bioreactors: Functions in fermentation processes/Bimal Chandra Bhattacharya, Soumitra Banerjee and Tapan Kumar Ghosh.

8. Statistical design for the optimization of fermentation processes/Christophe Vial.

9. Downstream processing of biologicals: A strategic approach/Tapati Bhanja, Mithu Das and Rintu Banerjee.

III. Industrial products and bioprocesses: 10.

Industrial enzymes/Parameswaran Binod, Reeta Rani Singhania, Carlos Ricardo Soccol and Ashok Pandey. 11.

Fermented beverages: The examples of winemaking/Jean-Marie Sablayrolles. 12.

Production of organic acids: Citric, Gluconic and Lactic acids/Hwa-Won Ryu, Young-Jung Wee, Jin-Nam Kim (less)

There have been many later works from Indian Christian scholars emphasising the possible contributions of one or other school of Indian philosophy to Christian thought. Whereas the merit of these two pioneering works was that they provide a Christian response to all the six systems of Hindu philosophy together comprehensively.

For the later Indian Christian scholars to follow inclusivism or pluralism or pluralistic inclusivism in Theology of Religions, somebody had to start at the (less)

Personal experience (biographical). 2.

A life of dialogical commitment. II.

Abhishiktananda's dialogical theology: 1. The context and the setting of Abhishiktananda's dialogical theology.

2. Presuppositions and process of Abhishiktananda's dialogical theology.

3. The unique shape of Abhishiktananda's dialogical theology.

3. Evaluation and conclusion.

Bibliography. Index.

"This book in its original form is the thesis submitted to the Senate of Serampore College towards the D.Th degree with the title : "An Examination of Swami Abhishiktananda's Dialogical Theology": now published, with written permission with the title : "A Christian Dialogical Theology : The Contribution of Swami Abhishiktananda.

The book is both a person-oriented and a problem-oriented research. It focuses on the unique personality of Swami Abhishiktananda and on the unique contribution he has made to the problem of inter-faith relationships in terms of inter-faith dialogue.

Meeting between the Sanathana Dharma (classical Hindu faith, Advaita in particular) and Christianity as a faith (less)

Calendar. 2.

Hijrah, the year of migration. 3.

How to calculate the date of manuscripts? 4. Sumer from its origin to Hammurapi.

5. Hittites, phoenicians and Hebrews.

6. Assyria and its neighbours.

7. Egypt from 4000 BC to Roman times.

8. Crete and Mycenae from their origins to the Dorian invasions.

9. Sparta, Athens and the birth of Rome.

10. Archaic Greece.

11. The formation of the Persian Empire.

12. Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.

13. The empire of Alexander the Great.

14. Rome from Republic to world conquest.

15. Civil wars from Caesar to Augustus.

16. The empire in the first century.

17. The Golden age of the Antonines (AD 96-192).

18. The third century and the decline of the Empire (AD 193-395).

19. The fall of Rome and the Barbarian Kingdoms.

20. India and China (AD 900).

21. The Frankish Empire, England and the East.

22. Western (less)

Biography of Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub. Introduction.

I. The need for dialogue : setting the context: 1.

The need for harmony and collaboration between Muslims and Christians. 2.

The Islamic context of Muslim-Christian relations. 3.

Islam and Christianity : between tolerance and acceptance. 4.

Roots of Muslim-Christian conflict. 5.

Christian-Muslim dialogue : goals and obstacles. II.

Critical theological and juridical issues : a comparative perspective: 6. A Muslim appreciation of Christian holiness.

7. Martyrdom in Christianity and Islam.

8. The idea of redemption in Christianity and Islam.

9. Dhimmah in the Qur'an and Hadith.

III. Christological issues : Muslim perspectives: 10.

The miracle of Jesus : Muslim reflections on the divine word. 11.

Jesus the son of God : a study of the terms Ibn and Walad in the Qur'an and Tafsir tradition. 12.

Toward an Islamic Christology I : an image of Jesus in early Shi'i Muslim literature (less)

"We had to take primarily into account the needs of missionaries entering upon new regions, and then of those who might hereafter follow into the same field of enterprize. The chief motive of all our exertions lay always in the desire to facilitate and to hasten the spread of the Christian religion and of Christian civilization, among the millions of Buddhists, who inhabit Central Asia, and who speak and read in Tibetan idioms.

"A yet more definite object influenced my own personal linguistic researches, in as much as I had undertaken to make preparations (less)

Rethinking the world from two peripheries. 2.

From European reformation to Bengal renaissance. 3.

Santal memory and identity. 4.

A new colonial order: Bengal in the 1860s. 5.

Evangelicalism, cosmopolitanism, and radical roots. 6.

Contested minds: Christian Austerity and santal pleasure. 7.

A Christian Santal Community. 8.

The end of an era. 9.

Tradition and its reinvention. Bibliography.

Index. "This book partakes of the post-colonial reassessment of the nineteenth century, where agency is seen to lie, not just with the colonizing centre, but also with the colonized periphery.

Here, missionaries from a peripheral part of Europe--including a Norway striving to decolonize itself--try to convert the Santals, an Indian tribe which had rebelled against the intruding colonial order. Provincializing the European origins of the missionaries, the authors try to explore the Santal response.

Missionary sources have been used to recast such encounters, but the response seldom has had a documented voice. The santals, (less)

Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man.

And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more. But Grey is tormented by inner demons, and consumed by the need to control.

As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Grey keeps hidden away from public view (less)

The Art of Real Happiness will help you cope with depression and anxiety, and show you how to achieve peace of mind, contentment and real personal happiness.By following the techniques within you can become regenerated, in touch with your creative forces and in turn, with the infinite powers of the universe (less)

Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man.

And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more. But Grey is tormented by inner demons, and consumed by the need to control.

As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Grey keeps hidden away from public view (less)

Acknowledgement. 1.

George Grant: introduction to his life and philosophy/William Christian. 2.

The motive for coincidence between Gandhi and Grant/Ramjee Singh. 3.

George Grant and Mahatma Gandhi: On pacifism and technology/William Christian. 4.

Gandhi and Grant: Deeper nationalisms/Ron Dart. 5.

Gandhi and Grant on empire and the Longings of the soul/Peter Emberley. 6.

The Saint and the Professor: integrating nationalism and religious thought in the writings of Gandhi and Grant/George Melnyk. 7.

Rethinking democracy and beyond: in the back drop of Gandhiji's views/S.R.

Bhatt. 8.

Gandhi, Heidegger and the technological times/R. Raj Singh.

9. George Grant and Hinduism/Ron Dart.

10. The new sociological imagination, Jnana Yoga and the web of life: Gandhi, Grant, Mills, Peirce/Johannes Bakker.

11. Were Mohandas K.

Gandhi and George Grant Neo-Luddite nationalists?/James B. Gerrie.

12. Grant and Gandhi: a live interview with Mrs.

Shiela Grant/Arati Barua. 13.

George Grant on order and creativity/Andrew Kaethler. 14.

Secularism - a (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. Nirvana, Moksha or liberation.

2. Existence of the soul.

3. The path of Nirvana or liberation.

4. Karmas and their fruits.

5. Ahimsa.

6. Why Jainism and Buddhism are the same? "Jainism is older than Buddhism.

Vardhaman Mahavira, the last Tirthankara of the Jainas was the contemporary of Gautama Buddha. The sects organised by the two leaders flourished for centuries together, before and after the Christian era.

Although there were differences in the conduct of their monks in as much as the Jaina saints remained naked and the Buddhist monks wore cloths, there were closer resemblances between the two. This book on Jaino-Buddhist religion places stress on the common factors on the religious life of the Jaina and Buddhists.

On comparing the literature of both, the writer has come to the conclusion that coming in close association each sect has either borrowed from the other or both have (less)

List of abbreviations. 1.

Dattilam: Text and translation. 2.

Pathavimarsa (Text-critical comments). 6.

Commentary on the text. 7.

Appendix: A chart of Dattilam in quotations. 8.

Select bibliography. 9.

Padanukramanika. 10.

Padanukramanika. "The Dattilam is a remarkable treatise from the earliest known period of organised, systematic writing on music in India.

The work can be placed in the same period as the Natyasastra (the beginning of the Christian era) and it presents to us a well-developed Sastra, composed at the end of a long tradition of analytic thinking on music. It is devoted to the description of Gandharva, a sacred corpus of music, derived from the still more ancient sama, sacred Vedic form.

Gandharva was also the parent of later forms from which our own present forms have descended. But the importance of the Dattilam is not a merely historical one.

It articulates a framework and approach in musicology with which (less)

Yet for most contemporary New Age and popular writers, Tantra is celebrated as a much-needed affirmation of physical pleasure and sex: indeed as a ‘cult of ecstasy’ that serves to counter the perceived hypocritical prudery of many Westerners. However, in recent years, Tantra has become the focus of a still larger (and fraught) cultural and political debate.

In the eyes of many Hindus, much of the western literature on Tantra represents a form of cultural imperialism and neo-colonialism, which continues to portray India (less)

Introductory remarks. 2.

Notices of the Peak and foot-print of early Christian writers. 3.

The Samanala Peak. 4.

Awissawela. 5.

Ratnapura. 6.

Palabaddala. 7.

Heramitipana. 8.

Descent from the Peak. 9.

The Kalu-ganga. 10.

Facsimile foot-prints. Appendix.

Addendum: "Philalethes". From the preface: "There is perhaps no mountain in the world of which so wide-spread a knowledge exists, as Adam’s Peak.

Almost every traveller to, or writer on, India and the East, has alluded to, noticed, or more or less described it. But considering the sanctity in which it is held by Buddhists, Hindus, and Mohammadans; the numerous legends and traditions connected with it; and the immense number of pilgrims who annually visit the alleged foot-print upon its summit; it is surprising how little has been recorded by any one author, and what wide and glaring discrepancies appear in the different accounts respecting it which have from time to time been given to (less)

The basic terminology of political thought has many sources. It has gradually evolved through the various phases of history and movements.

The Hindus, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Christian Fathers, Islamic Theologians, Renaissance, Reformation, Industrial, French, American, Russian, Chinese Revolutions, the anti-colonial upheavals in Asia and Africa, the Marxian thought and its multifold variations, the two World Wars, the post-war development including the collapse of the Soviet System, the emergence of the unipolar world, the work of UNO and its agencies have all contributed to the evolution and articulation of political ideas and concepts. An attempt has been made in the present work to explain and expound these concepts with a view to help the students as well as the general (less)

1. Mathura--its past.

2. Acquisition and collection.

3. Early times to the second century AD.

4. Images of Jaina Tirthankaras, the Buddha and other Brahmanical deities.

5. Kusana-Gupta and post-Gupta periods.

6. Important scenes and stories.

7. General remarks.

Appendices. Index.

"The Government Museum of Mathrua has the unique privileged of exhibiting a fine collection of that school of Indian art which flourished in Mathura right from the early centuries of Christian era radiating its influence far and wide. Much has been written on this important school - learned works of Drs Coomaraswamy, Vogel, V.

A. Smith, V.

S. Agrawala, Febri, Codrington can be cited as a few examples.

In spite of these works, much of the quality material from Mathura still remains unpublished. The present work brings to light some such pieces.

Meant for popular reading, it makes an inquisitive visitor appreciate the rich and beautiful sculptures exhibited in the galleries of the (less)

Introduction. Presenting folklore tales in poetry.

Prologue--this little folklore book. Pronounciation guides of Ao Naga words.

Tales: 1. Motives behind head hunting.

2. Two young head hunters.

3. The long haired women.

4. The lone survivor girl.

5. Warrior’s heart with a Red Ant.

6. Revenge for restoration of personal name.

7. The old man and his grandson.

8. Sever my head in a single blow.

9. Rank of a head hunter.

10. Setting fire to enemy village.

11. Messengers of head hunters.

12. Origin of Naga head hunting.

13. Head hunter’s song of challenge.

14. The Swift head hunter.

15. Return of head hunter.

16. Beware of the enemy head hunter.

17. Head hunter’s weapons.

18. Song of head hunter’s child.

19. She offered her head to her lover.

20. Killing of the first Naga Christian.

12. Toshiba in Nokrang village.

22. The two refugee brothers.

23. The tree of skull (less)

The Historical Perspective: 1. The historical argument.

2. The moral argument.

3. The cultural argument.

4. The argument by natural law.

5. The argument by law.

6. The argument by negative rights.

II. The Secular Perspective: 7.

The secular argument. 8.

The argument via individualism. 9.

The egalitarian argument. III.

The Economic Perspective: 10. The capitalist argument.

11. The liberal argument.

12. The argument of democratic capitalism.

IV. Rational and Philosophical Perspectives: 13.

The universalist argument. 14.

The argument via rationality. 15.

The philosophical argument. 16.

The argument from ethical relativism. V.

The Perspective of Modernity: 17. The modernity argument.

18. The habitative argument.

19. The argument by design.

20. The package-deal argument.

VI. The Religious Perspective: 21.

The religious argument. 22.

The homo sapiens argument. 23.

The deontological argument. 24.

The Christian argument. 25.

The argument by human suffering. VII.

The Colonial Perspective: 26. The colonial argument.

27. The imperialist argument (less)

Religions and Ideologies: Hinduism, Christianity and Islam: 1. A scientist looks at Hinduism.

2. Faith and freedom.

3. Faith and politics.

4. Science on prophets and revelation.

II. Historical Themes: Correcting Distortions: 5.

Indus script and the myth of the Aryan invasion. 6.

Vedic Dravidians. 7.

The meaning of Ayodhya. 8.

From Somnath to Haj. 9.

Dead sea scrolls shatter the Christian myth. 10.

The real Mother Teresa. III.

The National Scene: Conflicts and Values: 11. A country at odds with itself.

12. More education, less politics.

13. The historic role of caste.

IV. The Kshatriya Spirit : Recovering Cultural Nationalism: 14.

Sri Aurobindo on the Kshatriya spirit. 15.

Needed : a new national vision emphasizing heroic virtues. 16.

Contrasting visions: Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo. Selected bibliogrphy.

Index. "A feature of the current Indian intellectual scene that strikes an outside observer (as I consider myself) is its excessive inhibition.

There appear (less)