The present gold rush owes a great deal to the foresight of Penguin, easily the most prestigious global publisher, which made a home here when the world wasn?t yet in thrall to the Indian market. Penguin India began operating at a time when trade publishing in English was virtually unknown in the country.

The company launched its local programme in 1987 with seven titles: two novels in English and one in translation from Bengali, two biographies, a travelogue and a book of poems. Two decades on, it publishes 200 new books annually across a wide range of genres.

Along the way, it has published authors from every country in the Subcontinent. In 2005, with the launch of its Hindi list, Penguin became the first global publisher to publish in an Indian language other than English, and now releases over sixty titles every year in Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam and Urdu.

When it was set up in a two-bedroom flat in New Delhi, Penguin India?s most valuable asset was a boardroom table made of teak, at which strategies were devised, contracts signed and commitments made. Today, the table is no longer listed among the company?s assets.

Instead, it can boast the finest list of Indian authors (or authors of Indian origin) anywhere in the world. And the list keeps growing: among the long-admired names we?ll publish in the coming months are Kamala Markandaya, with her posthumous novel Bombay Tiger, and Amitav Ghosh, with his stunning new novel Sea of Poppies, the first in a trilogy.

Penguin India?s publishing remains as vibrant and confidently eclectic as our first clutch of titles promised. Our best authors, our true wealth, have stayed with us through the years, and helped us bring the best in contemporary Indian and international literature to readers everywhere.

These commemorative volumes of the finest writing we?ve published up to our twentieth year are dedicated to each one of them. Showcased here are authors who have topped best-seller charts in India and abroad, and won virtually every major literary prize, including the Nobel Prize, the Jnanpith Award, the Man Booker Prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Commonwealth Writers? Prize.

It is unlikely you will find a richer, more representative collection of writing from or about South Asia. Now, when virtually every major international trade publisher is present in India, the fastest-growing English-language publishing market in the world, Penguin India remains committed to the vision laid out on that teak table twenty years ago.

It is a vision that has ensured that Penguin in India, as in the rest of the world, is the publisher of choice for the best writers and the most discerning readers. And this is exactly how things will be twenty years from now (less)

In a journey across two thousand years, this enthralling book, written by a leading South Asian historian, describes the ties of trade, migration, and investment between India and the rest of the world and shows how changing patterns of globalization have reverberated in economic policy, politics, and political ideology within India. Along the way, the book asks three major questions: Is this a particularly Indian story? When did the big turning points happen? And is it possible to distinguish the modern from the pre-modern pattern of exchange? These questions invite a new approach to the study of Indian history by placing the region at the center of the narrative.

This is global history written (less)

Historical outline of Gujarati textiles and dress. 2.

Contemporary dress. 3.

Constructed textiles. 4.

Dyed, printed and painted textiles. 5.

Embroidery. 6.

Craft development and entrepreneurship. Appendix.

Glossary. Bibliography.

Acknowledgements. The textiles and dress of Gujarat in Western India are acclaimed for their design and craftsmanship.

The sophisticated weaves, dyeing techniques, intricate embroideries, vibrant motifs and embellished dress, and the communities to which many of these are unique, have all been the subjects of this extensive documentation. Textiles and dress play a central role in the construction of a visual identity of Gujarat and its people.

This book examines the social life of Gujarat’s textiles, tracing the historical journey of cloth and dress up to the present day. It looks closely at handmade fabrics, woven, dyed, painted and printed cloth, and embroidery, and locates their place in culture and trade.

It also acknowledges the role of entrepreneurship in the survival of these (less)

Introduction. 2.

History of agriculture. 3.

Agriculture in India. 4.

Problems of Indian agriculture. 5.

Indian agricultural trade. 6.

Development in agriculture and biotechnologies. 7.

Sustainable agriculture. 8.

Development of industrial biotechnologies. Bibliography.

Index. "India's record of progress in agriculture over the past four decades has been quite impressive.

The agriculture sector has been successful in keeping pace with rising demand for food. The contribution of increased land area under agricultural production has declined over time and increases in production in the past two decades have been almost entirely due to increased productivity.

Contribution of agricultural growth to overall progress has been widespread. Increased productivity has helped to feed the poor, enhanced farm income and provided opportunities for both direct and indirect employment.

The success of India's agricutlure is attributed to a series of steps that led to availability of farm technologies which brought about dramatic increases in productivity in 70s and (less)

2. 9/11.

3. War in passive voice.

4. The tolerance of Arabia.

5. Afterword.

Notes. "On 11 September 2001, three commercial aircraft became guided missiles and crashed into New York City’s World Trade Centre and the US Military’s Pentagon.

In response, the United States Government (along with the United Kingdom) launched an assault on Afghanistan to root out the networks of the Saudi financier Osama Bin Laden, and eventually the Taliban regime. This is the Fifth Afghan War.

Who is Osama Bin Laden? Why did the US Government target the Taliban and the people of Afghanistan? Why did the US Government not cast its eye on the IBN Saud family in Saudi Arabia? What is Pakistan’s vise and what is the indulgence of Hindutva?. What are the social forces that comprise the radical Islamic groups that felt the wrath of the US guns? What happened to the left in the Arab lands? (less)

Biographical note. 1.

Key to Roman transcription. 2.

Verse. Section: A.

Poems. B.

Quatrains. C.

Ghazals. Portrait of Faiz.

c. 1975.

Glossary of Urdu words in Roman script. "Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) was one of the leading, if not the foremost, poet of the Indian subcontinent during the greater part of the last century.

Listed four times for the Nobel prize of poetry, he was often compared to his friend Pablo Neruda, revolutionary poet and Nobel prize winner, of Chile. Of Faiz’s multifaceted personality, which led him to become, amongst other things, an activist for human rights and liberties, a famous journalist and editor of literary magazines (Urdu and others), trade unionist, and film song writer, it is his poetry which will, not doubt, best survive the test of time.

His very first volume of poetry, published in 1941 from Lucknow, brought him instant celebrity. "Naqsh-e-Faryadi" or "imprints" has since (less)

1. The dawn of photography in India: a complex legacy of the photographic studio/Partha Mitter.

2. Early precedents: ethnographic photography in Bombay, 1855-1870/Akshaya Tankha.

3. Facing the lens: Women in Bombay's photographic studios/Suryanandini Sinha.

4. Performance for camera: Shapoor N.

Bhedwar and the dimensions of studio photography in Bombay/Rahaab Allana. 5.

From Bombay to Mumbai: studios of the city. Further reading.

Glossary of terms. "Photography arrived in the harbour city of Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) as early as 1840, via trade, as well as through European explorers and government officials.

With the establishment of India's first photographic society in the city in 1854, the medium was used for documentation and later, even taught as an art form. Between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century, Mumbai became one of the largest centres of photography's patronage and dissemination in India, underscored by practitioners like Dr.

Narayan Daji (C. 1828-1875), a (less)

The fulcrum. 2.

Power house writers’ buildings. 3.

Hallmarked Raj Bhavan. 4.

Other buildings. 5.

State of trade. 6.

Faiths and the people. Epilogue.

Acknowledgements. Index.

“Globalisation has made a dramatic if belated foray into Calcutta, once considered the Second City of the Raj and India’s cultural capital. The most visible of its impacts has been a rapid change in the city’s skyline.

The outlines of the Victoria Memorial Hall, Howrah Bridge and the Ochterlony Monument (today’s Sahid Minar) that once ruled Calcutta’s horizon, have been fast overshadowed by the jagged contours of high-rise and mid-rise buildings and towers -- masses of aesthetically-dead concrete. By contrast, the city’s built heritage inherited from pre-independence times may be in the last stages of ruination but the buildings bear traces of the glamour that once won Calcutta the sobriquet of ‘City of Palaces’.

Although often conceived by European architects, without the skill and (less)

1. Introductory concept of gene.

2. DNA structure and its biosynthesis.

3. RNA structure and its biosynthesis.

4. Protein structure and its biosynthesis.

5. Genetic regulation and expression.

6. Genetic recombination in bacteria.

7. Mutagenesis.

8. Plasmids and transposons.

9. DNA technology.

10. PCR and its applications.

11. Recombinant DNA technology.

"Science has changed the life style of people across the globe and India is no exception. With increasing relevances and applicability of genetics to human affairs, it is within the realm of possibility that genetics will become the most important of applied sciences.

However, biotechnology has affected all the major domains of human activity and welfare ranging from agriculture to medicine and environment. It has developed into an important force in the creation of employment, production and trade and affects natural economy and the quality of human life throughout the world.

Application of biotechnology is ever expanding because the biotech activities (less)

It also covers phytography, chemistry, adulterants, etc. This profusely illustrated book will be immensely useful to researchers, scientists, pharmacologists, pharmacists, biochemists, pharmaceutical organisations, medical men, planners, policy makers, administrators and even commoners.

The topography of India along with its varied agroclimatic zones make it rich in plant resources, among which medicinal plants take a major share. The entire gamut of medicinal plants is so vast that to assess the plant wealth comprehensively is almost impossible for a single researcher.

A galaxy of brilliant scientists like Watt, Kirtikar, Basu, Chopra, Biswas and others contributed significantly and, of late, scientists of CSIR, ICMR, universities, national laboratories throughout (less)

Nature and properties of medicinal plants. 2.

Value of medicinal plants. 3.

Bioactive phytocompounds. 4.

Cultivation of medicinal plants. 5.

Biotechnology and medicinal plants. 6.

Quality control of herbal medicines. 7.

Medicinal plants and biodiversity. 8.

Use of medicinal plants in HIV/AIDS care. 9.

Conservation and development of medicinal plants. 10.

Demand of medicinal plants in India. 11.

International trade of medicinal plants. 12.

Medicinal plants and intellectual property issues. Bibliography.

Index. "Written as an introductory manual, this book delineates for the readers the uses and relevance of plants as sources of medicine.

It provides illustrations of medicinal plants, as well as an understanding of their anatomy, morphology, physiology and the chemicals present in them which make them so valuable. In addition, it gives spare understand the naturopathy-based treatments which make extensive use of these plants, and the logistics behind the renewed interested in plants as medical sources.

Further, it also brings (less)

Introduction to organic farming food fertilizer and agriculture. 2.

Organic farming: history and methods. 3.

Organic agriculture and food crop production: motivations principles economics and trade. 4.

Towards sustainable organic agriculture policies and best practices. 5.

Organic farm act and food certification: focus on provisions in North America. 6.

Certification and standard setting of organic farming agriculture and animal husbandry in Australia. 7.

Indias national programme for organic production: an overview. 8.

Compost composting process and compost technology: an overview. 9.

Organic fertilizer and eco sanitation: elements and dimensions. 10.

Biological pest control and bio pesticides: an overview. 11.

Useful resource material on organic farming and compost technology. 12.

Indias agriculture and national programme for organic production. Glossary of terms.

Bibliography. Index.

Organic foods are grown naturally meaning they are grown without the use of pesticides artificial fertilizers and other manufactured additives. Livestock are reared without growth hormones and they are fed (less)

2. Cultivation of Medicinal Plants.

3. Bioprospecting of Medicinal Plants.

4. Medicinal Plants and Health Care.

5. Wild Harvesting of Medicinal Plants.

6. Conservation of Medicinal Plants.

7. Heritage of Indian Medicinal Plants.

8. Quality Control of Plant based Medicines.

9. Industrial Utilisation of Medicinal Plants.

10. International Trade in Medicinal Plants.

11. Medicinal Plants and Intellectual Property Rights.

12. Medicinal Plants Information Databases.

The present book aims to acquaint readers with the advances that have been taking place in the field of medicinal plants particularly within the context of new age medicines.The book delineates not just conventional practices techniques and treatments associated with medicinal plants but also gives space to understand the challenges and issues and how current trends and advances are making progress to address them.

The book also brings within its purview the use in history of medicinal plants its progress and decline the competition (less)

Introduction. 2.

Water. 3.

Aeration and filtration. 4.

Fish keeping. 5.

Décor. 6.

Food, feed and feeding. 7.

Breeding. 8.

Fish health and hygiene : stress & ailment. 9.

Tips to some problems in and queries about aquarium-fish keeping. 10.

Colouration in fish. 11.

Aquarium plants. 12.

Aquarium fishes. Index.

"Aquarium-fish keeping is more popular today than it ever was before. At present, while it still enjoys its indoor value as an absorbing pastime or just a personal hobby, it has developed beyond a long period of infancy into an organised industry which supports education, research and trade.

"No success can be achieved in aquarium keeping unless the aquarium is well planned and properly stocked. This requires a certain degree of scientific approach with regard to setting of the aquarium, selection of fishes and plants and their maintenance.

"Aquarium fishes and plants know no geographical boundaries of the countries. Extensive export and (less)

Introduction. 2.

Construction, decoration and necessities of aquarium. 3.

Marine aquaria. 4.

Filters and plants. 5.

Gold fish and anatomy. 6.

Ornamental fishes. 7.

Food and feeding. 8.

Breeding of aquarium fishes. 9.

Water quality. 10.

Common diseases of aquarium fishes. 11.

Urban aquaculture: a new horizon to fisheries. Bibliography.

Index. "Ornamental fish keeping is not only a hobby it involves a series of activities such as construction and designing of aquarium, ponds breeding and study of diversity among aquarium fishes, temperature control, maintenance of dissolved oxygen, importance of filters which have been discussed.

This book also points out feed formulation schedule and culture of live food micro-organism. Aquarium/Ornamental fisheries is a convenient tool of environmental and aquatic biology, education and self-employment.

During last four decades there has been considerable growth and diversification in international trade in ornamental fishes. After knowing the details of Aquarium Management/Ornamental fisheries, one can fetch the world (less)

The dictionary includes over 1,400 entries, with 1,250 full definitions. These cover the latest contemporary terms and management buzzwords; key theoretical terms and concepts from academics and consultants; jargon from the present and the past; technical terms used by practicing personnel/HR managers and trade unionists; major policies, practices, and institutions; and legal terms.

The authors also provide a full list of abbreviations and acronyms and a thematic categorization of the main concepts. In compiling the dictionary the authors were aware that often there is no one agreed definition of a term, but instead various competing ideas or interpretations (less)

Introduction. 2.

Nature and functions of human resource management. 3.

Role and challenges of personnel/human resource manager. 4.

Structure of personnel department. 5.

Approaches in planning and utilisation of human resources. 6.

Audit of human resources utilisation. 7.

Recruitment and selection. 8.

Placement, induction, promotion, succession and career development. 9.

Communication. 10.

Good communication is vital for success for an organisation. 11.

Leadership. 12.

Trade unions. 13.

Industrial disputes. 14.

Collective bargaining. 15.

Employee Welfare. 16.

Safety and health. 17.

Performance appraisal. 18.

MBO approach to appraisal. 19.

Job satisfaction. 20.

Keeping an organisation young – a case study relating to future age structure of manpower. 21.

Utilisation of ineffective manpower – a case study oriented approach. Index.

"Any organisation, whether be it big or small, is a total integration of man, machine and management. We must treat them as a whole not in parts, they are an organic entity.

They grow, (less)

Fifty years of United Nations. 2.

United Nations system. 3.

United Nations and World Affairs. 4.

Restructuring, reforming, reorganising the UN system. 5.

Towards better global Governance. Volume II: UN: A National Perspective: Preface.

1. Major conflicts around the world, preventive diplomacy and conflict resolution.

2. Foundations of global peace and human rights: the UN perspective.

3. UN intervention and peace enforcement.

4. Peace-making and peace-keeping : a regional focus.

5. Peace-keeping : a national perspective.

Volume III: UN: The Peace Initiatives: Preface. 1.

Peace initiatives and UN. 2.

UN peace and disarmament agenda. 3.

UN social and political agenda. 4.

UN and human rights agenda. 5.

UN and world peace. Volume IV: UN: Redefining Development Goals: Preface.

1. Global development goals and UN.

2. Internation trade and economic goals.

3. Achieving social and cultural goals.

4. Towards restoring environment and poverty.

5. Redefining development and (less)

To the Overthrow of the English in the Spice Archipelago: Introduction. 1.

The closing of the Old Trade Paths to 1516 A.D.

2. The quest for India by sea, 1418-1499.

3. The struggle between Christendom and Islam for the Indian seas, 1500-1600.

4. The Portuguese Policy in the East, 1500-1600.

5. England's attempts to reach India in the sixteenth century, 1497-1599.

6. The constitution of the First English East India Company, 1600.

7. The 'Separate Voyages' of the Company, 1601-1612.

8. The struggle with the Portuguese, 1612-1622.

9. The struggle between the English and the Dutch for the Eastern Archipelago, 1601-1623.

10. The end of the Struggle: the tragedy of Amboyna, 1623.

Index. Vol.

II. To the Union of the Old and New Companies Under the Earl of Godolphin's Award; 1708: Introduction.

1. The Company and the King, 1623-1649.

2. Our first settlements of the Bombay Coast, 1607-1658.

3. Our first settlements (less)

1. Reading Habit: An Introduction.

I: Developing Reading Habits. 2.

What Motivates People to Read? 3. Children and Reading.

4. What to Read and When to Read.

5. Purpose and Materials for Reading.

6. Reading Techniques.

7. Reading and Comprehension.

II: Sustaining Reading Habit. 8.

Book Trade, Education System and Reading. 9.

Libraries, Librarians and Reading. III: Reading Habit in Internet Era.

10. Reading Habit and ICT.

Bibliography. Index.

This book is a sincere attempt to cover various aspects of developing and sustaining reading habit. It emphasizes that reading habit is a major factor leading to success and happiness in life.

It motivates everyone to ready by citing the lives of those who made an indelible mark by their great contribution in different fields touching the humanity. Development and Sustenance of Reading Habit is both diagnostic and remedial in its content.

The first part of the book is Developing Reading Habits (less)

Introduction. 2.

Land system. 3.

Extent and method of cultivation. 4.

Revenue administration. 5.

The peasantry: their material conditions. 6.

Trade in agricultural products. 7.

Conclusion. Appendices.

Bibliography. Index.

"The work Agrarian System of Medieval Assam is a representative history of the agrarian life in the North-East in the period from the 13 to early 19 century—the period of the Ahom rule in the Brahmaputra Valley. Although major emphasis has been given to the study of the agrarian life in Assam, the work at the same time throws light on the agrarian system of the entire tribal set-up in the region.

The period chosen by the author being the most significant one in the history of the North-Eastern region so far social formations and detribalisation in are concerned, the present study is, in a sense, a history of detribalisation and socio-political formations in the valley. The work explains in various aspects the (less)

1. Colonizers and settlers.

2. The Anuradhapura Kingdom I: aspects of political history from Saddhatissa to the Cola conquest.

3. The Anuradhapura Kingdom II: An irrigation civilization.

4. The Anuradhapura Kingdom III : the political economy.

5. The Anuradhapura Kingdom IV: a Buddhist civilization.

6. The Polonnaruva Kingdom: Indian summer of Sinhalese power.

7. The fragmentation of the Sri Lankan polity: from c.

1250 to the end of the fifteenth century. 8.

The periphery stakes a claim. 9.

The crisis of the sixteenth century. 10.

Portuguese rule in the maritime regions, C. 1600-58.

11. The Kandyan Kingdom at Bay, 1658-87.

12. The struggle for mastery over Sri Lanka, C.

1680-1766. 13.

Trade and agriculture under the voc. 14.

The VOC in Sri Lanka: the last phase, 1767-96. 15.

The impact of Dutch rule. 16.

Religion, literature and the arts in the Kandyan Kingdom. 17.

The English East India Company in (less)

2. The island in 1796-1815, and seventy years later: extent and topographical features.

3. Social progress in ninety years: population.

4. Legislative and general improvement under the rule of successive British Governors.

5. Native agricultural and manufacturing interests: paddy (rice) cultivation.

6. The origin and rise of the planting industry: coffee introduced by Arabs.

7. New products: tea.

8. Present position of agricultural enterprise, local industries and foreign trade: exports of last decade.

9. What the planting industry has done for the mother-country: recent years of depression considered.

10. What the planting industry has done for Ceylon: population nearly doubled.

11. Present prospects for capitalists in Ceylon: Ceylon still a good field for investment.

12. Attractions for the traveller and visitor: the voyage a pleasure trip.

13. The revenue and expenditure of Ceylon: chief sources of revenue: grain and customs dues, sales of Crown Land, (less)

I. Introduction: 1.

The ancient period. 2.

The medieval period. 3.

The modern period. From a Medieval to a Modern Form of Government: II.

The British Occupation of Ceylon: 1. The conquest of the maritime provinces.

2. The first war against Kandy.

3. The fall of Kandy.

4. The Kandyan rebellion.

4. Fortresses and roads.

III. Administrative Development (1796-1832): 1.

The Government of the East India Company and dual control. 2.

The chiefs and the civil service. 3.

The judiciary. IV.

Social and Economic Changes (1796-1832): 1. Humanitarian activities and the grant of religious toleration.

2. Education.

3. Buddhism and Hinduism.

4. Rajakariya.

5. Agriculture and trade.

V. The Colebrooke Commission and the Reforms of 1832-33: 1.

The commission. 2.

The abolition of Rajakariya and of Monopolies. 3.

Administrative and judicial reforms. 4.

Reductions in expenditure. From an Agrarian to a Commercial Economy: VI.

The Rise of the Plantations (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)