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Unshackling India: Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival
As India enters its seventy-fifth year of independence, conventional policy is unlikely to combat the breadth of its economic challenges. Across a range of…
Development of Denotified Tribes: Policy and Practice : A Case Study of Siddhapuram and Stuartpuram Settlements in Andhra Pradesh
Contents: Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Introduction. 2. Crime and Criminal Tribes Acts. 3. Socioeconomic profile of Siddhapuram and Stuartpuram settlements. 4. Reformation and rehabilitation. 5….
Regional Rural Banks and Upliftment of Rural Society
Rural Banking in India started with the establishment of banking sector in India. In those days, rural banks mainly focussed upon the agricultural sector….
Panini : His Place in Sanskrit Literature
Contents: 1. Literary and chronological, questions concerning every work of the Vaidika literature, and therefore bearing on the present work. 2. Refutation of his…
The Two Truths in Bon
Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. The two truths from Indian Buddhism to Tibetan Buddhism and bon. 2. The two truths of Me ston (1058-1132 or…
Soma in Yoga and Ayurveda : The Power of Rejuvenation and Immortality
Soma is one of the key words in the ancient traditions of India. It stands for all that is gentle, beautiful, delicate, and sweet…
Buddhism
Origin and Nature of Ancient Indian Buddhism
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Problems of chronology. 3. Iron, urbanization, and Buddhism. 4. Ancient Indian Buddhism and Ahimsa. 5. Ancient Indian Buddhist attitude…
Buddhist Psychology: An Inquiry into the Analysis and Theory of Mind in Pali Literature
The book is an attempt to envisage faithfully something true in the history of a very interesting current in human ideas. This something true…
Polity, Kingship and Democracy: A Biography of the Bhutanese State
Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Conceptions of Buddhist kingship. 2. Buddhist framework of a Bhutanese polity. 3. Founding of an ecclesiocratic state. 4. Expansion of…
New Horizons of Buddhism in Odisha
Research in history is a careful knowledge in human heritage in general. It requires a very high degree of objectivity, commitment and responsibility, on…
Ravigupta’s Aryakosa: A Contribution to the Early History of Indian Niti Literature
Ravigupta's Aryakosa is the most important and valuable among the eight niti works that have been translated into Tibetan. It is a collection of…
A History of Pali Literature
Contents: Foreword. Preface. I: Introduction. 1. Chronology of the Pali Canon. 2. Canonical Pali literature. 3. Pali counterparts of the seven Abhidhamma treatises of…