The necessity of a book on clinical methods in the specialty of obsterics and gynecology is absolute, since we can ill afford to rely on technology alone. This book will help budding doctors to appreciate and value the clinical approach.

This second edition has additional topics, updated knowledge and clear illustrations and takes into account the needs of students and practitioners. About the Author(s): Asha Oumachigui, M.

D., formerly Director-Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry.

Soundara Raghavan, S., M.

D., D.

G.O.

, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry. Habeebullah, S.

, M.D.

, M.N.

A.M.

S., Director-Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry.

About the Book: The new edition of this book re-emphasises the skills that students must acquire: of gathering information through history taking and physical examination, and learning the art and science of interpreting data and selecting relevant investigations. The delivery pattern of health care for women needs to be woman-centered rather than technology-driven.

The necessity of a book on clinical methods in the specialty of obsterics and gynecology is absolute, since we can ill afford to rely on technology alone. This book will help budding doctors to appreciate and value the clinical approach.

This second edition has additional topics, updated knowledge and clear illustrations and takes into account the needs of students and practitioners. About the Author(s): Asha Oumachigui, M.

D., formerly Director-Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry.

Soundara Raghavan, S., M.

D., D.

G.O.

, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry. Habeebullah, S.

, M.D.

, M.N.

A.M.

S., Director-Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: The new edition of this book re-emphasises the skills that students must acquire: of gathering information through history taking and physical examination, and learning the art and science of interpreting data and selecting relevant investigations. The delivery pattern of health care for women needs to be woman-centered rather than technology-driven.

The necessity of a book on clinical methods in the specialty of obsterics and gynecology is absolute, since we can ill afford to rely on technology alone. This book will help budding doctors to appreciate and value the clinical approach.

This second edition has additional topics, updated knowledge and clear illustrations and takes into account the needs of students and practitioners. About the Author(s): Asha Oumachigui, M.

D., formerly Director-Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry.

Soundara Raghavan, S., M.

D., D.

G.O.

, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry. Habeebullah, S.

, M.D.

, M.N.

A.M.

S., Director-Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: The new edition of this book re-emphasises the skills that students must acquire: of gathering information through history taking and physical examination, and learning the art and science of interpreting data and selecting relevant investigations. The delivery pattern of health care for women needs to be woman-centered rather than technology-driven.

The necessity of a book on clinical methods in the specialty of obsterics and gynecology is absolute, since we can ill afford to rely on technology alone. This book will help budding doctors to appreciate and value the clinical approach.

This second edition has additional topics, updated knowledge and clear illustrations and takes into account the needs of students and practitioners. About the Author(s): Asha Oumachigui, M.

D., formerly Director-Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry.

Soundara Raghavan, S., M.

D., D.

G.O.

, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry. Habeebullah, S.

, M.D.

, M.N.

A.M.

S., Director-Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry.

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V. Reddy was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

He has earned universal acclaim for managing, as Governor of RBI, India's calibrated financial integration with the global economy. Ever since the financial crisis erupted in the USA in 2007 and spread to the rest of the world, there has been an interest in India's management of a financial sector that has facilitated growth and has yet maintained stability.

What contributed to this situation? What was the RBI's perspective and what were its policies' This volume attempts to answer these questions. It also provides a comprehensive account of the events that led to the global financial crisis, the policy responses, the directions for future reforms and an Indian approach to meeting the challenges of contagion from the turmoil.

of this book Table of Contents: List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction I. Indian Economy: Review and Prospects 1.

India and the Global Economy 2. Importance of Productivity in India 3.

Reflections on India's Economic Development 4. India: Development and Reform Experience, and Prospects II.

Financial-Sector Reforms 5. Reforming India's Financial Sector: Changing Dimensions and Emerging Issues 6.

Global Financial Turbulence and the Financial Sector in India: A Practitioner's Perspective 7. Rural Credit: Status and Agenda III.

Banking-Sector Reforms 8. Banking-Sector Reforms in India: An Overview 9.

Micro-Finance: RBI's Approach 10. Rural Banking: Review and Prospects IV.

Monetary Policy in a Globalising World 11. Monetary Policy: An Outline 12.

Globalisation of Monetary Policy and the Indian Experience 13. Monetary and Regulatory Policies: How to Get the Balance with Markets Right V.

Organisation and Communication Policies of the RBI 14. Central Bank Communications: Some Random Thoughts 15.

What RBI Means to the Common Person 16. Organisation and Functioning of the RBI 17.

The Virtues and Vices of Talking About Monetary Policy: Some Comments VI. Managing Capital Account Liberalisation 18.

Foreign Exchange Reserves: New Realities and Options 19. Management of the Capital Account in India: Some Perspectives 20.

Government-owned Investment Vehicles and Capital Flows: Indian Perspective VII. Global Financial Imbalances and Crisis 21.

Implications of Global Financial Imbalances for Emerging Market Economies 22. Global Imbalances: An Indian Perspective 23.

Globalisation, Money and Finance: Uncertainties and Dilemmas Epilogue: The Global Financial Crisis and India Select Bibliography Index About the Author(s): Dr Yaga Venugopal Reddy served as the Governor of Reserve Bank of India from September 2003 to September 2008. He is currently Emeritus Professor, University of Hyderabad.

He has been a member of Commission of Experts of The President of The UN General Assembly on Reforms of The International Monetary and Financial System. He has also been a Guest of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York.

His contributions were recognised by award of Doctor of Letters ( honoris causa ) by Sri Venkateswara University, India; and Doctor of Civil Law ( honoris causa ), by University of Mauritius. He was also elected as Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Prior to being the Governor, he was Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan at the International Monetary Fund. This was preceded by his stint as Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India.

He was also Secretary, Ministry of Finance, and Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce in the Government of India. He served the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, in several capacities including Principal Secretary and Secretary-Finance and Planning.

He was also advisor in the World Bank. He has been closely associated with several academic institutions in teaching and research capacities.

He has authored several articles and published a number of books. About the Book: This collection of essays provides insights into the making of public policies across a spectrum of areas between the years 2003 and 2008, a period of rapid growth of the Indian Economy as well as extraordinary challenges for the conduct of monetary policy.

It was during this period that Dr Y.V.

Reddy was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He has earned universal acclaim for managing, as Governor of RBI, India's calibrated financial integration with the global economy.

Ever since the financial crisis erupted in the USA in 2007 and spread to the rest of the world, there has been an interest in India's management of a financial sector that has facilitated growth and has yet maintained stability. What contributed to this situation? What was the RBI's perspective and what were its policies' This volume attempts to answer these questions.

It also provides a comprehensive account of the events that led to the global financial crisis, the policy responses, the directions for future reforms and an Indian approach to meeting the challenges of contagion from the turmoil. of this book Table of Contents: List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction I.

Indian Economy: Review and Prospects 1. India and the Global Economy 2.

Importance of Productivity in India 3. Reflections on India's Economic Development 4.

India: Development and Reform Experience, and Prospects II. Financial-Sector Reforms 5.

Reforming India's Financial Sector: Changing Dimensions and Emerging Issues 6. Global Financial Turbulence and the Financial Sector in India: A Practitioner's Perspective 7.

Rural Credit: Status and Agenda III. Banking-Sector Reforms 8.

Banking-Sector Reforms in India: An Overview 9. Micro-Finance: RBI's Approach 10.

Rural Banking: Review and Prospects IV. Monetary Policy in a Globalising World 11.

Monetary Policy: An Outline 12. Globalisation of Monetary Policy and the Indian Experience 13.

Monetary and Regulatory Policies: How to Get the Balance with Markets Right V. Organisation and Communication Policies of the RBI 14.

Central Bank Communications: Some Random Thoughts 15. What RBI Means to the Common Person 16.

Organisation and Functioning of the RBI 17. The Virtues and Vices of Talking About Monetary Policy: Some Comments VI.

Managing Capital Account Liberalisation 18. Foreign Exchange Reserves: New Realities and Options 19.

Management of the Capital Account in India: Some Perspectives 20. Government-owned Investment Vehicles and Capital Flows: Indian Perspective VII.

Global Financial Imbalances and Crisis 21. Implications of Global Financial Imbalances for Emerging Market Economies 22.

Global Imbalances: An Indian Perspective 23. Globalisation, Money and Finance: Uncertainties and Dilemmas Epilogue: The Global Financial Crisis and India Select Bibliography Index About the Author(s): Dr Yaga Venugopal Reddy served as the Governor of Reserve Bank of India from September 2003 to September 2008.

He is currently Emeritus Professor, University of Hyderabad. He has been a member of Commission of Experts of The President of The UN General Assembly on Reforms of The International Monetary and Financial System.

He has also been a Guest of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York. His contributions were recognised by award of Doctor of Letters ( honoris causa ) by Sri Venkateswara University, India; and Doctor of Civil Law ( honoris causa ), by University of Mauritius.

He was also elected as Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to being the Governor, he was Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan at the International Monetary Fund.

This was preceded by his stint as Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India. He was also Secretary, Ministry of Finance, and Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce in the Government of India.

He served the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, in several capacities including Principal Secretary and Secretary-Finance and Planning. He was also advisor in the World Bank.

He has been closely associated with several academic institutions in teaching and research capacities. He has authored several articles and published a number of books.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: This collection of essays provides insights into the making of public policies across a spectrum of areas between the years 2003 and 2008, a period of rapid growth of the Indian Economy as well as extraordinary challenges for the conduct of monetary policy. It was during this period that Dr Y.

V. Reddy was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

He has earned universal acclaim for managing, as Governor of RBI, India's calibrated financial integration with the global economy. Ever since the financial crisis erupted in the USA in 2007 and spread to the rest of the world, there has been an interest in India's management of a financial sector that has facilitated growth and has yet maintained stability.

What contributed to this situation? What was the RBI's perspective and what were its policies' This volume attempts to answer these questions. It also provides a comprehensive account of the events that led to the global financial crisis, the policy responses, the directions for future reforms and an Indian approach to meeting the challenges of contagion from the turmoil.

of this book Table of Contents: List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction I. Indian Economy: Review and Prospects 1.

India and the Global Economy 2. Importance of Productivity in India 3.

Reflections on India's Economic Development 4. India: Development and Reform Experience, and Prospects II.

Financial-Sector Reforms 5. Reforming India's Financial Sector: Changing Dimensions and Emerging Issues 6.

Global Financial Turbulence and the Financial Sector in India: A Practitioner's Perspective 7. Rural Credit: Status and Agenda III.

Banking-Sector Reforms 8. Banking-Sector Reforms in India: An Overview 9.

Micro-Finance: RBI's Approach 10. Rural Banking: Review and Prospects IV.

Monetary Policy in a Globalising World 11. Monetary Policy: An Outline 12.

Globalisation of Monetary Policy and the Indian Experience 13. Monetary and Regulatory Policies: How to Get the Balance with Markets Right V.

Organisation and Communication Policies of the RBI 14. Central Bank Communications: Some Random Thoughts 15.

What RBI Means to the Common Person 16. Organisation and Functioning of the RBI 17.

The Virtues and Vices of Talking About Monetary Policy: Some Comments VI. Managing Capital Account Liberalisation 18.

Foreign Exchange Reserves: New Realities and Options 19. Management of the Capital Account in India: Some Perspectives 20.

Government-owned Investment Vehicles and Capital Flows: Indian Perspective VII. Global Financial Imbalances and Crisis 21.

Implications of Global Financial Imbalances for Emerging Market Economies 22. Global Imbalances: An Indian Perspective 23.

Globalisation, Money and Finance: Uncertainties and Dilemmas Epilogue: The Global Financial Crisis and India Select Bibliography Index About the Author(s): Dr Yaga Venugopal Reddy served as the Governor of Reserve Bank of India from September 2003 to September 2008. He is currently Emeritus Professor, University of Hyderabad.

He has been a member of Commission of Experts of The President of The UN General Assembly on Reforms of The International Monetary and Financial System. He has also been a Guest of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York.

His contributions were recognised by award of Doctor of Letters ( honoris causa ) by Sri Venkateswara University, India; and Doctor of Civil Law ( honoris causa ), by University of Mauritius. He was also elected as Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Prior to being the Governor, he was Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan at the International Monetary Fund. This was preceded by his stint as Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India.

He was also Secretary, Ministry of Finance, and Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce in the Government of India. He served the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, in several capacities including Principal Secretary and Secretary-Finance and Planning.

He was also advisor in the World Bank. He has been closely associated with several academic institutions in teaching and research capacities.

He has authored several articles and published a number of books. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: This collection of essays provides insights into the making of public policies across a spectrum of areas between the years 2003 and 2008, a period of rapid growth of the Indian Economy as well as extraordinary challenges for the conduct of monetary policy.

It was during this period that Dr Y.V.

Reddy was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He has earned universal acclaim for managing, as Governor of RBI, India's calibrated financial integration with the global economy.

Ever since the financial crisis erupted in the USA in 2007 and spread to the rest of the world, there has been an interest in India's management of a financial sector that has facilitated growth and has yet maintained stability. What contributed to this situation? What was the RBI's perspective and what were its policies' This volume attempts to answer these questions.

It also provides a comprehensive account of the events that led to the global financial crisis, the policy responses, the directions for future reforms and an Indian approach to meeting the challenges of contagion from the turmoil. of this book Table of Contents: List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction I.

Indian Economy: Review and Prospects 1. India and the Global Economy 2.

Importance of Productivity in India 3. Reflections on India's Economic Development 4.

India: Development and Reform Experience, and Prospects II. Financial-Sector Reforms 5.

Reforming India's Financial Sector: Changing Dimensions and Emerging Issues 6. Global Financial Turbulence and the Financial Sector in India: A Practitioner's Perspective 7.

Rural Credit: Status and Agenda III. Banking-Sector Reforms 8.

Banking-Sector Reforms in India: An Overview 9. Micro-Finance: RBI's Approach 10.

Rural Banking: Review and Prospects IV. Monetary Policy in a Globalising World 11.

Monetary Policy: An Outline 12. Globalisation of Monetary Policy and the Indian Experience 13.

Monetary and Regulatory Policies: How to Get the Balance with Markets Right V. Organisation and Communication Policies of the RBI 14.

Central Bank Communications: Some Random Thoughts 15. What RBI Means to the Common Person 16.

Organisation and Functioning of the RBI 17. The Virtues and Vices of Talking About Monetary Policy: Some Comments VI.

Managing Capital Account Liberalisation 18. Foreign Exchange Reserves: New Realities and Options 19.

Management of the Capital Account in India: Some Perspectives 20. Government-owned Investment Vehicles and Capital Flows: Indian Perspective VII.

Global Financial Imbalances and Crisis 21. Implications of Global Financial Imbalances for Emerging Market Economies 22.

Global Imbalances: An Indian Perspective 23. Globalisation, Money and Finance: Uncertainties and Dilemmas Epilogue: The Global Financial Crisis and India Select Bibliography Index About the Author(s): Dr Yaga Venugopal Reddy served as the Governor of Reserve Bank of India from September 2003 to September 2008.

He is currently Emeritus Professor, University of Hyderabad. He has been a member of Commission of Experts of The President of The UN General Assembly on Reforms of The International Monetary and Financial System.

He has also been a Guest of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York. His contributions were recognised by award of Doctor of Letters ( honoris causa ) by Sri Venkateswara University, India; and Doctor of Civil Law ( honoris causa ), by University of Mauritius.

He was also elected as Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to being the Governor, he was Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan at the International Monetary Fund.

This was preceded by his stint as Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India. He was also Secretary, Ministry of Finance, and Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce in the Government of India.

He served the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, in several capacities including Principal Secretary and Secretary-Finance and Planning. He was also advisor in the World Bank.

He has been closely associated with several academic institutions in teaching and research capacities. He has authored several articles and published a number of books.

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P., last Constitutional Adviser to the Governor-General of British India.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: The author recounts in detail the events that occurred from September 1939 to August 1947, during the final stages of India's bid for freedom, and how power was actually transferred. About the Author(s): (less)

This is followed by progressively more difficult solved and unsolved exercises in sufficient numbers to cover all points in the chapter. Each exercise consists of objective type questions of 1 mark, short answer questions of 2 marks, long answer questions of 3 or 4 marks, and very long answer questions of 5 or 6 marks.

Questions asked in various examinations have been included in the solved problems and exercises. At the end of each book 5 unsolved test papers are given following the pattern of the CBSE examinations.

About the Author(s): Dr J P Yadav retired as Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Muzaffarpur. A proud teacher, he has taught mathematics to undergraduate and postgraduate students for over 32 years.

He has authored several books. About the Book: To develop logical thinking in students the subject matter is presented in a logical step-by-step method, using very simple language and a large number of illustrative examples.

The treatment in the books consists of first establishing a concept, followed by simple objective type solved and unsolved questions to cement the concept and build confidence. This is followed by progressively more difficult solved and unsolved exercises in sufficient numbers to cover all points in the chapter.

Each exercise consists of objective type questions of 1 mark, short answer questions of 2 marks, long answer questions of 3 or 4 marks, and very long answer questions of 5 or 6 marks. Questions asked in various examinations have been included in the solved problems and exercises.

At the end of each book 5 unsolved test papers are given following the pattern of the CBSE examinations. About the Author(s): Dr J P Yadav retired as Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Muzaffarpur.

A proud teacher, he has taught mathematics to undergraduate and postgraduate students for over 32 years. He has authored several books.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: To develop logical thinking in students the subject matter is presented in a logical step-by-step method, using very simple language and a large number of illustrative examples. The treatment in the books consists of first establishing a concept, followed by simple objective type solved and unsolved questions to cement the concept and build confidence.

This is followed by progressively more difficult solved and unsolved exercises in sufficient numbers to cover all points in the chapter. Each exercise consists of objective type questions of 1 mark, short answer questions of 2 marks, long answer questions of 3 or 4 marks, and very long answer questions of 5 or 6 marks.

Questions asked in various examinations have been included in the solved problems and exercises. At the end of each book 5 unsolved test papers are given following the pattern of the CBSE examinations.

About the Author(s): Dr J P Yadav retired as Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Muzaffarpur. A proud teacher, he has taught mathematics to undergraduate and postgraduate students for over 32 years.

He has authored several books. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: To develop logical thinking in students the subject matter is presented in a logical step-by-step method, using very simple language and a large number of illustrative examples.

The treatment in the books consists of first establishing a concept, followed by simple objective type solved and unsolved questions to cement the concept and build confidence. This is followed by progressively more difficult solved and unsolved exercises in sufficient numbers to cover all points in the chapter.

Each exercise consists of objective type questions of 1 mark, short answer questions of 2 marks, long answer questions of 3 or 4 marks, and very long answer questions of 5 or 6 marks. Questions asked in various examinations have been included in the solved problems and exercises.

At the end of each book 5 unsolved test papers are given following the pattern of the CBSE examinations. About the Author(s): Dr J P Yadav retired as Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Muzaffarpur.

A proud teacher, he has taught mathematics to undergraduate and postgraduate students for over 32 years. He has authored several books.

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Dr Devy argues that the colonial experience in India gave rise to false images of the West as a superior culture; and induced a state of 'cultural amnesia' and mistaken modes of literary criticism. It is this amnesia that is responsible for the belief among literary historians that the critical tradition in the modern Indian languages-for instance, Gujarati and Marathi-is only over a hundred years old.

The author argues that it is inconceivable for these languages to have produced great literatures for half a millennium without developing some form of literary criticism. Therefore, he says, it is necessary to postulate a more reliable literary history.

About the Author(s): DEVY, G.N.

, formerly Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at the University of Leeds (1986-87); editor of Setu: Journal of Indian Literature in Translation (English and Gujarati); teaches at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. About the Book: After Amnesia is an original analysis of literary criticism in India.

It is an attempt to describe what is recognised by common agreement to be a crisis in Indian criticism, and to explain it in historical terms. Dr Devy argues that the colonial experience in India gave rise to false images of the West as a superior culture; and induced a state of 'cultural amnesia' and mistaken modes of literary criticism.

It is this amnesia that is responsible for the belief among literary historians that the critical tradition in the modern Indian languages-for instance, Gujarati and Marathi-is only over a hundred years old. The author argues that it is inconceivable for these languages to have produced great literatures for half a millennium without developing some form of literary criticism.

Therefore, he says, it is necessary to postulate a more reliable literary history. About the Author(s): DEVY, G.

N., formerly Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at the University of Leeds (1986-87); editor of Setu: Journal of Indian Literature in Translation (English and Gujarati); teaches at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: After Amnesia is an original analysis of literary criticism in India. It is an attempt to describe what is recognised by common agreement to be a crisis in Indian criticism, and to explain it in historical terms.

Dr Devy argues that the colonial experience in India gave rise to false images of the West as a superior culture; and induced a state of 'cultural amnesia' and mistaken modes of literary criticism. It is this amnesia that is responsible for the belief among literary historians that the critical tradition in the modern Indian languages-for instance, Gujarati and Marathi-is only over a hundred years old.

The author argues that it is inconceivable for these languages to have produced great literatures for half a millennium without developing some form of literary criticism. Therefore, he says, it is necessary to postulate a more reliable literary history.

About the Author(s): DEVY, G.N.

, formerly Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at the University of Leeds (1986-87); editor of Setu: Journal of Indian Literature in Translation (English and Gujarati); teaches at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: After Amnesia is an original analysis of literary criticism in India.

It is an attempt to describe what is recognised by common agreement to be a crisis in Indian criticism, and to explain it in historical terms. Dr Devy argues that the colonial experience in India gave rise to false images of the West as a superior culture; and induced a state of 'cultural amnesia' and mistaken modes of literary criticism.

It is this amnesia that is responsible for the belief among literary historians that the critical tradition in the modern Indian languages-for instance, Gujarati and Marathi-is only over a hundred years old. The author argues that it is inconceivable for these languages to have produced great literatures for half a millennium without developing some form of literary criticism.

Therefore, he says, it is necessary to postulate a more reliable literary history. About the Author(s): DEVY, G.

N., formerly Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at the University of Leeds (1986-87); editor of Setu: Journal of Indian Literature in Translation (English and Gujarati); teaches at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

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Written over a broad span of time from 1962 to 2000, the stories collected here reflect the built-in variety of his fictional concerns and the changing tones of his narration. About the Author(s): M T Vasudevan Nair is a renowned Malayalam author and winner of the Jnanpith award for literature (1995).

He is also among Kerala's most popular scriptwriters and directors of mainstream cinema. Nair scripted, produced and directed his debut film Nirmalayam, which won the President's Gold Medal in 1973.

About the Book: Kuttiedathi and Other Stories is a careful collection of ten short stories. This collection brings together some of the most well known stories of M T Vasudevan Nair, fairly representative of his literary works.

Written over a broad span of time from 1962 to 2000, the stories collected here reflect the built-in variety of his fictional concerns and the changing tones of his narration. About the Author(s): M T Vasudevan Nair is a renowned Malayalam author and winner of the Jnanpith award for literature (1995).

He is also among Kerala's most popular scriptwriters and directors of mainstream cinema. Nair scripted, produced and directed his debut film Nirmalayam, which won the President's Gold Medal in 1973.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Kuttiedathi and Other Stories is a careful collection of ten short stories. This collection brings together some of the most well known stories of M T Vasudevan Nair, fairly representative of his literary works.

Written over a broad span of time from 1962 to 2000, the stories collected here reflect the built-in variety of his fictional concerns and the changing tones of his narration. About the Author(s): M T Vasudevan Nair is a renowned Malayalam author and winner of the Jnanpith award for literature (1995).

He is also among Kerala's most popular scriptwriters and directors of mainstream cinema. Nair scripted, produced and directed his debut film Nirmalayam, which won the President's Gold Medal in 1973.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Kuttiedathi and Other Stories is a careful collection of ten short stories. This collection brings together some of the most well known stories of M T Vasudevan Nair, fairly representative of his literary works.

Written over a broad span of time from 1962 to 2000, the stories collected here reflect the built-in variety of his fictional concerns and the changing tones of his narration. About the Author(s): M T Vasudevan Nair is a renowned Malayalam author and winner of the Jnanpith award for literature (1995).

He is also among Kerala's most popular scriptwriters and directors of mainstream cinema. Nair scripted, produced and directed his debut film Nirmalayam, which won the President's Gold Medal in 1973.

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The authors, all students who have successfully completed the examinations, selected these problems on the basis of usefulness, interest, and originality, and have provided highly detailed solutions to each one. The first four chapters pose problems in the areas of mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, thereby serving as a review of material typically covered in undergraduate courses.

Later chapters deal with material new to most first-year graduate students, challenging them on such topics as condensed matter, relativity and astrophysics, nuclear physics, elementary particles, and atomic and general physics. Table of Contents: Preface / I.

PROBLEMS - Mechanics / Electricity & Magnetism / Quantum Mechanics / Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics / Condensed Matter Physics / Relativity & Astrophysics / Nuclear Physics / Elementary Particle Physics / Atomic & General Physics / II. SOLUTIONS - Mechanics / Electricity & Magnetism / Quantum Mechanics / Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics / Condensed Matter Physics / Relativity & Astrophysics / Nuclear Physics / Elementary Particle Physics / Atomic & General Physics / Bibliography / Index Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Aimed at helping the physics student to develop a solid grasp of basic graduate-level material, this book presents worked solutions to a wide range of informative problems.

These problems have been culled from the preliminary and general examinations created by the physics department at Princeton University for its graduate program. The authors, all students who have successfully completed the examinations, selected these problems on the basis of usefulness, interest, and originality, and have provided highly detailed solutions to each one.

The first four chapters pose problems in the areas of mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, thereby serving as a review of material typically covered in undergraduate courses. Later chapters deal with material new to most first-year graduate students, challenging them on such topics as condensed matter, relativity and astrophysics, nuclear physics, elementary particles, and atomic and general physics.

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Poets, essayists and Novelists, these three writers deeply influenced the intellectual life of Gujarat. Moreover, the book shows, how the idea of `social reform' is deeply linked in their work to the idea of `the nation'.

The author also shows how Gandhi, following these writers, created another notion of `nation', `reform' and the moral dimensions of these. About the Author(s): Tridip Suhrud is a political scientist and cultural historian.

He is Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Communication Technology, Gandhi Nagar. He has also translated several works from Gujarati into English and vice versa.

He is the series editor of our Gandhi Studies series, and the author/editor of our Harilal Gandhi, and of our forthcoming 4 volume biography of Gandhi by Narayan Desai. About the Book: Writing Life looks at the lives and work of three 19th century thinkers of Gujarat - Narmadashankar Lal Shankar, Manibhai Nabhubhai & Govardhanram Tripathi.

(The last mentioned is the author of Saraswatichandra). Poets, essayists and Novelists, these three writers deeply influenced the intellectual life of Gujarat.

Moreover, the book shows, how the idea of `social reform' is deeply linked in their work to the idea of `the nation'. The author also shows how Gandhi, following these writers, created another notion of `nation', `reform' and the moral dimensions of these.

About the Author(s): Tridip Suhrud is a political scientist and cultural historian. He is Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Communication Technology, Gandhi Nagar.

He has also translated several works from Gujarati into English and vice versa. He is the series editor of our Gandhi Studies series, and the author/editor of our Harilal Gandhi, and of our forthcoming 4 volume biography of Gandhi by Narayan Desai.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Writing Life looks at the lives and work of three 19th century thinkers of Gujarat - Narmadashankar Lal Shankar, Manibhai Nabhubhai & Govardhanram Tripathi. (The last mentioned is the author of Saraswatichandra).

Poets, essayists and Novelists, these three writers deeply influenced the intellectual life of Gujarat. Moreover, the book shows, how the idea of `social reform' is deeply linked in their work to the idea of `the nation'.

The author also shows how Gandhi, following these writers, created another notion of `nation', `reform' and the moral dimensions of these. About the Author(s): Tridip Suhrud is a political scientist and cultural historian.

He is Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Communication Technology, Gandhi Nagar. He has also translated several works from Gujarati into English and vice versa.

He is the series editor of our Gandhi Studies series, and the author/editor of our Harilal Gandhi, and of our forthcoming 4 volume biography of Gandhi by Narayan Desai. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Writing Life looks at the lives and work of three 19th century thinkers of Gujarat - Narmadashankar Lal Shankar, Manibhai Nabhubhai & Govardhanram Tripathi.

(The last mentioned is the author of Saraswatichandra). Poets, essayists and Novelists, these three writers deeply influenced the intellectual life of Gujarat.

Moreover, the book shows, how the idea of `social reform' is deeply linked in their work to the idea of `the nation'. The author also shows how Gandhi, following these writers, created another notion of `nation', `reform' and the moral dimensions of these.

About the Author(s): Tridip Suhrud is a political scientist and cultural historian. He is Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Communication Technology, Gandhi Nagar.

He has also translated several works from Gujarati into English and vice versa. He is the series editor of our Gandhi Studies series, and the author/editor of our Harilal Gandhi, and of our forthcoming 4 volume biography of Gandhi by Narayan Desai.

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An attractive and colourful Book 0 has been added to the series. The series now comes in a new user-friendly, colourful format.

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Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Modern School Arithmetic, a time-tested series is now designed to cover the school requirements of the pre-primary and primary schools. Books 1 to 5 have been recently revised to suit the present day needs of the teaching-learning process in arithmetic.

An attractive and colourful Book 0 has been added to the series. The series now comes in a new user-friendly, colourful format.

The unique feature of the series which were the rich range of statement-sums has been reinforced to help children master computing skill and concept-learning. Each book now contains additional of worked out problems, exercises and graded revision tests.

About the Book: Modern School Arithmetic, a time-tested series is now designed to cover the school requirements of the pre-primary and primary schools. Books 1 to 5 have been recently revised to suit the present day needs of the teaching-learning process in arithmetic.

An attractive and colourful Book 0 has been added to the series. The series now comes in a new user-friendly, colourful format.

The unique feature of the series which were the rich range of statement-sums has been reinforced to help children master computing skill and concept-learning. Each book now contains additional of worked out problems, exercises and graded revision tests.

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Books 1-5 cover the revised NCERT syllabus and the Inter-state Board for Anglo Indian Education. Thus, these books cater to schools affiliated to any Board.

Books 6-8 are planned for ICSE schools, at the middle school level. As they cover the syllabi of the Inter-State Board for Anglo Indian schools extensively.

However, since most of the topics are common they may also be used by schools affiliated to any board. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Modern School Mathematics is a 10-stage course in mathematics for pre-primary, primary and middle school levels.

It has been designed to establish a strong foundation in the essentials of mathematics which include concept-learning, developing computing skills and sharpening of skills in mathematics. Books 1-5 cover the revised NCERT syllabus and the Inter-state Board for Anglo Indian Education.

Thus, these books cater to schools affiliated to any Board. Books 6-8 are planned for ICSE schools, at the middle school level.

As they cover the syllabi of the Inter-State Board for Anglo Indian schools extensively. However, since most of the topics are common they may also be used by schools affiliated to any board.

About the Book: Modern School Mathematics is a 10-stage course in mathematics for pre-primary, primary and middle school levels. It has been designed to establish a strong foundation in the essentials of mathematics which include concept-learning, developing computing skills and sharpening of skills in mathematics.

Books 1-5 cover the revised NCERT syllabus and the Inter-state Board for Anglo Indian Education. Thus, these books cater to schools affiliated to any Board.

Books 6-8 are planned for ICSE schools, at the middle school level. As they cover the syllabi of the Inter-State Board for Anglo Indian schools extensively.

However, since most of the topics are common they may also be used by schools affiliated to any board. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to (less)

It aims to cultivate the art of effective communication by making use of well known activities such as elocution, extempore, debates, quizzes and group discussions. The activities have been formulated for easy use by stating the purpose, procedure, time, evaluation and desirable number of students for each of these.

The Note to Teachers serves as a guide for teachers to conduct and evaluate the sessions. The activities in the book are divided into 10 chapters.

The book progresses from simple activities to relatively complex ones, building confidence in students and enabling gradual honing of communication and speaking skills. The appendices include a section on how to create and run a club for public-speaking activities, and also provide some useful quotes and speeches.

About the Author(s): Gita Iyengar has been involved in teaching spoken and written communication skills to varied groups of students. She has run workshops in schools in and around Hyderabad.

The author is presently associated with Communication Plus, an organisation that is dedicated to imparting communication skills. She has also authored four storybooks for children, and has recently written a history book for children.

About the Book: Loud and Clear: Classroom Activities on Public Speaking is resource book for teachers. It is a comprehensive manuall on public-speaking activities that can be carried out in the classroom for students from class VI to XI.

It aims to cultivate the art of effective communication by making use of well known activities such as elocution, extempore, debates, quizzes and group discussions. The activities have been formulated for easy use by stating the purpose, procedure, time, evaluation and desirable number of students for each of these.

The Note to Teachers serves as a guide for teachers to conduct and evaluate the sessions. The activities in the book are divided into 10 chapters.

The book progresses from simple activities to relatively complex ones, building confidence in students and enabling gradual honing of communication and speaking skills. The appendices include a section on how to create and run a club for public-speaking activities, and also provide some useful quotes and speeches.

About the Author(s): Gita Iyengar has been involved in teaching spoken and written communication skills to varied groups of students. She has run workshops in schools in and around Hyderabad.

The author is presently associated with Communication Plus, an organisation that is dedicated to imparting communication skills. She has also authored four storybooks for children, and has recently written a history book for children.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Loud and Clear: Classroom Activities on Public Speaking is resource book for teachers. It is a comprehensive manuall on public-speaking activities that can be carried out in the classroom for students from class VI to XI.

It aims to cultivate the art of effective communication by making use of well known activities such as elocution, extempore, debates, quizzes and group discussions. The activities have been formulated for easy use by stating the purpose, procedure, time, evaluation and desirable number of students for each of these.

The Note to Teachers serves as a guide for teachers to conduct and evaluate the sessions. The activities in the book are divided into 10 chapters.

The book progresses from simple activities to relatively complex ones, building confidence in students and enabling gradual honing of communication and speaking skills. The appendices include a section on how to create and run a club for public-speaking activities, and also provide some useful quotes and speeches.

About the Author(s): Gita Iyengar has been involved in teaching spoken and written communication skills to varied groups of students. She has run workshops in schools in and around Hyderabad.

The author is presently associated with Communication Plus, an organisation that is dedicated to imparting communication skills. She has also authored four storybooks for children, and has recently written a history book for children.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Loud and Clear: Classroom Activities on Public Speaking is resource book for teachers. It is a comprehensive manuall on public-speaking activities that can be carried out in the classroom for students from class VI to XI.

It aims to cultivate the art of effective communication by making use of well known activities such as elocution, extempore, debates, quizzes and group discussions. The activities have been formulated for easy use by stating the purpose, procedure, time, evaluation and desirable number of students for each of these.

The Note to Teachers serves as a guide for teachers to conduct and evaluate the sessions. The activities in the book are divided into 10 chapters.

The book progresses from simple activities to relatively complex ones, building confidence in students and enabling gradual honing of communication and speaking skills. The appendices include a section on how to create and run a club for public-speaking activities, and also provide some useful quotes and speeches.

About the Author(s): Gita Iyengar has been involved in teaching spoken and written communication skills to varied groups of students. She has run workshops in schools in and around Hyderabad.

The author is presently associated with Communication Plus, an organisation that is dedicated to imparting communication skills. She has also authored four storybooks for children, and has recently written a history book for children.

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More recently, India's commercial ethos has changed massively with the entry of businessmen from the ranks of Brahmins, Khatris, and other castes with a predominantly scribal or administrative background. The past four or so decades have seen a further widening of the social base of Indian capital to include agrarian and allied service castes such as Kammas, Naidus, Reddys, Rajus, Gounders, Nadars, Ezhavas, Patidars, Marathas, and Ramgarhias.

As a result, entrepreneurship and commerce in India are now no longer the exclusive bastion of the old mercantile castes. The social profile of Indian business has expanded beyond recognition.

And, in order to do business effectively in contemporary South Asia, it is necessary to understand the culture, ethos, and ways of doing business among the region's new trading communities. In tracing the modern-day evolution of business communities in India, this book is the first social history to document and understand India's new entrepreneurial groups.

Written accessibly, and combining analytical rigour with journalistic flair, it also contains fifteen individual case studies that embellish its general findings. About the Author(s): HARISH DAMODARAN is Senior Assistant Editor with The Hindu Business Line.

A specialist in agri-business and commodities reportage, he has spent more than fifteen years understanding the worldview and functioning of Indian businessmen. About the Book: Who are the major new Indian business people? What is their social profile' Business in India was traditionally the preserve of certain 'Bania' communities clubbed under the Vaishya order.

The term 'Bania', in fact, acquired a generic connotation and could refer to the village moneylender, shopkeeper, wholesaler, or large factory owner. More recently, India's commercial ethos has changed massively with the entry of businessmen from the ranks of Brahmins, Khatris, and other castes with a predominantly scribal or administrative background.

The past four or so decades have seen a further widening of the social base of Indian capital to include agrarian and allied service castes such as Kammas, Naidus, Reddys, Rajus, Gounders, Nadars, Ezhavas, Patidars, Marathas, and Ramgarhias. As a result, entrepreneurship and commerce in India are now no longer the exclusive bastion of the old mercantile castes.

The social profile of Indian business has expanded beyond recognition. And, in order to do business effectively in contemporary South Asia, it is necessary to understand the culture, ethos, and ways of doing business among the region's new trading communities.

In tracing the modern-day evolution of business communities in India, this book is the first social history to document and understand India's new entrepreneurial groups. Written accessibly, and combining analytical rigour with journalistic flair, it also contains fifteen individual case studies that embellish its general findings.

About the Author(s): HARISH DAMODARAN is Senior Assistant Editor with The Hindu Business Line. A specialist in agri-business and commodities reportage, he has spent more than fifteen years understanding the worldview and functioning of Indian businessmen.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Who are the major new Indian business people? What is their social profile' Business in India was traditionally the preserve of certain 'Bania' communities clubbed under the Vaishya order. The term 'Bania', in fact, acquired a generic connotation and could refer to the village moneylender, shopkeeper, wholesaler, or large factory owner.

More recently, India's commercial ethos has changed massively with the entry of businessmen from the ranks of Brahmins, Khatris, and other castes with a predominantly scribal or administrative background. The past four or so decades have seen a further widening of the social base of Indian capital to include agrarian and allied service castes such as Kammas, Naidus, Reddys, Rajus, Gounders, Nadars, Ezhavas, Patidars, Marathas, and Ramgarhias.

As a result, entrepreneurship and commerce in India are now no longer the exclusive bastion of the old mercantile castes. The social profile of Indian business has expanded beyond recognition.

And, in order to do business effectively in contemporary South Asia, it is necessary to understand the culture, ethos, and ways of doing business among the region's new trading communities. In tracing the modern-day evolution of business communities in India, this book is the first social history to document and understand India's new entrepreneurial groups.

Written accessibly, and combining analytical rigour with journalistic flair, it also contains fifteen individual case studies that embellish its general findings. About the Author(s): HARISH DAMODARAN is Senior Assistant Editor with The Hindu Business Line.

A specialist in agri-business and commodities reportage, he has spent more than fifteen years understanding the worldview and functioning of Indian businessmen. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Who are the major new Indian business people? What is their social profile' Business in India was traditionally the preserve of certain 'Bania' communities clubbed under the Vaishya order.

The term 'Bania', in fact, acquired a generic connotation and could refer to the village moneylender, shopkeeper, wholesaler, or large factory owner. More recently, India's commercial ethos has changed massively with the entry of businessmen from the ranks of Brahmins, Khatris, and other castes with a predominantly scribal or administrative background.

The past four or so decades have seen a further widening of the social base of Indian capital to include agrarian and allied service castes such as Kammas, Naidus, Reddys, Rajus, Gounders, Nadars, Ezhavas, Patidars, Marathas, and Ramgarhias. As a result, entrepreneurship and commerce in India are now no longer the exclusive bastion of the old mercantile castes.

The social profile of Indian business has expanded beyond recognition. And, in order to do business effectively in contemporary South Asia, it is necessary to understand the culture, ethos, and ways of doing business among the region's new trading communities.

In tracing the modern-day evolution of business communities in India, this book is the first social history to document and understand India's new entrepreneurial groups. Written accessibly, and combining analytical rigour with journalistic flair, it also contains fifteen individual case studies that embellish its general findings.

About the Author(s): HARISH DAMODARAN is Senior Assistant Editor with The Hindu Business Line. A specialist in agri-business and commodities reportage, he has spent more than fifteen years understanding the worldview and functioning of Indian businessmen.

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The book has a deductive approach and reduces the need to learn by rote. The objectives are listed at the beginning of every chapter which gives the student an overview of the chapter.

Each chapter has been structured in a logical and interesting manner that facilitates easy reading and understanding. This approach has been developed and perfected by the author over the course of his tenure as a teacher of organic chemistry.

At the end of each chapter, exercises are provided which strengthen the students' understanding of the concepts discussed in the text. 'Challenging Questions' are given for those students who want to delve deeper into the subject.

Topics of current interest that are related to the subject matter of the chapter are suggested for preparing project reports. This book represents the hope that students of Indian universities who use it will appreciate that much of organic chemistry can be logically deduced from fundamentals and is amenable to reasonable explanations and deductions.

Objectives are listed to give an overview of the chapter Involves a deductive approach Chapters are developed in a logical and interesting manner Extensive exercises are provided at the end of each chapter About the Author(s): C N Pillai is a Retired Professor of the Department of Chemistry, IIT, Madras. He obtained his doctorate from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, and has four decades of experience in teaching and research.

He has published over 100 research papers in international journals and contributed chapters in books. He also has four patents to his credit.

Notable among the various awards he has received are the Eminent Scientist Award (Catalysis Society of India, 1998) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (Catalysis Society of India, 1997). About the Book: Organic Chemistry for Undergraduates is meant for students who learn organic chemistry at the undergraduate level and who have already had exposure to the basics of chemistry, including an introduction to organic chemistry.

This book conforms to the syllabus of Indian Universities at the undergraduate level, but can be useful to students at a more advanced level also. The book has a deductive approach and reduces the need to learn by rote.

The objectives are listed at the beginning of every chapter which gives the student an overview of the chapter. Each chapter has been structured in a logical and interesting manner that facilitates easy reading and understanding.

This approach has been developed and perfected by the author over the course of his tenure as a teacher of organic chemistry. At the end of each chapter, exercises are provided which strengthen the students' understanding of the concepts discussed in the text.

'Challenging Questions' are given for those students who want to delve deeper into the subject. Topics of current interest that are related to the subject matter of the chapter are suggested for preparing project reports.

This book represents the hope that students of Indian universities who use it will appreciate that much of organic chemistry can be logically deduced from fundamentals and is amenable to reasonable explanations and deductions. Objectives are listed to give an overview of the chapter Involves a deductive approach Chapters are developed in a logical and interesting manner Extensive exercises are provided at the end of each chapter About the Author(s): C N Pillai is a Retired Professor of the Department of Chemistry, IIT, Madras.

He obtained his doctorate from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, and has four decades of experience in teaching and research. He has published over 100 research papers in international journals and contributed chapters in books.

He also has four patents to his credit. Notable among the various awards he has received are the Eminent Scientist Award (Catalysis Society of India, 1998) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (Catalysis Society of India, 1997).

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Organic Chemistry for Undergraduates is meant for students who learn organic chemistry at the undergraduate level and who have already had exposure to the basics of chemistry, including an introduction to organic chemistry. This book conforms to the syllabus of Indian Universities at the undergraduate level, but can be useful to students at a more advanced level also.

The book has a deductive approach and reduces the need to learn by rote. The objectives are listed at the beginning of every chapter which gives the student an overview of the chapter.

Each chapter has been structured in a logical and interesting manner that facilitates easy reading and understanding. This approach has been developed and perfected by the author over the course of his tenure as a teacher of organic chemistry.

At the end of each chapter, exercises are provided which strengthen the students' understanding of the concepts discussed in the text. 'Challenging Questions' are given for those students who want to delve deeper into the subject.

Topics of current interest that are related to the subject matter of the chapter are suggested for preparing project reports. This book represents the hope that students of Indian universities who use it will appreciate that much of organic chemistry can be logically deduced from fundamentals and is amenable to reasonable explanations and deductions.

Objectives are listed to give an overview of the chapter Involves a deductive approach Chapters are developed in a logical and interesting manner Extensive exercises are provided at the end of each chapter About the Author(s): C N Pillai is a Retired Professor of the Department of Chemistry, IIT, Madras. He obtained his doctorate from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, and has four decades of experience in teaching and research.

He has published over 100 research papers in international journals and contributed chapters in books. He also has four patents to his credit.

Notable among the various awards he has received are the Eminent Scientist Award (Catalysis Society of India, 1998) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (Catalysis Society of India, 1997). Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Organic Chemistry for Undergraduates is meant for students who learn organic chemistry at the undergraduate level and who have already had exposure to the basics of chemistry, including an introduction to organic chemistry.

This book conforms to the syllabus of Indian Universities at the undergraduate level, but can be useful to students at a more advanced level also. The book has a deductive approach and reduces the need to learn by rote.

The objectives are listed at the beginning of every chapter which gives the student an overview of the chapter. Each chapter has been structured in a logical and interesting manner that facilitates easy reading and understanding.

This approach has been developed and perfected by the author over the course of his tenure as a teacher of organic chemistry. At the end of each chapter, exercises are provided which strengthen the students' understanding of the concepts discussed in the text.

'Challenging Questions' are given for those students who want to delve deeper into the subject. Topics of current interest that are related to the subject matter of the chapter are suggested for preparing project reports.

This book represents the hope that students of Indian universities who use it will appreciate that much of organic chemistry can be logically deduced from fundamentals and is amenable to reasonable explanations and deductions. Objectives are listed to give an overview of the chapter Involves a deductive approach Chapters are developed in a logical and interesting manner Extensive exercises are provided at the end of each chapter About the Author(s): C N Pillai is a Retired Professor of the Department of Chemistry, IIT, Madras.

He obtained his doctorate from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, and has four decades of experience in teaching and research. He has published over 100 research papers in international journals and contributed chapters in books.

He also has four patents to his credit. Notable among the various awards he has received are the Eminent Scientist Award (Catalysis Society of India, 1998) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (Catalysis Society of India, 1997).

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The systematically planned contents and a lucid style enable the reader to be fairly proficient in the concepts, techniques and computational procedures developed by great Indian astronomers like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta and Bhaskara II, over more than a millennium and a half. It provides, for the first time, computer programs for the computation of true planetary positions, lunar and solar eclipses, and contains a detailed and very useful bibliography.

About the Book: This, the first comprehensive book of its kind on Indian Astronomy, is a survey of the development of astronomy in India from the Vedic times to the present day. It aims to create an awareness about Indian Astronomy among interested students and general readers alike.

The systematically planned contents and a lucid style enable the reader to be fairly proficient in the concepts, techniques and computational procedures developed by great Indian astronomers like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta and Bhaskara II, over more than a millennium and a half. It provides, for the first time, computer programs for the computation of true planetary positions, lunar and solar eclipses, and contains a detailed and very useful bibliography.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: This, the first comprehensive book of its kind on Indian Astronomy, is a survey of the development of astronomy in India from the Vedic times to the present day. It aims to create an awareness about Indian Astronomy among interested students and general readers alike.

The systematically planned contents and a lucid style enable the reader to be fairly proficient in the concepts, techniques and computational procedures developed by great Indian astronomers like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta and Bhaskara II, over more than a millennium and a half. It provides, for the first time, computer programs for the computation of true planetary positions, lunar and solar eclipses, and contains a detailed and very useful bibliography.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: This, the first comprehensive book of its kind on Indian Astronomy, is a survey of the development of astronomy in India from the Vedic times to the present day. It aims to create an awareness about Indian Astronomy among interested students and general readers alike.

The systematically planned contents and a lucid style enable the reader to be fairly proficient in the concepts, techniques and computational procedures developed by great Indian astronomers like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta and Bhaskara II, over more than a millennium and a half. It provides, for the first time, computer programs for the computation of true planetary positions, lunar and solar eclipses, and contains a detailed and very useful bibliography.

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'A miniature painted on two inches of ivory' as Charlotte Bronte called it, the work represents the limited world of the eighteenth-century English countryside with the rural gentry as the central focus. The world as depicted here is a small one, but typical: it is peopled by ordinary men and women totally absorbed with news of the neighbourhood, exchanging visits, attending balls and dances, getting their daughters married to the most eligible bachelors and wearing the best clothes possible on occasions.

It is a simple and peaceful attitude to life, and Jane Austen captures it all, in the best language possible. Difficult to forget, the book captivates us by the sharpness of wit and dialogue.

This edition is an abridged version of the original classic, and it is hoped that when students read this, they would be drawn to the original and not only this one, but also the rest of Jane Austen's fiction. About the Author(s): Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and best-loved writers in British literature.

Austen lived her entire life as part of a large and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading.

The steadfast support of her family was critical to Austen's development as a professional writer. Austen's artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about thirty-five years old.

During this period, she wrote three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1815, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer.

She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published after her death in 1817, and began a third, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Average Customer Review: (1 Customer Reviews) | Showing 1- 1 of 1 reviews .

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About the Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is one of the immortal favourites in fiction. Lauded time and again by critics and writers alike, the novel is one of the best of Jane Austen's work.

'A miniature painted on two inches of ivory' as Charlotte Bronte called it, the work represents the limited world of the eighteenth-century English countryside with the rural gentry as the central focus. The world as depicted here is a small one, but typical: it is peopled by ordinary men and women totally absorbed with news of the neighbourhood, exchanging visits, attending balls and dances, getting their daughters married to the most eligible bachelors and wearing the best clothes possible on occasions.

It is a simple and peaceful attitude to life, and Jane Austen captures it all, in the best language possible. Difficult to forget, the book captivates us by the sharpness of wit and dialogue.

About the Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is one of the immortal favourites in fiction. Lauded time and again by critics and writers alike, the novel is one of the best of Jane Austen's work.

'A miniature painted on two inches of ivory' as Charlotte Bronte called it, the work represents the limited world of the eighteenth-century English countryside with the rural gentry as the central focus. The world as depicted here is a small one, but typical: it is peopled by ordinary men and women totally absorbed with news of the neighbourhood, exchanging visits, attending balls and dances, getting their daughters married to the most eligible bachelors and wearing the best clothes possible on occasions.

It is a simple and peaceful attitude to life, and Jane Austen captures it all, in the best language possible. Difficult to forget, the book captivates us by the sharpness of wit and dialogue.

This edition is an abridged version of the original classic, and it is hoped that when students read this, they would be drawn to the original and not only this one, but also the rest of Jane Austen's fiction. About the Author(s): Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and best-loved writers in British literature.

Austen lived her entire life as part of a large and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading.

The steadfast support of her family was critical to Austen's development as a professional writer. Austen's artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about thirty-five years old.

During this period, she wrote three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1815, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer.

She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published after her death in 1817, and began a third, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Average Customer Review: (1 Customer Reviews) | Showing 1- 1 of 1 reviews (less)

The book covers a number of concepts that are not found in most books-the Jacobian method of deriving thermodynamic relations, use of the Bridgman table, stability and phase transition in thermodynamic systems, etc. Another salient feature of the book is the equation of state (EOS) approach which is gaining importance with the increasing use of computers.

Table of Contents: Preface / Nomenclature / Introduction / Basic Concept and Definitions / p-v-trelations of Fluids / First Law of Thermodynamics and its Applications / Second Law of Thermodynamics and its Applications / Thermodynamics Potentials / Thermodynamics Property Relations / Thermodynamic Properties of Real Gases / Multicomponent Mixture / Stability and Phase transition in Thermodynamic System / Properties of Solution / Vapor-liquid Equilibrium / Dilute Solution Laws / Chemical Reaction Equilibrium / Appendices / Answers to problems / References / Index Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: This book would serve as a core textbook for the course on chemical engineering thermodynamics for undergraduate students of chemical engineering and chemical technology. Emphasis is on precise and logical presentation of basic principles.

The book covers a number of concepts that are not found in most books-the Jacobian method of deriving thermodynamic relations, use of the Bridgman table, stability and phase transition in thermodynamic systems, etc. Another salient feature of the book is the equation of state (EOS) approach which is gaining importance with the increasing use of computers.

Table of Contents: Preface / Nomenclature / Introduction / Basic Concept and Definitions / p-v-trelations of Fluids / First Law of Thermodynamics and its Applications / Second Law of Thermodynamics and its Applications / Thermodynamics Potentials / Thermodynamics Property Relations / Thermodynamic Properties of Real Gases / Multicomponent Mixture / Stability and Phase transition in Thermodynamic System / Properties of Solution / Vapor-liquid Equilibrium / Dilute Solution Laws / Chemical Reaction Equilibrium / Appendices / Answers to problems / References / Index Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: This book would serve as a core textbook for the course on chemical engineering thermodynamics for undergraduate students of chemical engineering and chemical technology. Emphasis is on precise and logical presentation of basic principles.

The book covers a number of concepts that are not found in most books-the Jacobian method of deriving thermodynamic relations, use of the Bridgman table, stability and phase transition in thermodynamic systems, etc. Another salient feature of the book is the equation of state (EOS) approach which is gaining importance with the increasing use of computers.

Table of Contents: Preface / Nomenclature / Introduction / Basic Concept and Definitions / p-v-trelations of Fluids / First Law of Thermodynamics and its Applications / Second Law of Thermodynamics and its Applications / Thermodynamics Potentials / Thermodynamics Property Relations / Thermodynamic Properties of Real Gases / Multicomponent Mixture / Stability and Phase transition in Thermodynamic System / Properties of Solution / Vapor-liquid Equilibrium / Dilute Solution Laws / Chemical Reaction Equilibrium / Appendices / Answers to problems / References / Index Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: This book would serve as a core textbook for the course on chemical engineering thermodynamics for undergraduate students of chemical engineering and chemical technology. Emphasis is on precise and logical presentation of basic principles.

The book covers a number of concepts that are not found in most books-the Jacobian method of deriving thermodynamic relations, use of the Bridgman table, stability and phase transition in thermodynamic systems, etc. Another salient feature of the book is the equation of state (EOS) approach which is gaining importance with the increasing use of computers.

Table of Contents: Preface / Nomenclature / Introduction / Basic Concept and Definitions / p-v-trelations of Fluids / First Law of Thermodynamics and its Applications / Second Law of Thermodynamics and its Applications / Thermodynamics Potentials / Thermodynamics Property Relations / Thermodynamic Properties of Real Gases / Multicomponent Mixture / Stability and Phase transition in Thermodynamic System / Properties of Solution / Vapor-liquid Equilibrium / Dilute Solution Laws / Chemical Reaction Equilibrium / Appendices / Answers to problems / References / Index Deliverable Countries : This product ships to (less)

The second moment occurred around the beginning of the second millennium, when local speech forms challenged and eventually replaced Sanskrit in both the literary and political arenas. Drawing striking parallels, chronologically as well as structurally, with the rise of Latin literature and the Roman empire, and with the new vernacular literatures and nation-states of late-medieval Europe, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men asks whether these very different histories challenge current theories of culture and power and suggest new possibilities for practice.

About the Author(s): Sheldon Pollock is William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at Columbia University, and former George V.

Bobrinskoy Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago. His previous publications include Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia (California, 2003), Cosmopolitanism (2002, with Homi Bhabha et al.

), and The Ramayana of Valmiki, Volume III: Aranyakanda (1991), and Volume II: Ayodhyakanda (1986). About the Book: In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity.

He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred language, was reinvented as a code for literary and political expression, the start of an amazing career that saw Sanskrit literary culture spread from Afghanistan to Java. The second moment occurred around the beginning of the second millennium, when local speech forms challenged and eventually replaced Sanskrit in both the literary and political arenas.

Drawing striking parallels, chronologically as well as structurally, with the rise of Latin literature and the Roman empire, and with the new vernacular literatures and nation-states of late-medieval Europe, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men asks whether these very different histories challenge current theories of culture and power and suggest new possibilities for practice. About the Author(s): Sheldon Pollock is William B.

Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at Columbia University, and former George V. Bobrinskoy Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago.

His previous publications include Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia (California, 2003), Cosmopolitanism (2002, with Homi Bhabha et al.), and The Ramayana of Valmiki, Volume III: Aranyakanda (1991), and Volume II: Ayodhyakanda (1986).

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred language, was reinvented as a code for literary and political expression, the start of an amazing career that saw Sanskrit literary culture spread from Afghanistan to Java.

The second moment occurred around the beginning of the second millennium, when local speech forms challenged and eventually replaced Sanskrit in both the literary and political arenas. Drawing striking parallels, chronologically as well as structurally, with the rise of Latin literature and the Roman empire, and with the new vernacular literatures and nation-states of late-medieval Europe, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men asks whether these very different histories challenge current theories of culture and power and suggest new possibilities for practice.

About the Author(s): Sheldon Pollock is William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at Columbia University, and former George V.

Bobrinskoy Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago. His previous publications include Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia (California, 2003), Cosmopolitanism (2002, with Homi Bhabha et al.

), and The Ramayana of Valmiki, Volume III: Aranyakanda (1991), and Volume II: Ayodhyakanda (1986). Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity.

He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred language, was reinvented as a code for literary and political expression, the start of an amazing career that saw Sanskrit literary culture spread from Afghanistan to Java. The second moment occurred around the beginning of the second millennium, when local speech forms challenged and eventually replaced Sanskrit in both the literary and political arenas.

Drawing striking parallels, chronologically as well as structurally, with the rise of Latin literature and the Roman empire, and with the new vernacular literatures and nation-states of late-medieval Europe, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men asks whether these very different histories challenge current theories of culture and power and suggest new possibilities for practice. About the Author(s): Sheldon Pollock is William B.

Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at Columbia University, and former George V. Bobrinskoy Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago.

His previous publications include Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia (California, 2003), Cosmopolitanism (2002, with Homi Bhabha et al.), and The Ramayana of Valmiki, Volume III: Aranyakanda (1991), and Volume II: Ayodhyakanda (1986).

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Added to this is Jai Nimbkar's easy style, her sharp observations of life in a middle-class Indian family, her ability to capture the subtle nuances of interpersonal relationships and to breathe life into her characters so that they remain firmly rooted in the social reality around them. About the Author(s): NIMBKAR, J.

, has a masters in Psychology and Sociology and has been writing short stories, articles and reviews since 1960. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: The novel is about an idealistic and rather unconventional American girl, Ann, who comes to India after her marriage to an Indian.

Ann's stormy relationship with her husband and his family, her attempts to make new friends, her ambivalent attitude towards the Indian way of life, make absorbing reading. Added to this is Jai Nimbkar's easy style, her sharp observations of life in a middle-class Indian family, her ability to capture the subtle nuances of interpersonal relationships and to breathe life into her characters so that they remain firmly rooted in the social reality around them.

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The book deals only with the Special Theory, which you will find is not very difficult to understand. About the Book: This book is about the Theory of Relativity.

The story of Relativity is, in a sense, the story of one man-Albert Einstein. The book deals only with the Special Theory, which you will find is not very difficult to understand.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: This book is about the Theory of Relativity. The story of Relativity is, in a sense, the story of one man-Albert Einstein.

The book deals only with the Special Theory, which you will find is not very difficult to understand. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: This book is about the Theory of Relativity.

The story of Relativity is, in a sense, the story of one man-Albert Einstein. The book deals only with the Special Theory, which you will find is not very difficult to understand.

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An attractive and colourful Book 0 has been added to the series. The series now comes in a new user-friendly, colourful format.

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The unique feature of the series which were the rich range of statement-sums has been reinforced to help children master computing skill and concept-learning. Each book now contains additional of worked out problems, exercises and graded revision tests.

About the Book: Modern School Arithmetic, a time-tested series is now designed to cover the school requirements of the pre-primary and primary schools. Books 1 to 5 have been recently revised to suit the present day needs of the teaching-learning process in arithmetic.

An attractive and colourful Book 0 has been added to the series. The series now comes in a new user-friendly, colourful format.

The unique feature of the series which were the rich range of statement-sums has been reinforced to help children master computing skill and concept-learning. Each book now contains additional of worked out problems, exercises and graded revision tests.

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The current situation is again a subtle role reversal, where demands and needs have led to new science. Popularization of science concerns just this-the capturing and interpreting of these ideas in science, and the bringing of 'town' and 'gown' together.

This book on popular science is one such effort. About the Book: Early on in history, it was applications and needs that led to discoveries, rationalizations and laws of science.

A few centuries ago, the situation reversed and science became an intellectual endeavour in itself, and in turn generated a variety of applications and technologies. The current situation is again a subtle role reversal, where demands and needs have led to new science.

Popularization of science concerns just this-the capturing and interpreting of these ideas in science, and the bringing of 'town' and 'gown' together. This book on popular science is one such effort.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Early on in history, it was applications and needs that led to discoveries, rationalizations and laws of science. A few centuries ago, the situation reversed and science became an intellectual endeavour in itself, and in turn generated a variety of applications and technologies.

The current situation is again a subtle role reversal, where demands and needs have led to new science. Popularization of science concerns just this-the capturing and interpreting of these ideas in science, and the bringing of 'town' and 'gown' together.

This book on popular science is one such effort. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Early on in history, it was applications and needs that led to discoveries, rationalizations and laws of science.

A few centuries ago, the situation reversed and science became an intellectual endeavour in itself, and in turn generated a variety of applications and technologies. The current situation is again a subtle role reversal, where demands and needs have led to new science.

Popularization of science concerns just this-the capturing and interpreting of these ideas in science, and the bringing of 'town' and 'gown' together. This book on popular science is one such effort.

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Part 1 is autobiographical: it lays emphasis on those features of McLeod's career which have had an important influence on his relationship with the Sikhs and with the manner in which he has sought to give expression to them in his written works. Two features have been particularly significant.

One is his religious development which, thirty-five years ago, led him to unbelief. The other is his growth in understanding of the nature and value of historical studies.

Part 2 concerns Sikh Studies and the vigorous attacks that have been made on his views regarding Sikh history and religion. These attacks were particularly marked during the decade from 1986, and although they have subsided somewhat since the mid 1990s, the feelings that were aroused during that decade have left a substantial deposit.

An attempt is made to answer these charges and to show that McLeod's analysis of Sikh history and religion has always been critical and dispassionate, yet sympathetic. About the Author(s): HEW MCLEOD is a New Zealander who taught in Punjab for nine years and there developed a life-long interest in the Sikhs.

In 1971 he returned to the History Department of the University of Otago in Dunedin, where he remained until his retirement in 1998. His first book was Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion, published in 1968.

Since then he has produced another fifteen books on Sikh history and religion. These include critical studies, translations, and a dictionary.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Hew McLeod is generally acknowledged as the world's foremost historian of the Sikhs. This autobiography comprises two parts, both concerned with the author's career in Sikh Studies.

Part 1 is autobiographical: it lays emphasis on those features of McLeod's career which have had an important influence on his relationship with the Sikhs and with the manner in which he has sought to give expression to them in his written works. Two features have been particularly significant.

One is his religious development which, thirty-five years ago, led him to unbelief. The other is his growth in understanding of the nature and value of historical studies.

Part 2 concerns Sikh Studies and the vigorous attacks that have been made on his views regarding Sikh history and religion. These attacks were particularly marked during the decade from 1986, and although they have subsided somewhat since the mid 1990s, the feelings that were aroused during that decade have left a substantial deposit.

An attempt is made to answer these charges and to show that McLeod's analysis of Sikh history and religion has always been critical and dispassionate, yet sympathetic. About the Author(s): HEW MCLEOD is a New Zealander who taught in Punjab for nine years and there developed a life-long interest in the Sikhs.

In 1971 he returned to the History Department of the University of Otago in Dunedin, where he remained until his retirement in 1998. His first book was Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion, published in 1968.

Since then he has produced another fifteen books on Sikh history and religion. These include critical studies, translations, and a dictionary.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Hew McLeod is generally acknowledged as the world's foremost historian of the Sikhs. This autobiography comprises two parts, both concerned with the author's career in Sikh Studies.

Part 1 is autobiographical: it lays emphasis on those features of McLeod's career which have had an important influence on his relationship with the Sikhs and with the manner in which he has sought to give expression to them in his written works. Two features have been particularly significant.

One is his religious development which, thirty-five years ago, led him to unbelief. The other is his growth in understanding of the nature and value of historical studies.

Part 2 concerns Sikh Studies and the vigorous attacks that have been made on his views regarding Sikh history and religion. These attacks were particularly marked during the decade from 1986, and although they have subsided somewhat since the mid 1990s, the feelings that were aroused during that decade have left a substantial deposit.

An attempt is made to answer these charges and to show that McLeod's analysis of Sikh history and religion has always been critical and dispassionate, yet sympathetic. About the Author(s): HEW MCLEOD is a New Zealander who taught in Punjab for nine years and there developed a life-long interest in the Sikhs.

In 1971 he returned to the History Department of the University of Otago in Dunedin, where he remained until his retirement in 1998. His first book was Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion, published in 1968.

Since then he has produced another fifteen books on Sikh history and religion. These include critical studies, translations, and a dictionary.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Hew McLeod is generally acknowledged as the world's foremost historian of the Sikhs. This autobiography comprises two parts, both concerned with the author's career in Sikh Studies.

Part 1 is autobiographical: it lays emphasis on those features of McLeod's career which have had an important influence on his relationship with the Sikhs and with the manner in which he has sought to give expression to them in his written works. Two features have been particularly significant.

One is his religious development which, thirty-five years ago, led him to unbelief. The other is his growth in understanding of the nature and value of historical studies.

Part 2 concerns Sikh Studies and the vigorous attacks that have been made on his views regarding Sikh history and religion. These attacks were particularly marked during the decade from 1986, and although they have subsided somewhat since the mid 1990s, the feelings that were aroused during that decade have left a substantial deposit.

An attempt is made to answer these charges and to show that McLeod's analysis of Sikh history and religion has always been critical and dispassionate, yet sympathetic. About the Author(s): HEW MCLEOD is a New Zealander who taught in Punjab for nine years and there developed a life-long interest in the Sikhs.

In 1971 he returned to the History Department of the University of Otago in Dunedin, where he remained until his retirement in 1998. His first book was Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion, published in 1968.

Since then he has produced another fifteen books on Sikh history and religion. These include critical studies, translations, and a dictionary.

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Some of the notable features of the book include expression of the probability of error in terms of the Euclidean distance instead of the usual Eb/N0, adoption of a new approach to the Viterbi algorithm that does not assume any knowledge of the encoder starting and ending states, discussions on constellation shaping, shell mapping algorithm and root-raised cosine pulse shaping, and a unified approach to continuous phase frequency modulation where M-ary FSK and MSK are special cases. The book is well suited for a senior undergraduate to a graduate level course in communications theory.

The accompanying CD-ROM containing C program on Viterbi algorithm, shell mapping and turbo codes will aid the student in understanding these topics better. Table of Contents: Notations / Calligraphic Letters / Preface / Acknowledgements / INTRODUCTION - Overview of the Book / Bibliography / COMMUNICATING WITH POINTS - Coherent Detectors for Two-Dimensional Constellations / Coherent Detectors for Multidimensional Orthogonal Constellations / Bi-Orthogonal Constellations / Simplex Constellations / Noncoherent Detectors for Multidimensional Orthogonal Constellations / Noncoherent Detectors for M-ary PSK / Coherent Detectors in Coloured Noise / Coherent Detectors for Frequency Nonselective (Flat) Fading Channels / Summary / CHANNEL CODING - Introduction / The Convolutional Encoder / Are the Encoded Symbols Correlated? / Hard-Decision Decoding of Convolutional Codes / Soft-Decision Decoding of Convolutional Codes / Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) / Maximization of the Shape Gain / Constellation Shaping by Shell Mapping / Turbo Codes / Summary / TRANSMISSION OF SIGNALS THROUGH DISTORTIONLESS CHANNELS - Linear Modulation / Nonlinear Modulation / Summary / TRANSMISSION OF SIGNALS THROUGH DISTORTING CHANNELS - Receivers Based on Equalization / Receivers Based on Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) / Multicarrier Communication / Summary / Appendices / References / Index About the Author(s): K.

Vasudevan has been a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering (EE) department at IIT Kanpur since July 2001. He received his BTech (Electronics and Communications Engineering Honours) from IIT Kharagpur, and MS and PhD from the EE department, IIT Madras.

He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne. His research interests are in the general area of communications and signal processing.

About the Book: Digital Communications and Signal Processing covers a wide variety of topics of digital communications from a theoretical as well as practical perspective. The subject matter is well laid out and the purpose of study of each topic made clear.

Some of the notable features of the book include expression of the probability of error in terms of the Euclidean distance instead of the usual Eb/N0, adoption of a new approach to the Viterbi algorithm that does not assume any knowledge of the encoder starting and ending states, discussions on constellation shaping, shell mapping algorithm and root-raised cosine pulse shaping, and a unified approach to continuous phase frequency modulation where M-ary FSK and MSK are special cases. The book is well suited for a senior undergraduate to a graduate level course in communications theory.

The accompanying CD-ROM containing C program on Viterbi algorithm, shell mapping and turbo codes will aid the student in understanding these topics better. Table of Contents: Notations / Calligraphic Letters / Preface / Acknowledgements / INTRODUCTION - Overview of the Book / Bibliography / COMMUNICATING WITH POINTS - Coherent Detectors for Two-Dimensional Constellations / Coherent Detectors for Multidimensional Orthogonal Constellations / Bi-Orthogonal Constellations / Simplex Constellations / Noncoherent Detectors for Multidimensional Orthogonal Constellations / Noncoherent Detectors for M-ary PSK / Coherent Detectors in Coloured Noise / Coherent Detectors for Frequency Nonselective (Flat) Fading Channels / Summary / CHANNEL CODING - Introduction / The Convolutional Encoder / Are the Encoded Symbols Correlated? / Hard-Decision Decoding of Convolutional Codes / Soft-Decision Decoding of Convolutional Codes / Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) / Maximization of the Shape Gain / Constellation Shaping by Shell Mapping / Turbo Codes / Summary / TRANSMISSION OF SIGNALS THROUGH DISTORTIONLESS CHANNELS - Linear Modulation / Nonlinear Modulation / Summary / TRANSMISSION OF SIGNALS THROUGH DISTORTING CHANNELS - Receivers Based on Equalization / Receivers Based on Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) / Multicarrier Communication / Summary / Appendices / References / Index About the Author(s): K.

Vasudevan has been a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering (EE) department at IIT Kanpur since July 2001. He received his BTech (Electronics and Communications Engineering Honours) from IIT Kharagpur, and MS and PhD from the EE department, IIT Madras.

He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne. His research interests are in the general area of communications and signal processing.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Digital Communications and Signal Processing covers a wide variety of topics of digital communications from a theoretical as well as practical perspective. The subject matter is well laid out and the purpose of study of each topic made clear.

Some of the notable features of the book include expression of the probability of error in terms of the Euclidean distance instead of the usual Eb/N0, adoption of a new approach to the Viterbi algorithm that does not assume any knowledge of the encoder starting and ending states, discussions on constellation shaping, shell mapping algorithm and root-raised cosine pulse shaping, and a unified approach to continuous phase frequency modulation where M-ary FSK and MSK are special cases. The book is well suited for a senior undergraduate to a graduate level course in communications theory.

The accompanying CD-ROM containing C program on Viterbi algorithm, shell mapping and turbo codes will aid the student in understanding these topics better. Table of Contents: Notations / Calligraphic Letters / Preface / Acknowledgements / INTRODUCTION - Overview of the Book / Bibliography / COMMUNICATING WITH POINTS - Coherent Detectors for Two-Dimensional Constellations / Coherent Detectors for Multidimensional Orthogonal Constellations / Bi-Orthogonal Constellations / Simplex Constellations / Noncoherent Detectors for Multidimensional Orthogonal Constellations / Noncoherent Detectors for M-ary PSK / Coherent Detectors in Coloured Noise / Coherent Detectors for Frequency Nonselective (Flat) Fading Channels / Summary / CHANNEL CODING - Introduction / The Convolutional Encoder / Are the Encoded Symbols Correlated? / Hard-Decision Decoding of Convolutional Codes / Soft-Decision Decoding of Convolutional Codes / Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) / Maximization of the Shape Gain / Constellation Shaping by Shell Mapping / Turbo Codes / Summary / TRANSMISSION OF SIGNALS THROUGH DISTORTIONLESS CHANNELS - Linear Modulation / Nonlinear Modulation / Summary / TRANSMISSION OF SIGNALS THROUGH DISTORTING CHANNELS - Receivers Based on Equalization / Receivers Based on Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) / Multicarrier Communication / Summary / Appendices / References / Index About the Author(s): K.

Vasudevan has been a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering (EE) department at IIT Kanpur since July 2001. He received his BTech (Electronics and Communications Engineering Honours) from IIT Kharagpur, and MS and PhD from the EE department, IIT Madras.

He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne. His research interests are in the general area of communications and signal processing.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: Digital Communications and Signal Processing covers a wide variety of topics of digital communications from a theoretical as well as practical perspective. The subject matter is well laid out and the purpose of study of each topic made clear.

Some of the notable features of the book include expression of the probability of error in terms of the Euclidean distance instead of the usual Eb/N0, adoption of a new approach to the Viterbi algorithm that does not assume any knowledge of the encoder starting and ending states, discussions on constellation shaping, shell mapping algorithm and root-raised cosine pulse shaping, and a unified approach to continuous phase frequency modulation where M-ary FSK and MSK are special cases. The book is well suited for a senior undergraduate to a graduate level course in communications theory.

The accompanying CD-ROM containing C program on Viterbi algorithm, shell mapping and turbo codes will aid the student in understanding these topics better. Table of Contents: Notations / Calligraphic Letters / Preface / Acknowledgements / INTRODUCTION - Overview of the Book / Bibliography / COMMUNICATING WITH POINTS - Coherent Detectors for Two-Dimensional Constellations / Coherent Detectors for Multidimensional Orthogonal Constellations / Bi-Orthogonal Constellations / Simplex Constellations / Noncoherent Detectors for Multidimensional Orthogonal Constellations / Noncoherent Detectors for M-ary PSK / Coherent Detectors in Coloured Noise / Coherent Detectors for Frequency Nonselective (Flat) Fading Channels / Summary / CHANNEL CODING - Introduction / The Convolutional Encoder / Are the Encoded Symbols Correlated? / Hard-Decision Decoding of Convolutional Codes / Soft-Decision Decoding of Convolutional Codes / Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) / Maximization of the Shape Gain / Constellation Shaping by Shell Mapping / Turbo Codes / Summary / TRANSMISSION OF SIGNALS THROUGH DISTORTIONLESS CHANNELS - Linear Modulation / Nonlinear Modulation / Summary / TRANSMISSION OF SIGNALS THROUGH DISTORTING CHANNELS - Receivers Based on Equalization / Receivers Based on Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) / Multicarrier Communication / Summary / Appendices / References / Index About the Author(s): K.

Vasudevan has been a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering (EE) department at IIT Kanpur since July 2001. He received his BTech (Electronics and Communications Engineering Honours) from IIT Kharagpur, and MS and PhD from the EE department, IIT Madras.

He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne. His research interests are in the general area of communications and signal processing.

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This elegant, impeccably researched and wide-ranging work of social history is a riveting journey into the underworld of colonial Calcutta. From dusty official files to half-forgotten popular literature of a dark past, The Wicked City unravels a fascinating panorama of crime in the colonial metropolis over two centuries.

It begins in the eighteenth century with the plots of bribery and murderous vendetta hatched in Governor Warren Hastings' office in the "White Town"'the tiny European part of the city. The story then moves into the dingy backstreets of the "Black Town"'the vast, sprawling Bengali habitation'and offers a glimpse into the world of indigenous dacoits.

As the eighteenth century flickers out, a new century sees the dawn of new types of crimes like counterfeiting, even as the technology used in old forms of crime like burglary, becomes increasingly more sophisticated. In this onward march of crime in the course of Calcutta's rise from fledgling town to giant metropolis, a procession of colourful characters emerged and thrived in all their diabolic grandeur.

With all their imagination and creative devices, they elevated crime to the status of art. After immersing itself in the world of "criminals", the book shifts its gaze towards the apparatus built by the colonial rulers to deal with them.

In doing so, what clearly emerges is the symbiotic relationship between urban crimes'spawned by the colonial ethic of acquisitiveness and aggressive pursuit of self-interest'and the new laws and modes of punishment, fashioned by the colonial rulers to control those crimes. Table of Contents: Preface Introduction Part I: Hatching the Plot: Exploring the Social History of Crime 1.

The Trailblazers 2. Calcutta's White Underworld 3.

Journeys through the Lower Depths 4. Killers: Violent and Silent 5.

House-breakers, Thieves and Pilferers 6. Swindlers and Forgers 7.

Embezzlers and Gamblers 8. Smugglers, Drug-pushers and Poisoners 9.

Underworld Heroines and their Children 10. The Contest over Public Space Part II: Smashing the Plot: Punishing, Disciplining and Ordering 1.

The Beginnings 2. Rise and Growth of the Police 3.

Subalterns of the Calcutta Police 4. Arrival of the Bengali Sleuth 5.

The Web of Criminal Prosecution 6. Jail: The Meeting Ground of Criminology and Penology Concluding Reflections Select Bibliography Index About the Author(s): Born and educated in Calcutta, Sumanta Banerjee has been a journalist by profession for more than forty years.

Currently based in Dehradun, he writes political commentaries on current events in India, and is engaged in research on popular culture and social history of nineteenth-century Bengal. His published works include In the Wake of Naxalbari (1980); The Parlour and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Calcutta (1989); Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal (1998); and Logic in a Popular Form: Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal (2002).

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: " Jal, juochuri, mithye katha / Ei tin niye Kolikata " (Forgery, swindling and falsehood: these three make up Calcutta.)'A popular couplet from early-eighteenth-century Calcutta.

About the Book: " Jal, juochuri, mithye katha / Ei tin niye Kolikata " (Forgery, swindling and falsehood: these three make up Calcutta.)'A popular couplet from early-eighteenth-century Calcutta.

This elegant, impeccably researched and wide-ranging work of social history is a riveting journey into the underworld of colonial Calcutta. From dusty official files to half-forgotten popular literature of a dark past, The Wicked City unravels a fascinating panorama of crime in the colonial metropolis over two centuries.

It begins in the eighteenth century with the plots of bribery and murderous vendetta hatched in Governor Warren Hastings' office in the "White Town"'the tiny European part of the city. The story then moves into the dingy backstreets of the "Black Town"'the vast, sprawling Bengali habitation'and offers a glimpse into the world of indigenous dacoits.

As the eighteenth century flickers out, a new century sees the dawn of new types of crimes like counterfeiting, even as the technology used in old forms of crime like burglary, becomes increasingly more sophisticated. In this onward march of crime in the course of Calcutta's rise from fledgling town to giant metropolis, a procession of colourful characters emerged and thrived in all their diabolic grandeur.

With all their imagination and creative devices, they elevated crime to the status of art. After immersing itself in the world of "criminals", the book shifts its gaze towards the apparatus built by the colonial rulers to deal with them.

In doing so, what clearly emerges is the symbiotic relationship between urban crimes'spawned by the colonial ethic of acquisitiveness and aggressive pursuit of self-interest'and the new laws and modes of punishment, fashioned by the colonial rulers to control those crimes. Table of Contents: Preface Introduction Part I: Hatching the Plot: Exploring the Social History of Crime 1.

The Trailblazers 2. Calcutta's White Underworld 3.

Journeys through the Lower Depths 4. Killers: Violent and Silent 5.

House-breakers, Thieves and Pilferers 6. Swindlers and Forgers 7.

Embezzlers and Gamblers 8. Smugglers, Drug-pushers and Poisoners 9.

Underworld Heroines and their Children 10. The Contest over Public Space Part II: Smashing the Plot: Punishing, Disciplining and Ordering 1.

The Beginnings 2. Rise and Growth of the Police 3.

Subalterns of the Calcutta Police 4. Arrival of the Bengali Sleuth 5.

The Web of Criminal Prosecution 6. Jail: The Meeting Ground of Criminology and Penology Concluding Reflections Select Bibliography Index About the Author(s): Born and educated in Calcutta, Sumanta Banerjee has been a journalist by profession for more than forty years.

Currently based in Dehradun, he writes political commentaries on current events in India, and is engaged in research on popular culture and social history of nineteenth-century Bengal. His published works include In the Wake of Naxalbari (1980); The Parlour and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Calcutta (1989); Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal (1998); and Logic in a Popular Form: Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal (2002).

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to This elegant, impeccably researched and wide-ranging work of social history is a riveting journey into the underworld of colonial Calcutta. From dusty official files to half-forgotten popular literature of a dark past, The Wicked City unravels a fascinating panorama of crime in the colonial metropolis over two centuries.

It begins in the eighteenth century with the plots of bribery and murderous vendetta hatched in Governor Warren Hastings' office in the "White Town"'the tiny European part of the city. The story then moves into the dingy backstreets of the "Black Town"'the vast, sprawling Bengali habitation'and offers a glimpse into the world of indigenous dacoits.

As the eighteenth century flickers out, a new century sees the dawn of new types of crimes like counterfeiting, even as the technology used in old forms of crime like burglary, becomes increasingly more sophisticated. In this onward march of crime in the course of Calcutta's rise from fledgling town to giant metropolis, a procession of colourful characters emerged and thrived in all their diabolic grandeur.

With all their imagination and creative devices, they elevated crime to the status of art. After immersing itself in the world of "criminals", the book shifts its gaze towards the apparatus built by the colonial rulers to deal with them.

In doing so, what clearly emerges is the symbiotic relationship between urban crimes'spawned by the colonial ethic of acquisitiveness and aggressive pursuit of self-interest'and the new laws and modes of punishment, fashioned by the colonial rulers to control those crimes (less)

All the major attributes of her writing are evident: her subtlety and power in dealing with human relationships and intrigues of love, life and death and her earthiness, sensuousness and sensuality. About the Author(s): DAS, KAMALA.

Translated from the Malayalam by V. C.

Harris and C. K.

Mohamed Ummer. About the Book: This is the first collection of translations in English of stories originally written in Malayalam by Kamala Das under the pen name Madhavi Kutty.

They amply demonstrate Kamala Das's special contribution to the short story in Malayalam. All the major attributes of her writing are evident: her subtlety and power in dealing with human relationships and intrigues of love, life and death and her earthiness, sensuousness and sensuality.

About the Author(s): DAS, KAMALA. Translated from the Malayalam by V.

C. Harris and C.

K. Mohamed Ummer.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: This is the first collection of translations in English of stories originally written in Malayalam by Kamala Das under the pen name Madhavi Kutty. They amply demonstrate Kamala Das's special contribution to the short story in Malayalam.

All the major attributes of her writing are evident: her subtlety and power in dealing with human relationships and intrigues of love, life and death and her earthiness, sensuousness and sensuality. About the Author(s): DAS, KAMALA.

Translated from the Malayalam by V. C.

Harris and C. K.

Mohamed Ummer. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to About the Book: This is the first collection of translations in English of stories originally written in Malayalam by Kamala Das under the pen name Madhavi Kutty.

They amply demonstrate Kamala Das's special contribution to the short story in Malayalam. All the major attributes of her writing are evident: her subtlety and power in dealing with human relationships and intrigues of love, life and death and her earthiness, sensuousness and sensuality.

About the Author(s): DAS, KAMALA. Translated from the Malayalam by V.

C. Harris and C.

K. Mohamed Ummer.

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