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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Contents Introduction. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgement. 1. Wildlife in India an assessment about the concept of preservation of animals. 2. Present status of endangered species of mammals birds and reptiles. 3. Wildlife study at Ballavpur Sanctuary (Birbhum District West Bengal). A case study. Conclusion. Appendices. Bibliography. Wildlife conservation in India as well as in the world is under tremendous constraints. Some of the species on earth are rapidly approaching decimation and as a result these are endangered. Unfortunately prior to independence of India in 1947 no adequate attention towards protecting animals from decimation and extermination was given. Practical solutions to this problem are yet to be evolved to protect threatened wildlife from total extinction. Here an attempt has been made to review the situation in the pre and post independent India by way of collecting adequate data about wild life resources from various parts of the country. The book will be of considerable help to the students and researchers in the field of wildlife conservation. 184 pp.

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Literature as History, between its two seemingly opposite spectrums, puts forth an idea of unusual convergence between the fields of literature and history. It begins by showing how literary material - since the Sangam period of Tamil literary Renaissance in the first millennium up to the very recent globally acclaimed Indo-Anglian literature - has reflected the twists and turns of history. Sometimes it highlights simply the life lived by the people in their everyday contentment and misery; sometimes it is the Sufiana tariqa (the Sufi way) of syncretic spiritualism (tassawuf), and sometimes it is the literary symbolism of nature trying to represent the nation. In this eclectic collection of essays, the one on Rabindranath Tagore's seminal play The Red Oleanders documents the world's great enthusiasm for the promised liberation of the weak and the oppressed from the shackles of industrial capitalism, while another on Tagore's Letters from Russia explains the subsequent disillusionment and retreat from the first flush of hope and expectation. The three concluding essays in the volume, on Indo-Anglian literature and women's writing, signal a new phase of history where the Indian diaspora has completed 'the conquest of English' and caused history to come full circle.

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. The role of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in demanding the separation of the Hindu majority districts in the western half of Bengal from the proposed East Pakistan has not been studied so far and documented. The 'Right' historians today try to view it as a great triumph for the Hindus while 'Secular' ones try to paint Syama Prasad as an 'arch communalist'. Underlying both versions of the story is an assumption that the partition of Bengal was a much sought after goal pursued by Syama Prasad. Yet an impassioned examination of the actual documents show that Syama Prasad tried to work out a formula for the co-existence of the Hindus and the Muslims till the very last. Only when all attempts, including that of Mahatma Gandhi in the dark days of the Noakhali riots, failed to dissuade the Muslim League from trying to push the subcontinent towards partition that Syama Prasad launched his drive for the separation of the western districts of Bengal from East Pakistan. Partition was the bane of the Hindu Mahasabha. They had called a hartal on 3 July 1947 to register their disapproval of the idea. But once partition gained acceptance at all levels, beginning from the Congress to the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, Syama Prasad saw no alternative to making the best of a bad bargain and pushed for partition. The bloodbath of 16 August 1946 in Calcutta and the reprehensible violation of Hindu women in Noakhali the following October cast the die. He took a leaf out of Master Tara Singh`s plans in the Punjab for the regrouping of the provinces by isolating the non-Muslim population from the Muslim majority zones. The Congress Working Committee took the same line passing a resolution on 8 March 1947 in favour of the isolation of the non-Muslim areas in the Punjab from the predominantly Muslim ones. This strengthened Syama Prasad's case for the partition of Bengal. But this was a last resort measure failing all other options. Both the Bengal Hindu Mahasabha and Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee were aware of the grave consequences of the measure for the province as this much awaited volume notes, and were pledged to bring back the areas that were lost to Pakistan.

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Guru Nanak had gifted the Sikhs with an ideology. Guru Angad had given them the Gurmukhi script. Guru Arjan Dev coalesced the hymns authored or collected by the Gurus and made them a people of the book. Guru Govind Rai created the Khalsa identity with its five symbols (Panj Kakke). Maharaja Ranjit Singh's conquests gave them the pride of race. British insistence on recruiting only Keshdhari Sikhs encouraged the Khalsa to assert their distinct identity. The trend accelerated since the revolt of 1857, when John Lawrence reversed the initial successes of the rebels with the recovery of Delhi with forces from the Punjab. Sikhs were co-opted by the British with the clever broadcast of the Guru Tegh Bahadur myth that the Sikhs would be able to avenge the martyrdom of the Guru in Delhi with the help of a white race. Since then the Sikhs formed the backbone of the British Indian army and all their political influence flowed out of this military connection. The unexpected Congress concession of weightage to the Muslims in the Lucknow Pact of 1916 awakened the Sikhs to the necessity of the defence of Khalsa interests. Their vociferations compelled the British to concede a 19 per cent weightage for the Sikhs in the Montagu-Chelmsford Act of 1919. Gandhi appreciated the indispensable nature of Sikh support for the success of the British military machine. His attempt to subsume the Akali movement under the umbrella of the Non-Cooperation movement in the 1920s against the British and again his attempt to win over the Sikhs for his Civil Disobedience movement during the Lahore Congress in 1929 reflected this shrewd political sense. Sikhs continued to wrench concessions both from the British and the Congress as long as the Pax Britannica had any chance of survival. But as the negotiations for decolonization quickened after the end of the Second World War, the magic of Sikh arms could no longer work miracles for their slender numbers. While British statesmen from Cripps to Attlee all burnt gallons of midnight oil thinking of an acceptable settlement of the Hindu-Muslim impasse, no one paid much attention to the pathetic quest of Sikh leaders since 1940 to work out an acceptable formula for readjusting the borders of the Punjab to accommodate the birthplace of the Gurus or the canal colonies, worked through long years of Sikh toil.

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. This volume explores the multifaceted genius of Rabindranath Tagore in rescuing the stagnant cultural life of Bengal from its many inhibitions. He was an ardent supporter of women's participation in dance and drama. He was a precursor of Indian abstract art. In education, he was heavily influenced by the New School Movement, teaching young children to live in harmony with nature. His works often explore the relationship between human experience, and the landscape and atmosphere and he mobilized the energy of his dedicated children (bratibalakas and bratibalikas) for rural resuscitation. A bitter critic of the aggressive nationalism of the West, he acted as a cultural mascot for the 'submerged nationalities' of war-ravaged East Europe. In this collection of essays, our contributors explore the works and legacy of a man much ahead of his time.

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. Nationalism Indian civilization and its regeneration in Tagore's imagination. 2. The early encounter with Sikhism. 3. Tagore's idea of nationalism and the Sikh Martyrs. 4. Guru Gobind as a nationalist Icon. 5. Caste discrimination the Sikh Gurus and the Poet Saints of the Shri Guru Granth Sahib. 6. The West versus the east. 7. In retrospect. Bibliography. Index. The volume tries to portray how Rabindranath Tagore looked back to the teachings of the Sikh Gurus and the Bhagats of the Shri Guru Granth Sahib like Ramanand, Kabir and Ravidas for resolving the crisis of Indian unity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The so-called nineteenth century Indian Renaissance had failed to reach the Muslim minority and the most numerous section of the population-the untouchables. Attempts to consolidate a national consciousness in the face of colonial rule often ended up in a misguided Hindu revivalism which looked upon the Muslim as the other. Tagore had recoiled from such narrow nationalism during the days of the Swadeshi. In his more mature years he could identify this kind of nationalism as giving rise to an aggressive imperialism. Instead of seeking a solution in some Western philosophy like Bolshevism or socialism, Tagore turned to the rich heritage of an indigenous modernity evolved in the ideas of the Sikh Gurus and the Bhagats from various corners of India who had worked out a common idiom of India in their simple, vernacular shlokas and dohas. (jacket).

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. Martyrdom in Sikhism and Islam: A Historical Perspective. 2. Salvation through the Sword: Zafarnama, Tagore and the Sikh Idea of Martyrdom. 3. Namdhari Struggle against the British Raj. 4. Baba Gurdit Singh: His Ethics and Discourse. 5. From Public to Secret: The Controversy Surrounding Komagata Maru and Underground Responses in Calcutta During the First World War. 6. Kabir: A Pragmatic Thinker. 7. Ideas of Guru Nanak and Sankaradeva: An Analogical Study. Bibliography. Index. Traditions, Personalities and Memories: Aspects of Sikh History, 14691914, Essays in Honour of Sardar Saran Singh highlights the traditions of self-sacrifice associated with the Sikh Gurus and their renowned followers. Ironically, these great traditions ended up being undermined during the most glorious phase of Sikh historythe rule of Maharajah Ranjit Singhso much so that both the British sympathizers, Chief Khalsa Diwan and the Singh Sabhas, as well as the anti-British Namdharis, tried to revive these noble traditions. Persecuted by the British rulers, the Namdharis sustained their anti colonial activities through the Ghadar movement in the twentieth century. The legacy of Baba Gurdit Singh, explored in this volume, is also intertwined with those of the Ghadarites, owing to his expedition with Sikh migrants from Punjab to Vancouver on his chartered ship Komagata Maru, to circumvent the repressive strategies of the white dominions of Canada and the US against the Indian migrants. Around the same time, Ghadarites, retired army personnel and radical Bengali anti colonial forces began to collaborate closely in Calcutta, which became the hub of these revolutionary activities. This volume is an effort to join these dots across history, highlight the varying sacrificial traditions and the fascinating personalities associated with such sacrifice and to rekindle the memories cherished by Sikhs over centuries.

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