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Apart from his investigation into Notovich's claims, Shah makes observations on the Tibetan culture of the time, including their peculiar customs, habits, religion, funerary customs and marriage ceremonies.

Interesting facets of his life in India are revealed through these letters, which also bring out his remarkable power of writing. There is an interesting correspondence about his meeting with Dwarkanath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore's father, and other well-known luminaries of Cal-cutta.

The book should be valuable to libraries and to all those interested in exploring the dynamics of communalism in twentieth century British India. It will no doubt advance our understanding of the issues and themes discussed and analysed by the contributors.

Interestingly, however, despite all the reformations consciously heralded the idea of primordiality in the sense of unchanging is a sincere atavism among the adherents of Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak.

lt was in the making for a long as reflected in the novel ideas put forth by the dissident sects like Mahasa?ghaikas and their sub-sects.

The present work sets out, with the aid of a number of contemporary texts, to elucidate conceptual approaches to the problem of political authority in the two countries during this phase.

The book makes a case that social conservatism and preference of gradual change implied that the right has dominated in the political spectrum and countered a tilt to the left successfully.

Their meth­odology, and inadequate sources, he believes, have tended to perpetuate many inaccurate interpretations concerning the origins, nature, scope, and at times even actual happenings of the Uprising.

The book has also been prepared in a language that is understood by those who have not had an advanced training in mathematical demography.

This book deals with the relations between different ethnic groups in these societies and the challenges they meet to establish peaceful and democratic societies. The volume consists of chapters on these societies, such as South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname.

The book is based on the collection of data from the field investigations done during the last seven years, and it will definitely fulfil the vacuum in the history of tribal movements in the neo-liberal era.

A serious study of Maulana Daud¿s Candayan, composed in 1379, in the reign of Firoz Shah Tughlaq, did not begin until well into the twentieth century because only a few pages of its manuscript folios were discovered at a time, in various academic institutions and museums around the world.

The chief value of the book is the picture of missionary labour it presents ¿ its trials and difficulties, its results, rewards and prospects. The book also contains some rare illustrations.

The current work discusses the impact of contact on the resource base, health, population, habits, and material culture of the Jarawa in the post-hostility phase (post-1997 period).

Yet, this aspect has remained outside the scope of history books. Whatever reading material is available is pro-Christian, mainly because they are either sponsored by the church authorities or written by ecclesiastical scholars.

It was, however, in November-December 2018, that the Sentinelese received international attention, when an American national went missing after having ventured to encroach upon their land. It was alleged that a Sentinelese killed him after warning him twice to leave the island.

It is one of those collections where studies of all three practices of Black Magic, Witchcraft and Occult are combined in one single book.

The book moves on to look at some of the defining debates that shaped readers¿ perspectives on critical social issues and explains how these were tied up with larger concerns over ethical social life.

Further­more, the publication represents the first successful reproduction of the Bengali language in metal type.

It contains infor­mation about the meanings attached to dreams and beliefs regarding ''good'' and ''bad'' omen, widespread belief in witchcraft and the evil eye, rites for bringing or averting rain, the use of amulets, and other beliefs and practices.

There is no evidence of prose and they were following the examples set by the Sanskrit masters who wrote their legal documents, maths handbooks, etc., in verse. The volume covers the indigenous literature of Kathiawad and the folk literature of Gujarat.

It remains one of the most comprehensive and authoritative works on Hinduism.

This study highlights the impact of colonial rule on the `construction of knowledge¿ from a Western (colonial) per­spective and how it ignored the importance of Indian political thought of the pre-colonial period.

A classic in Hyderabad history, this new Indian reprint edition now makes this chapter of Hyderabad, Telangana, and Deccan history, readily available.

This extensive reopening of all firmly held views turned the debate into a most satisfying experience, for it emphasized exploration rather than agreement. Most contributions to the debate are being published in this volume.

Despite prolonged violence and tragic sep­aration thereafter, numerous memories of the self-sacrificing efforts of the compatriots served as recollection in collective living in the Indian subcontinent.

This world of abundance ¿ with the Ho as its conceptual centre ¿ includes the Hös dead, their ancestors, their complex spirit world and supreme deity, and their tribal and nontribal fellow humans. It manifests itself in manifold facets of Ho people¿s lives: socially, ritually, economic­ally, and linguistically.

As well as the brilliant Travancore Minister, Sir T. Madhava Rao; social reformers like P. Thanu Pillai; Father Emmanuel Nidhiry who challenged European bishops; the courageous Dr P. Palpu, who struggled for opportunities for lower castes; the poet and activist N. Kumaran Asan.

The editor¿s introduction convincingly refutes the arguments of the critics of the feudal model by drawing comparable material from European as well as Asian countries, and adds new dimention to the feudalism debate by relating it to developments in the field of religion, literature and art.