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This book includes curious stories of the people who inhabited the exotic and vanished world of Nawabi Lucknow, especially the many rogues and villains, some of them British. Using material not used before and containing a number of previousy unpublished illustrations, it takes a look at the undiscovered side of Nawabi Lucknow.

The second edition of Engineering Mechanics is specially designed as a textbook for undergraduate students of engineering. It provides a detailed and holistic treatment of the basic theories and principles of both statics and dynamics.

This book tells an interesting story-of development as seen from the lens of mobility. The grand dynamics of the accumulation of capital have shaped global inequality-this needs to be corrected. Central to this effort will be freer economic migration. Transnational economic migration will be the next frontier of globalization. There is, thus, an urgent need to move to a rule-based, binding set of principles that would require states to willingly cede some degree oftheir sovereignty on matters of economic migration to a multilateral process.

This book unravels the development of Indias intellectual property law and policy in modern times, through chapters focusing on different industries and sectors such as such as pharmaceuticals, publishing, cinema, music, and the Internet.

The book analyses the mind-world relation with a focus on a particular debate in philosophy of mind which has gained attention in recent times the externalism and internalism debate. It explores the history of development of externalistic views which have taught us that we should go beyond these traditional ways of viewing the mind-world relation.

South Asian countries in spite of having diverse histories and politics share a uniformity in terms of constitutionalism. This pioneering volume maps out the intellectual and historical contours of this little-studied field, yet one that is critical to South Asias future. The essays collected here examine whether the experience so far of comparative law across South Asia offers insight into broader trends in constitutionalism, and also ask how the corpus of generalcomparative constitutional law might benefit from greater familiarity with the South Asian experience.

Set against the history of Kerala, the Namboodiri community, and the Indian National Freedom struggle, Agnisakshi is a moving portrait of upper-class, upper-caste Kerala society just before and after Independence.

Provides a cross-disciplinary analysis by leading social scientists of contemporary India of the transformations unleashed by the introduction of egalitarian and liberal principles of government within the context of the colonial legacy, hierarchial social order, group-based identities and plural cultures.

The subject of human rights in a pluralistic world is critical. Drawing on the vast traditions of India and the West, this volume is unique in providing interdisciplinary essays that range from theoretical, philosophical, normative, social, legal, and political issues in the conceptualization and application of a truly global understanding of human rights.

The novella deals with the resilience of the human spirit. A group of disparate individuals surmount personal hostilities as the survival of the larger group becomes more important than the survival of individual members.

This work is an evaluation of Rabindranath Tagore's much-debated tours to Italy in 1925 and 1926 at the invitation of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. It is based on a vast corpus of reportage available on this controversial Tagore-Mussolini episode.

India Analysed recounts the life and ideas of Sudhir Kakar in his own words and, in the process, gives readers an insight into the psychological make-up of modern Indian.

This work focuses on a neglected aspect in Nehruvian studies and discusses the experiences of the Nehru family in prison during the national movement. The author charts out the significance of the prison experience in understanding the thoughts and ideas of one of the most prominent families which provided leadership during the Indian freedom struggle.

This is an outstanding work of collective scholarship from some of the best scholars on Islamic history. It aims to highlight the political and cultural history of the Turks not only within the context of the Indian Subcontinent where they laid the foundation of one of the biggest empires in the world through the Mughals, but also within the context of Central and West Asia.

Pauperism and pauperization are two of the most persistent and widespread phenomena in India. While a fierce debate rages on the line separating the poor from the non-poor, there is scant discussion on the huge mass of paupersnot less than one-fifth of the countrys populationliving in destitution. Rural and urban case studies conducted in the state of Gujarat highlight the ordeal of these paupersthe non-labouring poor unable to take care of themselves, the migrantlabour driven away from the village and back for lack of work, and an urban underclass redundant to demand, often experienced by the better-off as a nuisance. A comparative study of the politics and policies in present-day India in relation to the condition of the ultra-poor in Victorian England reveals a disturbing common factora deeply ingrained mindset of social inequality resembling the spirit of nineteenth-century social Darwinism. That ideology of discrimination and exclusion is back with a vengeance the world all over and not least in India. This book examines poverty and inequality through a sociologicalanthropological lens that goes beyondthe quantitative and unravels the fuzzy landscape of the informal economy. It fills a conspicuous gap in the literature on casual labourthat on the floating and footloose transient labour.

Based on new translations of Pali texts and rare sources, Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns analyses the portrayal of women in the Pali canon and commentaries. Focusing on the differences between canonical and commentarial literature, the author goes beyond the practice of using the commentaries to merely enhance the understanding of the Pali canon; she emphasizes the differing social and historical milieus out of which these genres of literature were born. Assessing eachgenre on its own terms, the work demonstrates that the Pali canon, contrary to how it has been presented previously, is more favourable to women. The first part of the volume contains biographies of the six best-known Buddhist nuns who were considered to have been direct disciples of the Buddha. These biographies throw light on gender relations as they evolved in the early centuries of Buddhism in India. The life stories also serve as the foundation for discussion of Buddhist women in the second part. From notions of beauty and adornment to family, class, and marriage, various themes in the biographies are explored in this work, andthrough this exploration the changing form of Buddhism in early India is captured.

New Subaltern Politics presents a critical dialogue between the conceptual and analytical legacies of Subaltern Studies and the evolving forms of hegemony and resistance in contemporary India. From the struggles of the urban poor in Gujarat to the activism of sexual subalterns in eastern India and the mobilization of artisanal fishing communities in Tamil Nadu, the essays in this volume cover a diverse range of ongoing struggles against dispossession,disenfranchisement, and stigma that are unfolding in neoliberal India.

Advanced Java Programming is a textbook specially designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Computer Science, Information Technology, and Computer Applications (BE/BTech/BCA/ME/M.Tech/MCA). Divided into three parts, the book provides an exhaustive coverage of topics taught in advanced Java and other related subjects.

Engineering Physics is designed as a textbook for first year undergraduate engineering students. The book comprehensively covers all relevant and important topics in a simple and lucid manner. It explains the principles as well as the applications of a given topic using numerous solved examples and self-explanatory figures.

Destination India records the events encountered during the travel undertaken by eminent political scientists Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph from London to Jaipur in a Land Rover in the summer of 1956. It also recounts their academic career of over 50 years spent researching, writing, and teaching about India.

Through a series of case studies, this book chronicles the rise and the decline of Catholic Orientalism which was produced in and disseminated by global networks of the early modern Portuguese empire in South Asia. From Portuguese officials to Goan Brahman clerics and literati, from botanists and physicians of Jewish origin to Italian Jesuits and their Tamil catechists, they were all engaged in creating an ever more cosmopolitan world of early modern South Asia. They did that by way of collecting information and knowledge, and by reflecting on their own mixed identities, on the world of South Asia and their place in it.

Violence is usually located outside the democratic domain, implying thereby that its recurrence marks less of-and ironically at the same time - a direct threat to democracy. This book contests and demystifies the celebrationist understanding of democracy and argues that violence is embedded in democracy as much as democracy is embedded in violence. Their mutually embedded nature has only helped make democracy violent and violence democratic.

The wife of Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757-1849), Lady Nugent could travel extensively and meticulously observed the ways the British imagined themselves in the Empire. Her journal, a significant historical treatise of that time, provides an insider's account of the varying notions of citizenships established by the British colonial rule.

One day, with no warning at all, Radhika's husband Lalit leaves her. Not for another woman, but to find himself. Distraught at first and then angry, Radhika proceeds to rebuild her life and even steers it on her own terms. Saniya excels in creating an atmosphere which suffuses the novella with both sentiment and emotion held on to without break till the end of the narrative. There is a constant knitting of the past and present, building up, however, to a satiricalresolution of sorts in the present.

Moogavani Pillanagrovi is woven around the near-suicidal death of a farmer who loses his land. While the period of the plot is around the 1950s, the story revolves around the farmer's ties with his land and his inability to visualize a life without it-an issue relevant even today. The farmer's death could have been forgotten by the village, except for several puzzling incidents that crop up. Myth and reality intertwine to create a folklore around the landand the farmer.

Hotel Law is the only book for hotel management students and professionals that covers the various laws related to the hotel industry.

Management Information Systems elaborates on how information systems (IS), supported by information technology (IT), help businesses gain competitive advantage and meet corporate objectives.

E-business is a comprehensive textbook specially designed for management students that has been written in a simple and lucid language in the Indian context. The text and theory is suitably illustrated with numerous examples, exhibits, and case studies.

Mahatma Gandhi holds an eminent position in the history of ethics and its application to contemporary concerns. This book brings together in one harmonious whole three systems of thoughts on ethics- the Indian, western and Gandhian. It shows how Gandhi, drawing from the other two traditions, made a creative contribution of his own in making ethics richer and more relevant than ever before. It also analyses in detail contemporary dilemma posed by economic growthbusiness ethics, gender justice and specific policy issues like preferential treatment of socially disadvantaged groups, capital punishment and abortion.