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27 July, 2012

The Way to Liberation: Indological Studies in Japan

By- Sengaku Mayeda in collaboration with Y. Matsunami, M. Tokunaga and H. Marui

For the past 100 years, books and periodicals in the field of Indological studies in Japan have increased enomously year by year in number and diversity of subject and methodology. However, these achievements by Japanese scholars have overwhelmingly been published in Japanese and, therefore, they have hardly been accessible to most Indian, European and American scholars. This tendency remains true even today.

The present work in two volumes was planned for the purpose of rectifying the present situation even in some small measure. It consists of articles written by comparatively younger Japanese scholars who are at present actively engaged in the various fields of Indological studies and, in addition, selected bibliographies of Indolgical publications in Japan for the past 10 years from 1987 to 1997.

Sengaku Mayeda is Professor Emerius at the University of Tokyo and Head of the Graduate School of Human and Cultural Studies at Musashino Women’s University.

ISBN 81-7304-374-4 2001 290p. Rs.550/ pounds 45

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The Pandit: Traditional Scholarship in India

By- Axel Michaels (Eds.)

In January 1999, the distinguished scholar Pandit Dr. Parameswara Aithal retired from his position at Heidelberg University. To mark this occasion, Prof. Axel Michals organized a symposium on the institution of the Pandit and the future of traditional Sanskrit scholarship in India and the West. The present volume contains the learned papers of the conference which cover a wide range of topics, e.g. the pandit as a private scholar, university teacher, public intellectual or legal adviser, also traditional ways of Sanskrit teaching and learning, especially the methods of memorization and transfer of traditional knowledge, among other things. Life histories of some well-known pandits such as Krshnashastri Chiplunkar, Hazari Prasad Dvivedi, Goinath Kaviraj, V.S. Apte, and others are also provided.

Axel Michaels, studied Indology, Philosophy and Law in Munich, Hamburg and Varanasi. He was Director of the Nepal Research Centre (Kathmndu), Spalding (Oxford), and Professor for the History of Religions at the University of Berne. Since 1996 he is Professor of Classical Indology at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg.

ISBN 81-7304-435-X 2001 266p. Rs.550/ pounds 55

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The Concept of Hero in Indian Culture

By- Heidrun Bruckner, Hugh van Skyhawk, Claus Peter Zoller (Eds.)

The concept of the hero (via, sura nayaka) is of crucial importance in Indian civilization, from the Vedic to the present times. The contributors to this volume include scholars of times. The contributors to this volume include scholars of Indology history, religion, literature, politics and anthropology.

Papers study, ‘The Birth of the Hero in Ancient India’, including Vedic gods as well as the Jina and the Buddha (Bollee), ‘Heroes and Kings’ (Jansen), ‘Kings as Heroes’ in the Sanskrit carita literature (Thapar), and ‘Himalayan Heroes’ in oral folk epics (van Skyhawk Shankaranarayana), Tamil folk narrative (Ferro-Luzzi) modern literature (Gatzlaff, Oesterheld) and Sanskrit drama (Byrski). Other papers deal with political leadership (Shelke), with Hanuman as Mahavira (Duncan) and ‘From Sacrificer to Hero’ (Sakharov). This is an indispensable volume for the scholars of Indian religion and culture.

Heidrun Bruckner is Professor of Indology and South Asian Studies at the University of Wurzurg.

Hugh van Skyhawk is Associate Professor (Privatdozent) of Indology and History of South Asian Religions at the Institute of Indology of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.

Claus Peter Zoller is Associate Professor of Hindi at the University of Oslo.

ISBN 81-7304-710-3 2007 308p. Rs.795/ pounds 65

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Sanskrit and Orientalism: Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany, 1750-1958

By- Douglas T. McGetchin, Peter K.J. Park, and D. R. SarDesai (Eds.)

The groundbreaking studies contained in this volume present a history of Sanskrit philology and comparative-historical linguistics that is fully integrated with German political and intellectual history ranging from the Enlightenment to Cold War eras. The authors engage and extend the intercultural ‘dialogue’ that Wilhelm Halbfass powerfully initiated in India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding (1988). This volume contains his last public address, in which he challenges the ‘Otherness’ of German Indology, seeing Germany as fitting a European pattern.

While the lack of direct German colonial involvement in India does not completely eliminate the relevance of Edward Said’s arguments in Orientalism (1978) for German Indology, it does call for an individual appraisal of the German case. The long-tauted special historical relationship between India and Germany, as purported by some professional Indologists, is at last critically examined in this volume by historians who are able to approach the question with a knowledge of the particulars of institutional as well as intellectual and political history.

Douglas T. McGetchin is a Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego.

Peter K.J. Park is a candidate for a Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Los Angeles.

D.R. SarDesai is Professor Emeritus at UCLA. A member of the History faculty since 1966, he was the Department’s Vice-Chair and the first holder of the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian History, from 1998 to 2001.

ISBN 81-7304-557-7 2004 386p. Rs.895/ pounds 55

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Popular Religion and Ascetic Practices: New Studies on Mahima Dharma

By- Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Johannes Beltz (Eds.)

This volume brings together new research by Indian and German scholars on Mahima Dharma of Orissa. It combines anthropological insights, historical research and textual analyses to offer a wide variety of perspectives on this popular yet relatively unknown religion: perspectives on this popular yet relatively unknown religion: perspectives which have taken shape in field experience in Orissa and research in Germany.

Starting with an essay by Anncharlott Eschmann, whose pioneering work in the last century had kindled academic interest in the Dharma, this book blends current investigations of different hue and textures in order to provide a nuanced and detailed account of this multi-dimensional religious order in the different phases of its evolution.

Apart from diverse assessments of the life and works of the life and works of the radical poet Bhima Bhoi, it also includes translations from his important works of Bhima Bhoi and and Biswanath Baba, crucial records of the archives and unpublished letters and photos of Eschmann. Needless to say, this volume will cater to a readership interested in the anthropology, sociology, philosophy and history of religions but also to people who are attached to the land of Orissa, its rich culture and the Dharma itself.

Ishita Banerjee-Dube is Professor at the Centre for Asian and African Studies.

Johannes Beltz is Curator of Indian art at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, Switzerland.

ISBN 81-7304-756-1 2008 262p. Rs.695/ pounds 45

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Perception of the Vedas

By- Vidya Nivas Misra (ed.)

This collection of Ananda Coomarasamy essays taken from several volumes presents a full interlinking of not only Vedic texts and their exegetical texts in the Indian tradition itself but also of the related metaphysical texts in other traditions.

The essays are similar in character and although written on random topics, bear upon unity of thought and reflect single minded contemplation of him.

The volume opens a new vista of interpreting the Vedic lore.

Vidya Nivas Misra is an eminent scholar, sanskritist and distinguished educationalist. He was Professor, Head of Department and later Vice – Chancellor of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi. At present, he is a Member of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Trust.

ISBN 81-7304-254-3 2000 449p. Rs.800/ pounds 85

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Religion in Modern India

By- Robert D. Baird (Ed.)

Although this volume was initially written by scholars for scholars, it has become a popular text for courses in Indian religions and religion in modern India. The new chapters should help fill in some of the gaps in the original volume. Since 1981 there has been renewed interest in the study of modern India. In this fourth revised edition a new essay on Jainism by James F. Lewis has been added. Furthermore all contributors were offered an opportunity to make revisions in their original contributions.

The editor, Robert D. Baird is Professor Emeritus, History of Religions, University of Lowa.

ISBN 81-7304-273-X 2009 626p. Rs.650/ pounds 27.99

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Negotiating the Divine: Temple Religion and Temple Politic in Contemporary Urban Indi

Negotiating the Divine: Temple Religion and Temple Politic in Contemporary Urban India

By- Ursula Rao

The book investigates contemporary discourses on religion in urban India through the prism of Hindu temples. It is based on the material collected during extensive fieldwork in Bhopal between 1996 and 1998. Presenting and interpreting data of the history s well as the ritual, social and political life of to central goddess temples, the author presents the first comprehensive study of Hindu temples s socio-religious institutions in the urban environment of contemporary India. She also addresses several issues of general importance: questions of changes in community life in urban India with reference to caste and religious communities; the role of traditions in a fast changing cultural environment; the problematic relationships between religion and politics in the political life of India and a critical assessment of discussions of subalternity and resistance. These discussions appear in a new light n a study that avoids the classical dichotomies of politics and religion, tradition and modernity, elite and subaltern. In a detailed analysis of the religious/political practices and reflexive processes of a broad range of people the author shows how discourses are interconnected and dynamically re-created in practice.

Ursual Rao is lecturer in Anthropology at the University Halle, Germany. Recently she has started a study on the production of news through journalistic practices, with field research located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

ISBN 81-7304-515-1 2003 186p. Rs.500/ pounds 45

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Indo- Thai: Historical and Cultural Linkages

By- Neeru Misra and Sachchidanand Sahai (Eds.)

This volume brings together papers which were presented at a seminar to explore Indo-Thai historical and cultural linkages and the age of old relationship between the two countries, its historical contribution to the formation of global Asian Civilization and consciousness in today’s world.

The topics discussed include the linkages between Hinduism and Buddhism in Thailand, Trade Contacts between the two countries from ancient time. Artefacts and Heritage sites, The Theory of Mind in early Buddhist Philosophy, The Tai Communities of Northeast India, The Advent of Buddhism and Early Buddhist Kingdom in Central Thailand and the Mahayana Tradition in Thailand, among many others.

This is an invaluable volume for scholars of History, Religion and Culture of India and Thailand.

Neeru Misra is Head of the Department of Museology with the National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology, New Delhi.

Sachchidanand Sahai an alumnus of Banras Hindu University where he studied Indian and South-East Asian Art and Archaeology, specialized in the Khmer studies at the University of Paris, Sorbonne (1965-9).

ISBN 81-7304-757-X 2007 190p. Rs.475/ pounds 35

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Indian Ritual and Belief: The Keys of Power

By- J. Abbott

The author believes that the cosmic power is Sakti to the Hindus and Kudrat to the Muslims. And this all-pervasive force acts both for good and for evil. In a sense main’s whole endeavour in magic and religious rituals is to obtain control of this power for his own benefit and accumulate a fund of it as a source of all forms of blessing.

After giving his key concept, the author explains Key of Power or Keys of Punya, those axioms and rules of conduct that man frames in his effort to control power for his own purposes, to preserve it, to transfer it, to coerce it or invoke it. He has also sketched the factors that destroy power. Accordingly, he devotes separate chapters on the power of man, woman, evil-eye, ground, fire, metals, salt, stones, time, colours, numbers, sweet things, trees, grain, grain, bread and animals. There are also chapters on the ritual of agriculture, spirits, and curses and oaths.

John Abbott, B.A. (Oxon), was born in 1884. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1908 and served in various positions in the Bombay Presidency, retiring in December 1932.

ISBN 81-7304-339-6 2000 576p. Rs.750/ pounds 75

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In the Company of Gods

Essays in Memory of Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer

Heidrun Bruckner, Anne Feldhaus, Aditya Malik (eds.)

This volume containing twenty-one essays written by Indologists, anthropologists, historians, expert on Indian law, art historians, a filmmaker and a poet from all over the globe – India, Germany, USA, Canada, Israel and Russia – are testimony to the shoreless reach of Sontheimer’s work. Contributors include David Shulman, Alf Hiltebeitel, Irina Glushkova, B.B. Chattopadhyaya, Romila Thapar, Dilip Chitre among many others.

Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer died in 1992. He was Professor of Indian Religion and Philosophy at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Heidrun Bruckner is Professor of Indology and South Asian Studies at the University of Wurzurg.

Anne Feldhaus is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University.

Aditya Malik is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

ISBN 81-7304-591-7 2005 410p. Rs.995/ pounds 60

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Hinduism Reconsidered

By- Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer and Hermann Kulke

This is a revised and enlarged edition of the book first published in 1989. Seventeen well researched papers in the volume address important questions thrown up by contemporary research on Hinduism: Do conventional notions of Hinduism need to be reformulated on the basis of new evidence and modern theories? Is it prudent to interpret Hinduism without an inter-disciplinary and contextual approach? In short, what does Hinduism mean? The papers reflect a wide variety of opinions on what Hinduism means and help us better understand Hinduism which cannot be forced into watertight inflexible categories.

Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer died in 1992. He was Professor of Indian Religion and Philosophy at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Hermann Kulke is Professor of Indian History at Kiel University, Germany.

ISBN 81-7304-072-9 2005 360p. Rs.395/ pounds 23.99

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Hanuman: God and Epic Hero

By- Joginder Narula

God Hanuman has an important place in India and is worshipped by millions of people. He is a god who is the archetype of honesty, loyalty and courage. More than any other folk god, Hanuman is endowed with human qualities so much cherished in the Indian tradition.

This study seeks to fill this gap and explores the human and superhuman role of Hanuman in Sanskrit texts. With the Ramayana as the basic source, Sanskrit plays and Puranas have also been studied to unravel the complexity of Hanuman’s personality and its development as a character in flesh and blood. Hanuman is also analysed in the context of religious tradition centered on Ramayana.

The study focuses on the evolution and change in the theology of Hanuman. He appears as an incarnation of Siva, a god in his own right, a tribal deity and a hero god with power and virility who destroys evil. At a mundane level Hanuman is an ideal human, an upright man, a trusted friend of Rama, a statesman and a brave warrior. In the bhakti tradition, he is the lord, the object of bhakti.

Joginder Narula earned her Ph.D. from University of Delhi and did further work at the Center for Religious Studies, University of Toronto. She now lives in Toronto, Canada.

ISBN 81-7304-655-7 2005 84p. Rs.150/ pounds 15

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Gods and Temples in South India

By- Winand M. Callewaert

Millions of foreign and Indian tourists and pilgrims visit the thousands of shrines that testify to India’s great cultural and religious heritage. This book has been written as an introduction to the mythological and religious background of the gods worshipped in temples and carved in beautiful status. It also gives a detailed description of the numerous episodes depicted on the walls and inside the shrines. God in ancient India was not only worshipped in the form of a man, but also as a woman. All that ‘appears’ if one looks attentively at the living stones. A journey through south India is definitely as aesthetic experience. A fascinating reading for all those interested in the history of and cultural tourism in India.

Winand M. Callewaert Ph.D. D.Lit. (1943) is Research Director of Indian Studies at the Department of Oriental Studies, Leuven, Belgium. With the collaboration of many scholars and devotees in India he has made an outstanding collection of the oldest available manuscripts of Sant literature on microfilm.

ISBN 81-7304-656-5 2005 244p. Rs.275/ pounds 19

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From Material to Deity: Indian Rituals of Consecration

By- Jun Takashima and Shingo Einoo (eds)

Among Hindu rituals the Pratistha is one of the most well-known and most important ritual ceremonies. An intensive study of the installation ceremony of an image of a god enables one to clarify the formation and development of post-Vedic rituals both in Tantric and non-Tantric schools on the one hand, and to make a good analysis of the ritual elements of post-Vedic rituals on the other. This volume will contribute to a deeper understanding of post-Vedic rituals and of the discontinuity between the Vedic and post-Vedic rituals.

Shingo Einoo is Professor of Indology at the University of Tokyo. He has published a number of important studies in both Vedic and post-Vedic rituals.

Jun Takashima is Professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

ISBN 81-7304-627-1 2005 362p. Rs.334/ pounds 50

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