28 September, 2012

Current Studies on Indus Valley Civilization (Vol. IX)


Current Studies on Indus Valley Civilization (Vol. IX)

By- Toshiki Osada and Hitoshi Endo (eds.)

This book contains papers concerning several animals, i.e. crocodile, ass and unicorn written by the Finnish eminent scholar on Indus script, Professor Asko Parpola and his colleague in Helsinki University, Professor Juha Janhunen who has specialized on the Mongolic, Tugusic and Turkic languages widely spoken in Eurasia. These animals’ motifs are found not only in the Indus seals but also in the several mythological literatures from Eurasia, including India.

Another contributor is Professor Ajithprasad of Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat. His paper deals with issues related to the early Chalcolithic regional tradition of north Gujarat in western India.



Toshiki Osada is a Professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto and the leader of Indus Project. He has conducted extensive field research on the language and culture of Munda since 1984. He edited the book titled Indus Civilization: Text and Context Vol. 1 (2006) and Vol. 2 (2009), and edited with Dr. Uesugi the RIHN-Manohar Indus Project series titled Current Studies on the Indus Civilization.

Hitoshi Endo is a researcher scholar at the RIHN. He has carried extensive fieldworks at several archaeological sites in Egypt, Mesopotamia and around the Indus.





ISBN  978-81-7304-948-4  2012   278p.   Rs.1150/Pounds 70

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Buddhists in India Today: Descriptions, Pictures and Documents


Buddhists in India Today: Descriptions, Pictures and Documents

By- Detlef Kantowsky

Detlef Kantowsky’s Buddhisten in Indien heute (1999) brought to a German audience new material, including many photographs and documents, on six facets of Buddhists’ life in India today. This English translation by Hans-Georg Tuerstig will bring Kantowsky’s innovative study to an even wider audience. He has examined the literature on the New Buddhists, converts in the wake of Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism in 1956, and also studied the All India Bhikkhu Sangha, the organization of monks chiefly from  that conversion. The efforts of the Sangha as documented in their conferences are the new material in the literature on the Ambedkar movement.

The Maha Bodhi Society chapter also contains an unusual document, a letter from the founder, Anagarika Dharmapala, and the chapter on Bodh Gaya introduces three maps from very different perspectives. The central meaning of Nagpur to the Ambedkar movement is brought out and the Indian wing of the British Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, the TBMSG, is analysed. The Life of S.N. Goenka, who brought Vipassana meditation back to India, and his establishment, Dhammagiri, brings the book to the close.

Dr Kantowsky examines these facets of Buddhists today in a very personal way, including his opinions as well as the useful photographs and documents he has discovered in his journey among Buddhists. He has allowed Eleanor Zelliot to add her comments, sometimes contradictory, in a chapter at the end of the volume to which he replies in a Postscript. The result is a stimulating account of a living religion.


Dr D. Kantowsky, born in Berlin in 1936, retired as Professor of Sociology from the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1999. He pursued postgraduate studies at Banaras Hindu University from 1964 to 1967 and spent more than a year in a village of Varanasi district. He has maintained close research contacts with the region ever since, and is founder-editor (1990) of a series of publications on ‘Buddhist Modernism’ especially in the West.

Professor emerita of History of Carleton College, Eleanor Zelliot has been visiting India for half a century. Since 1963 she has done research on and written about the Ambedkar movement and all its facets. She has also written on Maharashtrian intellectual history and the medieval bhakti movement.






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Beyond The Rhetoric: Vol. II: The Economics of India’s Look East Policy


Beyond The Rhetoric: Vol. II: The Economics of India’s Look East Policy

By- Frédéric Grare and Amitabh Mattoo (eds)

Published in Association with
Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi

This volume is part of a research programme on ‘India’s Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Millennium: Forging New Partnerships in South-East Asia’. As the strategic and security issues have been addressed in the earlier volume, the present volume deals exclusively with economic issues. It comprises eight contributions, and is the result of a second workshop organized in New Delhi in April 2001.

In this connection the authors examine the potential for increased economic relations between India and ASEAN, as well as the manner in which the structural problems of the Indian economy could undermine these relations. The various essays also seek to draw some lessons for India from the Asian financial crisis.

With an market around 500 million people and a combined gross domestic product of US $800 billion, ASEAN, one of the most dynamic groups of nations in the world economy, was also perceived as a zone of economic opportunity for India. Starting from a very low level, trade and investments between the two partners developed rapidly. However, they remain even today far below their full potential. The Asian financial crisis of 1997 is only a partial explanation for the unrealized and untapped potential. Although improving at remarkable pace, India’s attractiveness remains limited while its economy is still not export driven. These are some of the pivotal issues addressed in this present volume. 



Frédéric Grare is presently Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of France in Pakistan. Earlier he was Director of the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, and worked for the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies in Geneva.

Amitabh Mattoo is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu. He was Professor of International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Director of the Core Group for the Study of National Security at JNU. Dr Mattoo is also a member of the National Security Advisory Board appointed by the Prime Minister of India. He has been a visiting Professor at Stanford University and the University of Notre Dame. Dr Matoo has published extensively, including seven books and more than forty articles in leading international journals.





ISBN  81-7304-490-2  2003   240p.   Rs.180/Pounds 40

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