Manohar Publishers and Distributors: September 2012

30 September, 2012

Dr B.R. Ambedkar: A Study in Just Society

Dr B.R. Ambedkar: A Study in Just Society

By- James Massey

Published in association with Centre
for Dalit/Subaltern Studies

The theme ‘just society’ is the main subject which runs throughout this work, as envisaged by Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. The entire discussion is based mainly upon his original writings. Besides the main theme, this work also carries the detailed discussions on the related themes, which include: ‘Buddha’s Dhamma’, ‘Dalits and the Conversion’, ‘Christianity and the Dalit Christians’, ‘Dalits: A Minority’ and ‘Framing the Constitution’. The author intentionally has allowed
Dr Ambedkar to speak for himself, therefore the readers will find many quotations throughout this work. The themes discussed are most relevant today, therefore it is being offered to the readers with this belief that Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s thoughts can became the basis of dealing with the current problems related to the Dalits, tribals, women, minorities and other weaker sections of the Indian society.

Introduction; 1. Buddha’s Dhamma; 2. Dalits and the Conversion; 3. Christianity and Dalit Christians; 4. Dalits: A Minority; 5. Framing the Constitution; 6. Vision of a ‘Just Society’; Index.

James Massey is currently the General-Secreatay/Director of Dalit Solidarity Peoples in India, which is a national multi-faith movement. He is also the Hon. Director of the Centre for Dalit Studies, New Delhi. He also worked actively for inter-faith dialogue in the Indian context with special interest in Sikh religion. For his work in Sikh religion he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy by Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany, and again Post-Doctoral Academic Degree (Habilitation) in the field of Religious Studies by the same university.

ISBN 81-7304-523-2 2003 124p. Rs.250/Pounds 35

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Divorce and Remarriage among Muslims in India

By- Imtiaz Ahmad (ed)

Divorce is usually studied in terms of two distinct perspectives. One focuses on the procedure laid down for giving the seal of final authority to a divorce. The other explores the processes that are set in motion once the stability of a marriage is threatened. The latter perspective does not see divorce in isolation but treats it in the wider context of social structure.

When divorce in Muslim communities is discussed, the tendency quite often is to place theology and law at the centre. This book recognizes that divorce in Muslim communities entails substantial theological and legal dimensions, but takes as its point of departure the view that it is only by placing divorce in the social and cultural context that meaningful conclusions can be arrived at. It examines, in the light of empirical evidence, the incidence of divorce and separation, the social and other causes due to which divorce and separation takes place, and the position of divorced women in society as well as their prospects of remarriage. In the process substantial methodological and theoretical questions relevant to the study of divorce as a social phenomenon are raised.

The book has an immediate practical aim as well. Muslim law of divorce, particularly the provision of triple divorce, which vests a unilateral right in the husband to pronounce a summary divorce upon his wife, has been the subject of considerable controversy. Essentially, the papers brought together in this book are sociological analyses of divorce and remarriage among Muslims in India and the data thrown up as part of these analyses should clear some points in the controversy.

Imtiaz Ahmad is former Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

ISBN 81-7304-493-7 2003 436p. Rs.850/Pounds 60

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Delhi Dialogue III: Beyond the First Twenty Years of India-ASEAN Engagement

By- S.T. Devare and Vibhanshu Shekhar (eds.)

This volume offers a comprehensive account of India-ASEAN Relations with a roadmap for the future, involving both practitioners as well as the larger academic community. Moreover, it provides a fresh insight into the intent and strategies of the Indian government in developing relations with its Southeast Asian neighbourhoods. This volume is a reservoir of information on the evolution and growth of India’s Look East policy and a sincere effort to reach out to the wider national and international relationship of India-ASEAN comprehensive engagement.

Sudhir T. Devare is the Director General, Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, one of the oldest think-tanks in India. He served for 37 years in the Indian Foreign Service and was India’s Ambassador to South Korea, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia and Indonesia. He has authored and edited books on India and Southeast Asia, and written on various aspects of Indian diplomacy and regional affairs in the Asia-Pacific.

Vibhanshu Shekhar is Research Fellow, Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi. In addition to contribution to national and international academic journals.

ISBN 978-81-7304-962-0 2012 174p. Rs.1500/Pounds 45

28 September, 2012

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

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.

ISBN 81-7304-511-9 2003 238p. Rs.500/Pounds 40

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

27 September, 2012

At the Confluence of Two Rivers: Muslims and Hindus in South India

By- Jackie Assayag

Relations between Hindus and Muslims are a matter of vital concern in contemporary India. Analysis of the relations between Islam and Hinduism, frequently reduced to stereotypes, is not always accompanied by a thorough consideration of the complexity of the mutual relations of attraction and repulsion which ‘the people of the Book’ and various Hindu castes have maintained for more than a thousand years.

Having evoked the historical and social circumstances of the implantation of Islam in South Asia, the author presents the situation of Muslims in Karnataka, where the dynamics of the cultural forms of pair alterity/identity has seldom been studied. In the framework of an anthropological investigation conducted in the region over a period of several years, the complexity of interactions between Hindus and Muslims fully emerges. Their relations are explored in the village and in the urban milleu, among saints cum-healers or during ceremonies of fakirs, across hybrid cults or within the individual community, in daily life as well as on the occasion of festivals. Finally, the socio-historical study of the rise to prominence of the inter-communitarian conflict in a town of average size reveals how the demarcation of new boundaries, which are nevertheless secular, today heightens a communitarian exclusivism which extends to the core of collective memories. Thus, local knowledge casts light on the destiny of the subcontinent, at the same time as it offers possibilities of comparison.

Jackie Assayag is Director of Research at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) and affiliated to EHESS, Paris. He has worked extensively on anthropology, sociology and politics in modern India.

ISBN 81-7304-512-7 2003 314p. Rs.650/Pounds 50

Asia Annual 2010: Nationhood and Identity Movements in Asia: Colonial and Post-colonial Times

By- Swarupa Gupta (ed)

This volume tells a new story of Asian nationalisms, moving beyond stereotypical representations of Asia as the exoticized/subjugated ‘other’ of Orientalism. It focuses on the interface between Asian forms of nationhood and identity-movements. Dispensing with Western prisms of looking at colonial/Asian nationalisms, it rethinks the relation between the West and the rest, by returning agency to Asians. Using a multidisciplinary methodology, this volume tracks constellations of unity predating the colonial modern, and sees how these operate within spirals of continuity through change. It traces and compares hitherto unexplored nationalist experiences in West, Central, South, South East and East Asia, gathered under the rubric of an internally-differentiated model of Asian nationalism. This moves beyond sectional micro-studies, connecting intra-regional, inter-regional and transnational/international identities in Asia. Seeing how pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial identities meld in specific contexts, this volume contains original thematic essays which fall into categories of: (1) Nationhood, Place and History; (2) Nationalism and State-Building; (3) Cultural Nationalism and Linguistic Identity; (4) Nationalisms in Eurasia; (5) Transnational Identities; and (6) Gender and Identity-Movements. What emerges is no single, uniform model of Asian nationalism, but different (from Western/European) forms of nationhood. Multiple pathways lead to discoveries of non-Western Asian experiences of nationhood through insiders’ narratives (intra-Asian voices). These make it possible to dream of a new Asia which avoids the snare of post-colonial inevitabilities of fragmentation, fundamentalisms and core-periphery problems. Arguing that the continuation of the colonial into the post-colonial can have positive possibilities, shaping new policies, spatialities, intercultural dialogue/cooperation, and economic/material connections, this volume shows how Asia emerges as a key-player in the history and contemporaneity of nationalism.

Swarupa Gupta, Ph D. (SOAS, London, 2004) is a Fellow at Maulana Azad Inst. Of Asian Studies (Ministry of Culture, Government of India) and Guest Faculty Member, Department of History, Presidency University, Calcutta

ISBN 978-81-7304-960-6 2012 366p. Rs.1150/Pounds 65

26 September, 2012

Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia: Evidence, Interpretation and Ideology

By- Johannes Bronkhorst and Madhav M. Deshpande

The volume deals with the history of the concept of Arya and Aryans in East and West, with the linguistic, textual and archaeological evidence in South Asia and beyond.

The terms Aryan and Non-Aryan, corresponding to Sanskrit Arya and anarya, can readily be shown that among the literary traditions indigenous to South Asia have always evoked strong responses, both positive and negative, as they continue to do even today; but it can also be shown that while they designate a boundary that is in some sense an ethnic one in the Veda, in other literatures the distinction has a religious or moral character.

There have been reconsiderations and reinterpretations of the terms within and outside of the academy. There is on the one hand the established view of a migration of Aryans into South Asia; on the other hand there are new voices calling the whole endeavor fanciful, motivated by colonialism, “Orientalism”, nationalism, or something else. What is startling is that the criticism of the status quo comes from completely different directions.

Johannes Bronkhorst is Prof. of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Madhav M. Deshpande is Prof. in the Deptartment of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, USA.

ISBN 978-81-7304-918-7 2012 414p. Rs.995/Pounds 80

And the Bamboo Flowers in the Indian Forests : What Did the Pulp and Paper Industry Do?

By- Manorama Savur

Published in association with

Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development

The book is on Indian forests. In natural formations bamboo flowers at long intervals. But in the post-World War II era, especially in India after 1959, flowering of bamboo began to portend disaster. This study explores not only how and why the pulp and paper industry (PPI) caused the death of the bamboo forests that were an inexhaustible source of its raw material; it also investigates the impact that cultivation of alternate raw material has had upon the forest eco-system. In this context the negative role of the prestigious UNFAO is emphatically explored.

Clues to many of these issues are found in the natural and social history of the forests. The indigenous people are viewed as a part of the forest eco-system. The political economy of the forest-based industry has made the study many layered, into which is woven the intrigues of the FAO.

The industry’s four decades of shadow boxing with the state and its antipathy against the ‘Licence Raj’ followed by its fears upon opening up of the Indian economy need not have occurred. The profit generating private sector, the PPI did not care to modernize like the late emerging public sector newsprint industry had done. The latter has raw material saving technology and pollution free techniques for the production of newsprint. Incidentally, the study also touches upon the destruction of the timber forests by the ply and veneer industry.

Manorama Savur’s initial training was in natural sciences and later in social sciences and later in social sciences. She was awarded her Ph.D. in 1962. As a Professor of Sociology for over twenty years, she taught Sociology of Development and Rural Sociology at the University of Bombay. In early 1980s her interest shifted to forests and the forest question. The present study is her post-retirement project involving six years of research and extensive field work. She has three books and over thirty papers to her credit.

ISBN 81-7304-413-9 (2 vol. set) 2003 714p. Rs.1500/Pounds 100(set)

25 September, 2012

An Unforgettable Dalit Voice: Life, Writings and Speeches of M.C. Rajah

By- Swaraj Basu

Professor

This book is a collection of writings and speeches of M.C. Rajah who was one of the great Dalit leaders of pre-Independent India. Anyone interested in understanding the history of India’s Dalit movement will find this book very valuable. M.C. Rajah was born in a Dalit family of Tamil Nadu in 1883 and till he died in 1943 he was in the forefront of the Dalit’s struggle for equality, justice and rights. What is most important about him is that he was the first Dalit leader in the Madras Legislative Council and also the first Dalit leader in the Central Legislative Assembly. His commitment towards the cause of Dalits and particularly his efforts to make provision for education of Dalits drew the attention of the British government and he was conferred the title of Rai Bahadur in 1922. Being influenced by the Non-Brahmin movement in Tamil Nadu M.C. Rajah realized the importance of mobilizing Dalits whose interests in his opinion were not protected by Non-Brahmin leaders. Written in 1925 his book, The Oppressed Hindus, gives an account of the glorious history and tradition of Dalits in Tamil Nadu and the new identity given to them as ‘Adi-Dravidas’. M.C. Rajah’s representations to the British government, correspondence with Gandhiji and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and his speeches in the provincial and central legislatures for about twenty years provide valuable insights about his struggle for the empowerment of Dalits.

Swaraj Basu is Professor in History at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He is the author of Dynamics of a Caste Movement: The Rajbansis of North Bengal, 1910-1947, and has published articles on caste identity and politics in india.

ISBN 978-81-7304-966-8 2012 318p. Rs895/Pounds 50

Against the Current: Organizational Restructuring of SEBs

By- Joël Ruet (ed)

Published in association with

Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi

On paper, State Electricity Boards in India are supposed to provide electricity to a billion people across the country. In reality, however, what they provide to the consumers are poor quality power and endless power cuts. Besides, they are forever incurring losses and are thus a burden on State exchequers. We are told that this is only due to their ‘politicization’ and ‘inefficiency’. But is that the whole truth?

This book brings together ten specialists, with different ‘ideological’ backgrounds, who examine the issue of privatization of SEBs and argue that this is not the only solution to the problem. The contributors have a deep familiarity of the SEBs’ workings at all levels—from the meter reader to the higher echelons of the bureaucracy. And it is this intimate knowledge which the contributors have utilized to suggest key aspects of reforms of SEBs.

The book explains in detail how ‘depoliticization’ is not an issue in itself. On the contrary the book shows how SEBs can first be managed and then reformed. It goes on to examine the issue from different perspectives and then reveals what people within the system know about ‘inefficiency’ and what they don’t, what, they can decide, and what they can’t, what they actually do, and what they don’t. In short, it proposes a journey through the organizations to which hundreds of million Indians stand connected, day and night, through a maze of electric networks. The book thus not only raises issues but primarily suggests possible solutions.

Joël Ruet holds a Ph.D. in Economics (Paris) and is an Engineer from the Ecole des Mines, Paris. He has been working for EDF, the French public power company for several years. Since 2000 he has been the Head of the Economics Department, Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. His specialization is in the areas of reform of electricity sector in various countries, and socio-economic study of the public sector in India.

ISBN 81-7304-478-3 2003 224p. Rs.500/Pounds 40

24 September, 2012

Working Class Movement in India in the Wake of Globalization

Working Class Movement in India in the Wake of Globalization

By- Jose George (Prof), Manoj Kumar (Asstt. Prof.) and Dharmendra Ojha (Activist) eds.

After the collapse of the erstwhile Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the East European communist bloc, capitalism abandoned its ‘liberal’ programmes worldwide, and this brought about three-fourths of the world’s population at the mercy of the blind and ruthless forces of the market.

In India too, the wave of liberalization under a new economic policy, which had been agreed upon and promoted by both the big political parties, i.e. Congress party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, put untold pressures, uncertainties and hardships on the toiling masses. Welfare schemes and subsidies to goods and services provided by the state were slowly withdrawn and the representative class of finance capital took a reactionary posture in political and social life. In India, the crisis at grassroots’ levels has led to a historical unity among trade unions affiliated with different political parties, and there is hope that they may join hands in the struggle for better living conditions.

Against this backdrop, this book, which is an outcome of a national seminar, tries to understand and analyse the conditions of the working class people in India. Various dimensions of working class people’s life and politics have been deliberated here. Also, an attempt has been made to present a working class perspective on various economic and social issues of contemporary Indian society.

Jose George: Prof. & former Head of the Department of Civics & Politics, University of Mumbai.

Manoj Kumar is an Asst. Prof. with Department of Political Science & International Relations, Wollega University, Nekemte, Oromia State, Ethiopia.

Dharmendra Ojha has been a Scientist with the ONGC. He has been active on social and cultural fronts and is a regular contributor to various literary and cultural periodicals and news magazines.

ISBN 978-81-7304-963-7 2012 477p. Rs.1295/Pounds 60

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The Tibetan World of the Indian Himalayas: An Ethnography of the ‘Garden of Dakini’

By- Tanase Jiro

Research Scholar & Teacher

In the Lahul region of Himachal Pradesh, Hindu and Tibetan cultures coexist. This region is also known as ‘Garsha Kandoling’ to Tibetans, which means ‘Garsha, a garden of Dakini’.

The people of Lahul live 3,400 metres above sea level in a challenging mountainous environment. Most of the original inhabitants are Mongoloid, and believe in Tibetan Buddhism. Their traditional ways of life are also Tibetan-like, and suitably adapted for the rigours of life at high altitude.

This book is based on fieldwork conducted from 1987 onwards. In the first half of the book, anthropological data about Lahuli society is presented. Various topics such as the means of inheriting wealth, gender issues, and marriage customs (including the practice of adopting a bridegroom into the bride’s family) are discussed. The discussion is thematically focused on the issue of opposing principles between the household (Kyum), and family (Jinmad). Polyandry, a unique form of marriage in Tibet, can be understood as a means of mediation between these principles.

The second half of the book describes a utopian religious movement that developed in the early 1960s and which later led to the tragic journey undertaken to discover Demojong, a Beyul (hidden country) that was said to exist near Kanchenjunga. The leader of this movement—Terton Tulshuk Lingpa (1916-63), was a Ningmapa yogi from Tibet.

Following India’s Independence in 1947, Lahuli society and culture has been transformed dramatically. But as this intimate portrait drawn by a Japanese anthropologist shows, the people of Lahul have successfully re-organized and adapted their way of life, whilst preserving their traditional values and religion.

Tanaase Jiro researches and teaches Anthropology in the School of Human Cultures at the University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan

ISBN 978-81-7304-957-6 2012 140p. Rs.475/Pounds 35

23 September, 2012

Christian Themes in Indian Art: From the Mogul Times till Today

By- Anand Amaladass SJ and Gudrun Lowner

This book is a pioneering work presenting Christian themes in Indian art from the beginnings of Christianity in India till today. The authors have, in the main, dealt with paintings and sculptures, but have supplemented this with one chapter on architecture, particularly that of church buildings, and one on popular art, including stamps. More than 1,100 rare coloured illustrations make this publication a unique reference book. It is the first complex treatment of the theme done in the last 25 years. Special emphasis is given to artists who as Hindus, Muslims and Parsees have chosen to paint Biblical themes. Already in the 16^th century the encouraging and surprising encounter between European Christian prints and Indian miniature paintings took place. The Muslim Emperor Akbar invited three Jesuit missions from Goa to the Mogul court. Fascinated by European Madonnas and engravings, especially with Christian themes, he ordered his paintings to copy them in various ways. This was the start of a revolutionary fusion in Indian miniatures.

Most of the Bengali artists who were attracted by the human God Jesus and his agony are Hindus like Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Nikhal Biswas, Arup Das, Suhas Roy, Suman Roy, Sudip Roy etc. The authors always give a short biography and then highlight his/her works connected with the theme. The late Muslim M.F. Husain, whose faceless Mother Teresa pictures became icons, is presented side by side with his close friends, the Hindu Krishnen Khanna, the Parsee Jehangir Sabavala, the Hindu artists Satish Gujral, V. Nageshkar, Anjolie Menon, Ramchandran and the Sikh sisters Amrita and Rabindra Kaur Singh. The Who is Who of Indian art history is presented from a new angle. Christian artists include the late F.N. Souza, who simultaneously hated and loved his Christian childhood God, and artists like A.D. Thomas, Angela Trindade, A. Fonesca, V. Masoji, F. Wesley (both by Naomi Wray), C.J. Anthony Doss, Alphonso Doss, S. Raj, J. Sahi, L. D’Souza-Krone, Sister Clair etc., all who stand for the attempt to incorporate the Christian gospel into the Indian culture. This original research includes many young talents too. An extensive Bibliography, Glossary and Index make this book an indispensable reference source for many years to come. Every library and individuals interested in intercultural encounter between India and the West in art, intercultural theology, dialogue and history must have this book.

Anand Amaldass SJ studied Philosophy and Catholic Theology. He took a Master’s degree in Sanskrit and a Ph. D. from the University of Madras in 1981. Since 1984, he is teaching at Satya Nilayam Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy in Chennai, now part of the Loyola (Autonomous) College, Chennai. He was Dean of the Faculty and Director of the Research Institute for Philosophy and Sanskrit. Since his post-doctoral studies at the Vienna University, Austria in 1982-1984, he has taught nearly every year as a visiting professor in Frankfurt/Germany 2012. He has also been visiting faculty at the Wurzburg University, Germany and the Gregorian University in Rome. His area of research includes Indian philosophy and religion, aesthetics and interfaith dialogue . More than 40 books have been written or edited by him including a publication on the Dhvani theory in Indian Aesthetics (Vienna, Austria, 1984). He has also published around 100 articles in English and in Indian books and journals.

Gudrun Lowner studied Protestant Theology and comparitive religion in Bochum, Wuppertal, Geneva and Heidelberg. Her Ph. D. was from Heildelberg University in 1997 after intensive field studies in Sri Lanka. Her thesis has the title Religion and Development in Sri Lanka. Her studies were supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Cologne, Germany. In 2008 she received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her academic and social work in India. After working on the staff of the Protestant University of Wuppertal, Germany, she is now working in Bangalore. Her areas of research include Buddhism, India and art.

ISBN 978-81-7304-945-3 2012 428p. Rs.4000/Pounds 95

20 September, 2012

United Provinces’ Politics, 1939: The End of the First Congress Ministry: Governors’ Fortnightly Reports and other Key Documents

By- Lionel Carter (comp. & ed.)

This is the third volume in a series which provides the texts of the Fortnightly Reports sent by the Governors of the United Provinces to the Viceroy. Other key documents sent by the Governors or their Secretaries are also included. The volume covers the last ten months of the first Congress Ministry in the U.P. and the last eleven months of Sir Harry Haig’s term as Governor. 110 documents are printed in total.

1939 was a very disturbed year in the U.P. with a marked increase in communal tension and violence. The Muslim League was growing in strength as well as bodies like the Mahasabha, Youth League and Forward Bloc. The Ministry itself was destabilised as a result of pressure from the left-wing elements within a Congress and the dissatisfaction of the wider electorate.

In September war broke out between Britain and Germany. The volume documents how the negotiations to try to secure Congress cooperation were viewed from the U.P. The negotiations were unsuccessful and in November the Ministry resigned and the Governor took charge of the province.

For more than ten years, Lionel Carter was a member of the team (led by Nicholas Mansergh) which produced the British Government’s series of Documents on the Transfer of Power to India, 1942-1947. From 1980 until 1999, Carter served as Secretary and Librarian of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.

ISBN 978-81-7304-868-5 2010 420p. Rs.1050/ pounds 60

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United Provinces’ Politics 1938: Congress in Mid-Term: Governors’ Fortnightly Reports and other Key Documents

By- Lionel Carter (comp. and ed.)

This is the second volume in a series which provides the texts of the Fortnightly Reports sent by the Governors of the United Provinces to the Viceroy. Other key documents sent by the Governors or their Secretaries are also included. There are 97 items in total.

Congress had been in power in the UP for just under six months when this volume opens and within a further six weeks a crisis had arisen over the release of political prisoners. The Ministers submitted their resignations on 15 February 1938 but with compromise and diplomacy on all sides they had returned to office ten days later.

Thereafter the Congress Ministry concentrated on a wide-ranging programme of legislative and administrative reform at the centre of which was a bill for tenancy reform. As the year progressed leftward pressures and communal difficulties increased and the Governor became concerned at the weakened position of the Premier, G.B. Pant.

Editor’s Introduction; Abbreviations; Principal Holders of Office, 1938; Summaries of Documents; Map of the United Provinces; 1. Documents for 1 January–5 March 1938; 2. Documents for 9 March–17 May 1938; 3. Documents for 27 May–16 September 1938; 4. Documents for 26 September–31 December 1938; Appendices; Index.

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United Provinces’ Politics (1936-1937): Formation of the Ministries and Start of Congress Government: Governors’ Fortnightly Reports and other Key Documents

By- Lionel Carter (comp. and ed.)

This is the first volume in a series which provides the texts of the Fortnightly Reports sent by the Governors of the United Provinces to the Viceroy. Other key documents sent by the Governors or their Secretaries are also included. There are 151 items in total.

The subject of this volume is the start of ministerial government in the U.P. Congress, which won a resounding victory in elections held in early 1937, did not immediately take office because of a dispute over the use of the Governor’s special powers. Instead a minority ministry led by the Nawab of Chhatari was sworn in and held office for more than three months. The period is fully covered in the documents printed here. By July, Congress had decided to form a ministry under the leadership of Pandit G.B. Pant. The volume concludes by recording in detail the somewhat troubled first months of Congress rule in the U.P.

ISBN 81-7304-790-1 2008 418p. Rs.1045/ pounds 60

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19 September, 2012

We are as Flexible as Rubber!: Livelihood Strategies, Diversity and the Local Institutional Setting of Rubber Small Holders in Kerala, South India

We are as Flexible as Rubber!: Livelihood Strategies, Diversity and the Local Institutional Setting of Rubber Small Holders in Kerala, South India

By- Balz Strasser

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Indian natural rubber sector has been affected by trends toward trade liberalization, a reduced role of the State, and organizational reforms. Rubber cultivators in Kerala - around 1 million holders cultivating an average 0.5 ha of rubber plantation - have been affected by these processes in different ways. It is hypothesized that growers - especially the ones located in agro-ecologically marginal rubber areas- are coping with these changes with diversified income-generating strategies. This book suggests a new perspective on these coping processes with the development of a typology of rubber growers based on their income-generating strategies. The book shows that the different types of holdings have specific management strategies and ways of dealing with risks. Furthermore, there is evidence that specific local institutions and organizations can hinder and/or support the income generation of these different types of holdings.

Balz Strasser is an agro-economist combining scientific knowledge with hands-on experience on farming systems, market development and policy frameworks for improving rural livelihoods in developing countries. This book is based on his PhD thesis written at the Human Geography Department of the University of Zurich. Since 2008 he is working as Managing Director of Pakka Trade in Switzerland.

ISBN 978-81-7304-803-6 2009 276p. Rs.695/ pounds 50

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Water and State in Europe and Asia

By- Peter Borschberg and Martin Krieger (eds)

Water is indispensable for all life on earth. Since ancient times, the control of fresh-water resources and also the sea facilitated the rise of communal structures and administrative institutions across Europe and Asia. Many states tightened their authority by creaming off agriculutral surpluses from irrigated lands. The more effective the irrigational systems, the higher state revenues tended to be. For much of the twentieth century, research on such community-based irrigation was dominated by Karl August Wittfogel’s discourse on ‘Hydraulic Despotism’.

Seaborne empires could flourish as a result of their commercial success and naval strength. For such maritime polities indispensable facets of statehood included military power at sea, successful control of marketplaces and domination of maritime trading routes. The control of waterways and channels was of great strategic importance, such as notably the Danish Sound or the Malacca Straits.

Water and State in Europe and Asia brings together established as well as younger experts from Asia and Europe to explore the interdependence of water and state formation on both continents. Hermann Kulke, Peter Borschberg, Ranabir Chakravarti, S. Jeyaseela Stephen, Martin Krieger and Maitrii Aung-Thwin contribute case-studies on Asia to the volume such as on the Bay of Bengal, North and South India and South-East Asia. Investigating the European perspective. Horst Wernicks, Jens E. Olesen, Karel Davids, Allan I. Macinnes, Salvatore Ciriacono and Andreas Klinger exhaustively study the Hanseatic League the North and Baltic Sea regions the Mediterranean as well as waterways within continental Europe. The individual papers contribute to shaping a virtual global image of water being a major stimulus of the emergence of state-power.

Peter Borschberg is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National Univesity of Singapore. He has published on trade, diplomacy and colonial politics in early modern South-East Asia.

Martin Krieger is Lecturer of early modern history at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald (Germany). His major areas of interest are economic cultural and environmental history. He has published on North German and North European as well as on Indian
colonial history.

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18 September, 2012

Village Communities and Land Tenures in Western India Under Colonial Rule

By- Brahma Nand (ed.)

The two documents Report on the Village Communities of the Deccan by R.N. Gooddine (1852) and Character of Land Tenures and System of Survey and Settlement in the Bombay Presidency by J. Moneteath (1914) presented in this volume explore the nature of village communities and land tenures under British rule in western India. The portrayal of village communities in the existing writings as static and unchanging institutions and as tax-gathering tools for the state or redistributive agencies of social surplus is extremely inadequate and unsatisfactory for the correct understanding of the functioning of these institutions.

Originating in deep antiquity, they have to be seen as a complex and dynamic ensemble of social relations. Unlike Russian obschina, Indian village communities were not premised upon the principles of egalitarianism but arose to cope with the competing and conflicting claims of various groups and classes to the social surplus.

Village communities were grounded in the hierarchical foundations of the rural societies and tried to institutionalize the existing social disparities. They began to crumble under the impetus of market economy and the increasing intervention of the colonial state when the process of class polarization went beyond this institutionalized limit. Also, the continuous restructuring of social relationships reflected in the changing tenurial patterns accumulating by slow degrees resulted in the long-run in ultimately dislocating the existing social structure. The historical records show that the central contention of the neo-imperialist writings regarding the fundamental continuity between the pre-colonial and colonial social structure is not sustainable.

Brahma Nand has worked for more than quarter of a century on the problems relating to the agrarian economy and society in western India under colonial rule.

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Tribal Crop-Livestock Systems in South-East India

Das Kornel

The book, Tribal Crop-Livestock Systems in South-East India, as the title implies describes the related practices followed in undivided Koraput district, in Orissa. There are 51 different communities who live here. They survive largely on marginal farming and animal husbandry.

The study covers communities living in different territories, hills and plains, some very primitive and some slightly advanced. The tribal groups studied are Bhattra, Kondh, Bondo, Dongria Kondh, Koya, Sabara, Bodo Poraja, Sano Poraja and Bhumia. A short enthnographic note and agriculture practices of each of these tribes has also been included. The magico-religious rites associated with agriculture, as well as the tribal cooperative agriculture labour, where still it exists, have been described.

The tribal crop-livestock farming system has been classified and described under sections, such as Backyard Farming System, Life Support Crop Farming System, Scarcity Period and Food Resources, Famine Saviour Plant System, Slash and Burn (Podu) Cultivation System and Mixed Species Animal Husbandry System. The successful intensive agriculture system
followed by Kondh under rain fed condition and the vegetable grower Mali under limited land and irrigation facilities have been described. The understanding of the existing system can be utilized to build sustainable food production system for those who are in a transitional stage of development.

The author has tried to present the book, as a practical manual through many interesting photographs and sketches and changes observed during the last three decades in agriculture and animal husbandry in the area has been documented carefully.

Das Kornel, presently Programme Coordinator to Indo-Swiss NRM Project in Orissa, had served for ten years as DANIDA Advisor for Integrated Livestock Development Project, working in tribal villages of Koraput district in Orissa.

ISBN 81-7304-668-9 2009 288p. Rs.725/ pounds 45

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