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Name of the Visiting Professor
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Topic of the Lecture
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2007
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| Professor Malashri
Lal |
(i) Women’s Issues
in India: An Overview, (ii) Exploring Indian Feminism:
Three Novels of the 1970s: by Anita Desai, Ruth P. Jhabvala
and Rama Mehta, (iii) Towards a Feminist Theory
for India: Crosscutting Themes and Contexts, (iv)
Using Feminism to open up Texts: V.S. Naipaul’s Marginal
Women in India: A Million Mutinees Now |
| Professor S.L. Sharma |
(i) Corruption in India:
Socio-Cultural Specifities, (ii) Rise of Corruption:
A Systemic Perspective, (iii) Role of Corruption
in Democracy and Development, (iv) Enhancing Ethics
in Public Life: A Challenge of Civil Society |
| Professor Surendra Gopal |
(i) Encounter with the West:
the Indian Experience, (ii) Encounter with the
West: The Indian Experience – Colonial Bihar: Peasantry,
(iii) Encounter with the West: The Indian Experience
– Colonial Bihar: The Middle Class, (iv) Encounter
with the West: The Indian Experience – Colonial Bihar:
Dalits (Lecture IV) |
| Professor Bhalchandra V. Nemade
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(i) The Concept of Nativism
in Literary Culture, (ii) Modernity, Globalisation
and Nativism, (iii) The Native Styles: Oral, Written,
Bilingual—Indo-Anglian, (iv) Linguistic Acculturation
and Nativisation: The Novel as a Genre |
| 2005 |
| Professor Rajat Kant Ray |
Nationalism, Civil Society and the Subalternist
Critique |
| Professor Sitakant Mahapatra |
(i) The World of Tribal Poetry-
An Unexplained World -
Its Main Contours and Patterns (ii) The World of Tribal
Poetry - The Multiple Streams, (iii) The Aesthetics
and Poetics |
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Professor Rajat Kant Ray
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Nationalism, Civil Society and the Subalternist
Critique
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| Professor Satish Chandra |
State and Society in Medieval India
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Professor Shahid Amin
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(i) The Lie of the Land: Walking in
and out of the Colonial Archive, (ii) In Colonial
Ethnographer, Ram Gharib Chaube's Own Hand: an Exploration
of the anonymous manuscript ' Customs and Ceremonies of
the Eastern District of N.W.P. and Oudh" Kept in
the Grierson Collection, (iii) The Dubhashi -ethnographer
Ram Gharib Chaube and two great Collector-Scholars, William
Crooke and George A. Grierson |
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Professor Sheila Bhalla
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(i) India's Rural Non-farm
Sector: Issues of Employment and Income Generation,
(ii) India's Rural Non-farm Sector: Recent Developments
in the Unorganised Rural Non-farm Sector, (iii)
India's Rural Non-farm Sector: The Rural Non-farm
Sector: Questions of Policy and Practice
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Professor Satish Chandra
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(i)State and Society in Medieval
India, (ii) State and Society in Medieval India:
Rajputs and Marathas
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Professor Daya Krishana
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(i) Civilizations: Past and
Future (Lecture - I), (ii) Understanding
Civilization: Two Case Studies, Indian and Western,
(iii) Civilizations - Utopia and Nostalgia
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2004
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Margaret Chatterjee
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(i) Lifeworlds, Philosophy and India Today,
(ii) Pluralism & Multicultural Worlds,
(iii) Explicit and Implicit Violence - Does the Distinction
Hold?, (iv) Religion and Social Harmony
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B.N. Goswamy
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(i) Stepping into the Light, Softly : the Changing
Image of Women in Indian Art, (ii) Colour in
the Desert: Paintings from Kutch, (iii) Painters
and Devotees: A 16th Century Series of the Bhagavata
Purana, (iv)Gaining Visual Entry into Works:
Thoughts on Some Paintings
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Gautam Patel
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(i) Bhakti - Its Origin and Definition, (ii)
Bhakti in Sutra Literature with Special, Reference to
Shandil-Bhakti Sutra and Narada Bhakti Sutra, (iii)
Bhakti - according to Bhagavata and Vallabhacarya,
(iv) Bhakti in Bhagavad -Gita according to Shankaracary
and Ramanujacarya
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I.N. Chaudhuri
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(i) Hind Swaraj and Modernism, (ii) Ecology
and Indian Literary Culture, (iii) The
First Ever Presentation of a Play in India Ended in
Disaster: An Analysis With Reference to Bharata &Brecht
and the Idea of Total Theatre
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Satya Vrat Shastri
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(i) Sanskrit Content in Thai Language, (ii)
Rama Story in Thailand : In Literature,
(iii) Rama Story in Thailand: In Arts
and Folklore, (iv) Rama Story in Thailand
: In Arts and Folklore
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K.G. Srivastava
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(i) India's Treatment in the Classical Literature
of Greece, (ii) The Impact of the Gita
on Coleridge, (iii) Laksana and Its Examples
in English Poetry, (iv) Eliot's Knowledge of
the Sanskrit Language
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M.S. Sriram
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(i)Indian Astronomy in Perspective (ii) Indian
Astronomy in Perspective, (iii) Indian Astronomy
in Perspective
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Bharati Ray
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(i) Reconstructing Women in Colonial Bengal:
India's First Ladies' Home Journal: Bamabodhini Patrika
1863-1922, (ii) Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
(1880-1932): An Educationist and a Feminist, (iii)
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (1872-1945): a Forgotten
name in History
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Afsar Abbas
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Philosophy of Space, Time and Matter
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2003
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Bettina Baumer
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(i) Sarvam Sarvatmakam and the Relevance of Kashmir
Saivism, (ii) Siva the Essence of Consciousness:
Utpaladeva's Sivastotravali in the Light of his Philosophy
of Recognition (Pratyabhijna), (iii) The Essential
Gesture: Mudra as a Reflection of Consciousness in Kashmir
Saivism, and (iv) Sakti in the Vijnana Bhairava
Tantra
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2002
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Sachchidanand Sahai
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(i) The Indianization Debate in South-East Asian
Historiography (ii) Transmission of the Ramayana
to South-East Asia: Laotian Examples
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P.N. Tandon
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Memory and the Brain
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Ravindra Panth
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(i) On Meditation, (ii) Vipassana Meditation
& Paticcasamuppada, and (iii) Heritage
of Nalanda and its Continuity
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N.S.S. Raman
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(i) The Problems of Interpretation, (ii)The
Problems of Translation, (iii) Forms of
Philosophical and Religious Expression, (iv) Role
of Metaphor in Philosophy and Religion
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Raghuveer Singh
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(i) Human Rights in Inhuman World, (ii) Fallacy
of Taking Rights too Seriously
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Arun Kumar Biswas
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(i) The Quality of Indian Science in the Pre-Harappan,
Harappan, Vedic and Post-Vedic Eras, (ii) The
Primacy of India in Ancient Zinc Metallurgy, (iii)
Science in Post-independence India: Some Positive
and Negative Features, and (iv) The Future of
Syncretism of Science with Spirituality and Samya
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Muchkund Dubey
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(i) Globalization: Process or Project? (ii)
Globalization: Consequences, (iii) Institutions
of Globalization, and (iv) Coping with Globalization
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Roy Harris
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(i) The Language of History and the Language of
Science, (ii) The Origins of Mathematics,
(iii) Communication by Numbers, and (iv) Language
Unlimited
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2001
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R. Balasubramaniam
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(i) New Insight on Some Historical
Enigmas of the Delhi Iron Pillar, (ii) New Insights
on Some Technical--Enigmas of the Delhi Iron Pillar,
(iii) New Insight on the Dhar Iron Pillar
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Arindam Chakrabarti
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(i) Utterance as Creation: Making Sense of
"Vyahrtis, (ii) Insight, Imagination,
Intuition: Making Sense of "Vimarsa"/Pratibha",
(iii) Whose Emotions?: Making Sense of
"rasa"/"camatkara, and , (iv) Applying
Abhinavagupta's Aesthetics of Disgust Across Cultures:
Making Sense of "bibhatsa" -
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B.N. Goswamy
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Mirrors of the Mind: An Examination of three
Seminal Series of Indian Paintings
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R.C. Sharma
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A Fresh Appraisal of Raghu-Kaustsa Episode of Raghuvansa
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B.B. Lal
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(i) The Two Myths Clouding our Vision of India's
Past, (ii) Myth I: The Aryan Invasion of India,
Myth II: The Extinction of the Harappan Culture Misconceptions
about the Rigvedic Sarasvati, (iii) The Sarasvati
in the Rigveda and (iv) The Identification
of the Sarasvati on the Terra Firm
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P.D. Hajela
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(i) Institutions-the Economic Approach (ii)
Issues of Economics Policy
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2000
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P.K. Mukhopadhyaya
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Discourse on Language
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Vidya Niwas Mishra
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Indian Aesthetics
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1999
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Y.M. Bammi
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(i) Threats of India's Security, (ii) Insurgency
and Terrorism in India, and (iii) Contribution
of Indian Armed Forces in Nation Building
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S.C. Pande
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Some interesting Aspects of Sanskrit Literature
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C.D. Tripathi
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(i) An Outline of the History of Assam,(ii)
Medieval Assam: The Thais in Assam, the Ahoms and
their Rule, (iii) Medieval Assam: The Neo-Vaishnava
Movement and Shri Shankaradeva, his role in National
Integration
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K. Srinivasa Rao
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(i) Life and Work of Ramanujan
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1998
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Narendra Mohan
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(i) Partition: History and Memory, (ii)
Partition: A Literary Text, and (iii) Blotted
Sunshine
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Shahid Amin
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Towards Alternative Histories: On Writing Chauri
Chaura
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1997
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L.M. Khubchandani
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(i) Language Movements and the Plurilingual
Milleu of South Asia,(ii) Communication
Processes and Communication Rights, and (iii) Speech
Community, Diaspora and State: Striking the Balance
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Riaz Punjabi
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(i) Politics and Human Rights, (ii) Theoretical
basis of Human Rights, (iii)The State
of Human Rights in South Asia, and (iv)The Future
of Human Rights- Individualism-Anarchism-Utilitarianism
-Universalism
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B.N. Patnaik
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Ancient Indian and Chomskyen Linguistics: A Study
from a Comparative Perspective
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J.P.S. Uberoi
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The Origin and the End of Modernity and A Possible
Alternative to the European Modernity
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Y.B. Damle
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Alternative Paths: Modalities of Development
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1996
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Mohit Bhattacharya
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(i) Some Reflection on Theorising the 'Urban',
(ii) From Urban Ecology to Urban Political Economy:
Paradigm Shift in Urban Social Theory, (iii) Third
World Urbanization: A Review and a Critique
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Makarand Paranjape
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The Poetics of the Indian English Novel
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Edward John Craig
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Hume and Religion
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1995
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Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta
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(i) Time Space and Icon: New Perspectives on Indian
Iconography, (ii) Indian Iconography, (iii)
Eastern Indian School of Medieval Iconography
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T.N. Madan
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(i) Defining Fundamentalism, (ii) Secularism
and Pluralism and the Hindu Cultural Tradition, and
(iii) Maulana Azad's Quest for Pluralism
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Pranab Kumar Sen
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(i) Truth, (ii) Meaning, Reference and Realism,
and (iii) Knowledge Truth and Scepticism
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Sudhir Chandra
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(i) The Brutal Embrace: A Debate about, (ii)
Marriage, Law and Civilization in, and (iii)
Colonial India
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1994
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Bh. Krishnamurti
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(i) Official Language Polities with Special Reference
to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India,
(ii) Mother Tongue in Education: A Case of Policy
Failure, Why and Howand (iii) Indian English:
Its form and Function
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Arindam Chakravarti
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(i) False pleasure: Can we Judge Feeling and Emotions
as Right or Wrong?, (ii) Understanding and Teachabilityand
(iii) What is "Use"? Does Philosophy have
any of that?
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Hiren N. Gohain
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(i) The Crisis of Indian State, (ii) Roots
of the Crisis: A Glance and (iii) Intellectuals
Today and the Indian Crisis
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Dilip K. Barua
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(i) Indian Renaissance: James Henry Cousins,
(ii) F.D. Maurice: Five Sermans on Mutinty
(1857),and (iii) B. Hockley's Pandurang
Hari (1826): A Paradigm for Anglo-Indian Fiction
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W.H. Mecleod
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(i) Sikhism and Gender: The Issac, (ii) Sikhism
and Gender: Feminism, and (iii) Sikhism and Gender:
Future
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G. H. Sutherland
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(i) The Politics of Begging: Asceticism, Exchange
and the Alimentary Ethics of Ancient Buddhist and Jain
Mendicants, (ii) The origins and limitations
Ahimsa
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1993
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Arun Ghosh
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Development Paradigms
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Rukmini Bhaya Nair
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Mind, Maxims and Metaphor
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1992
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Amiya K. Bagchi
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Alternative Theories of Development and Change
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G. Haragopal
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(i) Institutional Bass of Development Planning -
A Political Economy Perspective, (ii) Social
Bases of Administrative Culture: Continuity and Change,and
(iii) Technological Progress: Organizational Development
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M.M. Sankdhar
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(i) Theory of the Welfare State, (ii) Laissez-faire
Foundation of the Welfare Stat,(iii)
Fabian Socialism and Welfare Statism
and (iv) The Welfare State: Identification
of Crisis
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Shireen Moosvi
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(i) The Mughal State and the Fiscal System,
(ii) The Mughal State and the Economy, and (iii)
The Mughal State and Religion
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Ajiaz Ahmad
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(i) Formative Background of Urdu Language, Mapping
the Language: Survey, (ii) nbsp; Verse,
Poetics and Genres
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1991
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Bipin Chandra
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Colonial History: A Case Study of India and Structural
Change in India's position in World Economy
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Shiv K. Kumar
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Contemporary Indian Writing in English -- Recent
Trends
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K.M. George
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Facets of Indian Literature
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Malati J. Shendge
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Invention of Writing: Archaco-Economic Perspectives
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M.A. Mahendale
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Reflections on the Mahabharata War
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R. Siddharth and Y. Wakanker
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Contributions of the Indians to the Astronomical
and Mathematical Knowledge from Vedic Time to Sawai
Jai Singh II of Jaipur (1743)
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1990
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Ravinder Kumar
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The Emergence of Modern India : Retrospect and Prospect
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B.N. Goswamy
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The Indian Painter
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Jayant V.Narlikar
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Cosmology and Local Environment
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A.N. Kaul
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History, Sociology and the American Romance
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J.T.O'Connell
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Caitanyaite Vaishnava Religon and Biographies of
Sri Caitanya (1486-1533)
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Rekha Jhanji
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Human Condition in Mahabharata
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J.S. Rahi
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Reflection of Communitarian Concerns in Modern Punjabi
Literature
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M.L. Raina
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Politics, Society and the Novel
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1977
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S.C.Sengupta
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Human Existence, Transcendence and Spirituality
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B.D.Nag Chaudhuri
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Technology and Society: An Indian View
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S.A. Akbarabadi
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Development of Sufism in India
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1976
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Satish Chandra
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Problems of Mughal India and Aspects of the Fall
of Mughal Empire
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1975
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B.K. Roy Burman
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The Modern Phoenix
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Niharranjan Ray
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An Approach to Indian History
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1974
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K.C. Sivaramakrishnan
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Indian Urban Scene
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B.N. Ganguli
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Concept of Equality : Nineteenth Century Indian
Debate
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1973
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A.Rahman
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Triveni : Science, Democracy and Socialism
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1972
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K.R.Srinivasa Iyengar
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Dawn to Greater Dawn ( Lectures on Aurobindo's Savitri)
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1970
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K. Satchidananda Murty
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The Realm of Between
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1969
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R.K.Dasgupta
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The 19th Century Indian Renaissance
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1968
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C.D. Narasimhaiah
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The Swan and the Eagle
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A.A.A.Fyzee
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Compendium of Fatimid Law
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1967
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Tapan Raychaudhuri
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The Transformation of a Traditional Economy : Indian
Economy c 1750-1900
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Daya Krishna
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Social Philosophy: Past and Future
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S.M.Katre
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Problems of Re-construction in Indo-Aryan
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1966
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Mulk Raj Anand
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Prolegomena to Contemporary Indian Art
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S. Nurul Hasan
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Some Aspects of Akbar's Reign
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Nirmal Kumar Bose
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Problems of National Integration
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N.A.Nikam
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Some Concepts of Indian Culture
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Suniti Kumar Chatterji
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Balts and Aryans
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