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Historical barriers still inhibit comparative frameworks to map and challenge two of the most odious forms of discrimination―racism and casteism.  Both justify themselves on a principle of biological descent; they enable stigma as if it were a natural fact, refusing to see it as deleterious social...

This is a collection of charmingly told tales involving animals. The themes are universal—the triumph of the seemingly weak over the mighty, the possibility of magic in daily life, etc. The language is simple but strongly evocative of both the physical and the emotional.

India has a large network of around 634 universities and 33,000 colleges with 817,000 teachers spread across the length and breadth of the country.Despite its massive geographical reach, higher education in India has had its share of problems.This volume is a collection of essays which discusses these...

han alias Gora was offspring of an English couple, but a Bengali couple had brought him up, so he had become extremely (strictly) orthodox towards the Hindu religion and race. As for this he abstained from going to Brahm Samajis and having familiarity with them too. But, all of sudden, what had happened...

Leo Tolstoy started writing short stories after he left the military in 1856 and grew as a new rising star in literature of Russia. The war of Crimea provided him the background for his future stories. However, “how much land does a man need” had always influenced him during his future writing...

The Bene Israel are a small community of Jews that have lived for many centuries on the west coast of India, just south of Bombay, in complete isolation from their co-religionists elsewhere. The studies in this volume range over the history, religious evolution, some social and demographic aspects of...

Going into their sixth edition, Thangam Philip’s Modern Cookery Volumes I and II are one of India’s most prestigious and encyclopaedic books on cookery and have proved to be an invaluable reference and guide to both students of catering and to professionals in the food and catering industry in India....

A sleepy little town is famous for its legend of the Headless Horseman and other specters. Ichabod Crane, the town’s new school teacher, is fond of a good ghost story or two. He is in love with beautiful Katrina Van Tassel, but a handsome man named Brom Bones wants Katrina for himself. Then a party...

The Man of God, Sri Chaitanya, said towards the beginning of the sixteenth century: ‘As an immoral woman constantly thinks of her illicit lover while living in the midst of her family, so do thou silently and ceaselessly meditate on Hari while doing your earthly work.’Within the next two hundred...

Troilokyonath Mukhopadhyay’s tales are excursions into fantasy, where fact confronts the unreal. He belongs to a group of writers (including Sukumar Ray and Lewis Carroll) who elevated nonsense in literature to an art form.Konkaboti, Troilokyonath’s first novel (1892), begins with the childhood years...

“Allah! Allah! What days those were when we had the late Maulvi Nazir Ahmad Sahib with us…” With these words, Mirza Farhatullah Beg takes the reader through the bylanes of old Delhi from Churiwalan, through Hauz Kazi and Khari Baoli to Gali Batashan Wali to the home of his tutor-a doyen of Urdu...

The Wages of Impunity consists of essays on human rights and civil liberties in India. Reiterating the indispensability of fundamental rights, the essays focus on aspects such as secularism, socialism, and the right to life, liberty, free speech and association. Using the Constitution as the point of...

This selection of problems in Group Theory is principally aimed at undergraduate (honours) and postgraduate students of mathematics. Excepting a few, these problems are meant only to supplement the existing ones in standard texts. The comments interspersed in the text help to put the problems in perspective...

Cookery Books are collection of most admired cook recipes  from different authors. Enjoy reading the cookery book collection one by one to celebrate coming Diwali and Christmas.