“bhibhuti bhusan bandyopadhyaya”

‘Suddenly, towards late afternoon, darkness fell and a monstrous pre-monsoon storm broke loose. Leaves of the bamboo and the jackfruit tree, dust and bits of straw came whirling into their courtyard filling it up in seconds. Durga sped out of the house to pick up falling mangoes and Apu ran after ... More

Encyclopaedia of Adult Education and Literacy is divided into six major parts. Each part is on one hand explicit in addressing specific issues, on the other they lead into one another in a very systematic manner. The first part deals with "Global Adult Education and Literacy: A Developing Countries... More

Next to the heroes of the Epics or the Puraana, no name is more familiar to Indians than that of Chaanakya or, as he is otherwise known, Kautilya or Vishnu-gupta. Throughout the whole of India, nÏtis or wise sayings attributed to him, are even now taught to beginners. This nÏti literature is not c... More

A fascinating read for scholars and general readers alike, "Class and Religion "highlights the interdependence between the class structure and the Vedic and Brahmanical form of religion in ancient India. It seeks to demolish the myth that religiosity and sprituality were the distinctive characterist... More

The volume Science, Technology, Imperialism and War coordinates the concerned themes into an evolving pattern of growth of ideas and institutions with a view to projecting analytically a coherent picture of uniformity of human development in all its aspe... More

The book offer a comprehensive analysis of soical ecology, environmental sociology and tribal life. No organisms does live in isolation, nor is the behaviour of any organism understandable without the reference to other organisms. An ecological determinsitic approach has been developed to understand... More