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From Punk to Monk

A Memoir

By: Ray Cappo

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The heartfelt memoir of Ray Raghunath Cappo, a legendary hardcore punk musician-turned-monk—and pioneer of the straight edge movement—told with warmth, candor, and humor. Ray Cappo was a hardcore punk singer and pioneer of the straight-edge movement living on the Lower East Side of New York City in the ’80s, where his band Youth of Today played to packed clubs and touched thousands of people across the globe. But despite the accolades from fans, the popularity of his records, and the positivity he’d brought to the punk music scene, none of this success gave Ray joy. He felt stagnant, and he yearned for something more. This, along with his father’s untimely death, led him to abruptly quit the band and buy a one-way ticket to India in pursuit of the answers to life’s great mysteries. Living as a monk in the sacred city of Vrindavan and traveling across the country on a series of train trips, Ray embraced the rich, spiritual culture he discovered there. As his unusual adventure unfolded, he encountered extraordinary characters, witnessed deep acts of devotion, and experienced profound moments of divine connection, leading to a radical transformation that was ego-crushing and blissful all at once. Inspired to write music again, Ray returned to the US, where he and other monks founded Shelter, a band dedicated to spreading a message of faith, hope, and love. Told with warmth, candor, and humor, this heartfelt memoir chronicles Ray’s emotional and spiritual journey from punk to monk and beyond.

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Simon and Schuster

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1647228697

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India's Foreign Relations, 1947-2007

By: Jayanta Kumar Ray

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India's Foreign Relations, 1947-2007

By: Jayanta Kumar Ray

This book analyses India’s relations with its neighbours (China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) and other world powers (USA, UK, and Russia) over a span of 60 years. It traces the roots of independent India’s foreign policy from the Partition and its fallout, its nascent years under Nehru, and non-alignment to the influence of economic liberalization and globalization. The volume delves into the underlying reasons of persistent problems confronting India’s foreign policy-makers, as well as foreign-policy interface with defence and domestic policies. This book will be indispensable to students, scholars and teachers of South Asian studies, international relations, political science, and modern Indian history.

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Routledge

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113619715X

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What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You

By: Ray D. Strand

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What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You

By: Ray D. Strand

When Dr. Ray Strand found himself in a losing battle, unable to successfully treat his wife who had suffered chronically with pain and fatigue, he agreed to try the regimen of nutritional supplements that a neighbor suggested. Much to his surprise, his wife's condition began to improve almost immediately. That amazing turn of events led him to dedicate himself to researching alternative therapies in medicine, particularly in the arena of nutritional supplements. Dr. Strand's illumination of the body's silent enemy-oxidative stress-will astound you. But, more importantly, his research will equip you to protect or reclaim your nutritional health, possibly reversing disease and preventing illness.

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HarperChristian + ORM

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1418519332

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Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1

By: R C Ray

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Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture and Aquaculture, Vol. 1

By: R C Ray

In agriculture, microbial biotechnology covers a wide array of subjects ranging from biofertilizers to biological control of pests and diseases; from biological N 2 -fixation to lignocellulose degradation; from production of biomass and biofuels to genetically engineered plants. Similarly, microbial biotechnology in aquaculture touches several aspe

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CRC Press

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1482280302

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Cricket World Cup

The Indian Challenge (Updated Edition 2023)

By: Ashis Ray

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Cricket World Cup

The Indian Challenge (Updated Edition 2023)

By: Ashis Ray

Cricket World Cup: The Indian Challenge is a complete match by- match catalogue of India in the Cricket World Cup with scorecards. It details the little-known story of India's turning point-a victory in March 1983 over the then invincible West Indies in Guyana, before Kapil Dev's team sensationally lifted the World Cup three months later. It relives India's forgotten triumph in the 1985 World Championship in Australia. It depicts how Sachin Tendulkar inspired Yuvraj Singh to perform at his best in India's successful campaign in the 2011 World Cup. And why the Indians disappointed in 2015 and 2019, but have home advantage in 2023.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9356406375

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The Immortal Fly: Eternal Whispers

Based on True Events of a Family

By: Rituparna Ray Chaudhuri

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The Immortal Fly: Eternal Whispers

Based on True Events of a Family

By: Rituparna Ray Chaudhuri

‘’ The Daughter writes, “I had asked Ma many times, but her ‘impenetrable personality’ and dynamic words to everyone with a tinge of smile as reflected on her face, she was reluctant to continue her conversation with me. I had thought, hence, I must not be dusty on my spoken words. Who shall I blame!” Based on true story of a family came from South Calcutta (India) to a suburb, on staying at home of the Daughter’s maternal grandmother’s house, this book reveals in facts and true events how Destiny had unknowingly ‘further’ played an abominable role to Fate of The Daughter, when eventually one day on 7th February, 2019 everything was finished within 8.20A.M. The Daughter is, therefore, left alone on terrestrial with immortal words as written in her Diary, ‘Eternal Whispers’: “My words to self that I am to fulfill my Ma’s - wish. ’’ ‘’

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Partridge Publishing

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1543705502

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Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits

By: P. K. Ray

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Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits

By: P. K. Ray

Plant breeding has undergone a period of very rapid and significant development in recent years and the area of fruit breeding is no exception. This book provides a balanced, up-to-date and comprehensive account of the developments in the field of breeding tropical and subtropical fruits. It offers not only the theoretical and applied aspects of breedings fruits but also provides an authoritative manual of the conventional and new techniques used for increasing efficiency of crop improvement programmes. In specific chapters the book deals with crop taxonomy, genetic resources, floral biology, breeding objectives, inheritance patterns and information on new improved cultivars/hybrids.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540428550

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Songs of Tagore

Poetry and Melody

By: Rabindranath Tagore,Satyajit Ray

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Songs of Tagore

Poetry and Melody

By: Rabindranath Tagore,Satyajit Ray

Rabindranath Tagore composed over 2000 songs that are revered and sung by Bengalis everywhere. However, they remain mostly unknown to listeners from other communities. This book brings the Nobel Laureate’s unique music — Rabindrasangit — to a global audience, with a lucid introduction by Ananda Lal as well as selected songs in international transcription and English translation. It includes an essay written originally in Bengali by the celebrated filmmaker Satyajit Ray, himself a Tagore student and music composer. Ray presents his thoughts on Rabindrasangit, its nuances, music, history, and usage. Lal has also translated this essay into English for the first time. The book also presents for the first time faithful staff notations of all 41 songs in three of Tagore’s major plays — Rakta-karavi, Tapati, and Arup Ratan — providing a thematic unity to the music section. This volume will be of interest to Tagore and Ray enthusiasts and specialists, musicologists, and students of music, theatre, literature, performance studies, and cultural studies. It will appeal not only to scholars but to general readers wanting to know more about Tagore’s songs, as well as directors, arrangers, composers, and singers who may wish to perform or interpret the songs transcribed.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000814963

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9781000814965

Fossils in Earth Sciences

By: ANIS KUMAR RAY

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Fossils in Earth Sciences

By: ANIS KUMAR RAY

This compact and reader-friendly book introduces students to materials and studies that are gaining importance in the study of fossils. It covers all the important branches of palaeontology and provides up-to-date and detailed analysis of the principles of palaeontology, systematics, palaeocolgy, evolution, invertebrate and vertebrate palaeontology, palaeobotany, and micropalaeontology. The text takes a holistic approach to the subject with concrete examples. Primarily intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Geology or Earth Sciences, the book will also prove useful for Zoology and Botany undergraduates. Geologists, particularly those assigned with jobs on palaeontology, micropalaeontology, palaeobotany will benefit from the text. Finally, students and research scientists intending to work with Indian problems concerning palaeontology should find the book beneficial. KEY FEATURES  Provides up-to-date data, concepts and Indian examples of fossils  Furnishes important data for laboratory work and Indian stratigraphy  Gives pertinent information on Fossil Lagerstätten in a tabulated form

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PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

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8120334329

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9788120334328

Manik and I

My Life with Satyajit Ray

By: Bijoya Ray

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Manik and I

My Life with Satyajit Ray

By: Bijoya Ray

It is unusual to come across a life so rich in varied experiences as the one that Bijoya Ray, wife and constant companion to the renowned film-maker Satyajit Ray, has lived. Despite being closely related, Satyajit—‘Manik’ to his friends and family—and Bijoya fell in love and embarked on a life together years before Ray’s groundbreaking film Pather Panchali was made, and their long, happy married life lasted right until Ray’s death in 1992. Bijoya Ray never felt the urge to write her memoirs, but was finally persuaded to pick up the pen when she was well into her eighties. Manik and I brims over with hitherto unknown stories of her life with Satyajit Ray, told in candid, vivid detail.

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Penguin UK

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The Shadow That Seeks the Sun

Finding Joy, Love and Answers on the Sacred River Ganges

By: Ray Brooks

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The Shadow That Seeks the Sun

Finding Joy, Love and Answers on the Sacred River Ganges

By: Ray Brooks

An uplifting story of enlightenment that reveals simple yet profound truths about our true nature, set amidst the atmospheric banks of the River Ganges that will appeal to both the self-help, non-duality, and "Eat, Pray, Love" travel markets. "No effort is necessary, Ray, no new knowledge required or acquired. No transcendental experience or higher consciousness needs to be achieved. When the recognition of what you are is seen - nothing at all happens. Why would it? You simply find yourself as you already are." It is widely thought that finding peace, happiness and freedom requires tremendous effort - that in order to achieve a state of contentment and harmony in life, a journey must be taken, or someone or something must be awakened or overcome. After a chance encounter with an Anglo-Indian holy man on the ghats of the sacred River Ganges, Ray Brooks discovers through the course of nine conversations that his quest for wholeness has been futile: no such journey was necessary, and, just like a shadow that seeks the sun, he had been searching for a self that had never been lost in the first place. After acknowledging that simple yet profound truth - that the seeker and that which is sought are one in the same - the search for "oneness" is complete. This book offers no systems of belief or promises. Instead, it clearly points to that which is ever-present yet completely overlooked: the ordinariness and beauty of our true nature.

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Watkins Media Limited

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1786781387

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Sister Nivedita : The Fighter Extraordinary for India

By: Sukanya Ray,Anil Baran Ray

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Sister Nivedita : The Fighter Extraordinary for India

By: Sukanya Ray,Anil Baran Ray

Sister Nivedita arrived in India in January 1898, in response to the call of her Guru, Swami Vivekananda. After initiating her, Swamiji gave her the name Nivedita, “the dedicated”. Later he brought out the significance of that name in the following lines he penned for her as his blessings: The mother’s heart, the hero’s will, The sweetness of the southern breeze, The sacred charm and strength that dwell On Aryan altars, flaming, free; All these be yours and many more No ancient soul could dream before— Be thou to India’s future son The mistress, servant, friend in one! Since then, Nivedita embraced her adopted country as her very own. She selflessly gave her all to her beloved country and waged a relentless fight for India and the causes dear to India. Of the numerous instances of Nivedita’s Indian struggles in the fields of thought and activity such as religion, education, art, and politics, a few that show 'The Extraordinary Fighter' that Nivedita was are analysed by the authors in this book published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math.

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Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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817505915X

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9788175059153

Culinary Culture in Colonial India

By: Utsa Ray

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Culinary Culture in Colonial India

By: Utsa Ray

Discusses the cuisine to understand the construction of colonial middle-class in Bengal"--

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Cambridge University Press

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110704281X

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Water

The Looming Crisis in India

By: Binayak Ray

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Water

The Looming Crisis in India

By: Binayak Ray

Water: The Looming Crisis in India analyzes the key issues in developing national freshwater policies for the mainland countries of the South Asian sub-continent. Ray suggests that freshwater policy must cover all aspects of physical environment and human life, by noting that food and drought management are parts of freshwater policy and acknowledging that water is a scarce natural resource and has economic value. He calls for the development of basin-wide policies to minimize conflicts within riparian countries, as well as a freshwater policy baseline to minimize internal conflicts on water sharing arrangements. By pointing out the need for full participation of all stakeholders in developing a baseline policy including people displaced by the construction of large dams, Ray suggests a new system in which riparian countries are guaranteed that no water-related project proceeds without a transparently developed environmental impact assessment and evaluation of alternative options.

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Lexington Books

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0739130277

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9780739130278

Mahi: The Story of India's Most Successful Captain

By: Shantanu Guha Ray

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Mahi: The Story of India's Most Successful Captain

By: Shantanu Guha Ray

Mahi: The Story of India's Most Successful Captain charts the dynamic rise of one of India's most talented and charismatic cricketers and captains. From playing tennis-ball cricket in Ranchi and Kharagpur to his patented helicopter shot, Dhoni has come a long way with his grit and determination. With best ODI and Test records among all Indian captains to date, it is his simple and down-to-earth attitude that works wonders for the captain as well as the team.

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Roli Books Private Limited

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9351940128

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En-Gendering India

Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

By: Sangeeta Ray

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En-Gendering India

Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

By: Sangeeta Ray

DIVExplores the relation of gender and nation in postcolonial writing about India./div

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Duke University Press

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0822324903

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9780822324904

Dicey Step

By: Nalini Ranjan Ray

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Dicey Step

By: Nalini Ranjan Ray

“It’s either your daughter or me,” Anju too fumed. That angry reaction of hers stirred up a hornet’s nest. In a fit of fury, Ankush hurriedly applied the brake of the car which caused a crackling sound. It attracted the attention of nearby pedestrians. It happened on the ring road near Ashram Chowk, South-East Delhi. He was in such intense rage that he dragged Mani out of the rear seat, dropped her on the roadside and quickly moved ahead without thinking anything or looking back. The little girl, Mani, did not know what to do and started crying. Ankush, the protagonist, is a married man with a sober wife, Anita, and a beautiful girl child, Mani. But his unfortunate estranged wife, Anita, lives elsewhere. Anju is his youthful maid-turned-second-wife. Why did Ankush abandon his own daughter on the roadside to fend for herself? Did he force his real wife, Anita, to leave his house? The story gets murkier as it progresses where lust, betrayal, separation, serious illness, hate and true love come into play.

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Notion Press

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Wetlands Ecology

Eco-biological uniqueness of a Ramsar site (East Kolkata Wetlands, India)

By: Susanta Kumar Chakraborty,Poulomi Sanyal,Ratnadeep Ray

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Wetlands Ecology

Eco-biological uniqueness of a Ramsar site (East Kolkata Wetlands, India)

By: Susanta Kumar Chakraborty,Poulomi Sanyal,Ratnadeep Ray

This book discusses current knowledge and challenges with the ecological management and conservation of wetlands, with a focus on the East Kolkata Wetlands of India. This area is referred to as a Ramsar Site, a designation given to areas with special protection statuses, since it is the largest natural waste recycling system in the world. The site faces many threats to its biodiversity and ecosystem functioning due to anthropogenic activity in the region, and therefore an assessment of the ecosystem services, bio-ecological uniqueness, and issues stemming from climate change and human impacts is needed to develop protection strategies for the future ecological functioning and sustainability of the wetlands. The authors use GIS and remote sensing techniques to assess and monitor harmful industrial and environmental impacts on the wetlands, and to inform mitigation and conservation strategies in the face of ongoing threats such as pollution, habitat destruction and bioinvasion. The book also highlights various social and economic aspects tied to the functioning and management of the wetlands, along with ecological, biological, and physio-chemical considerations. The study will be of use to students and researchers in aquatic ecology, biodiversity, and environmental sustainability and conservation, as well as to environmental planners, engineers, and policymakers.

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Springer Nature

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3031092538

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9783031092534

The Varied Facets of History

Essays in Honour of Aniruddha Ray

By: Aniruddha Ray

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The Varied Facets of History

Essays in Honour of Aniruddha Ray

By: Aniruddha Ray

Aniruddha Ray retired as Professor of History, from the Department of Islamic History and Culture, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal. Well known for his profound interest in historical research, Aniruddha Ray has written extensively about Mughal administration, technology and travelogues; the society and culture of Medieval Bengal; the economic history of the Sultanate and Mughal periods; overseas trade and merchants; and the French East India Company on the basis of a fine blending of his knowledge of Bengali, English and French sources. As a mark of esteem and affection, scholars in India and abroad have joined hands to offer him this volume. The festschrift reflects the range of Aniruddha Ray's interests and influences in some measure. The theme of the present volume includes the contemporary effort within academia to question the traditional representation of Indian history and the attempts in various areas of study to de-centre the writing of history, and to provide an alternative perspective to the history of fifteenth to nineteenth-century India. In this eclectic collection of essays one can see an innovative approach at work, which raises interesting questions when one situates these ideas and the historical evidence within the big picture, as one moves back and forth between the macro-perspective and the micro-history addressed in most of these essays. With eminent historians of the subcontinent contributing to it, The Varied Facets of History: Essays in Honour of Aniruddha Ray throws new light on aspects of Indian history: its sources and their interpretations, the evolution of cultural aspects like languages especially Hindi and Bengali, archaeology, painting, technology, trade and commerce and labour.

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Primus Books

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9380607164

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9789380607160

The Making of Indian Diplomacy

A Critique of Eurocentrism

By: Deep K. Datta-Ray

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The Making of Indian Diplomacy

A Critique of Eurocentrism

By: Deep K. Datta-Ray

Diplomacy is conventionally understood as an authentic European invention which was internationalised during colonialism. For Indians, the moment of colonial liberation was a false dawn because the colonised had internalised a European logic and performed European practices. Implicit in such a reading is the enduring centrality of Europe to understanding Indian diplomacy. This Eurocentric discourse renders two possibilities impossible: that diplomacy may have Indian origins and that they offer un-theorised potentialities. Abandoning this Eurocentric model of diplomacy, Deep Datta-Ray recognises the legitimacy of independent Indian diplomacy and brings new practices He creates a conceptual space for Indian diplomacy to exist, forefronting civilisational analysis and its focus on continuities, but refraining from devaluing transformational change.

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Oxford University Press

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0190613238

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9780190613235

Laid to Rest: The Controversy over Subhas Chandra Bose's Death

By: Ashis Ray

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Laid to Rest: The Controversy over Subhas Chandra Bose's Death

By: Ashis Ray

Laid to Rest: The Controversy over Subhas Chandra Bose’s Death is the most comprehensive compilation of hard evidence ever presented on the still hotly-debated demise of one of the heroes of the Indian freedom movement. It pieces together a plethora of first-hand, eye-witness accounts of the plane crash at Taipei that resulted in Subhas Bose breathing his last in a Japanese military hospital, his cremation and the transfer of his ashes to Japan, where they remain till date. In a veritable tour de force, the book presents irrefutable, overwhelming testimonies from survivors of the crash, people who were at Bose’s bedside when he passed away, attendees at the cremation and couriers of the mortal remains to Tokyo and ultimately to its current resting place at Renkoji temple. Indian, Japanese and Taiwanese nationals unite to provide an unimpeachable and unanimous verdict. The publication decimates conspiracy theories; and questions successive Indian governments for ignoring the plaintive cry of Bose’s Austrian widow and economist daughter to apply closure to a needless and never ending controversy.

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Roli Books Private Limited

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8193626052

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9788193626054

Buddhist Saints in India

A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations

By: Reginald A. Ray

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Buddhist Saints in India

A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations

By: Reginald A. Ray

The issue of saints is a difficult and complicated problem in Buddhology. In this magisterial work, Ray offers the first comprehensive examination of the figure of the Buddhist saint in a wide range of Indian Buddhist evidence. Drawing on an extensive variety of sources, Ray seeks to identify the "classical type" of the Buddhist saint, as it provides the presupposition for, and informs, the different major Buddhist saintly types and subtypes. Discussing the nature, dynamics, and history of Buddhist hagiography, he surveys the ascetic codes, conventions and traditions of Buddhist saints, and the cults both of living saints and of those who have "passed beyond." Ray traces the role of the saints in Indian Buddhist history, examining the beginnings of Buddhism and the origin of Mahayana Buddhism.

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Oxford University Press

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0195350618

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The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi: A Diary & The Tagores and Sartorial Style: A Photo Essay

By: Sukhendu Ray,Malavika Karlekar,Bharati Ray

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The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi: A Diary & The Tagores and Sartorial Style: A Photo Essay

By: Sukhendu Ray,Malavika Karlekar,Bharati Ray

This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent family which became synonymous with the cultural regeneration of India, specifically of Bengal, in the nineteenth century. The first writing is a sensitive translation of Sarala Devis memoirs from the Bengali, Jeevaner Jharapata, by Sukhendu Ray. It is the first autobiography written by a nationalist woman leader of India. Sarala Devi was Rabindranath Tagores niece and had an unusual life. The translation unfolds, among other things, what it was like to grow up in a big affluent house Jorasanko, that had more than 116 inmates and a dozen cooks! The second writing by Malavika Karlekar is a photo essay, creatively conceived, visually reflecting the social and cultural trends of the times, through styles of dress, jewellery and accoutrements. The modern style of wearing a sari was introduced by Jnanadanandini Devi, a member of the Tagore family. The introduction by the well-known historian, Bharati Ray, very perceptively captures the larger context of family, marriage, womens education and politics of the time which touched Sarala Devis life. She points out that if memoirs are a kind of social history then womens diaries record social influences not found in official accounts and are therefore, a rich source of documentation.

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Routledge

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1351586475

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9781351586474

Satyajit Ray

Interviews

By: Satyajit Ray

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Satyajit Ray

Interviews

By: Satyajit Ray

Interviews with India's preeminent film director and creator of the Apu trilogy

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578069378

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9781578069378

Commercial Banks and Monetary Policy in India

By: Partha Ray

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Commercial Banks and Monetary Policy in India

By: Partha Ray

Set against a backdrop of financial-sector reforms in India, this analysis explores theories and empirical evidence regarding the behavior of commercial banks and their reactions to centralized monetary policy. A comprehensive account of the credit channels of monetary transmission is presented along with observations of the modified IS-LM model within the independent banking sector. Progressive issues such as future consolidation of the banking sector are also addressed. Ultimately, not all commercial banks react uniformly to monetary policy, as ownership, size, liquidity, and capitalization play key roles in determining individual responses.

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Academic Foundation

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8171886353

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Food Biopreservatives of Microbial Origin

By: Bibek Ray

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Food Biopreservatives of Microbial Origin

By: Bibek Ray

Food Biopreservatives of Microbial Origin provides basic and applied information regarding how antimicrobial metabolites of safe, food-grade bacteria (used in food fermentation) can be utilized as food preservatives. The authors discuss why biopreservation of food is important, identify the foods and microoganisms for which biopreservation is suitable, and explore the potential of bacteriocins of food-grade starter culture bacteria and the antimicrobial proteins of yeasts as possible food biopreservatives. The book is a valuable reference resource that will benefit students of food science and researchers in food industries, regulatory agencies, and advisory groups.

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1351080512

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Caste and Partition in Bengal

The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961

By: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

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Caste and Partition in Bengal

The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961

By: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

The book seeks to situate caste as a discursive category in the discussion of Partition in Bengal. In conventional narratives of Partition, the role of the Dalit or the Scheduled Castes is either completely ignored or mentioned in passing. The authors addresse this discursive absence and argues that in Bengal the Dalits were neither passive onlookers nor accidental victims of Partition politics and violence, which ruptured their unity and weakened their political autonomy. They were the worst victims of Partition. When the Dalit peasants of Eastern Bengal began to migrate to India after 1950, they were seen as the 'burden' of a frail economy of West Bengal, and the Indian state did not provide them with a proper rehabilitation package. They were first segregated in fenced refugee camps where life was unbearable, and then dispersed to other parts of India - first to the Andaman Islands and the neighbouring states, and then to the inhospitable terrains of Dandakaranya, where they could be used as cheap labour for various development projects. This book looks critically at their participation in Partition politics, the reasons for their migration three years after Partition, their insufferable life and struggles in the refugee camps, their negotiations with caste and gender identities in these new environments, their organized protests against camp maladministration, and finally their satyagraha campaigns against the Indian state's refugee dispersal policy. This book looks at how refugee politics impacted Dalit identity and protest movements in post-Partition West Bengal.

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Oxford University Press

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0192675826

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Childhood Days

A Memoir

By: Satyajit Ray

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Childhood Days

A Memoir

By: Satyajit Ray

Delightful Anecdotes From The Life Of One Of The World'S Greatest Film-Makers Who Was Satyajit Ray, Writer, Director, Music Composer And Artist? Where Did He Make His Beginnings? Who Were The People He Grew Up With? In This Charming Collection Of Stories From Ray'S Childhood And Film-Making Days, We Get A Glimpse Into The Life Of A Man Who Appeared Serious And Aloof To The World, And Find A Different, More Accessible Ray-Humorous, Tender, Affectionate. He Tells Us About His First Taste Of An Ice Cream, His Initial Understandings Of The Principles Of Photography, And The Teasing He Had To Endure In School Because Of His Famous Father And Grandfather. With Unassuming Grace He Writes About His Vast, Talented Family, Where Each Member Had His Or Her Special Quirks And Eccentricities. In This Volume, Ray Also Shares Some Of His Experiences While Shooting Pather Panchali-His Epic Debut, And Subsequent Films, Particularly For Children. He Describes How An Entire Field Of Kaash Flowers Was Eaten Up By Cows Before He Could Shoot His Famous Scene With The Train In Pather Panchali; And How A Circus Tiger Let Loose In A Bamboo Grove Chased Away A Group Of Curious Onlookers In The Blink Of An Eye. Frank And Funny, These Stories Written Originally For The Bengali Children'S Magazine Sandesh, Are An Essential Read For All Ray Enthusiasts As Well As Those Who Want To Know Ray, The Writer And Film-Maker, Better. Translated From The Bengali By Bijoya Ray

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Penguin Books India

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0140250794

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9780140250794

Bengali Offbeat Cinema: After Satyajit Ray

By: Bibekananda Ray

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Bengali Offbeat Cinema: After Satyajit Ray

By: Bibekananda Ray

This book talks of the Bengali Offbeat genre specially after the demise of Satyajit Ray. This book argues with ample data that on the contrary, the genre swelled further in the last 28 years with over 400 offbeat movies, made by younger generations charted new paths.

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Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

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9354090494

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9789354090493

The Sultanate of Delhi (1206-1526)

Polity, Economy, Society and Culture

By: Aniruddha Ray

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The Sultanate of Delhi (1206-1526)

Polity, Economy, Society and Culture

By: Aniruddha Ray

This book provides an integrated view of the Delhi Sultanate government from 1206 to 1526. It is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the political events and the dynastic history of the Sultans and the second part with the administration, different land issues, social life including two major religious movements and other cultural aspects including architecture and sculpture. The growth of the city of Delhi has been shown here perhaps for the first time. Most of the books on Delhi Sultanate mainly narrate the political events. Here other aspects have been included to show the real character of the Sultanate. It may be mentioned that the English officials from the end of the eighteenth Century had termed the medieval period of India as a ‘dark age’ – a statement that has been accepted by several Indian writers. It is to negate this view that an integrated narrative has been provided here. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

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Routledge

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1000007294

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9781000007299

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