Bestseller Book by Shailendra Kumar Agnihotri; R?sh?r?ya S?mprad?yika Sadbh?va Pratish?h?na (New Delhi, India) [Other]: Commissions of Inquiry on Communal Disturbances: A Study, Volume 4
Bestseller Book by Shailendra Kumar Agnihotri; R?sh?r?ya S?mprad?yika Sadbh?va Pratish?h?na (New Delhi, India) [Other]: Commissions of Inquiry on Communal Disturbances: A Study, Volume 4
This book examines the questions of conformity and resistance with respect to Premchand’s literary corpus. Mapping the various complexities, challenges, and contradictions of interwar India, it demonstrates how the passive peasant protagonists of the writer’s fictional works present a diametrically opposed definition of dharma as compared to their dissident nationalist counterparts. Through a relatively similar logic of comparative assessment, it further foregrounds the fundamental asymmetry that exists between Premchand’s literary representations of women as compliant domestic subjects and those that portray them as rebel patriots of colonial North India. Juxtaposing several genres, including novels, short stories, letters, and journalistic writings to offer a reconsideration of Premchand's work, this book will interest scholars of peasant narratives, nationalist fiction, and gender studies. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)
This book provides a cohesive overview of carbon concentrating mechanism (CCM) of photosynthetic microorganisms such as cyanobacteria and microalgae. This unique mechanism is by far the most spectacular physiological process in algal growth and productivity. Due to this fact, the study of CCM has captivated phycologists, algal molecular and cellular biologists, botanists, agriculturalists, crop growers, and most recently algal biofuel researchers, around the world. In the brief, the authors draw a contextual in-depth overview, on the basis of the latest findings, to develop an account of the core concepts regarding state-of-the-art of CCM. Subsequent chapters use this account to explore carbon concentrating mechanism of cyanobacteria and microalgae. They highlight the concise summaries of cutting-edge research and integrated industrial applications of photosynthetic microorganism based CO2 mitigation system, across a wide spectrum of energy and environment. The brief also presents sustainable perspectives of carbon concentrating mechanism in the context of current global energy and environmental challenges.
Cementitious materials, rocks and fibre-reinforced composites commonly termed as quasibrittle, need a different fracture mechanics approach to model the crack propagation study because of the presence of significant size of fracture process zone ahead of the crack-tip. Recent studies show that concrete structures manifest three important stages in fracture process: crack initiation, stable crack propagation and unstable fracture or failure. Fracture Mechanics concept can better explain the above various stages including the concepts of ductility, size-effect, strain softening and post-cracking behavior of concrete and concrete structures. The book presents a basic introduction on the various nonlinear concrete fracture models considering the respective fracture parameters. To this end, a thorough state-of-the-art review on various aspects of the material behavior and development of different concrete fracture models is presented. The development of cohesive crack model for standard test geometries using commonly used softening functions is shown and extensive studies on the behavior of cohesive crack fracture parameters are also carried out. The subsequent chapter contains the extensive study on the double-K and double-G fracture parameters in which some recent developments on the related fracture parameters are illustrated including introduction of weight function method to Double-K Fracture Model and formulization of size-effect behavior of the double-K fracture parameters. The application of weight function approach for determining of the KR-curve associated with cohesive stress distribution in the fracture process zone is also presented. Available test data are used to validate the new approach. Further, effect of specimen geometry, loading condition, size-effect and softening function on various fracture parameters is investigated. Towards the end, a comparative study between different fracture parameters obtained from various models is presented.
Broadband Infrastructure: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding and Delivering OSS/BSS is a "how to" book for Internet infrastructure companies to help them prepare for the decisions they will face when constructing their core OSS strategies and infrastructure. This book provides a source of reference and education to learn the language, methods, and technologies associated with the OSS market. It examines the Internet infrastructure supply chain and how it will be automated. Finally, it brings together a wealth of proven knowledge and advice, gathered from BusinessEdge Solutions' extensive OSS experience, that broadband providers can use to minimize their OSS risks while maximizing their ability to differentiate and compete.
Bhagwad Geeta, a much acclaimed scripture, has often been put at par with such epics as of Homer, Dante and Virgil. But traditionally Hindus consider it as a part of a historical document of a devastating war of a bygone age. The present work tries to trace the Geeta's historical background. The Geeta is an audio- visual narration of the dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna at a war front far away from Hastinapur. How could Sanjay - the narrator- see and hear the same without the aid of modern electronic gadgets? Evidences from other religions have been discussed. The Vedanta, being the crest jewel of the Vedas, posits the Parabrahman and the Nad-Brahman. The book also discusses Vedanta, Newtonian concept of matter and force and Einstein's formulations of matter/energy, wave -particle duality, at some length. Shankara and Descartes have been compared and contrasted. The problem of religious records, being of paramount value, has been treated at length. The Vedas, considered the oldest, is treated first. Its transpersonal nature vis-à-vis the historical-linguistic approach of modern scholars-including the Aryan Invasion Theory has been discussed at some length. The Buddha's discourses are discussed next. The Old Testament, being a record of a very old religion, is discussed subsequently. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and its impact has been included. The birth of Jesus, the Lost Years, his possible visit to India, The Gnostic Gospels, is all included in the discussion. Islam - a religion with massive following - is our next topic. Though a comparatively new religion it traces its origin to Abraham or Ibrahim. Although, compared to Islam, Zoroastrianism is very old and has only a minuscule following but we have not neglected it. Finally we discuss another lesser known religion - Jainism. Jainism is contemporary to Buddhism but its logical system is very innovative and has relevance to several scientific concepts.
Dr. Ambedkar was an iconoclastic social reformer who at the very formative years of his career realized what it meant to be an untouchable and how struggle against untouchability could be launched. The social reform movement of the caste Hindus could not win him to its side because of his existential understanding of the pangs of untouchability. the issue of untouchability, for social reformers, was a mere problem.
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