The book reviewed here has the sub-title ‘Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language’.
Gathering together fifteen papers presented at a two-day international conference at Miranda House (University of Delhi) in January 2010,
In relation to the Bhagavadgita, three extraordinary developments may be said to have occurred in British India.
‘She was there all along, contributing half the genes to each succeeding generation. Most of the books forget about her for most of the time. They drag her on stage rather suddenly for the obligatory chapter on Sex and Reproduction, and then say: ‘All right, love, you can go now,’ while they get on with the real meaty stuff about the Mighty Hunter…
1976
It is not often that we come across a noble theme explained by a worthy writer in a lucid manner. This book definitely belongs to this rare category. It is most appropriate that the National Book Trust should have asked Professor Swaminathan with his life-long devotion to the Maharshi to write this book on Ramana…
Many of us have on occasion been dubious about the obsession in some circles to explain Indian culture entirely in terms of mysticism. This analysis by Staal of how to approach the study of mysticism is most valuable in that it not only puts the matter into a new perspective…
Barring a few general works dealing with the under-developed countries, the economic surveys by the United Nations commissions and old administrative reports by the erstwhile colonial governments…
Wars generate a spate of books on tactical doctrine. Chaim Herzog’s book adds to the growing literature on the most important war in recent years, the Fourth Arab-Israeli war of 1973: the war which commenced on the day of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of mourning and atonement…