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This book is essential for re-imagining the history of Indian Independence, offering important insights for scholars, activists, and those interested in the diverse forces that shaped India's fight for freedom.

By articulating and advancing the personal in the public and by imbuing the personal with the social and the political, these literary women transcended their limitations and became the precursors of a tradition that critically examined both traditional values and modern contingencies, yet sought to bring them together to fruition.

This volume attempts to piece together an overview of historical Laotian weights, based on surviving weights from the region, and writings of European visitors from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. The book comprises 211 pages and features over 400 colour images of the intriguing weights from Laos, and the associated Mekong region.

This is the first full-length study of the Dasanami-Samnyasis to be published since the 1970s, and will be particularly useful both for students of Hinduism and for readers with a particular interest in the religious history of mediaeval India.

This is a study for the layman as well as the professional.

On the contrary, a certain variety of approach may serve as a means of convincing the student of the manifold and ever varying character of the conglomerate of religious traditions which we are wont to subsume under the term Tantrism.

In this book the emphasis is on the Hindu side of Hindu-Muslim relations, and more particularly on the role of the Arya Samaj movement. The movement was founded near Bombay at Rajkot in 1875, and it achieved a wide influence in northern India.

The only exhaustive account of this major shrine, this study includes unique 19th century and contemporary photographs, the latter revealing features in its ongoing restoration.

This is an invaluable sourcebook that should serve scholars quite well