Pilgrimage to Paradise:Sufi tales from Rumi
edited by Kamla K Kapur
Penguin, 2009
Rumi is undoubtedly one of the best-known of the Sufi masters. Even so, the public,
Like most words that mean little but pretend to say a lot, secular was one that I did not encounter by accident. Its meaning, and the shadows of its connotations,
While Arundhati Roy’s collection of essays reveals critical political truths and the acts of violence India has witnessed, it also raises questions about the elite practice of literary catharsis and the motives behind activist writing
On 15 August 2009, a policeman was suspended in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, the epicentre of one of the fiercest ongoing conflicts between India's Maoists, the armed vigilante group
Dynamics and Development of Highland Ecosystems
by Ek Raj Ojha
Walden Book House, Kathmandu, 1999 (first edition)
pp xxxv, 279 + 28(unnumbered), price not mentioned
In recent years, the study
Resources and Population
A study of the Gurungs of Nepal
By Alan Macfarlane
Ratna Pustak Bhandar, Kathmandu, 2003
pp xxvi+364, no recommended price
ISBN 99933-0-377-1
This
Women for Afghan Women
edited by Sunita Mehta
Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2002
pp xiii+236, USD 13.95
ISBN 1 4039 6017 8
Edited by NRI feminist Sunita Mehta,
The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology (2 volumes)
Edited by Veena Das
OUP, New Delhi, 2003
pp xvi, viii+1660, INR 3750
ISBN 0 19564582 0
In
Third Report: 1997-2002
Committee of Concerned Citizens
Anupama Printers, Hyderabad, 2002
pp xxii+434, no recommended price
Founded in 1997 in response to the People's War Group
In his classic work on cricket, Beyond a Boundary, the West Indian Marxist CLR James makes the point that most anecdotes about cricket are boring to the non-aficionado because
Encyclopaedia of Sri Lanka
by CA Gunawardena
Sterling, New Delhi, 2003
pp xi+324, INR 900
ISBN 81 207 2536 0
With over 1100 entries, including more than 350 on
The Origins and Development of the Tablighi-Jama'at (1920-2000): A cross-country comparative study
By Yoginder Sikand
Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2002
pp xii+310, INR 595
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