Bh Rata K R Japatra

Illustrations: 6 B/W & 3 Colour Illustrations Description: The National Mission for Manuscripts was established as a five-year mission in February 2003 by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India with the purpose of locating, documenting, presenting and disseminating the knowledge content of India s handwritten manuscripts, said to be the largest collection of handwritten knowledge documents anywhere in the world. While looking ahead to reconnect with the knowledge of the past, the Mission is in the process of trying to re-contextualize the knowledge contained in manuscripts for the present and the future generations. The Mission launched a lecture series titled Tattvabodha in January 2005. Since then, a monthly lecture series in Delhi and other centres in the country, Tattvabodha has established itself as a forum for intellectual discourse, debate and discussion. Eminent scholars representing different aspects of India s knowledge systems have addressed and interacted with highly receptive audience over the course of the past year and a half. The present volume comprises the first ten lectures under Tattvabodha. A glance at the list of contributors will reveal that the Mission has had the privilege of hosting the finest exponents of Indian culture and the compilation of their lectures makes for invaluable literature. The contributors are listed in alphabetic order: M. K. Byrski, R. Champakalakshmi, Lokesh Chandra, D. P. Chattopadhyaya, G. N. Devy, Irfan Habib, Sheldon Pollock, Namwar Singh, M. S. Valiathan and Kapila Vatsyayan.

This book deals in popular form with some of main branches of modern physics. It tells of the universe and the laws governing the four states of matter and the three basic kinds of fields which man has got to know. It also considers some of the hypotheses concerning matter and the universe which must still be verified. It tells of the inroads into the universe which scientists are contemplating today with a view on the distant future.The authors present popular expositions of the fundamentals of gas dynamics, explosion theory and the dynamics, explosion theory and the dynamics of fields. Advances in these divisions of physics have made possible the great achievements of aviation, rocketry, hydraulic power production and thermal engineering. Some of the more complex physical phenomena are explained on simple examples from everyday life.Mikhail Vasilyev is a Soviet journalist and science popularizer whose books are known both in the Soviet Union and many other countries. His Reportage from the 21st Century has seen 25 printings in foreign countries. Other books of his include Travels into Outer Space, Metals and Man, Energy and Man and Nonmetals and Man, the last three being parts of a big series under the general heading The Universe an Man, on which he has been working for the last few years.Professor Kirill Stanyukovich is an eminent Soviet theoretical physicist. He is the author of numerous scientific works on gas dynamicsm cosmology and gravitational theory, many of which have been translated into foreign languages. One of his major contributions is the monograph Unsteady Gas Motion.

Detailed first-hand accounts of the first British diplomatic voyages to Tibet, first published in 1876.

This important collection of ancient inscriptions sheds new light on the history and culture of the Yadava dynasty in medieval India. With meticulous translation and commentary, the author offers a detailed and insightful look at the political and social forces that shaped this fascinating era of Indian history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.