This book provides fresh perspectives and insights on what may be the world’s largest ongoing decentralisation reforms—the Panchayat Raj reforms in India—and presents unique empirical material from Madhya Pradesh and Kerala. Comparative perspectives and r 1st ed. 232p., Index; 21cm.

Why is religion still important? Can we be fully modern and fully religious? The Sociology of Religion works at two levels. First it sets out the agenda—covering the key questions in the sociology of religion today. At the same time, it interrogates this 1st ed. 296p., Bibliography; Index; 21cm.

Ethnic Life-worlds in North-East India: An Analysis draws upon the phenomenological notion of the life-world to understand the culturally-embedded construction of communities, for whom the lived experience of cultural politics constitutes their identity. 1st ed. 312p., References; Bibliography; Index; 21cm.

This volume, the first in a new series on governance, conflict, and civic action in South Asia, focuses on the larger countries of South Asia—Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and especially Nepal. The 15 essays in this volume analyze democracy both 1st ed. 472p., Tables; Index; 21cm.

After taking bath in the early morning, wear red clothes. Then, sitting on a carpet made of kush or of wool, keep the image or picture of Hanuman Ji or the Yantra provided in this book (after engraving the Yantra on a leaf of birch tree or a copper plate) 1st ed. 16p., 6 Color Illustrations; 21cm.

Anyone can observe fasts on Tuesdays. One should get up early in the morning, take bath, offer worships to Mangal god with his wife and meditate on him. Repeat the twenty-one names of Mangal god-1. Mangal, 2. Bhoomiputra, 3. Rinharth, 4. Dhanprada, 5. Sth 1st ed. 24p., 20 Color Illustrations; 21cm.

The very first literary work in Sanskrit, other than the Vedas, and much earlier than Vyasa, is from the great poet-seer Valmiki, whose work is Glory of Rama (Ramayana). Ramayana stands as the link between the Vedic mysticism and the poetic exuberance of 1st ed. 178p., Black & White Illustrations; 20cm.

The book is about Hanuman and his various adventures while rescuing Rama and Lakshmana from the clutches of evil magician, Mayil Ravana. This is a 600-year old story, an offshoot of the epic Ramayana, retold by Madhavi S. Mahadevan. When Ravana sees that 1st ed. 40p.

Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda said, “Love and service to our children – keeping this is mind, let us bring out a series with different titles – saints and sages, heroes, short stories, history, creative activity, even jokes and puzzles”. “Let our chil 1st ed. 89p.

This exciting narrative for kids 4 and up is filled with sound effects and colorful pictures, and brings alive the stories like never before. Come discover the world of Gods and demons, kings and queens, a world of times past. Come discover the world of s 1st ed.