Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through a revisionist reading of the Chola dynasty, a medieval South Asian superpower. Utilizing a series of textual sources, this innovative study poses comparative and conceptual questions about politics, history, agency and representation in the pre-modern world.

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This Is A Commemoration Book In 2 Vols. For Dr. C.R. Srinivasan. The Articles Put Together Unfold New Dimensions Of Indology, Archaeology, Art, Architecture And History. Papaers Arranged In Chronological Order. Vol. I: Sections-Prehistory And Protohistory Art And Architecture, Numismatics, Epigraphy; Vol. Ii: Around 40 Papers- Epigraphy And Miscellaneous.

The book attends to a historical question — how to account for the high numbers of renouncers (sadhvis) mentioned in medieval and ancient texts — which has been acknowledged and raised, but left unaddressed within Jain studies. It does so through ethnographic data gathered through extensive fieldwork among the sadhvis in Delhi and Jaipur. The volume foregrounds the primacy of ‘choice’ and ‘agency’— upheld by the nuns themselves, who associate asceticism with autonomy, freedom, joy, spiritual well-being, self-worth and peace, and grihastha (household) with loss of independence, fettered existence, degradation, burdensome familial obligations and social responsibilities. It also examines whether it may be apt to term Jain nuns as practitioners of an ‘indigenous mode of feminism’. The book challenges the existing sociological theories of renunciation and tests the feminist concepts of agency and autonomy by investigating the culturally coded roles ascribed to women in Jainism, which are variegated, and examines how a fractured discourse and reality is resolved in the subjectivities and identities of female ascetics. The very legitimacy of the institution of female asceticism, and the way in which the society (samaj) upholds and sustains it, renders female asceticism into a socially approved alternative institution — albeit one that allows Jain nuns to create spaces of relative and autonomy and even prestige for themselves.

"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 20 NOVEMBER, 1977 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 68 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XLII. No. 47 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 20-64 ARTICLE: 1. The Lure of The Forest 2. Wages, Income and Prices 3. Development of Broadcasting in Eastern Zone 4. Railway Passengers's Grievances 5. Ram Manohar Lohia -His Life and Thought 6. Kudremukh- A Progress Report 7. Our Alienated Kins 8. Old Age - How to Resist and Enjoy It ! 9. Future Source of Power-Thermo-Nuclear Fusion 10. Marxism to Total Revolution AUTHOR: 1. M. Krishnan 2. R. Venkatachary 3. B. C. Kar 4. P. Bhoja Rao 5. Dr. Parimal Kumar Das 6. K. C. Khanna 7. Sitakant Mahapatra 8. Dr. G. D. Veliath 9. Dr. Samir Kumar Ghosh 10. Dr. R. C. Gupta KEYWORDS : 1. Precautions and Safeguards, Wild Life Recreation, Time for A Trip 2. Restructuring Industrial Policy, Boothalingam Panel, Minimum Wages 3. Eight Year Plan, High or Medium power Trasmiter, Auxiliary Radio Station 4. Integration, Reservation Facilities, Involvement 5. Four Pillar State, Concept of Class and Caste, Small Machine Technology 6. Iron Ore Project, Indian manufacturer, Construction Work 7. Tribals of orissa, Socio-Economic Integration, Understanding Culture 8. Avoid Comparison, Continue Growing, Avoid Excesses 9. Thermonuclear Plasma, Fusion Power, High Energy Electron 10. J.P's Indifference, Birth of a Party, Total Revolution Document ID : APE-1977 (Oct-Dec) Vol-III-08 Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.

On the various rituals performed at a Hindu temple.