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1 Some recent and forthcoming indological publications
2003
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[Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India UK |US with online excerpts]
James W. Laine
February 2003 -
[Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions: Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki UK | US]
Julia Leslie
October 2003 -
[Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions for South Asia UK | US]
Sheldon Pollock (Editor)
May 2003 -
[The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Blackwell Companions to Religion) UK | US]
Gavin Flood (Editor)
January 2003 / Paper or hardcover. -
[The Roots of Ayurveda: selections from Sanskrit medical writings UK | US]
Dominik Wujastyk / Paperback / 3rd edition Feb 2003. -
[Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court: The Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi]
by Indira Viswanathan Peterson
January 2003 / Hardcover
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2002
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[Conjugal Love in India: Ratisastra and Ratiramana: Text, Translation, and Notes UK | US]
Kenneth G. Zysk (Editor)
July 2002. Contrary to what the websites say, the book is in print with [Brill] and easily available.
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2001
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[Aldous Huxley Between East and West]
by C. C. Barfoot
December 2001 -
[Precolonial India in Practice : Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra]
by Cynthia Talbot
September 2001 -
[A Gandhari Version of "The Rhinoceros Sutra" UK | US]
Richard Salomon, Andrew Glass / Hardcover
May 2001
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2000
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[Grow Long, Blessed Night : Poems from Classical India]
Martha Ann Selby (Translator) / Paperback
December 2000 -
[Invented Identities: the interplay of gender, religion and politics in India UK | US]
Julia Leslie (Editor), Mary McGee (Editor)
October 2000 -
[Ramopakhyana - the Story of Rama in the Mahabharata]
Peter Scharf
December 2000 -
[Epic Threads]
J.L. Brockington, Mary Brockington (Editor), Greg Bailey (Editor)
October 2000 -
[A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet 2]
Pieter Cornelis Verhagen
September 2000 -
[Classical Indian Philosophy : An Introductory Text]
Jitendra N. Mohanty / Paperback -
[The Indo Aryan Migration Debate : In Quest of the Origins of Vedic Culture]
Edwin Bryant / Hardcover -
[Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (The New Cambridge History of India Iii-5)]
David Arnold / Hardcover -
[Trade in Early India (Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Indian History)]
Ranabir Chakravarti (Editor) / Hardcover -
[Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism : The 'Native Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900]
James H. Mills / Hardcover -
[The Oriental Annual or Scenes in India - 1836]
Caunter Hobert, Daniell William / Hardcover -
[Precolonial India in Practice : Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra]
Cynthia Talbot / Hardcover -
[Religious Processes : The Puranas and the Making of a Regional Tradition in South Asia UK | US]
Kunal Chakrabarti / Hardback -
[Costumes and Textiles of Royal India]
Ritu Kumar / Hardcover -
[Donors, Devotees, and the Daughters of God : Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu]
Leslie C. Orr -
[Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India]
Mandakranta Bose (Editor) -
[India : A History]
John Keay / Hardcover -
[Invoking the Past : The Uses of History in South Asia]
Daud Ali (Editor) / Hardcover -
[Combined Methods in Indology and Other Essays : A Collection of the Indological Writings of D.D. Kosambi]
D.D. Kosambi / Hardcover -
[Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal: Narratives and Rituals of Newar Buddhism]
Todd Thornton Lewis (Editor), Subarna Man Tuladhar (Editor) / Paperback -
[Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms]
by Irene Gedalof / Paperback -
[Buddha : His Life and Teaching]
Walter Henry Nelson / Paperback -
[Narratives and the Making of History]
Romila Thapar / Paperback -
[Cultural Pasts : Essays in Early Indian History]
Romila Thapar / Hardcover -
[India - An Archaeological History : Palaeolithic Beginnings to Early Historic Foundations]
Dilip K. Chakrabarti / Hardcover -
[The poems of Ancient Tamil]
George L. Hart / Paperback -
[Classical Indian Philosophy : An Introductory Text]
Jitendra N. Mohanty / Paperback -
[Classical Indian Philosophy]
J.N. Mohanty / Hardcover -
[A Study of Time in Indian Philosophy]
Anindita Niyogi Balslev -
[A Yoga of Indian Classical Dance: The Yogini's Mirror]
Roxanne Kamayani Gupta, Kamayani Roxanne Gupta / Paperback -
[Buddhist Reliquaries from Ancient India]
Michael Willis / Hardcover -
[The Perfection of Wisdom UK | US]
R. C. Jamieson / Paperback -
[A Study of Nagarjuna's Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle (Mahayanavimsika) and His Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination UK | US]
R. C. Jamieson / Hardcover -
[India : The Seductive and Seduced 'Other' of German Orientalism (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, No. 39)]
Kamakshi P. Murti / Hardcover -
[Indo-Aryan Languages]
George Cardona, Dhanesh Jain / Hardcover / Published 2000
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1999
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[The Glorious Deeds of Purna]
Joel Tatelman (tr.) / Hardback / 1999 -
[The Dharmasutras]
Patrick Olivelle / Papercover / 1999 -
[Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India]
Wendy Doniger / Papercover / 1999 -
[Indus Age: the beginnings]
Gregory L. Possehl / Hardcover / in press (1999) -
[Handbook of the Stein Collections in the UK (Occasional Paper No 129)]
Helen Wang / Paperback / 1999 -
[Love in a Dead Language : A Romance]
Lee Siegel / Hardcover / Published 1999 -
[Ayurveda]
Ashok Majumdar / Hardcover / Published 1999 -
[An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients Had of India]
William Robertson / Hardback / 1999 -
[The Printed Bengali Character]
Fiona G.E. Ross / Hardcover / Published 1999 -
[Soma: Divine Hallucinogenic]
David Spess / Hardcover / Published 1999 -
[The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana : A Reconsideration of the Classical Yoga (Suny Series in Religious Studies)]
Ian Whicher / Hardcover / Published 1999 -
[A history of India]
Burton Stein / Paperback -
[Srngaraprakasa of Bhoja (Harvard Oriental Series, Vol 53)]
Venkatarama Raghavan (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1999 -
[Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics : Draupadi Among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits]
Hiltebeitel, Alf Hiltebeitel / Paperback / Published 1999 -
[A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Other Indian Manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere Collection in the Bodleian Library Part II: Epics and Puranas]
John Brockington, Jonathan Katz / Unknown Binding / Published 1999 -
[A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Other Indian Manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere Collection in the Bodleian Library Part III: Stotras]
Parameswara Aithal, Jonathan Katz / Unknown Binding / Published 1999 -
[Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara]
Richard Salomon / Hardcover / Published 1999 -
[Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara]
Richard Salomon / Paperback / Published 1999 -
[Ramayana of Valmiki, vol. VI]
Robert P Goldman.
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1998
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[Deciphering the Indus Script]
Asko Parpola. -
[Algebra in Ancient and Modern Times]
V.S. Varadarajan / Papercover / 1998 -
[Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization]
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer / Paperback / 1998 -
[Indian Epigraphy : A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages (South Asia Research)]
Richard Salomon / Hardcover / Published 1998 -
[The Sanskrit Epics (Handbuch Der Orientalistik. Zweite Abteilung. Indien, 12 Bd)]
J. L. Brockington / Hardcover / Published 1998. -
[Indian Semantic Analysis : The Method of Nirvacanam (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications , No 55)]
Eivind Georg Kahrs / Hardcover / Published 1998 -
[The Roots of Ayurveda: selections from Sanskrit medical writings]
Dominik Wujastyk / Paperback / Published 1998 -
[When the Body Becomes All Eyes : Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian Martial Art]
Phillip B. Zarrilli / Hardcover / Published 1998 -
[The Sauptikaparvan of the Mahabharata]
W. J. Johnson / Paperback / Published 1998 -
[The Lives of the Jain Elders]
Hemacandra, tr. R. Fynes / Paperback / Published 1998. -
[Representing the Body : Gender Issues in Indian Art]
Vidya Dehejia / Hardback / 1998.
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1997
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[How Buddhism Began : The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings (Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, No 17)]
Richard F. Gombrich / Hardcover / Published 1997 -
[Traditional Jewelry of India]
Oppi Untracht / Hardcover (12 May, 1997)
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2 Old favourites
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[A Cultural History of India]
A. L. Basham / Hardback / 1984 -
[The Wonder that was India]
A. L. Basham / Paperback / 1997 reprint -
[Indian Medicine]
Julius Jolly / Hardback / 1994 (reprint) -
[Ancient Indian Medicine]
P. Kutumbiah / Paperback / Published 1999 (reprint) -
[The Classical Law of India (Law in India)]
Robert Lingat, J. Duncan M. Derret / Paperback / Published 1998 (reprint). -
[Vedic India]
Louis Renou / Paperback / 1993 (reprint) -
[On being Sanskritic]
Richard F. Gombrich. (1977 inaugural lecture as Boden professor at Oxford.)
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3 Teaching materials
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The SEL set is available from Svadhyaya Publications, 5346 Opal Place, Richmond, B.C., Canada V7C 5B4.
An excerpt from the publisher's description:
In considering the price, please take into account the quality, the long-term usefulness (SEL meets the students needs definitely beyond the first year or the introductory stage of learning), the nearly 700-page extent, the inclusion of five 90-minute cassettes OR two CDs with 450 minutes of recording and the inclusion of local taxes, handling and surface mail postage.
Georg Feuerstein's remarks in his Recommendations for Learning Sanskrit Through Self-Study for Yoga Practitioners should be quoted in full:
I remember eagerly awaiting the arrival of Prof. Ashok Aklujkar’s work Sanskrit: An Easy Introduction to an Enchanting Language, published in 2005 by Svadhyaya Publications, 5346 Opal Place, Richmond, B.C., Canada V7C 5B4. I thought that this course might be suitable for Yoga students who wish to acquaint themselves with Sanskrit at an introductory level. The author’s stated intent in producing this work was that it should be suitable for university students as well as autodidacts. The depth and breadth as well as the academic presentation of the course are, in my opinion, somewhat too demanding for self-study on a limited time budget. Many Yoga practitioners live busy lives and, in my experience, can seldom commit to an intensive language course. Many also require perhaps more handholding than a course intended primarily for university students can accommodate.
This work comprises two large-size volumes in one and a third separate volume with a total of 608 pages) and five audio cassettes. The price is astonishingly low at CAN $70.00/US $70.00 (including shipping!), which I imagine barely covers printing and shipping. Prof. Aklujkar’s Sanskrit course, which was put together and is sold entirely as a service (Karma-Yoga) to others, represents a truly amazing scholarly achievement. Despite my above-mentioned reservations, there is no question in my mind that it is the single most outstanding Sanskrit grammar available today.
Serious students of Sanskrit will find Prof. Aklujkar's work superior to other publications in terms of scope and detail. The author’s love for and also mastery of Sanskrit is evident from every page. My above concerns notwithstanding, I can highly recommend it both as a comprehensive grammar and as a reliable reference work to all those who can allocate sufficient time to learning another language. For home study, it would have been useful to include English translations of the many short Sanskrit excercises, so that students who do not have access to a teacher can readily check their attempts at rendering Sanskrit into English. Autodidacts can still benefit greatly from having this course on their shelves as a resource when other grammars prove incomprehensible or incomplete. It might even tempt them to allow more time for their studies and delve deeper into Sanskrit.
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[Sanskrit Syntax]
J. S. Speijer / Hardcover / repr. 1988 -
[Samskrtasubodhini : A Sanskrit Primer (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No 47)]
Madhav M. Deshpande / Hardcover / Published 1997 -
[Sanskrit]
Dermot Killingley, Siew-Yue Killingley / Paperback / Published 1995 -
[Teach Yourself Sanskrit]
Michael Coulson, et al / Paperback / Published 1992 -
[Sanskrit Grammar]
William Dwight Whitney / Hardcover / Published 1989 -
[A Sanskrit Grammar for Students]
Arthur Anthony MacDonell / Paperback / Published 1986 -
[Sanskrit Reader; Text and Vocabulary and Notes]
Charles Rockwell Lanman / Hardcover / Published 1984 -
[Concise Elementary Grammar of the Sanskrit Language]
Jan Gonda / Paperback / Published 1981 -
[The Sanskrit Language: an Introductory Grammar and Reader]
Walter Harding Maurer / Hardback / Reprint 2000
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4 Indologists' recreations
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[Chasing the Mountain of Light : Across India on the Trail of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond]
Kevin Rushby -
[The Ascetic of Desire]
by Sudhir Kakar / Hardcover / new ed. 2000 -
[City of Dreadful Night : A Tale of Horror and the Macabre in India]
by Lee Siegel / Paperback / 1995 -
[An Equal Music]
by Vikram Seth -
[India]
D Mccullin / Hardcover / Published 1999
And cf. [Camera Indica : The Social Life of Indian Photographs]
Christopher Pinney / Paperback / Published 1998 -
[The Snakebite Survivors' Club]
Jeremy Seal / Hardcover / Published 1999 -
[The Age of Kali Indian Travels and Encounters]
William Dalrymple / Softcover / Published 1999
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