Download or read book The Laws of Manu written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-01-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laws of Manu form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be lived. Manu encompasses topics as wide-ranging as the social obligations and duties of the various castes, the proper way for a righteous king to rule and to punish transgressors, relations between men and women, birth, death, taxes, karma, rebirth and ritual practices. First translated into English in 1794, its influence spread from Nietzsche to the British Raj, and although often misinterpreted, it remains an essential work for understanding India today. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book British Sport A Bibliography to 2000 written by Richard Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Download or read book Syed Mahmood written by Mohammad Nasir and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when ordinary courage has become rare, one has to look up to the lives of those who stood for dissent in the colonial era. Back in the 19th century, Justice Syed Mahmood, son of the great social reformer Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, became the first judge to resist colonial power by espousing the cause of judicial independence. At the age of just 32, he not only remains the youngest, but also the first Indian Muslim and first north Indian to be appointed as a High Court judge in India. Endowed with a judicial acuity ahead of his times, a number of his dissents were later accepted by the courts, and continue to be the law. This book chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of Syed Mahmood's life, and his contribution in shaping the consciousness of post 1857 India. With an impressive array of research, perception and analysis, the book succeeds in exhuming a seminal figure from the dust of history, and showcases the past speaking to the present.
Download or read book Pt Kanhaiya Lal Misra My Father written by Munindra Misra and published by Osmora Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader gets a personal glimpse of Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - his love for his wife, a poet, a loving father, with eagerness to help and a very tender, calm person at heart with over-flowing love for the family and people around. Since there was a major gap of around 50 years between father and son - the outlook of the author does give a different view to the towering personality of this great legal luminary and one of the strongly dedicated upholders of the legal institution of India. Quotes on Pt K. L. Misra Justice S.R. Das, Chief Justice of India Mr. Misra, why don't you more often appear in the Supreme Court? In the cases in which you appear it raises the standard of our judgments. Sri. S.N. Mulla, Senior Criminal Advocate Mr. Misra never clamoured for the front line. He took his seat wherever he found one. But he never knew - it was not the front bench but wherever he sat became the focus of attraction. Sri Shanti Bhushan, Law Minister Of India and Senior Advocate He was such a versatile and noble man that the like of him may not be born again.
Download or read book A Century of Agricultural Statistics Great Britain 1866 1966 written by Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the development since 1866 of statistical method in the UK in respect of agriculture - includes statistical tables for the period from 1866 to 1966 concerning land tenure, livestock, agricultural production, prices, rural workers, wages, etc. References and maps.
Download or read book Principles and Practice of Judicial Propriety written by Anand Swarup Misra and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Real Disaster Is Above Ground written by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s Centralia was a small town, like many others in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. But since the 1960s, it has been consumed, outwardly and inwardly by a fire that has inexorably spread in the abandoned mines beneath it. The earth smokes, subsides, and breathes poisonous gases. No less destructive has been the spread of dissension and enmity among the townspeople. The Real Disaster Above Ground tells the story of the fire and the tragic failure of all efforts to counter it. This study of the Centralia fire represents the most thorough canvass of the documentary materials and the community that has appeared. The authors report on the futile efforts of residents to reach a common understanding of an underground threat that was not readily visible and invited multiple interpretations. They trace the hazard management strategies of government agencies that, ironically, all too often created additional threats to the welfare of Centralians. They report on the birth and demise of community organizations, each with its own solution to the problem and its diehard partisans. The final solution, now being put into effect, is to abandon the town and relocate its people. Centralia's environmental disaster, the authors argue, is not a local or isolated phenomenon. It warns of the danger lurking in our own technology when safeguards fail and disaster management policy is not in place to respond to failure, as the examples of Chernobyl and Bhopal have clearly demonstrated. The lessons in this study of the fate of a small town in Pennsylvania are indeed sobering. They should be pondered by a variety of social scientists and planners, by all those dealing with the behavior of people under stress and those responsible for the welfare of the public.
Download or read book Archibald Liversidge FRS written by Roy MacLeod and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Archibald Liversidge first arrived at Sydney University in 1872 as reader in geology and assistant in the laboratory he had about ten students and two rooms in the main building. In 1874 he became professor of geology and mineralogy and by 1879 he had persuaded the senate to open a faculty of science. He became its first dean in 1882. Liversidge also played a major role in the setting up of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science which held its first congress in 1888. For anyone interested in Archibald Liversidge, his contribution to crystallography, mineral chemistry, chemical geology, strategic minerals policy and a wider field of colonial science.
Download or read book Transactions of the Cumberland Westmorland Antiquarian Archeological Society written by Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members included in each volume except v. 1.
Download or read book The Secret Horsepower Race written by Calum E. Douglas and published by Tempest. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence work carried out by both Britain and Germany would determine the outcome of the first global air war. Advanced jet engines may have been in development but every militarily significant air battle was fought by piston-engined fighters. Whoever designed the most powerful piston engines would win air superiority and with it the ability to dictate the course of the war as a whole. This is the never-before-told story of a high-tech race, hidden behind the closed doors of design offices and intelligence agencies, to create the war’s best fighter engine. Using the fruits of extensive research in archives around the world together with the previously unpublished memoirs of fighter engine designers, author Calum E. Douglas tells the story of a desperate contest between the world’s best engineers – the Secret Horsepower Race.
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Download or read book Judges of the Supreme Court of India written by George H. Gadbois, Jr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the critical role played by the Supreme Court of India, the lives of the judges have never been studied before. This seminal book presents biographical essays for each of the first ninety-three judges who served on the Court from 1950 through mid-1989. The essays in the book are based on interviews the author conducted with sixty-four of the sixty-eight judges who were alive in the 1980s, and on meetings and correspondence with family members or relatives, friends, and associates of the deceased judges. An attempt is made to account for why certain judges rather than others were chosen, the selection criteria employed and, to the extent possible in a secretive selection environment, to identify those who selected them. It concludes with a collective portrait of these judges, paying particular attention to changes in their background characteristics—fathers' occupation, education, pre-SCI career, caste, religion, state of birth, and region, over four decades. The essays also embrace their post-retirement activities.
Download or read book The Legal Profession in Colonial South India written by John Jeya Paul and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The persisting belief in the 'rule of law' and the relative judicial independence in post-colonial India, bear testimony to the British legacy with its unique amalgam of law codes, courts, procedures and personnel. Using sources previously unavailable to scholars, Paul traces the developmentof Indian laywyers, otherwise known as pleaders or vakils, since the beginning of British rule in the Madras Presidency.
Download or read book Decennial Index to Index India 1967 to 1976 written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to the Sources of British Military History written by Robin HIgham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to fill an overlooked gap, this book, originally published in 1972, provides a single unified introduction to bibliographical sources of British military history. Moreover it includes guidance in a number of fields in which no similar source is available at all, giving information on how to obtain acess to special collections and private archives, and links military history, especially during peacetime, with the development of science and technology.
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Download or read book City of the Plains written by Mary Beatrice Boyd and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
