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Item A compendious vocabulary, English and Persian - Including all the Oriental simples in the materia medica, employed in modern practice: with tables subjoined of the successions of the Khaliffs. And of the kings of Persia and Hindustan. Compiled for the use of Honourable East India Company(Malda, Bengal, 1780) Gladwin, FrancisItem A Grammar of the Kannada Language in English(Basel Mission Book & Tract Depository, Mangalore, 1903) Kittel, FerdinandItem A History of Kanarese Literature(Association Press, Calcutta, 1915) Rice, Edward P.Item A KannaḠa - English Dictionary(Basel Mission Tract & Depository, Mangalore, 1894) Kittel, FerdinandItem A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India : Consisting of Twenty-four Highly Finished and Colored Views…From Original Drawings Made on the Spot(R. Ackermann, London, 1824) Forrest, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles RamusLieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest (1750-1827) was an amateur artist who also served in the army from 1802-1827. While in India he served with the 3rd East Kent Regiment from 1802-14. By the time he produced his collection of images the conventions of the Indian picturesque had been codified. Forrest was enamored of India and its romantic landscapes and hoped that his work would convey a sense of his excitement and enthusiasm to other Britishers. He modeled his landscapes on the visual program of the Indian picturesque that was established by Hodges and the Daniells. Picturesque artists were required to travel and make sketches of sites of interest and then organize the painting later. Indeed Forrest emphasizes how he always drew on the spot when traveling around India in his work. These artists were also supposed to present an accurate representation of place; however, the images were ultimately aesthetic constructions designed with a specific audience in mind. Typical images of the Indian picturesque represent palaces, forts, temples, and village scenes in various stages of ruin with human figures appearing only incidentally. These ruins were valuable and beautiful in a Romantic context, but gradually evolved into visual metaphors for the country itself so that India, while picturesque, was also seen as a land in decline.Item A Study of Abhinavabharati on Bharata's Natyasastra And Avaloka on Dhananjaya's Dasarupaka(Gian Publishing House, New Delhi, 1983) Gupta, ManjulItem A Visit to India, China, and Japan in the year 1853(G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1881) Taylor, BayardIn 1851 he traveled to Egypt, where he followed the Nile River as far as 12° 30' N. He also traveled in Palestine and Mediterranean countries, writing poetry based on his experiences. Toward the end of 1852, he sailed from England to Calcutta, and then to China, where he joined the expedition of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry to Japan. The results of these journeys were published as A Journey to Central Africa; or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the White Nile (1854); The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain (1854); and A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853 (1855).Item Abhinava Gupta(Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1989) Deshpande, G. T.Abhinavagupta (c. 950 – 1016 AD[1][2]) was a philosopher, mystic and aesthetician from Kashmir. He was also considered an influential musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician – a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.Item Abhinayadarpanam A Manual of Gesture and Posture used in Hindu Dance and Drama(Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta, 1957) NandikeshvaraItem Adventures in Tibet(Hurst and Blackett Ltd., London, 1904) Hedin, Sven AndersItem Ain-i-Akbari of Abul Fazl-i-'Allami(The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, 1948) Jarrett, Henry SullivanItem An Essay on the antiquity of Hindoo Medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College(W.H.Allen & Co., London, 1837) Royle, John ForbesItem Ancient India As Described By Megasthenes and Arrian - A translation of the fragments of the INDIKA of Megasthenes collected by Dr.Schwanbeck, and of the first part of Indika of Arrian(Trubner & Co., London, 1877) McCrindle, J. W.The oldest and most comprehensive record we have on India comes from Megasthenes, the Greek ambassador from the court of the Seleucid Emperor to that of Chandragupta Maurya. He wrote the Indika, a description of India, based on his sojourn. Megasthenes was a companion of Alexander of Macedon on his short-lived invasion of North Western India and had lived with Sibyrtius, the satrap of Arachosia, after Alexander’s death and during the fight of the Diadochi. On the establishment of friendly relations between Chandragupta and Seleucus, he was sent as an ambassador to Chandragupta’s court by the latter.Item Ancient India, 2000 B.C.- 800 A.D.(Longmans Green & Co., London, 1904) Dutt, Romesh ChunderItem Annihilation of Caste with a Reply to Mahatma Gandhi(Banasthali Press, 1936) Ambedkar, B. R.Item At The Feet Of The Master(The Rajput Press, Chicago, 1911) AlcyoneJiddu Krishnamurti (11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was an Indian speaker and writer. In his early life, he was groomed to be the new World Teacher, but later rejected this mantle and withdrew from the Theosophy organization behind it. His interests included psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, inquiry, human relationships, and bringing about radical change in society. He stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasised that such revolution cannot be brought about by any external entity, be it religious, political, or social.Item Autobiography of a Yogi(Jaico Publishing House, 1958) Yoagananda, ParamahamsaParamahansa Yogananda (born Mukunda Lal Ghosh; January 5, 1893 – March 7, 1952) was an Indian monk, yogi and guru who introduced millions to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his organization Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) / Yogoda Satsanga Society (YSS) of India, and who lived his last 32 years in America. A chief disciple of the Bengali yoga guru Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, he was sent by his lineage to spread the teachings of yoga to the West, to prove the unity between Eastern and Western religions and to preach a balance between Western material growth and Indian spirituality. His long-standing influence in the American yoga movement, and especially the yoga culture of Los Angeles, led him to be considered by yoga experts as the "Father of Yoga in the West."Item Beginnings of Vijayanagara History(Indian Historical Research Institute, Bombay, 1929) Heras, Rev. H.Item Bengal Peasant Life(Macmillan and Co., London, 1916) Day, Lal BehariItem Bengal Sweets(Industry Publishers Ltd, Calcutta, 1948) Haldar, Mrs. J.In the wide realm of confectionery Bengal has attained the same unique position with regard to the whole of India as Italy appears to hold on the Continent of Europe. In no other part of this vast Peninsula will he found such a wide range of confectionery as is to be met with in this sweet Province flowing with “milk and honey.†And the reason is not far to seek. For even in the National Anthem of Bengal poignant allusion is made to the “sweet air, sweet water, sweet corns and sweet fruits†of the Motherland.