Bhattacharyya: 54 books
Hybrid Metaheuristics
Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
A metaheuristic is a higher-level procedure designed to select a partial search algorithm that may lead to a good solution to an optimization problem, especially with incomplete or imperfect information.
This unique compendium focuses on the insights of hybrid metaheuristics. It illustrates...
Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta
The Making of Calcutta
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond...
Sexuality and Society
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
In this broad-ranging introduction to the study of sexuality, Gargi Bhattacharyya guides students through the key theoretical debates in the area from the early history of sexology, through Foucault's technologies of self to Judith Butler on the performance of identity. Bhattacharyya shows how these...
Implications of the Philosophy of Kant
Kāntdarśaner Tātparya
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Immanuel Kant's three Critiques—Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Judgment—have been the cornerstone of Western philosophy. While the West has extensively debated on these works, Indian perspectives on them have been few and far between. This book is a singular...
by Pronami Bhattacharyya
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Let My Songs Be... is a collection of the songs of music maestro, Padma Bhushan Dr. Bhupen Hazarika translated from Assamese and Hindi into English poetry. The collection comprises of 41 select songs of Dr. Hazarika, which have been popular since decades and have been sung in many languages besides...
The Lower Damodar River, India
Understanding the Human Role in Changing Fluvial Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Interweaving the human aspects of river control with analysis of hydro-physical data, including historical data over the last few centuries, this monograph is a comprehensive evaluation of the Damodar’s lower reaches. While the Damodar River isn’t an exceptional tropical river, nor does it feature...
Federalism in Asia
India, Pakistan and Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book analyzes the successes and failures of various federal measures adopted in India, Pakistan and Malaysia for the political accommodation of diversity. Bhattacharyya then assesses their comparative significance for other countries in Asia. In particular, he examines growing tensions between...
by Saptarshi Bhattacharyya
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The life in a city is far from easy for Amit and Jaya. The couple and their little boy Rohan bump into one trouble after another, while labouring through the modern Indian urban grind. From the distress while trying to buy an apartment, to the miseries that accompany the furniture purchased from the...
Appropriation and Invention of Tradition
The East India Company and Hindu Law in Early Colonial Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
This book, strongly grounded in primary sources, makes an important contribution to the intellectual history of early modern Bengal. It brings to light the complex interpenetration of diverse interests, opinions, and ideologies articulated by various social groups implicated in the process of colonization...
Bhagavan Shri Krsna & Bhagavat Dharma
English Translation of "Shri Krsna and Bhagavat Dharma" <Br>By Shri Jagadish Chandra Ghose
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Shri Krsna and Bhgavat Dharma by Shri Jagadish Chandra Ghose written in Bengali discusses the teachings of Shri Krsna with quotes from various books of Shstras.
Shri Krsna and Bhgavat Dharma discusses mainly four subjects: First the book considers Shri Krsna as Brahman, Ishvara or Bhagavn as...
Hindu Dharma
Introduction to Scriptures and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
In Hindu Dharma: Introduction to Scriptures and Theology briefly the essentials of the scriptures of the Hindu Dharma such as the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Smriti Shstras like the Purnas, the Tantras, the epics (Rmyana and Mahbhrata) and the Bhagavad Git have been described and discussed. Also, the...
Crisis, Austerity, and Everyday Life
Living in a Time of Diminishing Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Will austerity never end? This timely and insightful book argues that austerity seeks to set the terms of political and economic life for the foreseeable future, extending techniques of exclusion to ever-greater sections of the population.
Politics and Governance in Indian States
Bihar, West Bengal and Tripura
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Understanding India's politics and governance requires an examination of how politics and governance occur in the regional States, which constitute the federal units of India.
This book addresses the issues of federalism, power-sharing and constitutional reforms, and their effects on governance...
Energy Economics
Concepts, Issues, Markets and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Since its modest beginning in the 1970s, the academic and research focus on energy has grown substantially and energy has established itself as an independent, interdisciplinary subject area. It attracts attention from people in a range of different fields including engineers, scientists, geologists,...