Contours of the Past: History, Legacy and Tradition in Northern India
Contents: Preface. Muslim Rule in Medieval India- Some Stray Thoughts (14th-17th Century)/Prof. G.T. Kulkarni. Section I: Ancient India. 1. A study of the various phases of social orientation of Buddhism/ Renu Shukla. 2. Roadmap of Asoka's spiritual journey: epigraphic and historical reconstruction/Anand Singh. 3. The valuable objectives of ancient Indian education and its modern relevance : a study/Jitesh Kumar Singh. 4. Some women mystics and religious scholars of ancient India/ Surabhi Srivastava. 5. Sati system in early medieval Rajasthan: a literary and epigraphic study/Asalam Sher. Section II: Medieval India. 6. Al-Beruni on Indian education/S. Jabir Raza. 7. Shihabuddin Ghori: factors behind his arrival and conquests of India/Shama Rehmani. 8. Women education in the sultanate era/Bushra Abbasi. 9. Progress of learning during the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1351-1988 A.D.)/Nazneen Farooqi. 10. Zafarabad - a town of Sufi saints/Parwez Alam. 11. Socio-political implications of intoxicants as depicted in Tuzuk-i Jahangiri/Salma Alam. 12. Powers and functions of the Kotwal in Mughal India from A.D. 1526 to 1605/Sachin Rai and Anjana Rai. 13. Islamic education of the Muslims in Manipur: with the Reflections of Darul-Uloom/Salima Khanam. Section III: Modern India. 14. Clash of cultural conflicts in the making of modern India/Anoop Chakravarty. 15. The Debts on the Government of Asaf-ul-Daula (1790-96)/Manisha. 16. Interventions in indigenous education system of North Western Provinces and Oudh under British Rule from 1850s to 1910/Radhika Mishra. 17. The 1857 Uprising of Lucknow/Harish Kumar Singh. 18. Abdul Sami Khan Nak-hat: A great orientalist scholar of twentieth century/M. Ifzal-ul-Rahman Khan. 19. Colonial remodelling of an oriental city: the City of Lucknow between February 1856 to 1857/Heena Yunus Ansari. 20. Abul Kalam Azad- as an ideologue of the Khilafat Movement/Qazi Mohd. Jamshed. 21. Locating the classical slavery: the indentured labourers of colonial Eastern United Provinces in Mauritius/Rajesh Kumar Nayak. 22. Dr. Keshab Prasad Sinha: An Andamans Revolutionary of Bihar/J.L. Verma. 23. Congress in power: the peasantry aspirations and British Leanings (1936-1949)/Prashant Mishra. 24. Fighting colonial rural: Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, a nationalist journalist/Farzana Zeesham. 25. A survey of the railway constitution in India/Khalid Ahmad. Section IV: Summaries. 26. A Mirror on Society of Northern India: Peter Mundy's Journey from Agra to Patna (6 August to 22 December 1632)/Anis Fatima Jauhar. 27. Northern India and Kachhwaha Rulers of Amber/Jaipur from Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century/Almas Zaidi. 28. An Analytical Study of the Saiyids of Barha in the light of primary sources/Salma Bano. 29. Dr. Ambedkar's ideas as inspirational source for the Dalit Buddhist Movement in Post Independence India to Achieve Social Justice and Inclusion/Poonam. 30. The First Policy Commission of British India in 1860 : Its objective, reforms, implementation and impact on India in Later half of 19th Century/Anil Kumar Verma. 31. Bahu Begum and Plunder of Awadh by her own and colonial government/Radhey Shyam Verme. 32. Christian Missionary Activities in British India- A progressive approach/Rakesh Kumar.
