Product Description: Stories about Posts is the magnum opus of Madeleine Biardeau, one of the most influential Indologists of the twentieth century. Nearly twenty years in the making, it connects her varied studies on the Sanskrit epics, the Hindu Goddess, Vedic sacrifice, rural India, and the interpretation of Hinduism...read more

Product Description: This book traces the history of peasant resistance to the planters, from the sporadic outbreaks of the 1860s to the Champaran Movement of 1917-18, the first experiment in Gandhian mass mobilization in India. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this second volume, Water Transport, Deloche traces the origin, development of communication systems before the era of steam locomotion; this time focusing on water transport. The author begins by describing the river basins in the North and the South and examines the various centers of coastal navigation...read more

Product Description: This volume (the first of two) is devoted to the origins, development, and operation of land transport. Deloche first traces the history of ancient roads across the subcontinent from the Himalayas down to South India, and then looks at all aspects of road construction and examines various means of transport...read more