Culture Through the Ages: Prof. B.N. Puri Felicitation Volume

Contents: Introduction. Select bibliography of B.N. Puri's publications. A bunch of tributes: A letter from Mulk Raj Anand. Professor B.N. Puri: a tribute/R.S. Sharma. Professor B.N. Puri/Upendra Thakur. Dr. B.N. Puri--a good friend/B.P. Sinha. Fragments from fading memory/M.N. Das. Dr. Puri as I know him/R.K. Trivedi. A scholar and a gentleman/T.N. Chaturvedi. Dr. Baij Nath Puri--a biographical tribute/Sarva Daman Singh. 1. Social stratification in ancient India : some reflections/Vivekanand Jha. 2. Problems of the ancient history of Andhra/R.S. Sharma. 3. Indo-European, Sanskrit and Bulgaria/Lokesh Chandra. 4. The problem of Visarga/Jaroslav Vacek. 5. Tanha, Kamma and reincarnation/Taina Nieminen. 6. The good, the bad and the ugly : birds, animals and omens in ancient Indian literature/Julie Hilton. 7. Ancient Greek historiography of north-western India : some observations/U.P. Arora. 8. Kusana urban settlements of Jammu and Kashmir/Y.B. Singh. 9. The Maghera (Mathura) well stone inscription of the Yavana Rajya Samvat 116/T.P. Verma. 10. continuity and change in the Puranic sun worship/V.C. Srivastava. 11. Kingship in the Matsya Purana/S.K. Jaiswal. 12. Jainism and early medieval Rajasthan : an appraisal/M.M. Mukhopadhyay. 13. Balesvara-Bhattaraka : hitherto unknown Saiva establishment at Sripura/Ajay Mitra Shastri. 14. Siva and Visnu in early Kambuja inscriptions/Kaushal Kishore. 15. Sarvadhikari and Dandanayaka in South Indian administration/A.V. Narasimha Murthy. 16. The Pithipatis of Magadha/B.N. Misra. 17. Tin in the ancient world : a literary study/D.N. Tripathi. 18. Symbols in the Indian rock-art/K.D. Bajpai. 19. Interaction between Mathura and Gandhara/R.C. Sharma. 20. An introduction to Nalanda painting/Upendra Thakur. 21. Siva temple at Sherwasa/B.L. Nagarch. 22. Virabhadra and Vasudeva temples at Narayan Koti, district, Chamoli (U.P.)/Sheo Bahadur Singh. 23. The Kannauj school of Pratihara art/Brajesh Krishna. 24. Pre-Jehangiri Jades of India/M.L. Nigam. 25. The first King of Awadh/Hira Lal Gupta. 26. Native response to external stimuli: the case of south-east Asian states in pre-modern times/Arun Coomer Bose. 27. Aspects of tribal leadership in modern Bihar/J.C. Jha. 28. Nij Vrttanta--a source-book of recent religious history of Bihar/Surendra Gopal. 29. Indian revolutionaries and the neutrality of China, 1915-1917/Don Dignan. 30. Role of SCs, STs and OBCs in the preservation of Indian culture/K.S. Lal. 31. Religion, ethnic identity and political conflict in Sri Lanka/Ruzica Cicak-Chand. 32. Excavations at Daulatpur (District Kurukshetra, Haryana)/Udai Vir Singh. 33. Newly acquired new type : two unique lugged shouldered axes of copper hoard, in national museum collection/D.P. Sharma and Madhuri Sharma. 34. The religiousity of cattle in protohistoric India/Nupur Dasgupta. 35. Bhandarkar's approach towards identification of Kings and confederacies/Kiran Kumar Thaplyal. 36. Vox populi and ancient Indian state/S.N. Misra. 37. Kautilya's concept of espionage : a review/Sukla Das. 8. Sanghol Hoard of Kusana sculptures : a fresh study/S.P. Shukla. 39. Pura-Pattana settlements under the Tripuri-Kalacuris in the tenth century : their urban pretensions--an exploratory study/Raghavendra Vajpeyi. 40. Date of Mahabodhi Temple-reconsidered/B.P. Sinha. 41. Nature of early Buddhist historiography/Shankar Goyal. 42. An iconographic study of Brahmanical divinities on the Saka-Pahlava coins/Prashant Srivastava. 43. The role of Indian immigrants in the economy and culture of the Ottoman-Turkish empire--a case study of Bulgaria/B.R. Grover. 44. Unique syncretism of the Suddha-Saiva and Vira-Saiva sects in Khajuraho sculptures/R. Avasthi. 45. Saketa - an important Buddhist centre/A. Lal. 46. Purana and Indian culture/A.B.L. Awasthi. 47. The images of Astadikpalas from Haryana/Chanderpal Singh. 48. Biography of "An autobiography"/Rashbehari Choudhuri.

"This is a volume brought out to felicitate Dr. Baij Nath Puri, Prof. Emeritus, Lucknow University, on his 80th birthday.

"The papers in this volume deal with different aspects of history of India, Sri Lanka & Southeast Asia, from pre-historic times to the present, and are not bound by any narrow, exclusive theme. That is doubtless most apposite, as Dr. Puri's own work bears no barriers of subject, time or place. Among those who write to honour him are senior historians, as well as bright young scholars seeking a niche for themselves in the groves of academe.

"This volume contains 48 papers & 8 tributes. The papers are presented in a sequence dictated by chronological & thematic consideration without division into sections that would detract from history's unbroken flow.

"We have tried, our best, to achieve a measure of uniformity in both transliteration & documentation.

"This volume is edited by Shri Sarva Daman Singh, Eminent Historian, Department of History, The University of Queensland, Australia." (jacket)