Indian culture is rich and diverse and as a result unique in its very own way. Our manners, way of communicating with one another, etc. are one of the important components of our culture. Even though we have accepted modern means of living, improved our l 1st ed. 500p.

The book is a scholarly account of the glories of India's architectural heritage and deals with the country. The book traces the cultural contacts which have contributed to the rich mosaic of temples, mosques, palaces, forts and other monuments that have 1st ed. viii+288p.

This book has been developed to aid career and counsellors and job placement coordinators in planning activities for students and potential students about career vocational education programmes. It contains a career and vocational guidance model which cla 1st ed. 2556p., 23cm.

The ethnic and linguistic diversity of Indian civilization is more like the diversity of an area as variable as Europe than like that of any other single nation-state. Living within the embrace of the Indian nation are vast numbers of different regional, 1st ed. viii+256p., Tables.

The books study the changing patterns of stratification in Indian caste system. It recounts the gradual transformation of a social system that, till the end of the nineteenth century, was structured primarily on distinctions of caste--between the Brahmins 1st ed. viii+256p.

Caste System in India in undergoing a change in its form, nature and character. The shape of emerging India will be different from that of modern western societies, and caste, in its new transformation, will be an important contributing factor in determin 1st ed. viii+264p.

This book highlights the multinational, historical and contextual nature of social inequality. The shaping of social stratification in terms of its dialectics, layers and levels of social relations is discussed around the three main foci, namely, theory, 1st ed. viii+272p.

The book holds that the beliefs and ideals of different civilizations are formulated in their rituals more explicitly than in any other cultural trait which gives the study of ritualism a greater historical significance. This book also examines the steps 1st ed. viii+288p., Glossary; Bibliography; Index; 25cm.