Venerated as a dalit icon, Kanshiram (1934–2006) is regarded as being next only to Ambedkar today. This book illuminates his journey, from the early years in rural Punjab and with Ambedkarites in Pune, to his launching BAMCEF, an umbrella organization uniting backward castes, scheduled tribes, dalits and minorities, and eventually the Bahujan Samaj Party in 1984. Drawing on myriad oral and written sources, Badri Narayan shows how Kanshiram mobilized dalits with his homespun idiom, cycle ra...

This two-set volume CCIS 2684 and CCIS 2685 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics, NCVPRIPG 2025 held in Jammu, India, during July 16–18, 2025.The 70 full papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 266 submissions. The papers cover topics in Active and Real Time Vision, Industrial Vision Systems, Motion and Video Analysis, Hardware for Graphics, Ima...

Digital image processing plays a crucial role in facilitating efficient storage, transmission, manipulation, and retrieval of images. Python, renowned for its open-source nature and strong community support, offers a user-friendly platform with extensive image processing capabilities through libraries such as computer vision and scikit-learn.This textbook serves as a practical guide to digital image processing using Python, presenting fundamental concepts, techniques, and algorithms...

For many years, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been working towards social reconstruction in India, which is then used by the Bharatiya Janata Party for political benefit. Contrary to popular understanding, the RSS has transformed to become more technologically savvy and socially inclusive, making the message of Hindu nationalism appealing to a large section of Indians. It has been actively mobilizing Dalits, tribals and other marginalized communities to assimilate them into the Hindu...

Lakshmi Lal recreates the absorbing story and the lyrical beauty of the original Sanskrit epic the Valmiki Ramayana. In rich and expressive language, she narrates the legend of Rama, the Ikshvaku prince, who embodies the ideals by which a man, a warrior and a king must live.

This two-set volume CCIS 2684 and CCIS 2685 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics, NCVPRIPG 2025 held in Jammu, India, during July 16–18, 2025.The 70 full papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 266 submissions. The papers cover topics in Active and Real Time Vision, Industrial Vision Systems, Motion and Video Analysis, Hardware for Graphics, Ima...

This book is a detailed commentary on politics and political consciousness, participation, and mobilization among the Dalits in northern India. Based on extensive fieldwork at the village level in eastern Uttar Pradesh, it deals with Dalit social and political history in the state from 1950 to the present. Using alternative sources—stories and narratives alive in the oral tradition and 'collective memory' of the oppressed and marginalized Dalits—Narayan documents various social upheavals t...

This book provides a backdrop to the study of American literature. Surveying over four hundred years of American history, it analyses the milieu that determined and defined literary representation and expression, and was responsible for the creation of writers and, indeed, readers. It seeks to understand the historical, social and natural environment that prevailed in different periods of American history, and its impact on literature.

The classic stories in this choice selection are a few of the best known ones from the living traditions of Indian mythology. Evocatively and beautifully retold, these stories are enhanced and enriched in symbolic meaning and iconography by the magnificent colour, and black and white illustrations by painter Badri Narayan.

This book studies how the act of migration is a motivating constituent in the production of popular culture in both the homeland and the destination. It looks at the formations of cultures in the process of identity-making of approximately 200 million Indians scattered across the world, from colonial to contemporary times. The volume is an in-depth exploration of the flow of cultures and their interactions through a study of north Indian migrants who underwent two waves of emigration – fro...

When P.V. Narasimha Rao became the unlikely prime minister of India in 1991, he inherited a nation adrift, violent insurgencies, and economic crisis. Despite being unloved by his people, mistrusted by his party, and ruling under the shadow of 10 Janpath, Rao transformed the economy and ushered India into the global arena. With exclusive access to Rao’s never-before-seen personal papers and diaries, this definitive biography provides new revelations on the Indian economy, nuclear programme,...

Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, is powerful, popular and controversial. With the general elections due to conclude in May 2014, Modi's campaign rallies have drawn unprecedented crowds. Yet, the man remains an enigma. His supporters regard him as the visionary, decisive leader India needs today. His detractors see him as a polarizing fi gure. Is Modi authoritative or authoritarian? Decisive or divisive? A team player or a loner?Andy Marino recorded interviews w...