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...

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 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...

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.

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.

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.

Shanta Rameshwar Rao's Mahabharata tells the central story of India's great Sanskrit epic, one of the oldest works of literature in the world

**Instant Amazon Best Seller and Hot New ReleaseFor readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.**“Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the world’s oldest, longest-running dominator system...yet although “Dalit” means broken, it also means resil...

A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in Gujarat and then in India at large. Modi managed to seduce a substantial number of citizens by promising them development and polarizing the electorate along ethno...