Your goodness is impediment in your way, so let your eyes be red with anger, and try to fight the injustice with a firm hand. (Sardar Patel, while addressing the people at Bardoli on 12 March, 1928).

This and many such quotations in the present book Quotes of Sardar Patel highlight Sardar's true character as a shrewd politician and statesman and a human being par excellence with a human heart but iron will.

The compiler of this book, Dr. Prabha Chopra has been instrumental in bringing out a number of books on Sardar Patel depicting Sardar's great personality and his unique role in the long drawn political struggle for the attainment of Swaraj.

Cinema came to India from France on 7th July 1896, when six silent film strips, made by Lumiere brothers, were shown in Mumbai's Watson Hotel. Three years later, a Marathi still photographer, H.S. Bhatwadekar shot India's first movie strip in Kamla Nehru Park in Mumbai. Fourteen years after that, in 1913, D.G. Phalke made the first Indian feature film, Raja Harishchandra. The Indian cinema became the world's largest in volume, overtaking Japan in 1971. Some 900 feature films are added every year, bringing the total to nearly 33,000 at the end of 2003. Since Satyajit Ray compelled the world's attention to the Indian cinema through his debut, Pather Panchali in 1955, a new genre has been added, called variously as auteur, art parallel, minority, offbeat etc: Ray himself preferred the term offbeat. In this chronicle, the author presents an up-to-date bird's eye view of the genre and holds that in its totality, it reflects the 'conscience of the race'. Born in West Bengal in 1940, the author studied English literature and joined the Indian Information Service. He worked in various Media Units before retiring as Registrar of Newspapers for India. An avid filmgoer since boyhood, Shri Ray has written extensively on good cinema in various newspapers and journals, including Sight and Sound. London, Dictionary of Film and Film-Makers, Chicago.

India's freedom movement had a uniqueness about it, compared to similar other movements in contemporary history. It not only transformed the great Indian civilization into a nation State, but also crystallized benchmarks for great popular movements in history. It was both a struggle against foreign rule, as well as an ethical campaign against unreason, directed against both the foreign rulers and Indians. What began as a sporadic response to colonial atrocities, in mid 19th century years evolved subsequently into one of the subtlest mass movements in recent history under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, the saint - statesman of India, whose unprecedented weapons of truth and non-violence empowered the meek Indian millions to fight against the mighty British Raj. The lessons from India's freedom movement have been inspiring generations of world leaders to follow the path of peace and non-violence. The present series of four volumes of History of the Freedom Movement in India is a classic analysis of those testing times by eminent historian and scholar Dr. Tara Chand. The authentic and insightful analysis of the freedom movement has been popular with scholars as well as common readers for over four decades now.

India 2006 encapsulates the nation's rapid strides in various fields in the year gone by. The reference annual compiles updated information about India's economy, polity, scientific achievements, basic infrastructure, art and culture obtained from the various Central Ministries, States, Union Territories and several important organizations. This volume, the 50th in the India series, is hoped, will prove useful to scholars, journalists, students and general readers.

The book speaks of astronomical principles of the working of Indian Calendric System which has been influencing the socio-religious life of the Indian people for more than a millennium and a half. The author has attempted to devise a commonly accepted Indian calendar and also to standardise different practices followed in the country. The book will be useful to understand the intricacies of various regional Indian calendars. The author, Commodore S.K. Chatterjee (Retd.), has been studying calendars and calendric astronomy for a long time. He has been associated with the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, in carrying out research in this field for the last twenty five years. He has published about twenty five papers on the subject.

First published in 1894 and reprinted several times since, The Gospel of Buddha by Paul Carus has attained the stature of a classic today. This book is not designed to contribute to the solution of historical problems nor is it an attempt at popularising the Buddhist religious writings. It sketches the picture of a religious leader of the remote past with the view of making it bear upon the living present and become a factor in the formation of the future. The bulk of its contents is derived from the old Buddhist canon; many passages, and indeed the most important ones, are literally copied in translations from the original texts; some are rendered freely; others have been rearranged; and still others are abbreviated. Dr. Paul Carus captures in his simple and sensitive prose, as Olga Kopetzky has done in her delicate drawings to the volume, the radiant spirit of Buddhism and the poetic grandeur of the Buddha's personality.

The book has been written with a purpose to integrate the Mizos with the main land. It portrays the Mizo life and culture in such a way that it would invite new interest in Mizoram. The rich visual and verbal content of the book brings forth the complete picture of the Mizos in all their settings, their historical evolution, customs, beliefs, occupation, crafts and their present status. The author of this book, Shri B. Lalthangliana, a well known historian and Lecturer has described the facts of Mizo life and culture in a simple, lucid and racy style. Through this book the world will definitely know more about the Mizos and Mizoram.