Free Download Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy by Joseph S. Alter
English | September 19, 2004 | ISBN: 0691118744, 0691118736, 9781400843435 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 4 MB
Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging. Based on extensive ethnographic research and an analysis of both ancient and modern texts, Yoga in Modern India challenges this popular view by examining the history of yoga, focusing on its emergence in modern India and its dramatically changing form and significance in the twentieth century. Joseph Alter argues that yoga's transformation into a popular activity idolized for its health value is based on modern ideas about science and medicine.

Free Download Prof. Gopi Chand Narang, "The Urdu Ghazal: A Gift of India's Composite Culture"
English | ISBN: 0190120797 | 2020 | 544 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The book presents unique flowering of Urdu ghazal as a by-product of India's composite culture that evolved from intermixing of Indian and alien value systems. This never before narrated story of the evolution of Urdu ghazal is documented in eight chapters divided into three parts. It explores a variety of influences, including Sufism, Bhakti movement, and infusion of Rekhta and Persian languages and culture. The book explains classical ghazal forms that blossomed from the seeds sown by Amir Khusrau in the fourteenth century to great heights of literary excellence achieved during the next three hundred years, notably in the works of great poets like Mir and Ghalib. Different socio-political and cultural demands of changing times are expounded towards the end, primarily showing how ghazal provided new creative models to deal with literary movements like progressivism, modernism, and postmodernism. It is a work of painstaking research conducted by eminent Urdu scholar and author Professor Gopi Chand Narang over a very long period. The book includes sample works of thematically related poets. The reader will especially appreciate extended coverage of pioneering innovators of the twentieth-century like Firaq Gorakhpuri and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and postmodern poets like Gulzar and Javed Akhtar.

Free Download The Power of 360 Degree Feedback : The India Way for Leadership Effectiveness By T. V. Rao; Raju Rao
2014 | 285 Pages | ISBN: 813211969X | EPUB | 1 MB
360 Degree Feedback, or multi-rater feedback, is an established HR methodology used in organizations across the world. This book presents in-depth details about the process of developing managers into leaders and outlines methodologies for designing and using a 360 Degree Programme for managers at all levels. This second edition draws extensively from the authors' own experiences in the last decade since the first edition was published. The book also includes research done using over 8,000 top-level managers whose leadership roles and qualities were profiled using the authors' Roles, Styles, Delegation and Qualities (RSDQ) model. Lessons from their stories and practices of some of the HR award-winning organizations are presented in this edition. The book also presents a section on the various tools of 360 Degree Feedback for a variety of groups. It is hoped that this edition will give an update of the 360 Degree Feedback the Indian way.