RECENT MANOHAR TITLES Buddhist ideas and rituals in early India and Korea Kwangsu Lee The ideology and institution of any religion cannot be separated from its historical context. Its forms and social functions are inherently tied to space and time in each society. The study aims to search for the Buddhist tradition in ancient India and Korea. This work is based mainly on literary sources ranging from early Buddhist texts like Nikayas and Dhammapada to tantric texts. KWANGSU LEE is Associate Professor of Indian History, Department of South Asian Studies, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Pusan, Korea. ISBN 81-7304-2221-7 DemySvo 1998 196pp. Rs. 400 Representing the Other? Sanskrit Sources and the Muslims Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya Modern history-writing, by giving Muslims a single identity from the time that different groups practising Islam started arriving in India, has made an arbitrarily clear distinction between early and later immigrants. This has produced the mindset, still strongly entrenched and often receiving academic support, that Indian history, and Indian citizens, are divisible on the basis of religion. This monograph examines a wide range of epigraphic and historical texts to examine how differently newcomers to Indian society could figure in different contexts. It also seeks to offer, in cultural terms, an explanation for these different, often contradictory representations, of those who are singled out as outsiders to Indian society. B.D. CHATTOPADHYAYA teaches ancient Indian History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. ISBN 81-7304-252-7 DemySvo 1998 130pp. Rs. 250 Tantric Buddhism Edited by N.N. Bhattacharyya and Amartya Ghosh Tantrism, both traditional and Buddhist, with its vast literature containing intricate ritualistic and philosophical details occupies an important place in the religious and cultural life of India and some Asian countries. This volume contains informative and analytical papers by eminent scholars on different aspects of Tantric Buddhism and Tantras in general. DR N.N. BHATTACHARYYA recently retired from the Department of Ancient History and Culture, Calcutta University, where he taught social and religious history. ISBN81-7304-191-4 DemySvo 1999 328pp. Rs. 600 Caste: Origin, Function and Dimensions of Change Suvira Jaiswal The work provides a critique of the current theories of caste system which locate its essence in endogamy and argues that the present morphology of caste is the result of the changes the institution has undergone over centuries of its existence, but its origins are embedded in the ecology of the Vedic cattle-keepers. SUVIRA JAISWAL is Professor of Ancient Indian History at the Centre for Historical Studies. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. ISBN 81-7304-238-1 DemySvo 1998 292pp. Rs. 500 MANOHAR PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS 2/6, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi -110 002 Ph.: 327 5162, 328 4848 • Fax: 326 5162 e-mail: MANBOOKS @ GIASDL01. VSNL.NET.1N