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Bearing Witness
"Brij V. Lal is a singular scholar. His work has spanned disciplines—from history to politics—and genres—from conventional monograph history, to participant history, political commentary, encyclopaedia, biography and faction. Brij is without doubt the most eminent scholar Fiji has ever produced. He also remains the most significant public intellectual of his country, despite having been banned from entering it in 2009. He is also one of the leading Pacific historians of his generation, and an internationally recognised authority on the Indian diaspora. This Festschrift volume celebrates, reflects upon and extends the life and work of this colourful scholar. The essays, whose contributo...
Levelling Wind
‘What I have sought to do in my work is to give voiceless people a voice, place and purpose, the sense of dignity and inner strength that comes from never giving up no matter how difficult the circumstances. History belongs as much to the vanquished as to the victors.’ — Brij V. Lal ‘Professor Brij Lal is the finest historian of the Indian indentured experience and the Indian diaspora. His Girmitiyas is a classic.’ — Emeritus Professor Clem Seecharan, London Metropolitan University ‘Brij Lal is a highly respected, versatile and imaginative scholar who has made a lasting contribution to the historiography of the Pacific.’ — Dr Rod Alley, Victoria University of Wellington ‘...
Heat Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
This textbook familiarizes the students with the general laws of thermodynamics, kinetic theory & statistical physics, and their applications to physics. Conceptually strong, it is flourished with numerous figures and examples to facilitate understanding of concepts. Written primarily for B.Sc. Physics students, this textbook would also be a useful reference for students of engineering.
Mr Tulsi's Store
Professor Lal has been remarkably successful in combining scholarship with autobiography in Mr Tulsi’s Store. In the essays which cover the author’s childhood and education up to university, diligent scholarship combines with evocative autobiographical details to reveal a philosophical pattern that encompasses the experience of the descendants of all Indian indentured workers everywhere. Professor Frank Birbalsingh, York University, Canada.
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Chalo Jahaji
“It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who wish to see the proper integration of their disciplines in a major historical work.” Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad
Atomic and Nuclear Physics
The present edition of the book is revised as per the UGC syllabus.Questions and problems at the end of each chapter have been up-dated.Many new solved examples are included in this edition.Certain topic have been added so that students from some universities where the syllabus has been modified and upgraded may benefit.Besides being a text book we hope that this benifit students appearing at the IAS,AMIE and other Competitive Examinations.
A Textbook Of Sound
This book sets out to elaborate on the principles of sound in a most scholarly and comprehensive manner. Harmonic oscillators, linearity and superposition principle, oscillations with one degree of freedom, resonance and sharpness of resonance, quality factor, Doppler effect in sound and light, tape recording, cathode-ray oscillograph, medical applications of ultrasonics, acoustic intensity and acoustic measurements are some of the important topics which have been given special attention. Although the book is for BSc students, some of the elementary discussions are included to initiate an advanced treatment of the subject.
