Thema Books , Social Sciences, Colonial Studies, History

Social Sciences, Colonial Studies, History:

Contemporary scientific thought for the enlightened layman and the social history of science in India.

	Galpo O Tar Goru Arun Nag
	Pb. 14 x 21.5 cm. x + 138pp. Rare photographs. Rs 100 ISBN 81-86017-56-9
	Essays on nonsense, fantasy, photography, archaeology, history and related topics by a brilliant scholar of the history of knowledge.

Talking the Political Culturally and Other Essays G P Deshpande
Pb. 14 x 21.5 cm. xii +127 pp. Rs 150. ISBN 978-81-86017-68-5
A study of the politics of culture, read through Chinese literature, the Buddhist and Bhakti traditions, philosophical discourse in modern Marathi, a recent visit to Pakistan, and the progressive cultural movement in India.

	Marginal Europeans in Colonial India: 1860-1920 Sarmistha De
	Hb. 14.5 x 22 cm. x +306 pp. Rare documents and illustrations. Rs 450. ISBN 978-81-86017-58-6
	A close study of the European underworld and marginal classes comprising destitutes, vagrants, convicts, lunatics and prostitutes in the two Presidencies of colonial India, Calcutta and Bombay.

Prisons in Colonial Bengal: 1838-1919 Madhurima Sen
Hb. 14.5 x 22 cm. x +189 pp. Rs 350. ISBN 978-81-86017-67-4
Ferreting through a large body of archival material, documents, reports, reminiscences, the author reconstructs prison life in Bengal and the Cellular Jail in Port Blair in great detail. A study of how criminals were treated in British prisons in colonial Bengal.

	A Common Concern: Rabindranath Tagore’s Visva-Bharati Edited by Tan Lee
	Hb. 18.5 x 24.5 cm. xviii + 280 pp. Hb. Rare photographs and drawings. Rs 300
	A bilingual collection of reminiscences by alumni of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, and essays by scholars who have made a serious study of the educational ideals and practices nurtured in Santiniketan by Tagore, addresses the larger issue of the relevance today of Visva-Bharati. Contributors include
Annada Sankar Roy, Satyajit Ray, A Ramachandran, Uma Das Gupta, Amartya Sen, Anandarup Ray, Supriya Tagore and Tan Lee.

Purbasmriti Shanta Devi
Pb. 14 x 21.5 cm. viii + 178 pp. Rare b/w photographs. Rs 140. Bengali. ISBN 81-86017-61-5
This revised Thema edition brings together a rare selection of correspondence between Shanta Devi and Kalidas Nag from 1922-25, along with the author’s memoirs.

	Torur Shwasurbadi Jyotsna Devi
	Hb. 13 x 18.5 cm. 144 pp. Rs 100 ISBN 978-81-86017-69-2
	A semi–autobiographical novelette with an accounts book from 1948-49 and a couple of stories from the same time. Rare family photographs by Parimal Goswami. A collector’s item.

The Global Warming Scenario Satyesh C Chakraborty
Second Revised Edition. Pb. 14 x 21.5cm. XVIII + 299 pp. Rs 175. ISBN 978-81-86017-65-4
In a series of essays, Satyesh C Chakraborty, former Professor at Presidency College, Calcutta, Burdwan University, and Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, offers an updated overview of the science and politics of global warming, raising a wide range of issues, and comes up with a rich stock of information in the process of documenting the latest findings; with
important policy suggestions that come out of his long involvement in planning.

	The Scientist in Society Introduced by Sushil Kumar Mukherjee
	21.5 x 14 cm. 248 pp. 2000. Pb. English. ISBN 81-86017-19-4. Rs 125.
	A collection of essays and addresses (some translated for the first time into English) by the first generation of modern Indian scientists centring on the place and role of science in a changing India with contributions by P C Ray, C V Raman, P C Mahalanobis, M N Saha, S N Bose, H J Bhabha, with commentaries by Debiprasad Chattopadhyay, Santimay Chatterjee, B P Adhikari, Virendra Singh and Partha Ghose.

Bishwaprakriti O Manush: Adhunik Bijnan-er Ruparekha Partha Ghose
21.5 x 14 cm. 128 pp. 1992. Pb. Bengali. ISBN -81-86017-03-8. Rs 50.
An account of the new science with its philosophy for the intelligent layman by a physicist who has been widely seen as anchorperson in one of India's most popular TV science shows and is the author of the scholarlyTesting Quantum Mechanics on New Ground (CUP 1999).

	Cosmic Quest Partha Ghose
	21.5 x 14.5. 104 pp. 2000. Pb. English. ISBN 81-86017-28-3. Rs90
	The author answers with rare clarity questions like: Has the universe always been there? Was it created some time? What was there before creation? How and why did the solar system form? Is the solar system going to last forever? What isgoing to happen to the universe in future? How does science go about finding answers to such questions?

M. N. Saha in Historical Perspective Edited by Jyotirmay Gupta
22.5 x 14. 8 cm. 246 pp. 1994. Hb. English ISBN 81-86017-06-2. Rs 200.
A collection of readings on the life and work of Meghnad Saha (1893-1956), the outstanding Indian astrophysicist, with contributions by James Jeans, Eddington, Henry Norris Russell, Harlow Shapley, George Gamow, S A Mitchell, C K Majumdar, U R Rao, David H Devorkin and Ralph Kenat.