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traditional and unconventional source material for reconstructing history of any given time of any given region, especially fo our multifaceted multicoloured, multi-religious and more so multi-lingual country, teachers of modern history in Gujarat, and they outnumbered indologists and archaeologists, do not consider this branch of sourcematerial worthy of employing for they do not have purspective understanding of the usefulness and utility of onomastics, onomathesia, onomasiolog, onomasticon and onomastology. Those who have indological background and archaeological aptitude do appreciate this science and use it frequently. There are a few teachers of architecture, of Linguistics and social-anthropology who are immensely inclined to employ this discipline in their studies and researches.
State of the study of place names in Gujarat
As such some knowledgable and knowable teachers enthusiastically dared to start an organisation way back in 1957 in Vadodara namely Gujarat Sthalanāma Sansad; of course the precursor organisation of the 'Place Names Society of India. The poineers of this Sansad were stalwarts like Professor (DE) B.J.Sandesara, the reputed Sanskritist and indologist, and Professor (DR.) R.N.Mehta, the eminent and seasoned archaeologist and indologist. Ten lectures were delivered under the auspices of this Sansad during 1957 and 1963 and were later on published in a book-form as Gujarāt Sthalanāma Sansad Vyākyānmālā (Part one) in 1965. But it was Professor (DE.) H.D. Sankalia, an internationally known archaelogist, who has given a special status to the study of place names premirely, prominently and profusely in the forties of the 20th century. Of course, his is not the seperate study to offer us, but he did certainly take the laudable initiatire by giving us couple of profuse and comprehensive chapters in two of his important works on Gujarat viz, the Archaeology of Gujarat (1971) and the Studied in the Historical and cultural Geography and Ethnography of Gujarat (1949). Thus he showed the direction specifically and offered us its usage us a source tool for writing cultural history.
Though directly not associated with the earlier mentioned society but who has done inspiring work independently is none other than the known indologist, orientalist and sanskrutist Professor (DR.) H.C. Bhayani and under his esteemed guidance and consultation the 'Gujarat Sāhitya Akādamī has published a work entitled as Gujarat Gāma-Nāma-Suchi in 1996 and the last 60 pages the compilator Professor (DR.) Chandrakant Sheth has comprehencively given classification and analysis of the places from literary perspective. Also under DR. Bhayani's supervision DR. Girish Trivedi has done his Ph.D. thesis on Madhakālīn Gujarati Vyaktināmonun Adhyayan, Which was later on published in book-form in 1996 by Forbes
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| SR No. | 007005 |
| Book Title | World of Philosophy |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave |
| Publisher | Shanti Prakashan |
| Publication Year | 2011 |
| Total Pages | 1002 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 30 MB |