Book Title: World of Philosophy
Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
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Gujarati Sāhitya Sabhā, Mumbai.
On the basis of 1971 census the then director of the university Grantha-nirmān Board of Gujarat Professor I.J.Patel has published one book Nakshāmāñ Gujarat in 1973 which is an authentic compendium of the place names of Gujarat in alphabetical order with necessary information regarding geography, topography, agricultural activities, rivers mountains economy etc., of each district as preamble along with maps and tables. It was reprinted in 1999 with some useful additions.
Purāņomāñ Gujarat by Professor Umashankar Joshi in 1946 and Jaina Agama Sāhityamāñ Gujarat by Professor B.J. Sandesara in 1952 are books of different nature but they are to the extent very very useful to scholars of varied interests and more so to researchers in this field i.e. onomastics. Bhagvadgomandal by Bhagavatsinhji - the then Mahārājā. of the erst while Gondal State in Gujarat - is an unparalleled monumental work in nine volumes. It was published in 1954 and reprinted in 1986. Delhi - nämamālā by Acharya Hemchandra, Bhaugolik - Kosha by and Paurānik - Kathā - Kosha by Dahyabhai P. Derasari are also works of this nature.
This author along with Professor R.N.Mehta had undertaken a minor research project, under the U.G.C. Scheme, for studying the names of places of the city of Amdāvād in the year 1984-1985, and its results in a book-form entitled as Amdāvādnon Sthal Nāmono Abhyas in 2001 by the Gujarat Vidyapith. under the guidance of this author and so also of the then visiting faculty Professor R.H.Mehta nearly forty dissertations were prepared on the place names of different districts and Talukas of Gujarat by the Post-Graduate students of the Department of History and Culture of the Gujarat Vidyapith between 1985 and 1994.
This author has undertaken one major project with the financial support of the Department of Youth and Cultural Activities through Gujarat Rājya Abhilekhāgār - Gujarātno Gāmanāmono Sarthakosh in the beginning years of this century and submitted its results running into nearly 1200 pages to the Department in 2003 which yet to see the light of the day.
Recently, the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology Institute (now a deemed university known as (CEPT UNIVERSITY) of Amdāvād has purposefully introduced one course on 'Settlement and Place Names' Since 2007 for its third semester students of the Masters Programmes in Architectural Settlement and Conservation. This author teaches this course since then.
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