In Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir, Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, and Anurag Mishra discuss the synergies and diachronic thought that is emblematic of the current psychoanalytic narrative in India and examine what psychoanalysis in India could become. The contributors to this edited collection connect problems around culture, family, traditions, and the burgeoning political changes in the Indian landscape in order to provide critical rejoinders to the maternal-feminine thematic in India's cultural psyche. Specifically, the contributors examine issues surrounding ethnic violence, therapists' gender and political identities, narratives of illness, and spiritual and traditional approaches to healing.

This book is aimed to provide an alternate synthetic protocol for the synthesis of desired ordered complexes and networks where a coordination complex has been used as the building block. We demonstrate that how simple ligands selectively coordinate a central or primary metal ion while leaving the appended functional groups as the peripheral secondary binding sites. These secondary binding sites upon coordination to metal ions afford heterometallic complexes as well as networks of highly ordered nature. The book starts with the introduction to the metalloligands as the molecular building blocks and their application in the generation of coordination bond based self-assembled structures and networks. A detailed literature investigation supported with the discussion of important examples has been contained in the first introductory chapter. The remaining chapters have discussed in detail the synthesis, characterization and utilization of coordination complexes as the building blocks to generate ordered molecules and networks.

Michelia champaca L. (Magnoliaceae), an evergreen handsome tall tree, around 30 m high with yellow fragrant blossoms, native of Himalayas, and Southern parts of India, is an Indian medicinal plant which finds mention in several ancient writings and Ayurvedic texts. The plant assumes great significance in view of its rich chemical and pharmacological background; however it cannot be put to good use in the absence of standards. Hence the pharmacognostic studies and preliminary determinations as per specified guidelines on the said plant were undertaken as a tool for standardization and to regularize monograph writing. Such studies provide a basis for correct identification and authentication and to assure the quality of starting material. The present study largely utilizes W.H.O. guidelines for determination of macroscopic characters, microscopic and histochemical detections, leaf constants, physico-chemical constants and allied features. The authenticated plant samples (leaves and stem bark) were successively Soxhlet extracted and the hexane, ethanolic and aqueous fractions were screened by chemical tests, chromatographic procedures and subjected to pharmacological evaluation.