Publications
FIGS-HSS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME: Awardees 2008-2014
In 2007 the Federation of Indo-German Societies in India (FIGS) and the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (HSS) instituted a scholarship programme for German-speaking research scholars to spend six months to a year at a German university to facilitate and advance their M.Phil. or Ph.D. studies. (read more)
NETAJI SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE AND GERMANY
The book seeks to offer lesser known facts and anecdotes about the extraordinary personality who in search of an anti-British alliance sought to establish links with Germany at a time when India was struggling hard to achieve freedom. (read more)
CROSSING BORDERS, STRETCHING BOUNDARIES
Presents the Bose–Einstein lectures on science, technology and environment which were held in India under the auspices of the German Embassy and the Federation of Indo-German Societies. They cross the borders of conventional sciences as well, narrow nationalism, and stretch the boundaries of knowledge. (read more)
RABINDRANATH TAGORE AND GERMANY
The book is in three parts, the first part of the book entitled “Rabindranath Tagore in Germany” edited and translated by Prof. Dietmar Rothermund. The Second part carries an article titled “Tagore in Germany by Satinder Kumar Lambah, Former Ambassador of India in Germany. The third part carries three essays based on lectures delivered by Martin Kämpchen in India and Bangladesh.
These essays inform and reflect on the role the poet has played in the German history of the 20th century and present a vision for the future. (read more)
INDIA'S ROAD TO NATIONHOOD
The book depicts India from a strictly political point of view, free from fascinating resplendence of her spiritual radiation and many a much favoured legend. It investigates her political development from formation of states around 2500 B.C. up to the early 1970s and forecasts the changes expected to occur in the near future. (read more)
IN THE KINGDOM OF GREAT MOGULS
After a long six months, the ship of Sir Thomas Roe, the ambassador of the King of England, reached the Indian port-city of Surat in the autumn of 1615. On instructions from the East India Company he is supposed to solicit permission for a trade privilege from the Great Mogul for English merchants. The Dutch and the Portuguese already “have a foot in the door.” (read more)