eGangotri 19: Holi Issue. Krama PhD, Naval Kishore Press Books

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In this Issue of eGangotri I have a very special Text .
 
The Two Volume Unpublished PhD of Guruji Navjivan Rastogi on Krama Monism.
 

The Philosphy Of Krama Monism Of Kashmir An Analytical Study Vol. II Navjivan Rastogi : eGangotri : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

The Second Volume Guruji had redacted into a Book unpublished to date which we uploaded in 2014

Metaphysics and Tantric Esotericism of Krama : Unreduced Version : Navjivan Rastogi : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

The Availability of this Unpublished PhD will greatly add to the amount of meagre information on one of the Most Esoteric Schools of Indian Mysticism the Krama.

Naval Kishore Press:

Thanks to Ulrike Stark and her book

Empire of Books, An: The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial India

My attention was first drawn to the fact that the Legendary Nawal Kishor Press is still quasi-operational and that his descendants still cherish his memory and are eager to keep the flame of his work alive. After much search I was able to track Padma Shri Dr. Ranjit Bhargava – descendant – who has given me a cache of around 60 Unique Titles of Naval Kishor Press, including

Urdu Ramayan

Urdu Simhasan Batisi

Indra Sabha Amanat

Hindi Mahabharat etc

All these Unique Titles can be viewed below:

Naval Kishore Publications in Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu | Facebook

A few of these books have been digitized already and can be viewed at the following account created exclusively to host Naval Kishore Publications:

https://archive.org/details/@navalkishorepress

 
Dr. Ranjit Bhargava – who had donated all Naval Kishore books to the Amir-ud-daula Library, Lucknow , amongst other institutions – has also written us a Letter of Introduction asking the Library Authorities to allows us to digitize these Texts.
A Few Pictures my staff took of the Naval Kishore Room of Amir-ud-daula Library can be seen here:
As you can see there is a cutting of Avadh Akhbar – one of the oldest newspapers of Urdu in India.
The Catalog of these Naval Kishore Books can be read here:
The Number of Books according to Languages are as follows:
Sanskrit 71
Hindi 194
Other Publications in Hindi 32(Ram Kumar Press, a subsidiary )  + 14
Persian 699
Urdu 381
Arabic 156
Hopefully we can start digitizing these books in a month or so.
The archive account gives a brief synopsis of the career of Naval Kishore Press. Naval Kishore Press is especially remembered in Pakistan for his huge contribution to Indo-Islamic Publishing in the nascent stage of Printing Industry. I thank Dr. Bhargava profusely for his kindness in making this possible.
Our next target are the brilliant guys at Rekhta.org based in Noida and who received a much larger collection from Dr. Bhargava and are doing a phenomenal job of digitizing Rare Urdu Books of poetry
Anyone with the direct contact info of Shri Sanjiv Sarraf, proprietor rekhta.org will be appreciated.

Urdu Poetry, Urdu Shayari of Famous Poets – Rekhta

Urdu Poetry resource in Urdu, Hindi & Roman scripts. Daily updated Ghazals, Nazms & famous urdu shayari …
Since they are only concentrating on Poetry, I hope they will let us come in the picture and do non-literary works and Hindi/Sanskrit Books they have recieved.
Ulrike Stark’s book makes very riveting reading I recommend it to everyone interested in the Indian Cultural Renaissance happening in the Late 19th Century.
Digitized Books:
As mentioned in my last Newsletter, we were fortunate that the Naval Kishore 1880 Hindi Translation of the Bhagavata Gita was found at Ram Shaiva Ashram, Srinagar.
This is another BG Translation of Anand Giri’s Tika of 1921

This above also was one of the last remaining books that were left in Ram Shaiva Ashram Fateh Kadal.

Now with the exception of Uttara Gita with Gaudapada Karika, which we should get hold of soon, all Ram Shaiva Ashram Texts are finally digitized.

Mr. Roshan Kaul the care-taker we wish him all the best for his most kind assistance.

Other digitized Rare Books can be seen below:
In Manuscript work , we continue following the Venerable Stein and his List of Tantric Works.
Recent entries can be seen here.

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