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Over the years, I have edited a number of books. Several of them have been Conference Proceedings (usually co-edited) and most have also been special issues of journals:

Quantum Chaos, H Cerdeira, R Ramaswamy, G Casati and M C Gutzwiller, Eds. (World Scientific Press, Singapore, 1991).
Nonlinearity and Chaos in the Physical Sciences, K R Sreenivasan and R Ramaswamy, Eds. Special issue of Pramana—journal of physics, (Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 1997).
Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics: Conference Proceedings, R Ramaswamy, R Roy and N Gupte, Eds. Special issue of Pramana—journal of physics, (Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 2005).
PNLD 2007: Conference Proceedings, N Gupte and R Ramaswamy, Eds. Special issue of Pramana—journal of physics, (Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, June 2008).
PNLD 2010: Conference Proceedings, N Gupte, R Ramaswamy, and A Lakshminarayan, Eds. Special issue of Pramana—journal of physics, (Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, November 2011).
PNLD 2013: Conference Proceedings, S Sinha, S Sinha, N Gupte, and R Ramaswamy, Eds. Special issues of Pramana—journal of physics, (Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, February–March, 2015).
PNLD 2016: Conference Proceedings,H A Cerdeira, N Gupte, J Kurths, and R Ramaswamy, Eds. Indian Academy of Sciences Conference Series, (Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, December 2017).

From 2000 to 2018 I was the Managing Editor of the series Texts and Readings in the Physical Sciences (or TRiPS) published by the Hindustan Book Agency based in New Delhi. The following twenty or so books have been brought out, some co-published with other international publishers.

Field Theories and Condensed Matter Physics, Ed. Sumathi Rao (2001)
Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, by H Antia (2002)
Lectures in Quantum Mechanics, by Ashok Das (2003); Second edition (2011),
Lectures in E M Theory, by Ashok Das (2004),
Current Perspectives in High Energy Physics: Lectures from SERC Schools, Ed. Debashis Ghoshal (2005),
Linear Algebra and Group Theory for Physicists, by K Srinivasa Rao (2006),
Nonlinear dynamics near and far from equilibrium, by Jayanta K Bhattacharjee and S Bhattacharyya (2007),
Spacetime, Geometry and Gravitation, by Pankaj Sharan (2009),
Lectures on Advanced Mathematical Methods for Physicists, by Sunil Mukhi and N Mukunda (2010),
Computational Statistical Physics, Eds. Sitangshu B Santra and Purusattam Ray (2011),
The Physics of Disordered Systems, Eds. Gautam Menon and Purusattam Ray (2012),
Surveys in Theoretical High Energy Physics 1. Lecture Notes from SERC Schools, Ed. P Ramadevi (2012),
Fragility of glass-forming liquids, Eds. A. Lindsay Greer, Kenneth Kelton and Srikanth Sastry (2014),
Lie Groups and Lie Algebras for Physicists, by Ashok Das and Susumu Okubo (2014),
Surveys in Theoretical High Energy Physics 2. Lecture Notes from SERC Schools, Eds. R Rangarajan and M Sivakumar (2014),
N=2 Supersymmetric Dynamics for Pedestrians, by Yuji Tachikawa (2014),
Classical Dynamics: A Modern Perspective, by E C G Sudarshan and N Mukunda (2015) (reprint),
Intermediate Statistical Physics: A handbook, by Jayanta K Bhattacharjee and Dhruba Banerjee (2016),
Topology and Condensed Matter Physics: SERC School Lecture Notes, Ed. S M Bhattacharjee (2017),
Classical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, by Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (2019, forthcoming) (reprint + revision),
Open Quantum Systems: Dynamics of Nonclassical Evolution, by Subhashish Banerjee (2018).

In addition to these, I have edited the following two books as part of the Women in Science panel of the Indian Academy of Sciences

2012
Mandakini Dubey Ram RAmaswamy, Rohini Godbole (Ed.) The Girl’s Guide to a Life in Science Book First Edition, Zubaan Books, New Delhi and Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 2012, ISBN: 9789381017111. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @book{Mandakini2012, title = {The Girl’s Guide to a Life in Science}, editor = {Mandakini Dubey, Ram RAmaswamy, Rohini Godbole}, url = {https://zubaanbooks.com/shop/the-girls-guide-to-a-life-in-science/}, isbn = {9789381017111}, year = {2012}, date = {2012-01-01}, publisher = {Zubaan Books, New Delhi and Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore}, edition = {First Edition}, abstract = {Inspiring, informative, insightful? meet some of India's most celebrated female scientists. What led them to choose their particular field? Who encouraged them? What were their struggles? What are their sources of inspiration? What are the key questions at the cutting edge of modern research? Why choose a life in science at all? From astrophysics to zoology, learn what it takes to make a career in science. Telugu translation, by A V Padmakara Reddy: Vignanashastra Rangamlo Mahila Sphoorthipradatalu, (Emesco Books, Vijaywada, 2013).}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Close Inspiring, informative, insightful? meet some of India's most celebrated female scientists. What led them to choose their particular field? Who encouraged them? What were their struggles? What are their sources of inspiration? What are the key questions at the cutting edge of modern research? Why choose a life in science at all? From astrophysics to zoology, learn what it takes to make a career in science. Telugu translation, by A V Padmakara Reddy: Vignanashastra Rangamlo Mahila Sphoorthipradatalu, (Emesco Books, Vijaywada, 2013). Close https://zubaanbooks.com/shop/the-girls-guide-to-a-life-in-science/ Close
2008
Rohini Godbole, Ram Ramaswamy (Ed.) Lilavati’s Daughters: The women scientists of India Book Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, November 2008, Bangalore, India, 2008. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @book{Rohini2008, title = {Lilavati’s Daughters: The women scientists of India}, editor = {Rohini Godbole, Ram Ramaswamy}, url = {https://ramramaswamy.org/books/Leelavati-daughters-2018.pdf https://archive.org/details/A0560IASLeelavathisDaughterFullBook/page/n20}, year = {2008}, date = {2008-11-01}, publisher = {Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, November 2008}, address = {Bangalore, India}, abstract = {This initiative of the Women in Science (WiS) Panel relates to mentoring of young women who are potentially looking for careers in science, engineering, medicine etc. WiS has compiled a collection of essays on the lives of Indian women scientists in the form a book titled 'Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India'. The book contains brief biographical and autobiographical sketches of about one hundred women scientists from India. Covering a range of disciplines, in these essays the women scientists talk of what brought them to science, what kept their interest alive, and what has helped them achieve some measure of distinction in their careers. The Panel of Women in Science hopes that this collection would represent our cultural diversity as well as cover a large range of disciplines so that any woman student could gain from the insights and experiences of women to whom they can relate at many levels. The book 'Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India' was successfully released during the Inaugural session of the Annual meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences on 31st October, 2008, by Dr. D. Balasubramanian, President of IAS, at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India Our inspiration for this drive was from the book "One Hundred Reasons to be a Scientist", a volume of essays put together by Prof. K R Sreenivasan, Director of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. }, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Close This initiative of the Women in Science (WiS) Panel relates to mentoring of young women who are potentially looking for careers in science, engineering, medicine etc. WiS has compiled a collection of essays on the lives of Indian women scientists in the form a book titled 'Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India'. The book contains brief biographical and autobiographical sketches of about one hundred women scientists from India. Covering a range of disciplines, in these essays the women scientists talk of what brought them to science, what kept their interest alive, and what has helped them achieve some measure of distinction in their careers. The Panel of Women in Science hopes that this collection would represent our cultural diversity as well as cover a large range of disciplines so that any woman student could gain from the insights and experiences of women to whom they can relate at many levels. The book 'Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India' was successfully released during the Inaugural session of the Annual meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences on 31st October, 2008, by Dr. D. Balasubramanian, President of IAS, at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India Our inspiration for this drive was from the book "One Hundred Reasons to be a Scientist", a volume of essays put together by Prof. K R Sreenivasan, Director of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Close https://ramramaswamy.org/books/Leelavati-daughters-2018.pdf https://archive.org/details/A0560IASLeelavathisDaughterFullBook/page/n20 Close

Since 2010, I have been interested in the life and work of D D Kosambi, and the following three books have resulted:

2019
Ramaswamy, R; Kolhatkar, M; Mukherji, A (Ed.) A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee by Meera Kosambi Book First Edition, Routledge, UK, 2019, ISBN: 9780429266386 . Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @book{KosambiLetters2019, title = {A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee by Meera Kosambi}, editor = { R Ramaswamy and M Kolhatkar and A Mukherji}, url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429266386}, doi = {10.4324/9780429266386}, isbn = {9780429266386 }, year = {2019}, date = {2019-08-30}, publisher = {Routledge, UK}, edition = {First Edition}, abstract = {"This book is a search for ‘the real Anandibai Joshee’ —— a search in which the readers are invited to participate." In her short and eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree, broke many stereotypes. Literate at a time when it was taboo for a girl to attend school or even ‘pick up a paper’, she was courageous, articulate, and assertive. And ambitious. Fuelled by a desire to improve the healthcare that was available to Indian women at that time, she travelled across the seas to the United States to study medicine. Meera Kosambi’s biography of Anandibai is more than just a retelling of the life of a woman who was ahead of her times. Drawing on a host of narratives, Kosambi recovers Anandibai’s many voices that have been submerged in history — that of a conflicted feminist, a nationalist, and a reformer among others — and her engagement with the world at large. This volume is a testament to Meera Kosambi’s commitment to social history. When she passed away in 2015, she left an incomplete manuscript that has painstakingly been put together by the editors. Drawing on archival research, including a host of Anandibai’s letters, her poems in Marathi, newspaper reports and rare photographs, this book will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology, gender, and South Asian studies.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Close "This book is a search for ‘the real Anandibai Joshee’ —— a search in which the readers are invited to participate." In her short and eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree, broke many stereotypes. Literate at a time when it was taboo for a girl to attend school or even ‘pick up a paper’, she was courageous, articulate, and assertive. And ambitious. Fuelled by a desire to improve the healthcare that was available to Indian women at that time, she travelled across the seas to the United States to study medicine. Meera Kosambi’s biography of Anandibai is more than just a retelling of the life of a woman who was ahead of her times. Drawing on a host of narratives, Kosambi recovers Anandibai’s many voices that have been submerged in history — that of a conflicted feminist, a nationalist, and a reformer among others — and her engagement with the world at large. This volume is a testament to Meera Kosambi’s commitment to social history. When she passed away in 2015, she left an incomplete manuscript that has painstakingly been put together by the editors. Drawing on archival research, including a host of Anandibai’s letters, her poems in Marathi, newspaper reports and rare photographs, this book will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology, gender, and South Asian studies. Close https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429266386 doi:10.4324/9780429266386 Close
2016
Ramaswamy, Ram (Ed.) Adventures Into the Unknown: Essays Book First Edition, Three Essays Collective, Gurugram, India, 2016, ISBN: 978-93-83968-11-4. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @book{KosambiEssays2016, title = {Adventures Into the Unknown: Essays}, editor = {Ram Ramaswamy}, url = {https://threeessays.com/books/adventures-into-the-unknown/}, isbn = {978-93-83968-11-4}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-06-01}, publisher = {Three Essays Collective}, address = {Gurugram, India}, edition = {First Edition}, abstract = {As the essays in this collection testify, even half a century after his death in 1966, D D Kosambi continues to be provocative, instructive, and contemporary. Many of the arguments that he makes in his two didactic and hitherto unpublished essays are insightful and incisive, and display, in a new setting, the range of his scholarship and the breadth of his interests. The other essays that are included here are his passionate advocacy of solar energy, and his posthumously published autobiographical essay that outlines his credo, and that lends its title to the book.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Close As the essays in this collection testify, even half a century after his death in 1966, D D Kosambi continues to be provocative, instructive, and contemporary. Many of the arguments that he makes in his two didactic and hitherto unpublished essays are insightful and incisive, and display, in a new setting, the range of his scholarship and the breadth of his interests. The other essays that are included here are his passionate advocacy of solar energy, and his posthumously published autobiographical essay that outlines his credo, and that lends its title to the book. Close https://threeessays.com/books/adventures-into-the-unknown/ Close
Ramaswamy, Ramakrishna (Ed.) D.D. Kosambi: Selected Works in Mathematics and Statistics Book First Edition, Springer India, 2016, ISBN: 978-81-322-3676-4. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @book{KosambiMaths2016, title = {D.D. Kosambi: Selected Works in Mathematics and Statistics}, editor = {Ramaswamy, Ramakrishna}, url = {https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132236740 }, doi = {10.1007/978-81-322-3676-4}, isbn = {978-81-322-3676-4}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, publisher = {Springer India}, edition = {First Edition}, abstract = {This book fills an important gap in studies on D. D. Kosambi. For the first time, the mathematical work of Kosambi is described, collected and presented in a manner that is accessible to non-mathematicians as well. A number of his papers that are difficult to obtain in these areas are made available here. In addition, there are essays by Kosambi that have not been published earlier as well as some of his lesser known works. Each of the twenty four papers is prefaced by a commentary on the significance of the work, and where possible, extracts from technical reviews by other mathematicians.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Close This book fills an important gap in studies on D. D. Kosambi. For the first time, the mathematical work of Kosambi is described, collected and presented in a manner that is accessible to non-mathematicians as well. A number of his papers that are difficult to obtain in these areas are made available here. In addition, there are essays by Kosambi that have not been published earlier as well as some of his lesser known works. Each of the twenty four papers is prefaced by a commentary on the significance of the work, and where possible, extracts from technical reviews by other mathematicians. Close https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132236740 doi:10.1007/978-81-322-3676-4 Close

2019
Ramaswamy, R; Kolhatkar, M; Mukherji, A (Ed.) A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee by Meera Kosambi Book First Edition, Routledge, UK, 2019, ISBN: 9780429266386 . Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @book{KosambiLetters2019, title = {A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee by Meera Kosambi}, editor = { R Ramaswamy and M Kolhatkar and A Mukherji}, url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429266386}, doi = {10.4324/9780429266386}, isbn = {9780429266386 }, year = {2019}, date = {2019-08-30}, publisher = {Routledge, UK}, edition = {First Edition}, abstract = {"This book is a search for ‘the real Anandibai Joshee’ —— a search in which the readers are invited to participate." In her short and eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree, broke many stereotypes. Literate at a time when it was taboo for a girl to attend school or even ‘pick up a paper’, she was courageous, articulate, and assertive. And ambitious. Fuelled by a desire to improve the healthcare that was available to Indian women at that time, she travelled across the seas to the United States to study medicine. Meera Kosambi’s biography of Anandibai is more than just a retelling of the life of a woman who was ahead of her times. Drawing on a host of narratives, Kosambi recovers Anandibai’s many voices that have been submerged in history — that of a conflicted feminist, a nationalist, and a reformer among others — and her engagement with the world at large. This volume is a testament to Meera Kosambi’s commitment to social history. When she passed away in 2015, she left an incomplete manuscript that has painstakingly been put together by the editors. Drawing on archival research, including a host of Anandibai’s letters, her poems in Marathi, newspaper reports and rare photographs, this book will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology, gender, and South Asian studies.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Close "This book is a search for ‘the real Anandibai Joshee’ —— a search in which the readers are invited to participate." In her short and eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree, broke many stereotypes. Literate at a time when it was taboo for a girl to attend school or even ‘pick up a paper’, she was courageous, articulate, and assertive. And ambitious. Fuelled by a desire to improve the healthcare that was available to Indian women at that time, she travelled across the seas to the United States to study medicine. Meera Kosambi’s biography of Anandibai is more than just a retelling of the life of a woman who was ahead of her times. Drawing on a host of narratives, Kosambi recovers Anandibai’s many voices that have been submerged in history — that of a conflicted feminist, a nationalist, and a reformer among others — and her engagement with the world at large. This volume is a testament to Meera Kosambi’s commitment to social history. When she passed away in 2015, she left an incomplete manuscript that has painstakingly been put together by the editors. Drawing on archival research, including a host of Anandibai’s letters, her poems in Marathi, newspaper reports and rare photographs, this book will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology, gender, and South Asian studies. Close https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429266386 doi:10.4324/9780429266386 Close
2016
Ramaswamy, Ram (Ed.) Adventures Into the Unknown: Essays Book First Edition, Three Essays Collective, Gurugram, India, 2016, ISBN: 978-93-83968-11-4. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @book{KosambiEssays2016, title = {Adventures Into the Unknown: Essays}, editor = {Ram Ramaswamy}, url = {https://threeessays.com/books/adventures-into-the-unknown/}, isbn = {978-93-83968-11-4}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-06-01}, publisher = {Three Essays Collective}, address = {Gurugram, India}, edition = {First Edition}, abstract = {As the essays in this collection testify, even half a century after his death in 1966, D D Kosambi continues to be provocative, instructive, and contemporary. Many of the arguments that he makes in his two didactic and hitherto unpublished essays are insightful and incisive, and display, in a new setting, the range of his scholarship and the breadth of his interests. The other essays that are included here are his passionate advocacy of solar energy, and his posthumously published autobiographical essay that outlines his credo, and that lends its title to the book.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Close As the essays in this collection testify, even half a century after his death in 1966, D D Kosambi continues to be provocative, instructive, and contemporary. Many of the arguments that he makes in his two didactic and hitherto unpublished essays are insightful and incisive, and display, in a new setting, the range of his scholarship and the breadth of his interests. The other essays that are included here are his passionate advocacy of solar energy, and his posthumously published autobiographical essay that outlines his credo, and that lends its title to the book. Close https://threeessays.com/books/adventures-into-the-unknown/ Close
Ramaswamy, Ramakrishna (Ed.) D.D. Kosambi: Selected Works in Mathematics and Statistics Book First Edition, Springer India, 2016, ISBN: 978-81-322-3676-4. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @book{KosambiMaths2016, title = {D.D. Kosambi: Selected Works in Mathematics and Statistics}, editor = {Ramaswamy, Ramakrishna}, url = {https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132236740 }, doi = {10.1007/978-81-322-3676-4}, isbn = {978-81-322-3676-4}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, publisher = {Springer India}, edition = {First Edition}, abstract = {This book fills an important gap in studies on D. D. Kosambi. For the first time, the mathematical work of Kosambi is described, collected and presented in a manner that is accessible to non-mathematicians as well. A number of his papers that are difficult to obtain in these areas are made available here. In addition, there are essays by Kosambi that have not been published earlier as well as some of his lesser known works. Each of the twenty four papers is prefaced by a commentary on the significance of the work, and where possible, extracts from technical reviews by other mathematicians.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Close This book fills an important gap in studies on D. D. Kosambi. For the first time, the mathematical work of Kosambi is described, collected and presented in a manner that is accessible to non-mathematicians as well. A number of his papers that are difficult to obtain in these areas are made available here. In addition, there are essays by Kosambi that have not been published earlier as well as some of his lesser known works. Each of the twenty four papers is prefaced by a commentary on the significance of the work, and where possible, extracts from technical reviews by other mathematicians. Close https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132236740 doi:10.1007/978-81-322-3676-4 Close

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