1. Preface

   • C. N. R. Rao

   EditorialNotes Pages: 229 - 229

2. MBR as the relic of big bang

   • Tarun Souradeep

   OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 240

3. Evidence for evolution as support for big bang

   • Gopal-Krishna

   OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 249

4. Microwave background radiation related evidence in favour of the standard model

   • Ravi Subrahmanyan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 255

5. Evidence for the standard model through QSO absorption lines

   • Pushpa Khare

   OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 261

6. Cosmic thermal neutrino background: Can it be detected?

   • Pijushpani Bhattacharjee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 269

7. A case for the standard model

   • G. A. Tammann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 294

8. The ages of the galactic globular clusters

   • Ram Sagar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 295 - 301

9. Constraints on big bang models from structure formation

   • T. Padmanabhan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 311

10. Accelerator information on SUSY and its implications for dark matter

    • Rohini M. Godbole

    OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 319

11. Epoch of galaxy formation

    • Arati Chokshi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 321 - 322

12. Some critiques of the big bang cosmology

    • Jean-Claude Pecker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 333

13. Singularities and cosmic censorship

    • T. P. Singh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 335 - 338

14. Brans-Dicke class of cosmologies

    • T. R. Seshadri

    OriginalPaper Pages: 339 - 342

15. Inhomogeneous imperfect fluid spherical models without big-bang singularity

    • Naresh Dadhich

    OriginalPaper Pages: 343 - 347

16. An alternative approach to cosmogony and cosmology

    • G. Burbidge

    OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 351

17. The quasi-steady state cosmology: Some recent developments

    • Jayant V. Narlikar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 353 - 362

18. Absence of initial singularities in superstring cosmology

    • Sanjay Jain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 363 - 379

19. Solving the graceful exit problem in superstring cosmology

    • Sukanta Bose

    OriginalPaper Pages: 381 - 387

20. A search for a problem free cosmology

    • Daksh Lohiya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 389 - 392

21. Quasar creation and evolution into galaxies

    • Halton Arp

    OriginalPaper Pages: 393 - 406

22. An analysis of 900 rotation curves of southern sky spiral galaxies: Do rotation curves fall into discrete classes?

    • D. F. Roscoe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 407 - 414

23. Redshift quantization in the cosmic background rest frame

    • W. G. Tifft

    OriginalPaper Pages: 415 - 433

24. Quasars in variable mass hypothesis

    • P. K. Das

    OriginalPaper Pages: 435 - 440

25. Periodicity in the redshift distribution of quasi stellar objects

    • Debiprosad Duari

    OriginalPaper Pages: 441 - 447

26. Velocity dependent inertial induction: A possible mechanism for cosmological red shift in a quasi static infinite universe

    • Amitabha Ghosh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 449 - 454

27. Quantized redshifts: A status report

    • W. M. Napier
    • B. N. G. Guthrie

    OriginalPaper Pages: 455 - 463

28. Panel discussion

    • N. Mukunda
    • H. C. Arp
    • D. F. Roscoe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 465 - 475

29. Questions and comments that followed the panel discussion

    • J. V. Narlikar
    • T. Padmanabhan
    • N. Mukunda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 477 - 489