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After decades of disappointing performance a combination of sound macro policies and a commodity price bonanza has led to a dramatic and long overdue surge in African growth rates and concomitant improvement in social indicators. However, this impressive performance has now created its own challenge for African leadership.

Health and medicine rarely constitute object of enquiry in the social science literature in India. Given the fact that experience of disease and its detection are deeply embedded in social settings, foundational questions on the meaning and experience of health and on the role of medicine have to be raised. Drawing upon published social science research in the field, this book discusses many of these questions. It also brings medical pluralism into the heart ofsocial theory of health and medicine, that has hitherto been labouring under the assumption of medicine in the singular, namely, western bio medicine.

The Oxford India Short Introduction to Coalition Politics in India starts by tracing the historical roots of this form of politics in the country. By analysing different coalition experiments in India since 1967, the present exercise shall acquaint the reader with a unique form of government in which the role of the pan-Indian political parties-the Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party-is as critical as that of the regional parties in its formation. Inview of India's social diversity, coalition, the book argues, is inevitable and thus cannot be wished away as a mere ripple in history.

This introduction to the Political Economy of Reforms in India discusses the political economy of the country's growth, globalization and welfare. It finds that political economy of growth and globalization are intimately connected. And, the political economy of welfare, though dependent to a much greater extent on state intervention than growth, is critically dependent on the growth process.

This volume is the first comprehensive account of temple architecture in India during the period of Sultanate, Mughal, and British rule. For the most part neglected in historical surveys of Indian architecture, the temples that appear here are of interest for the startling diversity of their forms, structural techniques, and aesthetic qualities.

Delving into the social location of middle classes in India, this work explores what it means to be middle class in the south Indian city of Hyderabad. Taking into account aspects such as education, marriage, community values, and contemporary trends, the book highlights the centrality of moral discourses in the co-production of class and gender in urban India. Through the lens of moral respectability, the author discusses how middle class sensibilities are embracedand reproduced by the Hyderabadis.

This book, making a departure from the conventional way of writing law books, comprehensively analyses the principles of law of sale of goods with emphasis on Indian and British case laws.

This collection of fifteen essays by eminent economist Deepak Nayyar provides an unusual blend of theory and policy, of applied research and empirical work, and of the world economy and India. It explores a wide range of themes-from macroeconomics and industrialization, to development in the changed context shaped by liberalization.

This collection provides an overview of India's growth experience from Independence to the recent global financial crisis from the perspective of financial economics. With a focus on growth drivers and financial stability, the volume analyses both macroeconomic and microeconomic policy reforms and suggests strategies for the future.

This book deals with the concept of the term 'development' in circa 1930-50. It is about the intellectual history in this formative period when developmental goals were set.

This book is a detailed analysis of the law on trafficking of children for sexual exploitation covering the developmental phases of public international law from 1864 to 1950.

This collection of essays by 15 distinguished economists in honour of Dr Manmohan Singh focuses on the reforms he initiated and what remains to be done. This second edition includes a new Epilogue and chapter updates which highlight significant changes and recent developments in the Indian economy.

Compiler Design is a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of engineering (computer science and information technology) and computer applications. It seeks to provide a thorough understanding of the design and implementation aspects of a compiler.

This volume explores the nature of interactions between the East and the West in the field of medicine.It focuses on examples from India's medical tradition and the challenges it faced when modern medical system entered the country as part of the British colonial rule.

In twelve incisive essays covering a wide range of issues, this volume undertakes an interdisciplinary and multi-level analysis and provides comprehensive and critical insights into the dynamics of the development process in these two countries.

Financial Management is a comprehensive textbook for management students with a managerial decision-making orientation and application of concepts through case studies. The textbook deals with the concepts of core finance with emphasis on specialized sub-areas.

This monograph discusses issues of sustainability, ecology, and environment in the Himalayas, particularly among the Tamang people of Nepal. It provides a comparative framework for analysing human-environment relations. The author addresses new approaches to environmental protection, examining the case of Langtang National Park.

This book analyses the many facets-psychological, epistemological, metaphysical-of the repeated philosophical adventures over centuries to explore and explain the indubitability of I-consciousness. While the major focus is on the Upanisadic and the Buddhist traditions, this volume also examines Western philosophical traditions in a cross-cultural philosophical context.

An efficient and competent bureaucracy is indispensable to any modern state. Exploring the evolution, role, structure, and size of civil services in India, this book captures its various challenges and drawbacks and advocates reforms towards a cleaner, more efficient, and performance-based structure.

This volume provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of banking and finance in India. Analyzing monetary and financial aspects of India's reform, the essays cover a wide range of topical issues-management of the financial sector, the role of central banking, and the impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian economy.

Remote Sensing and GIS 2e is a comprehensive textbook specially designed to meet the requirements of undergraduate courses in civil, geoinformatics/geomatics, geotechnical, survey, and environmental engineering. It will equally meet the requirements of undergraduate courses in geological science, environmental science, earth sciences, geography, geophysics, earth resources management, environmental management, and disaster management.

This volume examines the social and political processes that underlined India's economic transition from Independence till 1991 and onwards. It examines key debates surrounding economic reforms and discusses salient features of the post-reforms political economy.

Part of 'The Oxford Tagore Translations' series, a prestigious project undertaken by Oxford University Press in collaboration with Visva-Bharati, this volume brings together nearly 150 poems composed by Tagore, many of which have been translated into English for the first time.

This collection of memoirs recounts the author's childhood experiences in Sankhari, a village by the sea in Orissa. With reminiscences imbued with a childlike sense of wonder, the book also serves as an invaluable record of village life in early twentieth-century India.

This book discusses the different forms of resistance to colonialism and their role in the formation of alternative modernity in India.

Part of the 'Debates in Indian History and Society' series, this volume identifies the major issues within the history of socio-religious reform among Hindus in modern times and places the various points of debate in context, followed by readings from contemporary journals.This paperback edition also carries a small note by the volume editor addressing various criticisms of the reviewers, and critics.

Developed for beginners, the book discusses the major building blocks of fiber-optic systems and goes on to present an overview of their use in fiber-optic communication and non-communication applications of fiber optics. Its in-depth presentation supports theory with relevant examples.

'Gaban', first published in 1931, five years before Premchand's death, gives us a fascinating glimpse of north Indian society, and especially of the author's own Kayasth community. This is a felicitous translation by Christopher R. King.

This book narrates how Ayodhya's inhabitants experienced the events that led up to and followed the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the end-product of a century's effort to convert Hindus into a 'proper' modern nation. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the culture of communal conflict, the nature of organized mass violence, and the political psychology of Hindu nationalism.

Written by one of the Supreme Court's most respected judges, this book is a collection of essays on contemporary public law in India and the role of the Supreme Court in formulating it.