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This handbook suggests alternatives for globalization and development. The concerns addressed are related to trade regimes, currency convertibility, monetary policy, financial fragility, labour and employment, issues in cross-national growth comparisons, and specific lessons from China.

One of the most comprehensive works in the vast area of human development in the North-Eastern region of India, this volume brings new thinking on the approach to poverty, measurement of poverty, relationship between economic growth and human development, socio-political transition, politics of growth and growth trends, and development attainment. The status of HD across and within the eight North-Eastern states (the study also includes Orissa), have been provided with large empirical data. Academicians from within and outside the region contributing to this volume broadly divide the literature into three sections: (i) concept and measurement of growth and human development; (ii) the issue at the national level; and (iii) the issue in the North-East region. Meaningful for formulating development policies that will have larger implications for the country as a whole, the volume is enriched with HD indices of each major state, and comparative HD analysis at all-India level.

This book describes the lived experience of Kashmiris who came of age between 2007 and 2017. It shows that Kashmiris generally had high hopes for peace and stability when the militancy that began in 1988 ended around 2006. It explores the reasons why there was so much angst and rage, which exploded in agitations and stone-pelting in 2008, 2010, and 2016 and why a new militancy is on the rise. It traces the decilne of hope among the Kashmirirs as the situationworsened from a perceived threat to their identity in 2008 to rage over the killing of innocents in 2010. The anger has finally resulted in support for militancy in 2016.

Presenting a unique analysis of Indian activist thought through literature, photography, dance drama, television, choreography, and cinema, this book argues for a feminist critique of postcolonial thought by looking at the rise of humanism under colonization and the current influx of neoliberal capitalism.

This book along with its companion (Sentiment and Self) uses Richard Blechynden's diaries to present an account of everyday life in early colonial Bengal. It deals with issues like sexuality, concubines and dynamics of households in colonial Bengal.

The nineteen essays by distinguished scholars explore the inter-relationship between the Constitution, human rights, the directive principles of state policy, and the role of the Supreme Court in India. This edition includes a prolegomenon by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer.

Project Management and Appraisal is a comprehensive textbook designed to meet the requirements of the post graduate management students specializing in Finance and/or in Operations areas.

Including short stories, essays, poems, and excerpts from novels and plays, this anthology addresses issues ranging from the Maoist insurgency in Nepal and the Tamil militancy in Sri Lanka to the Indian manifestations ranging from the militant wing of the Independence movement to the various post-Independence terrorist movements, such as separatism in Kashmir, the insurgency in Assam, and the Naxalite movement in Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and MadhyaPradesh.

This book explores the complex linkages between state, society, and culture in medieval and modern India. It discusses issues like secularism, composite culture, pluralism, historiography, and the use of sources.

In the light of the drive to universalize elementary education in India, this book explores meaningful and equitable access to basic education. By identifying vulnerable learners and outlining policy and legislation, it explains the patterns of access and exclusion and provides areas for further research.

A new perspective on the role of culture in shaping the ambivalent attitude towards economic development of many marginalized people, this volume enables us to understand the specifics of Western modernism and modernism in India.

This book is an edited and annotated translation of Tarikh-i-Yusufi by Yusuf Khan Kammal Posh (c. 1830-90) who travelled to several places in north Africa and Europe. Translated for the first time from Urdu to English, it describes in detail the socio-economic conditions of Europe and contrasts it with the conditions in areas under European control. By highlighting this duality of approach with respect to the colonies, this translation reverses the gazeand exposes the reader to a non-European perception of the Imperial world.

This volume is part of a series of books on important bird areas (IBAs) of specific states, which is an extension of Important Bird Areas in India: Priority Sites for Conservation (2004) that described 466 IBAs for India. This book provides comprehensive information about the Important Bird Areas in the state of Maharashtra.

Design of Steel Structures: Theory and Practice is designed to meet the requirements of undergraduate students of civil and structural engineering. This book will also be useful for postgraduate students and serve as an invaluable reference for practicing engineers unfamiliar with the limit state design of steel structures. _

A contribution to the understanding of Indian history as a discipline, this book explores the politics of history-writing in India. It narrates the engagement of a civilisation with the historical sensibility and modality. In doing so, it asserts that history, in order to be understood better, has to deploy the language of the layperson in India.

The Country of First Boys is Amartya Sen's intellectual journey through the past and present to seek an understanding of India's history and the demands of its future. In this collection, Sen examines justice, identity, deprivation, inequalities, gender politics, education, the media, and the importance of getting your priorities right.

On the basis of his new fieldwork done in south Gujarat between 2004 and 2006, Jan Breman critically analyses the historical roots of the ongoing subordination of the rural poor in what has come to be recognised as a booming economy.

The Oxford India Illustrated Children's Tagore is an illustrated selection of poems and short stories for children from a previously published book from the Tagore Translations series, Selected Writings for Children. It is a treasure trove of funny, colourful writing with numerous illustrations - doodles, sketches, and paintings.

This volume, by a renowned expert, critically examines the past growth experiences, the factors underlying the persistently slow growth, and the constraints impeding Indian agriculture in recent decades.

This updated volume with an additional chapter on migration and current urban agenda comprehensively analyses the extent and characteristics of urbanization in India. It assesses the nature of the policies and programmes required for urban governance and the development and management of urban areas.

This edition is a revision of the classic, which has become the standard work on the subject. Five chapters covering the 1990s have been added with an updated chronlogy. These discuss a number of more recent poets, along with one chapter on the late Agha Shadid Ali.

Including short stories and poems from a number of regional Indian languages along with a substantial introduction, the anthology focuses on the importance of age in an individual's identity that is complex, fragmented, multiple, and conflictual.

This edition, including a new preface by the author, explores the ways in which colonialism damaged the colonizing societies themselves, and how the likes of Gandhi resisted their rulers in British India by building on the lifestyle, values, and psychology of ordinary Indians and by heeding dissenting voices from the West.

This volume explores Indian state and polity, in relation to the nature and composition of the ruling class, and the changes and development in society and economy. It also deals with the Indian historical traditions and the Bhakti and Sufi movements of India.

This volume focuses on Akbar, his empire and environment, to present a picture of the polity and culture of India 400-500 years ago.

This work challenges the general perception that mass media fails to communicate scientific studies and research to the public. Through detailed case studies of journalistic presentation of science news in regional newspapers in Kerala, the book demonstrates that mass media has a rather complex relationship with science in contemporary democracies. The social dynamics of their mutual resonance and its impact on public engagement with science is the key emphasis ofthe book.

Lore and Legends of Kerala is a distillation of 48 of the most sparkling of the 800 or so stories that form Aithihyamala, the definitive collection of the myths and social history of Kerala. A representative selection of the themes and stories of this classic work, this book includes illustrations by two of Kerala's leading artists.

Effective Technical Communication is designed to serve as a practical guide and useful resource for scientists, engineers, and researchers. It addresses the need of practitioners engaged in the exchange of techincal information to effectively share their ideas with, and make impact on, their peers.

This book is a collection of translations from original Chinese and Uigur sources on Hsuan-Tsang's life after his return to China from India. The editor has provided a commentary that historically contextualizes the documents examined, as well as a biographical sketch of the traveller.

The eight essays in this volume seek to combine an empirical study of themes in late-colonial Indian history with an intervention in current debates about the extent and nature of Western colonial cultural domination.