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This volume studies different facets of agriculture and allied sectors. It provides an overview of Indian agriculture, and presents an analysis of its performance over the years. Showcasing the issues faced in the development of agriculture, it captures the interventions and initiatives of the government for the development of Indian agriculture.

The Indian Army which was the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia functioned as an imperial fire brigade force during the Great War. The ''brown warriors'' of the Raj defended the British Empire from Belgium and France in the west to Singapore in the east. The Indian Army fought the Kaiserheer and the Ottoman Army in diverse theatres like Flanders, Gallipoli, Salonika, East Africa, Egypt-Syria-Palestine and finally Mesopotamia. Indian society was mobilized toprovide military and non-military manpower as well as economic assets in order to sustain the British imperial war effort. The Indian Army before 1914 was geared to conduct unconventional warfare/irregular warfare against the Indus tribesmen and to police the subcontinent to prevent any anti-Britishuprising. However, between 1914 and 1918 due to the demands of ''Total War'', the Indian Army learnt to conduct high intensity conventional war against the armies of the Central Powers. In fact, it could be argued that during the four years of the First World War, the Indian Army probably exhibited a high learning curve. A force originally geared for waging low intensity warfare became adept, not only for conducting trench warfare within the context of high intensity conventional war in Francebut also mobile mounted warfare across Sinai and in the flat plains of Mesopotamia.

Inspired from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, this work is in the form of letters from an old philosopher to a young student, guiding, instructing, and passing on wisdom gathered from the experiences of life. They cover a comprehensive introduction to philosophy, wisdom, and the art of thinking, as well as discuss a range of themes and issues such as love, education, friendship, violence, ignorance, mediocrity, and happiness.

In The Great Convergence: An Environmental History of Brics sixteen environmental historians from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa forge a dialogue, by departing from their own historical traditions to find common threads and common challenges. They focus on three basic themes, the State, the Civil Society and the historiography, to investigate the relations between nature and society over time in each country - and how these countries can facetogether current environmental challenges.

How do people respond to a state that is violent towards its own citizens? In this book this question is answered by studying responses to police violence in Delhi and to army violence in the context of a secessionist movement in Assam. Evidence from both the field-sites indicates towards acceptance of the state, though it may be slow and flickering, based on own rationalities of the subjects or contextual.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

This volume provides a holistic narrative that explains the politics of health care access in terms of distribution, utilization, and outcomes as well as the context in which health inequalities are reproduced which is critical not only to scholarly understanding of health care but to informing the development of health care policy in India at a critical juncture.

This book is an epistolary account of the lives of three remarkable individuals. They were Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and the Anglican missionary, Charles Freer Andrews. The study explores two closely related themes, their friendship and their principles for attaining Indian freedom. The freedom they worked for was not merely political though in an unequal world that necessarily had to be an ultimate goal.

These volumes represent the collective analysis and in-depth explorations of scholars and researchers in the key areas of sociological and social anthropological research in India during the past decade.

Making an important distinction between charity and philanthropy, Giving with a Thousand Hands argues that while charity is alive and well in India, the country is short on philanthropy defined as altruistic giving on a large enough scale to bring about transformative social change. The author in this book offers a vision for the future of Indian philanthropy, maintaining that it has a vital role to play in the country and needs to be encouraged through various measures.

This book examines the traditions, rituals, experiences, and legacy of the Sabri branch of the Chishti order. Challenging the notion of Sufism as an ossified relic of the past, it presents evidence of growing interaction, accommodation, and intermingling within Sufi orders. It also highlights the active involvement of the Chishti-Sabris in the much discussed reformist upsurge in north India and explains how they addressed questions posedby colonial rule while still adhering to their mystical heritage.

This book is an attempt to rethink the meaning of work in order to contribute towards a better understanding of women's work and its devaluation. The book specifically focuses on the role of the state towards the same and uses the example of the concept of the honorary women workers in India's ICDS to elaborate on the same.

In this ethnographic account of Dalit politics in Tamil Nadu, the author discusses how caste considerations inform and underpin politics in the state. With its micro-empirical focus on the journey of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (Liberation Panthers Party) in Tamil Nadu, the book also explores diverse dimensions of mobilization and ways in which contentious politics alters political regimes.

The book comprises thematic chapters on humanitarian intervention, protection of populations of concern including refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and international diplomacy, which are enriched with six case studies from Asia and Africa. Combining conceptual debate with empirical evidence, the contributors describe the contexts in which interventions occur and the practical ways in which protection mechanisms have been implemented. This volumeoffers alternatives that can be adopted to improve and build upon current practices of civilian protection.

The volume explores discursive plurality and the monopolization of interpretation as the poles from which inclusion in and exclusion from the national community are negotiated. By interfacing political sciences interest in the power of institutions and cultural studies focus on the power of discourse, the author is able to investigate into the ways in which citizenship manifests itself - and is contested - outside the institutional realm, thus revealing conceptualrelativity, ruptures, and creative re-interpretations of citizenship.

Exploring the intensification of the war on womens bodiesthrough sati, dowry demands and dowry deaths, and rapethis book draws from anthropology, myths, literature and film, history, sociology of class and change, and feminist theory to bring to light how progressive representations of men may depend on the curtailing of options for women.

This edited volume provides an anthropological approach to examining the way criminal cases are dealt with by courts in South Asia. The case-study approach that is used here allows us to examine a set of state and non-state institutions and the practices of people associated with them.

This book serves as the corridor to one's 'self'. Begun as a humble attempt to trace the performance history of Bengal it has passed through various planes of interrogation, and interpretation, until the notion of nation gained a new life in the performative space. This book has tried to trace the winding path of the emergent emotion of nationhood as it developed as a nuanced image of 'self', thereby locating the beginning of that emotion of national'self'.

Since the economic liberalization of the early 1990s, India has been, on several occasions and at different forums, feted as a great power. This subject has been discussed in numerous books, but mostly in terms of rapid economic growth and immense potential in the emerging market. There is also a vast collection of literature on India''s ''soft power'' culture, tourism, frugal engineering, and knowledge economy. However, there has been no serious exploration of thealternative path India can take to achieving great power status''a combination of hard power, geostrategics, and realpolitik.In this book, Bharat Karnad delves exclusively into these hard power aspects of India''s rise and the problems associated with them. He offers an incisive analysis of the deficits in the country''s military capabilities and in the ''software'' related to hard power absence of political vision and will, insensitivity to strategic geography, and unimaginative foreign and military policies and arrives at powerful arguments on why these shortfalls have prevented the country from achieving the greatpower status.

The Canadian Oxford Guide to Writing is a complete handbook and rhetoric, useful to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of composition. The book starts with an overview of the writing process, before moving on to explore essays, paragraphs, and sentences. It discusses types of writing organized by rhetorical mode. The book also includes a short section on the mechanics of writing and concludes with the handbook section, covering the basics of grammar. This text is the fully updated, second Canadian edition. In the new edition, more than one third of the examples are now by Canadian writers writing across the disciplines. Extensive revisions have streamlined the information and have brought the text up-to-date with recent changes in library sciences, word-processing software, and the Internet.

'Race' and Ethnicity in Canada: A Critical Introduction provides students with a comprehensive look at the major approaches and explanations to the key concepts in this field of study. Through their exploration of the central issues that affect Canadians today - immigration, multiculturalism, assimilation, racism, and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relations - the authors argue that race is not a biologically real category, but rather, a socially constructed label used to describe and explain certain kinds of human difference. The text questions whether there are patterns of race and ethnic relations that are truly unique to Canada, and puts Canada into a wider global context. Fully updated and revised, 'Race' and Ethnicity in Canada, second edition, offers students an in-depth and well-rounded introduction to the fascinating study of race and ethnic relations in Canada.

This study of contemporary political culture examines belief systems among youth elites in five countries that share not only roughly comparable economies, social structures, and cultural environments, but also the same political tradition: Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. Based on a survey of over 3,000 senior undergraduates conducted between 1980 and 1987, it focuses on attitudes towards government, feminism, minority rights, and equality in an effort to determine whether there are significant differences in the political cultures of the five Anglo-American democracies. The youth elites studied here are part of a generation that now wields substantial economic power and that has succeeded in fundamentally altering and expanding the political agendas of all the advanced industrial democracies. Nevitte and Gibbins argue that the attitudinal structures of these youth elites have far-reaching consequences.

W.J. Eccles, the leading Anglo-Canadian social historian of New France, has here collected twelve important essays written over twenty-five years-a period in which he greatly enlarged the significance of his subject by relating New France to the rest of North America, to European imperialism, and to the indigenous peoples. Preceded by an interesting memoir of his career as a scholar, 'Forty Years Back', these essays discuss Francis Parkman's view of New France, which dominated history studies until Eccles began to publish in the 1950s; the roles of the church, the military, and the fur trade; social welfare; and the western frontier. There is also a reappraisal of the Battle of Quebec. Each essay has an introductory note describing the circumstances of writing and giving pertinent background information.