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Decentralised Democracy in India Gandhi's Vision and Reality

Decentralised Democracy in India Gandhi's Vision and Reality

This book provides a vantage point of comparison of the actual reality of decentralisation in India with Gandhi’s vision of decentralised democracy or what he referred to as Gram Swaraj. It looks at the historical evolution of panchayats from ancient times to India’s independence and critically discusses the developments after. It examines the functioning of the present Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) and the performances of urban local bodies. The basic thrust of this work is the need for constitutional reforms meant to strengthen and deepen democracy. The book will be useful to those in political studies policy studies public administration and development studies. | Decentralised Democracy in India Gandhi's Vision and Reality

GBP 42.99
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Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies

Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies

The book presents and further develops basic principles and concepts in international finance and open economy macroeconomics to make them more relevant for emerging and developing economies (EDEs). The volume emphasises the necessity of greater knowledge of context as populous Asian economies integrate with world markets as well as the rapidly changing nature of the area due to rethinking after the global financial crisis. It addresses a host of themes including key issues such as exchange rate economics macroeconomic policy in an open economy analytical frameworks for and experience of EDEs after liberalisation the international financial system currency and financial crises continuing risks and regulatory response. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of economics especially in macroeconomics business and finance and development studies. | Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies

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Environmental Issues and Challenges

Environmental Issues and Challenges

This book explores the field of environmental studies emphasizing its multidisciplinary nature. It looks at the fundamentals of environmental conservation and the management of sensitive ecosystems. The book provides an overview of the basic concepts used to understand and study diverse ecosystems and their functions as well as the progressively larger yet mutually inclusive units such as the landscape and the biome. It examines the challenges towards preserving biodiversity which is under severe threat due to climate change exploitation of natural resources pollution and man-made disasters. Besides outlining the causes and effects the authors outline control mechanisms to keep pollution within safe limits and offer suggestions for resolving issues such as wildlife poaching and trade water and air pollution deforestation and biodiversity loss through policy changes. This book will be of interest to the students researchers teachers of environmental studies environmental science sociology political science and public administration. This book will also be useful to environmentalists wildlife conservationists and policy makers. | Environmental Issues and Challenges

GBP 130.00
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Elementary Education in India Policy Shifts Issues and Challenges

Elementary Education in India Policy Shifts Issues and Challenges

This book examines the policy shifts over the past three decades in the Indian education system. It explores how these shifts have unequivocally established the domination of neoliberal capital in the context of elementary education in India. The chapters in the volume:• Discuss a range of elementary education policies and programs in India with a focus on the policy development in recent decades of neoliberalism. • Analyse policy from diverse perspectives and varied vantage points by scholars activists and practitioners illustrated with contemporary statistics. • Introduce the key curriculum assessment and learning debates from contemporary educational discourse. • Integrate the tools and methods of education policy analysis with basic concepts in education like equality quantity equity quality and inclusion. A definitive inter-disciplinary work on a key sector in India this volume will be essential for scholars and researchers of education public policy sociology politics and South Asian studies. | Elementary Education in India Policy Shifts Issues and Challenges

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Positivist and Political-Economic Theories of International Relations Liberal-Pluralist and Radical Dimensions

Positivist and Political-Economic Theories of International Relations Liberal-Pluralist and Radical Dimensions

This book provides an introduction to positivist-pluralist theories of international relations (IR) which emerged during the early-and mid-1950s along with Marxist political economic and non-Marxist economic theories of IR. Positivist and Political-Economic Theories of International Relations is an in-depth critical study of texts and literature which highlight IR’s methodological pluralism even after it gained maturity. It examines how pluralist political status quo and radical economic criticism coexist in discrete areas of the discipline. Insights are provided into key positivist liberal-pluralist theories namely decision-making approaches and theories of integration regionalism interdependence and regime. It discusses the four political economic and critical theories of Marxism dependency world systems and international political economy. The book as an advanced supplementary reader will be of great interest to researchers and students of international relations history law and the multidisciplinary social scientific field of political economy. | Positivist and Political-Economic Theories of International Relations Liberal-Pluralist and Radical Dimensions

GBP 34.99
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Kautilya’s Arthashastra Strategic Cultural Roots of India’s Contemporary Statecraft

Kautilya’s Arthashastra Strategic Cultural Roots of India’s Contemporary Statecraft

This book studies India’s foreign policy through the lens of Kautilya’s Arthashastra an ancient Indian treatise on state and statecraft. It assesses the extent of influence of the foundational elements/core beliefs extrapolated from the Arthashastra on the nation’s international behaviour to understand the grand strategic preferences of independent India. The volume examines the basic realist and cultural underpinnings of statecraft such as Yogakshema (Political End Goal) Saptanga (Seven Elements of State) Sadgunyas (Six Measures of Foreign Policy) Rajdharma (Duty of a King) Rajamandala (Circle of kings) and Dharma (Order) mooted in the Arthashastra which have withstood the test of time and space. It evaluates the continuity of strategic cultural traits under the themes of nonalignment bilateral relations with China and Pakistan and nuclear policy. An important intervention in the study of India’s foreign policy the book will be useful for scholars and researchers of foreign policy defence policy international relations defence and strategic studies political science Indian political thought political philosophy classical literature and South Asian studies. | Kautilya’s Arthashastra Strategic Cultural Roots of India’s Contemporary Statecraft

GBP 130.00
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The Thiri Rama Finding Ramayana in Myanmar

The Thiri Rama Finding Ramayana in Myanmar

The Thiri Rama – or the Great Rama – was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the Ramayana story in Myanmar. Based on palm-leaf manuscripts and scenes carved on over 300 sandstone plaques at a mid-nineteenth-century Buddhist pagoda west of Mandalay in Myanmar this book presents an original translation of the Thiri Rama rendered in prose. The volume also includes essays on the history and tradition of the Ramayana in Myanmar as well as the cultural context in which the play was performed. It contains many helpful resources incorporating a glossary and a list of characters and their corresponding personae in Valmiki’s Ramayana. With over 250 fascinating visuals and core text contributions by distinguished Burmese scholars U Thaw Kaung Tin Maung Kyi and U Aung Thwin this book will greatly interest scholars and researchers of South and Southeast Asian culture literary forms epics art and art history theatre and performance studies religion especially those concerned with Hinduism as well as folklorists. | The Thiri Rama Finding Ramayana in Myanmar

GBP 46.99
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Understanding English Language Teaching in EFL Context From Idea to Practicality

Understanding English Language Teaching in EFL Context From Idea to Practicality

This volume is comprehensively designed to help prospective teachers of English Language (EL) and teachers specializing in English as a foreign language (EFL) mainly in South Asian countries. It analyses the application of ELT theories concepts and methods to sharpen their understanding of the various techniques used for teaching English effectively in the EFL context. The book discusses the basic concepts of language aimed to develop a sense of the language phenomenon as a unique human attribute. It covers the theories of language from various disciplines such as biology sociology psychology and linguistics. The book explains the underlying structures or components that shape the edifice of languages such as phonology morphology syntax grammar phonetics semantics and pragmatics. While taking the reader through language learning theories with a focus on English as the second language it discusses the different teaching methods that can be adopted by teachers in classroom settings. The book will be of interest to teachers students and researchers of education teacher education and ELT. It will also be useful for educators English language teachers language learners professionals working in the field of education and language and those who aspire to teach and learn English in foreign context. | Understanding English Language Teaching in EFL Context From Idea to Practicality

GBP 120.00
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Media Economics and Management

Media Economics and Management

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of key concepts and terms in media economics and management and explains their applications using relevant data. Beginning with a conceptual study of media markets industry structures firm behaviour public policy production pricing and consumption choices in media industries the book uses the framework to present an in-depth examination of the management of four major media industry sectors in India: newspaper publishing television broadcasting film and digital media industries. It also deals with two topics relevant across media business sectors: creative industries approaches and copyright issues. The book discusses the economic forces and factors that shape the workings of media industries and institutions in India to highlight trends in a business that is rapidly evolving highly profitable and marked by regional linguistic economic and cultural diversity. This volume is a step towards formalising the emerging field of media economics and management within the discipline of mass communication and journalism as an area of research and education in India. An accessible guide to the basic principles and concepts of media economics and management with illustrations from Indian and global media industries this will be an essential resource for students researchers and teachers of media and communication studies media economics and management political economy and sociology as well as for professionals in media industries.

GBP 35.99
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True Crime Writings in Colonial India Offending Bodies and Darogas in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

True Crime Writings in Colonial India Offending Bodies and Darogas in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

The emergent culture of crime writings in late 19th century colonial Bengal (India) is an interesting testimony to how literature is shaped by various material forces including the market. This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by ‘lowbrow publishing houses’ — infamous for publishing ‘sensational’ and the ‘vulgar’ literature — which had an avid bhadralok (genteel) readership. The volume focuses on select translations of true crime writings by Bakaullah and Priyanath Mukhopadhyay who worked as darogas (Detective Inspectors) in the police department in mid-late nineteenth century colonised Bengal. These published accounts of cases investigated by them are among the very first manifestations of the crime genre in India. The writings reflect their understandings of criminality and guilt as well as negotiations with colonial law and policing. Further through a selection of cases in which women make an appearance either as victims or offenders (or sometimes as both ) this book sheds light on the hidden gendered experiences of the time often missing in mainstream Bangla literature. Combining a love for suspense with critical readings of a cultural phenomenon this book will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of comparative literature translation studies gender studies literary theory cultural studies modern history and lovers of crime fiction from all disciplines. | True Crime Writings in Colonial India Offending Bodies and Darogas in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

GBP 38.99
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Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

This volume explores the emergence evolution and definition of the middle class in India. As a class created as the interpreters between the colonial rulers and the millions whom they governed in the pre-Independence era the Indian middle class has existed in congruence with the state occupying vital positions in state administration. Since Independence this middle class underwent major sociological change as they live independent of the state which affected their social economic and political position reaping benefits of liberalisation and globalisation through education and employment. An otherwise internally differentiated and heterogeneous group the new Indian middle class often unifies itself to shape socio-political discourse that affects politics and policymaking from domestic to international affairs. This volume analyses this class phenomenon through a close study of a new metropolitan middle class in India – the software professionals emblematic of the 'new India’. It discusses this emerging class as a political category and their engagements with the state democracy political parties issues of gender basic necessities and social justice. Further it discusses their social action and ‘middle class activism’ for issues such as environment cleanliness and corruption particularly highlighting its presence in the private sector and electronic media. A fresh perspective on India’s political milieu this volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology modern Indian history political science economics and South Asia studies. | Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

GBP 38.99
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Public Administration in the 21st Century A Global South Perspective

Public Administration in the 21st Century A Global South Perspective

Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives concepts and theories during the 21st century. This book examines the transformations happening in global societies the economy and in politics to trace the trajectory of public administration as an academic discipline as well as being a focus of social science research. It presents a reassessment of governance in heterogenous developing countries that goes beyond the traditional Weberian bureaucratic model toward new models of organization and management informed by their legal constitutional economic and political needs aspirations and ground realities. This is especially important in relation to the marginalized sections of society that primarily rely on citizen entitlements through public service delivery systems. The author looks at widening the range and scope of public administrative agencies with the gradual cooperation of multiple actors such as the civil society people at large and even the private sector in a partnering role. The author revisits the discipline to tackle intellectual dilemmas that current governance theories and practices are confronting or will have to confront in future administrative situations. There will be key discussions on mandates and challenges for the state regarding the rising South; this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of politics especially governance and public policy sociology and development studies. It will also be of interest to bureaucrats NGOs and government officials. | Public Administration in the 21st Century A Global South Perspective

GBP 36.99
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Revisiting Modern Indian Thought Themes and Perspectives

Revisiting Modern Indian Thought Themes and Perspectives

This book presents a comprehensive account of the socio-political thought of prominent modern Indian thinkers. It offers a clear understanding of the basic concepts and their contributions on contemporary issues. Key features: Explores the nature scope relevance context and theoretical approaches of modern Indian thought and overviews its development through an in-depth study of the lives and ideas of major thinkers. Examines critical themes such as nationalism swaraj democracy and state liberalism revolution socialism constitutionalism secularism satyāgraha swadeshi nationbuilding humanism ethics in politics democratic decentralisation religion and politics social transformation and emancipation and social and gender justice under sections on liberal-reformist moderate-Gandhian and leftist-socialist thought. Brings together insightful essays on Raja Ram Mohan Roy Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Dayānanda Saraswati Ramakrishna Paramhansa Pandita Ramabai Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Jyotirao Govindrao Phule Babasaheb Ambedkar Dadabhai Naoroji Gopal Krishna Gokhale Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru Subhas Chandra Bose Ram Manohar Lohia Babu Jagjivan Ram Vinoba Bhave Acharya Narendra Deva Manabendra Nath Roy and Jayaprakash Narayan. Traces different perspectives on the way India’s composite cultures traditions and conditions inf luenced the evolution of their thought and legacy. With its accessible style this book will be useful to teachers students and scholars of political science modern Indian political thought modern Indian history and political philosophy. It will also interest those associated with exclusion studies political sociology sociology and South Asian studies. | Revisiting Modern Indian Thought Themes and Perspectives

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Contemporary States and the Pandemic

Contemporary States and the Pandemic

This volume elaborately studies the challenges posed and impact made by the Covid 19 pandemic. Through detailed case studies it presents ethical political economic medical logistical and social impediments faced by contemporary states in the EU. The book focuses on the short and long-term consequences of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and covers issues concerning the world economy the EU economy as well as the Visegrad economies. The essays in this volume: Probes into the response of states to the economic phenomena resulting from the pandemic and analyses the institutional framework of the resulting crisis lapses in social communication social protests and the decline in democratic standards in countries such as the Czech Republic Poland Slovakia and Hungary Discusses issues related to state security under conditions of the pandemic the effectiveness of state and self-government administration the transition of states from an external controllability to an internal controllability model of power as well as challenges related to security in the digital space Presents policy actions at three basic levels i. e. at the global regional and sub-regional and investigate strategies of the UN WHO the EU and the Visegrad Group as they play the most important role in the fight against COVID-19 This insightful and timely volume will be of great interest to scholars researchers and anyone inquisitive about political theory public policy public health and social care international relations governance security studies and public administration. | Contemporary States and the Pandemic

GBP 120.00
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The History and Philosophy of Science An Indian Perspective

The History and Philosophy of Science An Indian Perspective

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the history and evolution of the major disciplines of science which include the basic sciences bioscience natural sciences and medical science with special emphasis on the Indian perspective. While academic interest shown in the history and philosophy of science dates back to several centuries serious scholarship on how the sciences and the society interact and influence each other can only be dated back to the twentieth century. This volume explores the ethical and moral issues related to social values along with the controversies that arise in relation to the discourse of science from the philosophical perspectives. The book sheds light on themes that have proved to have a significant and overwhelming influence on present-day civilisation. It takes the reader through a journey on how the sciences have developed and have been discussed to explore key themes like the colonial influences on science; how key scientific ideas have developed from Aristotle to Newton; history of ancient Indian mathematics; agency representation deviance with regard to the human body in science; bioethics; mental health psychology and the sciences; setting up of the first teaching departments for subjects such as medicine ecology and physiology in India; recent research in chemical technology; and even the legacy of ancient Indian scientific discoveries. A part of the Contemporary Issues in Social Science Research series this interdisciplinary work will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy modern history sociology of medicine physical sciences bioscience chemistry and medical sciences. It will be of interest to the general reader also. | The History and Philosophy of Science An Indian Perspective

GBP 34.99
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The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman Devi Prasad

The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman Devi Prasad

The Making of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman is intended to be a biographical and critical insight into the work of the potter painter and photographer Devi Prasad. Apart from the making of his personal history and his times it leads us to why the act of making (art) itself takes on such a fundamental philosophical significance in his life. This the author explains derives directly from his absorption of Gandhi’s philosophy that looked at the act of making or doing as an ethical ideal and further back to the impact of the Arts and Crafts Movement on the ideology of ‘Swadeshi’ and on the milieu of Santiniketan. This book examines his art along with his role in political activism which although garnered on Indian soil made him crisscross national borders and assume an important role in the international arena of war resistance. Devi Prasad graduated from Tagore’s Santiniketan in 1944 when he joined the Hindustani Talimi Sangh (which promulgated Nayee Taleem) at Gandhi’s ashram Sevagram as Art ‘Teacher’. His political consciousness saw him participate actively in the Quit India Movement in 1942 in Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan and later from 1962 onward as Secretary General (later Chairman) of the War Resisters’ International the oldest world pacifist organisation based in London. From there he was able to extend his Gandhian values internationally. All of this while continuing with his life as a prolific artist. Rather than view them as separate worlds or professions Devi harmonises them within an ethical and conscionable whole. He has written widely on the inextricable link between peace and creativity on child /basic education Gandhi and Tagore on politics and art in English Hindi and Bangla. In 2007 he was awarded the Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna and in 2008 the Desikottama by Visva Bharati University Santiniketan. | The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman Devi Prasad

GBP 130.00
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