Anand Singh
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Dana: Reciprocity and Patronage in Buddhism explores the concept of dana in Buddhism as a primarily rational and ethical phenomenon and examines its superimposing, mythic, and cultic dimensions. Scholars who have contributed to this volume have attempted to place dana in the context of contemporary religious traditions in relation to various sects and traditions of Buddhism, re-examining established hypotheses and challenging extreme opinions that are prone to ...
In India, unemployment is a chronic problem. It is as acute as it is wide-spread. It has become a pressing and a perennial problem of Indian economy. In Indian planning, employment generation and social protection of labour have been given due importance from 1950s to mid 1980s. The initiation of mild dose of liberalization started since 1985 and the new economic reforms introduced in 1991 have pushed the economy towards globalization, privatization, ...
This book Business Ethics and Indian Value System is an attempt to outline the ethical values and its utility in the modern industrial world.The book 'Business Ethics and Indian Value System', designed specialty for management students, is an attempt to respond to a long standing need for a text book written preliminary from the perspective of third world country and particularly in the Indian Context. It would help the students looking for foundation ...
The papers that appear in this Special Edition of The Anthropologist serve as an inaugural publication for The Commission for Migration and Diaspora Studies, affiliated to the International Union for Anthropological and Ethnological Studies (IUAES). They were initially intended for presentation at an IUAES international congress that was scheduled to be held in Kunming, People’s Republic of China, but was postponed from July 2008 to July 2009. Each paper is ...
‘Tourism in Ancient India’ gives expression to tirthayatras, journey for trade and its various aspects. It also provides a panorama of socio-cultural life and economic pattern of Hindu society. Journeys in ancient India go back to hoaray antiquity. The Vedas, the Brahmanas, the Dharmasutras, the Puranas and other treatise describe journey, routes and ceremonies related to it. The present work is a systematic study of all aspects of yatras. The aim of the ...
This study seeks to examine the perceptions of and responses to transformation among the people of Indian origin, in the context of the debates around race, class, ethnicity and civil society in post-apartheid South Africa. Focusing on the issues of historical and contemporary interest, it discusses at length the problems of informal settlements, the business opportunities that gave rise to the ongoing feud between Indian bus owners and African Taxi owners, the ...
Ever since the advent of the term "globalization" in the early 1990s, the movement of people across international boundaries spawned new concepts that forced new trends and paradigms into social sciences and humanities research. Since globalization is now deemed as the major ideological force that is reshaping international relationships, community relations and the individual's place in them, a plethora of "new" keywords have ...