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Conditioning and Empowerment of Women: A Multidimensional Approach, is an edited volume analysing the status of women in India and the alternative modes of their empowerment. The issue of empowerment is viewed from different dimensions. It deals equally with the theoretical issues relating to empowerment as well as issues involved in practice. It contains articles by well-known feminists like Martha Nussbaum, Bandana Purkayastha, Maitreyi Choudhury, Sutapa ...
This collection of papers presents aspects of Jaina philosophy for the first time in one volume. Contributions are divided in two general types, theoretical, interpretive essays and the practical i.e., the contributions of Jaina philosophy to moral phenomena. The essays are expected to help the reader to see that Jainism is not a religion that is to be preached but a philosophy and way of life, which needs to be lived through. In presenting this anthology to the ...