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The volume presents a narrative on the city of Kurukshetra where history and legend blends, which has seen battles and the sway of empires over time. Kurukshetra is the battlefield where the epic Mahabharata reached its culmination and where the Bhagavad Gita was preached by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna. The account traces sanctity of the city for Hindu spiritual seekers. It describes the city as a timeless city and examines it as a metaphor, a symbol of Hindu ...
As the Indian economy integrates into global circuits of production, exchange and accumulation, the burdens of adjustment are shared unequally by different sectors, classes and regions. This study unravels the livelihood strategies and living conditions of labour in the tea gardens of Assam. The tea sector has been undergoing a crisis since the 1990s, with stagnant production, decline in exports, and closures of many tea gardens leading to large-scale ...
Exports play a critical role in the success of India's new market-driven economic policies, ushered in progressively since 1991. The European Union (EU), which constitutes a major market for Indian exports, has more or less completed the unification of the markets of its member-nations. This has presented both challenges and opportunities for the EU's trading partners, particularly from developing countries, and calls for changes in the trading environment and ...