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Nineteen-year-old Anjali Bose, born into a traditional family in Gauripur, is enrolled in a B.Com programme. Her father, a government clerk, and her mother, a housewife, want her to marry a suitable Bengali boy of their choice. But Anjali, intelligent, ambitious and charming, dreams of adventure and self-fulfillment. Convinced that she has a right to pursue personal happiness, Anjali is a member of a new generation of Indians. Her teacher, Peter Champion, an ...
In a New society, the ethos and idioms of the micro- and macro-politics are remarkably different from those of the developed societies as politics of modernization changes the underlying political culture though slow but steady politization of individuals and aggregations. New dimensions of the style of political leadership are also revealing. The present work is the first scientific study, base don sophisticated statistical methods, of political leadership ...
This book presents a detailed analysis of some of the important dimensions of the problem of regionalism in India, highlighting the negative and the positive aspects.
Desirable Daughters is set in America and India equally. It is both the portrait of a traditional Brahmin Indian family and a contemporary story of an American woman who has in many ways broken with the tradition but still remains tied to her native country. Tara is firmly established in San Francisco with an ex-husband, a teenage son, and a balding red bearded Hungarian Buddhist lover-contractor, yoga teacher and former biker. Of the sisters, Tara is most ...