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Not since Jawaharlal Nehru in the early y ears of independence has a political leader commanded such wide respect as Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This book presents, in the opening part, pen portraits of Vajpayee by some who have worked closely with him. Also his views, in his own words, on major problems faced by the country. the author sees the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party, under Vajpayee's leadership, to first position in the eleventh Lok Sabha as more than an ...
"Half of the people on earth who live in a society with civil liberties live in India", remarked Daniel Moynihan, a former U.S. ambassador to India. The fascinating story of voting in the world's largest democracy is told in this book. It provides factual data on electors, voters and the fortunes of all-India and regional political parties in the elections held during the last forty years to the Lok Sabha and the State assemblies. It also examines the ...
The regeneration of India over the century and a half from the nation building work of Raja Rammohun Roy to that of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru is a glorious chapter in the country’s history. Independence was its natural culmination. But it was marred by the sub-continent’s partition, which was accompanied by one of the worst blood baths ever witnessed in the world. This book explores the reasons for this paradox. The author establishes, through ...
Examined in this extensively researched work are the pattern of growth of the economy in post-independence India, and of the agencies that communicate information and values, as well as the symbiotic relationship between the two. The study was facilitated by the award of a two-year senior fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research to the author.
The three parts of this unusual work present a survey of the origin and growth of the mass media in India, as part of the country’s political economy, before and after independence; a critical assessment of the present media scene including the findings of the first-ever country-wide survey of the social effects of the media, specially TV, conducted by the Centre for Media Studies during 1994-95; and a recommended future that includes in the case of Akashvani ...