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The volume brings together diverse perspectives on urban governance to present a comprehensive mapping of the urban issue. Contributors to the volume deal with the challenges of urbanisation and urban development in the context of governance. They discuss how unprecedented urbanisation and urban growth have eroded the quality of life with specific reference to India. They study urban development in the Himalayan region of India, disappearing open spaces in the ...
The process of globalisation has been affecting the Indian society in various ways. Though it is primarily an economic phenomenon, its impact in other walks of life is being strongly felt and there seems no possibility of its disappearance. Taking the northwest region of India as the focus of analysis, this volume brings together sixteen contributions made by the scholars working in this area to focus on four issues, namely, identity formation, development, ...
The Development ushers in series of changes in the social system. The changes are both radical and long lasting. However, it remains an issue before any intellectual discourse whether everything undergoes change or we are just fond of using the expression ‘radical change’. In the backdrop of this intellectual curiosity, the present work tries to examine the degree of change occurred as a result of the development in a micro-cosm of the Punjab society, ...