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The volume presents Prof. L. C. Jain’s pioneering work on the mathematical content of classical Jaina karman theoretical texts. It discusses the mathematically refined forms of the karma system’s theoretical approach with reference to Digambara commentaries on the Satkhandagama and the Kasayapahuda. The Satkhandagama and the Kasayapahuda are the two fundamental and profound Jaina texts on the mathematical theory of karma (or action) of the so-called ...
The City of Hope is a riveting and incisive description of India's first major experiment in rehabilitation through self-help at Faridabad. The year was 1947, a time when millions of refugees from Pakistan marched into India. Of that exodus, nearly 50,000 men, women and children from the North-West Frontier Province were given shelter at the Faridabad resettlement camp, 20 kilometers from Delhi. In 1949, barely two years after the camp was set up, the ...
This collection of essays offers an examination of decentralised governance, particularly n the context of a dynamic, globalising world. It contains detailed analyses, by eminent scholars and administrators, based on empirical studies and decentralisation paradigms and models of developed and developing countries, with an overarching focus on India's Panchayati Raj Institutions. Anwar Shah argues how globalisation has caused a shift from centralized unitary ...