Manoranjan Mohanty
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Muchkund Dubey is one of Indias best-known diplomats and public intellectuals. For many decades he played a key role in the making of India’s foreign policy and in shaping the United Nations programmes for developing countries. This volume celebrates Muchkund Dubey’s life-long endeavour to build a just world through purposive action in the form of policy and scholarship.
In discussing the key components of building a just world, in this volume, ...
China's notable successes as well as the problem it has encountered, have resulted from policy debates and choices made by the Communist party of China from the time of Mao-Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, to the less charismatic leaders Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao is to put the policy perspectives in fresh theroetical terms. These essays scrutinise the Ideological statements to help understand China's reform strategy and the policy shifts.
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The world is witnessing an unprecedented surge of human consciousness in recognition of the worth of individuals, groups and regions everywhere on earth. This is clearly discernible in India as there is more understanding about the rights of all human beings to dignity, livelihood and appropriate conditions for realizing their creative potentiality. The people’s movements, the experience of parliamentary democracy, expansion of education and communication ...
Contemporary India's political landscape is characterized by a great deal of social upheaval. This is the result of growing democratic consciousness which is increasingly conflicting with the forces of domination, authoritarianism and hegemony. Against this backdrop, this volume, which is the fifth in the series entitled readings in Indian Government and politics, provides an understanding of these forces in both historical and analytical terms. In particular, ...
Both India and China have experienced economic changes and growing social consciousness which have generated new challenges for local institutions. This volume closely studies the resultant grass-roots political experiences in these countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the process of democratization and highlights the growing demands for participation and the complex power structures interjecting them. The contributors to ...