P.B. Rathod
34 books
As a staunch political agitator by aptitude and profession, Gandhi had come face to face with a variety of social, political and religious ills and evils and fought against them for over five decades, with a view to improve the quality of life of the generations to come. In the course of his fights in South Africa and India, Gandhi had many occasions to study and reflect upon the nature of man and his relationship with the state. Out of these struggles, emerged a ...
Devoted to topics concerning women feminism, gender and politics, women’s studies is an interdisciplinary academic field. Among various issues relating to women, women’s studies includes feminist theory, history of women’s suffrage, social history, women’s writings, women’s health, feminist art, feminist psychoanalysis and gender studies-influenced practices of most of the humanities and social sciences.Women’s studies is the ...
The constitution of India is a democratic one. Having been framed in mid twentieth century it has contained various novel features. It aims at preserving unity in a country filled with diverse races, languages, religions and cultures. It is languages, religions and cultures. It is designed to need essentially the needs and requirements of the Indian soil. This book is an essential contribution to the Indian Constitution, Government and Political System. This book ...
Public administration is an important branch of political science. Public administration is a growing and multi-dimensional subject. This book deals or covers the various important topics such as meaning and importance, environmental influences, relations with other social sciences, approaches and theories of organization, management, financial administration, public relations, personnel administration etc. Thus the book Contemporary Public Administration ...
Personnel Administration is an important branch of Public Administration. The significance of Personnel Administration is beyond dispute. The efficiency of any government and its future depends on the success of personnel administration. This book covers the various important topics such as position, classification, discipline, commitment, generalist vs. specialist controversy, integrity in public administration, procedures of personnel, dynamics of ...
Diplomacy is one of the important branch of International Relations. It is one of the Instruments of foreign policy Foreign relations are conducted through the means of diplomacy. It is a well-developed discipline. Every developed and developing nation is a laboratory in itself, where the effectiveness and application of diplomacy can be tested and the results verified. This book covers various important topics such as meaning, scope and importance of diplomacy, ...
Development-administration is a part and parcel of public administration. Development-administration involves the establishment of machinery for planning, economic growth and mobilization and allocating of resources to expand national income. Scholars and students in the discipline of development-administration are busy in researching to bring about rapid socio-economic change in developing countries. This book deals with the various important issues like the ...
The Constitution of India is a democratic one. Having been framed in mid-twentieth century, it has contained various novel features. It aims at preserving and refunding unity in a country filled with diverse races, languages, religions and cultures. It is designed to meet essentially the needs and requirements of the Indian soil. This book is an essential contribution to the Indian Constitution, Government and Political System. This book covers the important ...
Personnel Administration is an important branch of Public Administration. The Significance of Personnel Administration is beyond dispute. The efficiency of any government and its future depends on the success of personnel Administration. This book covers the various important topics such as position Classification, Discipline, Commitment, Generalist Vs Specialist Controversy, Integrity in Public Administration, Procedures of Personnel, Dynamics of Administrative ...
Modern political theories is a subject being taught in post-graduate classes in political science at Indian universities. The present book has been planned as a text-book for this comprehensive and rapidly growing subject. It deals with political theory, political analysis, behaviouralism, post-behaviouralism, concept of politics, political system, political power, authority, legitimacy, political involvement, revolution, political modernisation, political ...
The world in which we are living in is passing through a great period of transition. The human history is undergoing new experiences and experiments. It is also to be noted that in the study of international relations. While one must duly recognise the uniqueness of certain events and developments, we are more concerned with the processes and patterns of behaviour found in the world politics. The importance of the study of international relations is more ...
Like politics, public policies are unescapable and so are its consequences. Policies play a vital role in shaping and re-shaping the lies of the people in a given political structure. Public Policies are the focal point of politics in political system. Policies are the goals or purposes of government programmes. It does include the implementation of intentions and rules. It can be termed explicitly in rules or implicitly in actions and schedules. Normally, public ...
Governments and local bodies have now realized that well managed governance can yield to better results. The electorate through out the democratic world has become very conscious and ambitious, and as such, governments have to become more result-oriented. This book discusses all these aspects of public administration in a very comprehensive way.
Indian administration having a long and deep rooted historical perspective has undergone tremendous changes because of the complexities of the developmental process. The administration is dynamic and continuously changing, as a result it becomes very difficult to find consolidated material in a single book. However, author have attempted in this book to provide all the relevant and up to date material pertaining to important topics of Indian administration so as ...
The conservative approach to the study of political science with the main focus of state, government, legal institutions and structures has undergone a tremendous change. Political science has become more akin to sociology, psychology, economics, geography, history, women studies, anthropology and other social sciences. The writings of Karl Marx, Max Weber have contributed to the development of the political sociology. The inter-change and interaction between ...
Unlike the Westker Political Thinkers, the Modern Indian Political Thinkers is not the outcome of efforts of Indian Political Scientists and Philosophers. Instead it owes its origin and gradual development to saints. Seers, social reformers and political leaders. However, there is nothing to feel apologistic about it. Old order changeth yielding place to new. With the passage of time, political maturity is apt to dawn and Indian Professors of Political science ...
The first edition of the book entitled 'Modern and Western Political Thinkers' is now in your hands. 'Modern and Western Political Thinkers' still deserves a serious study by the students of political science. Undoubted it is the most important source and basis for the study of modern political philosophy. The Modern and Western Political Thinkers and Philosophers, in their own way in the past contributed to the political philosophy. It cannot be denied that ...
Any account of political theories of the modern period must deals invariably with the political philosophies and concepts propounded by the great stalwarts of the period and ends with a comparison of these political thoughts. “Modern Political Theory†presents political philosophies prevalent and well as propounded during the period, like theory of natural law and natural rights, empiricism, feudalism fascism, individualism, intellectualism, liberalism, ...
Designed primarily as an introductory textbook for Graduate and Post-Graduate students offering comparative politics as a compulsory course, the book provides a lucid and up-to-date presentation of the dimensions of the comparative politics –Constitutionalism, Political System, Basic Concepts, Ideology and Change, Comparative Organs of the Governments, Electoral System, etc.
The study of the 'Ancient and Medieval Political Thinkers' reveals to us a huge collection of the ideas of the masterminds who were the architects of great movements in the history of mankind. Undoubtedly, these great political thinkers were the products of times, but to a great extent, they changed the times and shaped human destiny. Political ideas are the most important ones because upon them depends the fate of human society not only at a particular time but ...
The study of Comparative Political Systems is the oldest branch of political science, as Aristotle was the first great realist, master of the subject. Yet, it is also very modern by virtue of the new approaches it uses and very important interms of the problems it tackles. Various factors have contributed to a marked intellectual revolution in the study of comparative political systems. Among them the more important are : the emergence of a large number of states ...
Modern democratic system of government, in order to be successful and efficient, depends upon the politicians, bureaucrats and a complete hierarchy of civil servants. Politicians are elected with some commitments and promises for accomplishment of which they frame certain policies. However, is the bureaucracy that successfully implements these policies with the support of civil servants and bring the to reality. Thus, bureaucrats not only achieve the results ...