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Metropolitan cities and city systems play a pivotal role in modern national as well as global economy. A steep rise in the role of knowledge as a factor of production and enhanced by information technology, globalization of production, commerce, trade and finance require new geography of cities with regional and global networks. Largely, the dynamics of urban enterprises which deploy themselves across space, consume resources, enter into different forms of ...
India, with its phenomenally long historical traditions has presented several contrasting images of women, praised as a goddess, extolled as the mother of humanity and skyrocketed as the real creator of mankind. In actual practice, however, women are stigmatized as the weaker sex meant to bear all kinds of human oppression and male atrocities. In the post-independent India, especially since 1980s, the empowerment of women has been recognized as a central issue in ...