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Higher education in India has undergone phenomenal transition in the past to decades. It has acquired unprecedented growth of private institutions, salient proliferation of technical and professional disciplines, increasing use information and communication technology,and expanding global linkages. As a result ther have appered critical concerns about its commercialization, unequal access declining and low global ranking.
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Over the years, sociologists, anthropologists and the non-tribal masses have, deliberately or inadvertently, developed an image of a tribal as that of a sub-human being, fully deprived of the attributes of a civilized life. The present work seeks to study the development among the Mina tribal society of Eastern Rajasthan.The Minas lived in isolation for a long period of history. When the Criminal Tribe Act in 1952 was dropped, they began to come closer to 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 north-west region--Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Chandigarh has undergone considerable change in the social, economic and political spheres due to the ongoing development processes during the last two decades of twentieth century. The change has been both positive and negative. There are varying explanations but very few definitive answers to what had happened and why it happened. It is widely held that ...