Born in a small village in Maharashtra, Shivraj Patil aspired to become a lawyer, like many others in his family. But fate had other plans: it propelled him into politics, where he rose step by step in the Congress party to finally hold the post of Union home minister. In this book, he describes his eventful journey, starting with his childhood and his idolization of his grandfather and father, and going on to his years in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, as ...
This book aims to address the issue of child labour in India, with special reference to Gulbarga district in Karnataka. Explaining the concept of child labour and the factors leading to it, it traces the evolution of the practice of child labour in the country.
Describing in detail the various forms of abuse of children—physical, emotional, sexual, it discusses at length the international instruments regulating child labour, a comparative analysis of child ...