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This book is the outcome of a research study carried out by WSDC, University of Delhi. The alarming decline in child sex ratio in the northern states of North India has generated a lot of concern among activists, development practitioners and academicians. The centre devised an empirical study to make an assessment of attituditional difference towards the girl child in today's society. The study confirms a sutle bias towards the girls in our society but also ...
Census 2001 showed a sharp decline in child sex ratio in states of North India. It has become a matter of grave concern for demographers, development professionals and academicians. Focusing on two of the objectives of Women Empowerment Policy of 2001, WSDC carried out a multi centre research study with four other Women's Studies Centres and one NGO.The present volume is based on the analysis of the data that has come from the institutions that were involved ...
This book attempts to give a detailed and critical account of Wittgenstein's views on religious belief and discourse. Its focus is on later writings of Wittgenstein. A systematic account of his perspective on religious belief is not available in these writings. It has, therefore, to be constructed on the basis of brief, cryptic and scattered remarks in his notebooks and some of the writings and the class-notes taken by his students. This book presents a clear, ...