India is one of the developing nations of the modern world. It has become an independent country, a republic, more than a half century ago. During this period the country has been engaged in efforts to attain development and growth in various areas such as building infrastructure, production of food grains, science and technology and spread of education. The life expectancy has increased and many diseases have been controlled. However, there are many areas in which Indian society is experiencing a variety of problems. Some of these problems have their roots in our colonial past while other are related to demographic changes, socio-political conditions and cultural processes. This book contains the fundamental and basic information on the subject.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sunil Gupta
Dr. Sunil Gupta (b. 1961-) is Assistant Keeper at the Allahabad Museum, an autonomous institution of the ministry of Culture, Government of India. Dr. Gupta completed his PhD in Archaeology from the Deccan College, Pune in 1998. He had been Nehru Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1997) and JSPS Post Doctoral Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto (1998-99). Dr. Gupta is widely traveled, having done archaeological fieldwork in Japan, China and East Africa. He was co-director of excavations of the Early Historic port-site of Kamrej (Gujarat) in 2003. he has chaired sessions in international conferences and has been invited as PhD examiner by the universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Bergen (Norway). Dr. Gupta has papers in referred journals and in prestigious edited volumes published in Indian and abroad. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology. His current focus is the archaeology of "trade and civilization" in the context of the early Indian Ocean world.
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