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Language, Discourse and Culture: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives includes 14 essays written over a period of seven years. The nature of their contents oscillates between the pedagogical and the critical. As their quite style migh suggest, these articles are not intended to be splashy interventions in the current intellectual scence. Nonetheless, the author's detailed knowledge of contemporary post-structural and postmodern modes of though is always in ...
The book explores the pattern of rural development in contemporary India from a multidisciplinary and historical perspective. The essays overcome the limits of disciplinary approaches to provide a comprehensive analysis of the processes of change and growth at work in the Indian countryside and to review the social and cultural dynamics that have led to the contemporary situation. Providing an analysis of the economic, political and social changes experienced in ...
‘Inclusive Growth, Full Employment, and Structural Change: Implications and Policies for Developing Asia’ discusses policies to achieve inclusive growth in developing Asia, including agriculture, investment, certain state interventions, monetary, fiscal, and the role of the state as employer of last resort. Felipe argues that full employment of the labor force is the key to delivering inclusive growth. Full employment is the most direct way to ...
Most people set out unequipped to achieve. Just as there are certain laws that govern nature, there are laws that govern performance and achievement. Unfortunately, people are either unaware of them, and therefore do not align themselves accordingly, or they simply are not applying them. As a result, many people chase after goals, but find that the results they desire constantly elude them. If you want to be someone, achieve something, or get somewhere in life, ...
'Everything comes from somewhere' , says Salman Rushdie, and if the sages of yore came from the 'great Story Sea', modern tales well up from the depths of the human psyche and human experience. Narrative and narration: A Study of the Modern Short Story closely examines five classic modern stories by acclaimed masters of the genre. Each text is preceded by a critical introduction and commentary on the writer, his/her life and works, historical context, fictional ...
Most of the sources regarding the 1857 Uprising were written by British officials and civilians. From the Indian side we have more or less nothing as regards their experiences of the 'event'. The only exception is the memoir of Durgadas Bandopadhyay which was published in Bengali in the 1920s. Translating this memoir is to ensure wider readership of such a valuable source. Durgadas, an assistant attached with the 8th Irregular Cavalry regiment, provides a ...
While the rise of China has long been an accepted fact of international economic and political relations, the recent rise of India as an economic power has provoked intense global interest in the question of what the emergence of the two together portends for the rest of the world. to the other, focusing on their shared and divergent experiences of modernization and economic reform and the ramifications thereof in respect of each country’s role ...
Science, Spirituality and the Modernizations of India explores the lively transaction between science and spirituality during the last 150 years in India. A Major premise of the book is that spirituality played a key role in the construction of Indian modernity. While science has certainly been an agent of modernization in India and other non-Western countries, what makes Indian modernity somewhat special is that spiritual leaders have also been instrumental in ...
CIA's Eye on South Asia offers an insight into the working of the world's foremost spy agency through various reports presented to top US officials from 1951-2001. These previously secret CIA reports have become available largely because of a recent Presidential Executive order which ushered in a golden era of declassification in the United States. Unlikely all other foreign intelligence agencies, the Central Intelligence Agency undertakes large-scale ...
The book discusses the impact of Nehruvian socialism on freedom in India. It reflects on India’s post-independence experience and finds that India needs to move well beyond socialist paradigms towards freedom and innovation if it wishes to retrieve its status as a great nation. It then traces the causes of India's political and bureaucratic corruption, its poverty, and its large, illiterate population. The book then proposes numerous ways ...