The World’s largest exercise in democracy, India’s sixteenth general election, took nearly four weeks to complete. Spread over nine stages, 543 constituencies, 8,251 candidates, representing some 300 parties, competed for the ballots of an electorate of 814 m eligible voters. In 8,30,866 polling stations, 17,20,080 simple, robust and apparently tamper-proof electronic voting machines were deployed. With a continent sized voters, India has learned to ...
The volume deals with silk and sericulture in South Asia, focusing on Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, India, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. With maps and other illustrations, it deals with silk of all five varieties of silk moths found in the region. Studying the literature on silk and silk-related statistics, it gives the history of sericulture in South Asia and cultural role of silk particularly weaving in the countries and presents examples of variations in ...
Bibliometrics Data and Impact Management in Information Science
This book is analyses the economics of human decisions with respect to both the market activities and the non-market behaviour. The household decision making approach has been followed to understand many economic and non-economic decisions of individuals who are members of a family. Using strong economic theories, rich data and powerful microeconometric methods, this book demonstrates the household decision making processes with respect to demand for children, ...
Every historian is not only the product of his age but he also bears a unique personality of his own. The book aims to explore and examine the opinions of four eminent European scholars of colonial period on Proto-historic period of India. The book tries to understand not only the role of historical evidence behind different views of these scholars but it also throws valuable light on the role of other considerations like circumstance of their birth, their family ...
Ashapuri: The Cradle of Paramara & Pratihara Art: Temples Unveiled
While this book one takes journey into the Central India of the medieval period richly variegated with bewitching art of temple architecture and iconography which still stand today as a mark of unforgettable contribution of paramara, Pratihara, Chandella and other dynasties in the field of art and culture. Art located at 35 kilometres from Bhopal: the capital city of the Madhya Pradesh, Ashapuri exhibits the remains of numerous temples -- belonging to 9th to ...
