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Based on seminar presentations, the volume focuses on the emerging trends, growth and challenges in infrastructure in India particularly some of the major sectors like the transport sector, the energy and the social sector. Viewing infrastructure as the basic physical and social structure enable entrepreneurs to undertake their productive activities, it deals with India’s infrastructure-related bottlenecks from the beginning of the planning period relating ...
The well-researched essays on inclusive development in Indian society delve into the meaning of inclusive development and evolution of the concept. With an overview of inclusive development in post-independence India, they explore the systems in place and mechanisms to facilitate inclusive development. They examine issues relating to food security, the spread of poverty, promotion of health, employment-related problems, education, and development of women, ...
This English translation of Persian work Habib-Us-Siyar deals with the rise and fall of the successors of Amir Timur Gurgan during the fifteenth century. The depiction of the mentality, outlook, doings and ways of life of these Moghul rulers of Central Aisa and their nobles also provides insights into the better understanding of the rise and fall of the Mughal Empire in India. Also, it contains the sketches of the Sufis, men of accomplishments, excellencies, and ...
This is one of the most popular books published on Indian Anthropology. Originally published in English, it is now available in several Indian languages.Beginning with a discussion on the origin and development of anthropology in India, it takes the readers into Indian prehistory. Taking up the issues of social change in India it describes and analyses various concept and theories dealing with social change in India viz. Sanskritization, Westernization, ...
This book contains the first ever fuller translation of the work entitled Khadang-i-Ghadar penned by Moin-ud-din Hasan regarding the events related to the Mutiny of 1857 till its termination at Meerut, Delhi, Rohtak, Jhajhjhar, Dadri, Pataudi, Ballabgarh, Dujana, Loharu, Farrukhnagar, Bulandshahar, Balagrh, Aligarh, Nuh, Kanpur, Fatehgarh, Farrukhabad, Allahabad, Kalpi, Gwaliar, Morar, Faizabad, Lucknow, Shahjahanpur, Kakori, Malihabad, Sitapur, Akbarabad, Unnao, ...
Study conducted in Aligarh, Mau, Moradabad and Lucknow districts of Uttar Pradesh, India.
The Volume brings out the disturbing realites of social work education and practice in India to the forefront. It contains twenty seven essays which identify almost all the key issues and critical challenges that social work education faces in making itself relevant and responsive to the turbulent tempers of the modern-day society in India, especially in its interface with the millenniast manifestations of newly emerging world order. The papers have discoursed ...
Women, who constitute half of the human population, have been denied their due share in politics not only in India but in the whole world. Thanks to efforts made by reformers and national and international organisations for changing the direction of the current and attracting the attention of all concerned to enable women community to share the power structure and get rid of domestic fetters. The recent seventy-third and seventy-fourth amendments to the ...
Islamic principles of the Quran and Hadith underline the supremacy of human beings and human development. They also explain why and how to achieve it. Islam has its own concept of human personality and its ingredients. The components of human development – viz. education, health, food, gender equality, poverty, freedom and morality are addressed in this book in Islamic setting. The idea of human development, as advanced by the UNDP is of recent origin. Its ...