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It is widely recognised that the delivery of financial and banking services to all in a fair, transparent and equitable manner at an affordable cost is a prerequisite for the attainment of the objectives of inclusive growth. Keeping this in view, several attempts have been made by the State, NGOs and the Private sector to reach out to the unreached, in India and elsewhere, Despite these attempts, the targets and objectives of financial inclusion largely remain ...
Both Globalisation and Liberalisation are considered as an main element in the reform structure and they also indicate the trend of growing worldwide interconnectedness. This is true that the changing International Scenario has been advancing with Vigours. It emodies integration of international markets for goods, services, technology, finance and labour and also impringes upon the process of structural change underpinned by transformation from agriculture to an ...
In the last 20 years or so we have witnessed a constantly growing role of the mass media in reporting on terrorism, ethnic conflicts, religious controversies, warfare and the like from all over the world. Technology has changed not only the nature of modern warfare but also how the media covers warfare.Technology has made the media an active and influential participant in armed conflict informing and influencing nation's public opinion. War begins in the ...
Manipuri : A Social Grammar: this study is devoted to a sociolinguistic analysis of the language, structure, style and socio-cultural nuances in Manipuri. This research work is divided into four chapters. Dr. N. Pramodini in her introduction defines sociolinguistics and its various related aspects. The author embarks on methodical description of the chosen topic, presents linguistically tangible evidence and judiciously pronounces scholarly judgement. It is a ...
Dom Moraes is indisputably one of the major modernist Indian poets in English whose poetry best manifests the nuances and complexities of the postcolonial/Third World literature. His enviable poetic career that spans a period of about half a century is marked by ten verse volumes including the Hawthornden Prize winner A Beginning and the Akademic Awardee Serendip, besides a host of autobiographies and memoirs, numerous travelogues, biographies and prose works. ...
Globalisation, in the present scenario, was inescapable necessity in the world in which instant communication minimises the distances between the people. This has hybridised the culture and society internationally, thus the wants demanding comparative advantage as far as possible. Further, globalisation has impinged on the structural changes, leading the developing countries towards industrialisation and mechanisation along with the critical implications of ...
Human resources play a pivotal role for determining the level of socio-economic development in all economies of the world. Low level of human resource development may be attributed to number of factors such as high growth rate of population, poverty, inequality, illiteracy, mortality and morbidity, low level of income, low level of consumption, low savings and investments and high burden of debts etc. This is a fact that these factors mainly prevail in developing ...
Information Technology is no longer seen as a choice, but as an essential strategy for an organization to adopt to improve productivity and enhance its competitiveness in the global economy. However, the task of strategizing information Technology may become more complex and difficult due to the rapid pace of its development. Coupled with even greater emphasis on the Internet and emerging applications from Internet technology in the 21st Century, there is need to ...
Information Technology may be considered as the backbone of all social processes in the society. It may be stated that communication plays all important role in the fulfillment of information needs of the people. It affects the mind of the people in such a manner that their thinking and idea are which results finally into social change. In the present era of information technology, the role of communication has influenced the entire society and in a broad ...
Human development has two sides: the formation of human capabilities such as improved health, knowledge and skills-and the use people make of their acquired capabilities for leisure, productive purpose or being active in cultural, social and political affairs. An attempt has been made in this book to analyse main indicators of economic development indices. Factors such as natural resources, the rate of capital formation, capital output ratio, technological ...
In this book, an attempt has been made to study various issues and aspects related to Harijans and weaker sections at macro as well as micro level. It has been sought to examine factors responsible for discrimination, intolerance and untouchability and also study the role of Indian constitution for upliftment of Harijans. An attempt has also been made to evaluate Harijan welfare programmes being implemented by the government.
The book in hand is a collection of unpublished papers presented to various seminars during 1980-1990. The thread running through all the papers is the understanding that all problems of ecology and environment faced by India today have arisen for the simple reason that man and his culture have been left out of the basic vision of contemporary ecology. Entire book is an argument in favour of understanding the role that culture as whole plays in sustaining human ...
The book is a document written in 1946 regarding the genesis of the Pakistan demand of Muslim League. It was submitted to the Communist Party of India for discussion. Due to the hectic political activities, partition and its aftermath and change in the CPI leadership in 1948 etc. this discussion did not take place. In this book Ashraf traces the genesis of the Hindu-Muslim question and shows that at various phases the two communities had very closely cooperated ...
India by and large has been a political and socially static society. The process of political mobilization was introduced by adopting universal adult franchise, competitive party politics, periodic elections and parliamentary system. A natural consequence followed that there has been tremendous pressure of political mobilization and politicization. The cultural pattern of Indian Society is such that social progress among women can be promoted effectively through ...
The book is a collection of six lectures, two radio features broadcast from the BBC and Presidential Address delivered to the 62th Session of Indian History Congress, 1962. First lecture deals with various typologies of history itself. Second lecture deals with various typologies of primary sources to highlight the political perception and socio-cultural values practi-ced during the medieval period. Third lecture discusses the various aspects of the medieval ...
This book covers very emphatically the process of growing from child hood to adolescence and finally to maturity and certain biological, emotional and social aspects of the adolescent’s personality and keeping this mind, the author has aptly focused on the specified objectives of eliciting the views of the adolescents on their life style, their opinion differences in relations to their socio-economic status and also to try and pin point the differences among ...