Gupta: 632 books

This note will describe recent trends in income inequality in both advanced and developing economies and how tax and expenditure policies have impacted on these trends. It will discuss how tax and expenditure policies should be designed to bring about a more equitable distribution of income, as well as to protect the most vulnerable populations during periods of fiscal consolidation.

The author is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Chandernagore Government College, West Bengal, India. She received her Ph.D. in International Relations from Jadavpur University in 2014 and is a Gold medallist in her M.A. programme from the same university. She has also served as an instructor...

Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features? This book examines suicide like no other. Unconcerned with the individual dispositions that lead a person to commit such an act, Usurping Suicide focuses on the reception suicides have...

If, I have mastered patience 5 years back, I would have accumulated great wealth & would be able, to quit my day job in half of period of time! That I have used. Please remember this GOD loves patience, therefore, developing, learning and mastering patience is so important, that I have decided...

How can greenhouse gases be controlled and reduced? Will it be in time? This book adds a significant new contribution to the crucial climate change/global warming debate. Incorporating the key political and legal considerations into `real world' applied economic analysis, the authors provide a unique...

If you wish to ignite the dormant spark of divinity within your heart, then this is the book for you. Rise to the lofty regions of spirituality as you read, and take the journey with these 700 verses of Bhagavad Gita, with interesting spiritual stories meshed with the verses. Bhagavad has never been...

Are you an aspiring author who has been writing a short story, a novel, or a children's book? Maybe you’ve written a recipe guide, business guide, or a fitness book?  Regardless of the genre, aspiring authors are the future writers of this world. Why shouldn’t you become one of them?...

The book contributes to understanding the pattern of strain release and the level of seismic hazard imposed by large-great earthquakes in the frontal fold-thrust belts of Kumaun and Garhwal regions of Uttarakhand. The motivation for active fault studies and their characterization have been emphasized....

Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law. Together the contributors provide an international, multi-disciplinary perspective that offers a compelling alternative...

6 June 1984: The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Called Operation Bluestar, the historic and unprecedented event ended the growing spectre of terrorism perpetrated by the extremist Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers once and for all. But it left in its wake unsolved...

The essence of communal activities has been political.The Hindu Mahasabha and the Muslim League all alongcampaigned for setting up states wherein one communitywould dominate other communities. Both resisted all reformsin the socio-cultural framework of the respective communities.Both were looking to...

The book explores how Muslims in Mumbai and Ahmedabad coped with the aftermath of the violence directed against them in 1993 and 2002 respectively, and how they responded to the ethnic carnages of which they were the victims, highlighting the importance of the context and the history of the place...

India in a Globalising World is a fresh addition to the literature on the subject done by three eminent scholars, living in three different continents, the sweep and scope of work is pretty wide, as a look at its Contents would show.

While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been voiced as to Shakespeare's identity, these eleven essays widen the scope of the investigation by regarding Shakespeare, his world, and his works in their interaction with one another. Instead of restricting the search for bits and...