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Universities for a New World
Making a Global Network in International Higher Education, 1913-2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Universities for a New World takes the Centenary of the ‘Association of Commonwealth Universities’ (ACU) as its point of departure in exploring what a 2009 ‘United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’ (UNESCO) Report has evocatively termed an ‘academic revolution’...
State Formation and the Establishment of Non-Muslim Hegemony
Post-Mughal 19th-century Punjab
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Explores one of the most crucial factors leading to the non-Islamic paradigm in the political and social fabric of Punjab—the emergence of a Sikh ‘space’ from the time of advent of the gurus.
This book examines the Punjab state under Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his rightful domination...
Statistical Methods for Practice and Research
A Guide to Data Analysis Using SPSS
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
There is a growing trend these days to use statistical methods to comprehend and explain various situations and phenomena in different disciplines. Managers, social scientists and practicing researchers are increasingly collecting information and applying scientific methods to analyze the data. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Patterns of Middle Class Consumption in India and China explores the complex history and sociology of the middle class from a comparative perspective. It has papers written by sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists rather than economists, so the emphasis is on cultural shifts rather...
Media, Communication and Development
Three Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Media, Communication and Development: Three Approaches explores and revisits the perspectives of Nora C Quebral, whose seminal work still remains a Magna Carta on the topic of development communication. It explores the three primary approaches—media for development, media development and participatory...
by John Adams, Hafiz T A Khan, Robert Raeside
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Research Methods for Business and Social Science Students aims to present a clear discussion of the research methods employed in various disciplines related to our daily life problems. The theoretical basis of research methods is explained clearly and succinctly. Collecting data is a key part of...
Restoring Values
Keys to Integrity, Ethical Behaviour and Good Governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
This volume is a wake-up call to Indians to shape their country as an ethical nation. The articles in the compilation have been written by some of the most eminent thinkers and leaders of India in various fields who are known for their commitment to living and working with integrity. It addresses...
by Professor Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, Ashok Kapur
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
A discourse on the goals set by Prime Minister Modi to guide India’s foreign policy
In India, foreign policymaking has been based in the Prime Minister’s Office because of the institutionalization of the foreign policy structure since Independence. This book highlights that in the past...
The South Asia Story
The First Sixty Years of US Relations with India and Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
This book deals with the complex and changing U.S. relations with India and Pakistan in the sixty years since World War II. It carries a series of brief sketches on how twelve U.S. presidents, starting with Franklin Roosevelt, perceived and dealt with South Asia. The author proposes that though there...
Troubled Periphery
The Crisis of India's North East
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
This book maps the evolution of India's North East into a constituent region of the republic and analyses the perpetual crisis in the region since Independence. It highlights how land, language and leadership issues have been the seed of contention in the North East and how factors like ethnicity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This book offers analysis of articulation of consumer culture and modernity in everyday lives of people in a transnational framework. It pursues three broad themes: lifestyle choices and construction of modern identities; fashion and advertising; and subaltern concerns and moral subjectivities. It...
Christmas in Calcutta
Anglo-Indian Stories and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Calcutta has one of the largest Anglo-Indian populations in the world. This is a community with members who occupy a wide range of socio-economic positions and who live a variety of lives that are always nuanced by their being Anglo-Indian. However, the community has been conveniently stereotyped...
Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857
Volume III: Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British...
Inside-Outside
Two Views of Social Change in Rural India
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Poverty in rural India: Is this a permanent condition? Are villagers immobilized by a rigid caste system, limited resources and economic exploitation? This book is about villagers who have done remarkable things with their lives—people who have broken the constraints of poverty and inequality to...