Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
The Power of Positivity
Optimism and the Seventh Sense
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
The Power of Positivity: Optimism and the 7th Sense introduces the concept of optimism as the ‘seventh sense’. Highlighting the milestone achievements of world leaders in various domains, represented as harbingers of optimism, it acts as a beacon of hope and inspiration for readers to move forward...
Maoism, Democracy and Globalisation
Cross-currents in Indian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Maoism, democracy and globalization are three distinct but inseparable currents marking Indian politics today. They are distinct in terms of their goals, direction, and modalities of forging social, political, economic and even cultural change, while mutually influencing each other in the emergent...
Pro-Poor Growth and Governance in South Asia
Decentralization and Participatory Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
This important volume advocates a pro-poor growth strategy where the poor also participate directly as subjects in development. The contributors maintain that a critical element in this process is social mobilization where organizations of the poor work in partnership with a restructured state and...
China and India
History, Culture, Cooperation and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
**A close look at two of the world’s most resilient and upcoming economies to understand their growth and development trajectories **
This book brings together scholars and academicians from China as well as India to present a well-rounded perspective on various important cross-country issues...
Indian Youth and Electoral Politics
An Emerging Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
**Indian Youth and Electoral Politics **studies the significant relationship between Indian youth and electoral politics in the country. The book answers many pertinent questions: Does a young candidate matter to the young voters? Do youth vote more enthusiastically if there are young candidates...
Our Toxic World
A Guide to Hazardous Substances in our Everyday Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The mode of development that the world-and India-has followed has led to a situation where we are surrounded by numerous hazardous substances in our everyday lives, which affect the health of people, of other living creatures, and of the planet as a whole. Our Toxic World is an effort to shine a keen...
Dalits in India
Search for a Common Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Dalits in India: Search for Common Destiny explores the status of Dalits in the country by presenting all-India and state-level analyses of various human development and related social and economic indicators. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the processes and dynamics that exclude them...
Strengthening Policy Research
Role of Think Tank Initiative in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Strengthening Policy Research: Role of Think Tank Initiative in South Asia is a vivid presentation of the diverse journeys of think tanks under the aegis of the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) programme managed by the International Development Research Centre in South Asia. The book extensively discusses...
Countering Naxalism with Development
Challenges of Social Justice and State Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book, for the first time, presents an authentic assessment and presentation of the human development and security challenges faced by districts of the country that have a high concentration of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Countering Naxalism with Development: Challenges of Social...
State of the Adivasis in Odisha 2014
A Human Development Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The State of the Adivasis in Odisha 2014: A Human Development Analysis endeavours to identify and highlight the development concerns of the tribals of the state, explore their causes and provide an opportunity to the state planners in prioritising the human development issues specific to this community.
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Those Who Did Not Die
Impact of the Agrarian Crisis on Women in Punjab
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Even as they produce food for society and its people, lives dependent on agriculture are barely able to make ends meet. The cost of food production far outweighs the returns; the peasantry is falling prey to indebtedness, both institutionalized and non- institutionalized. It is facing the severest...
Right to Work and Rural India
Working of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is the first of its kind in the world wherein the government guarantees rights-based economic safety net for two-thirds of the country's population. This comprehensive book is an attempt to understand the working of the operational part of...
A Gender Atlas of India
With Scorecard
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
A Gender Atlas of India is a seminal body of work which comprehensively maps and grades India’s performance from 2001 to 2016 on issues of concern for women. Taking into account 8 overall indicators and 28 sub-indicators, it looks at how India is performing on various aspects, including sex ratio,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The field of media and communication has expanded substantially in China over the last few decades. New Media and the Transformations of Social Life in China covers in detail the main aspects related to media in China, including new media technologies, social networks, media convergence, smart cities,...