Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
by K G Karmakar, G D Banerjee, N P Mohapatra
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Towards Financial Inclusion in India is a treatise on ‘inclusion of the Last, the Lost and the Least’. It provides an in-depth analysis of the various pillars of financial inclusion such as micro-remittance, micro-savings, micro-credit and micro-insurance.
The book stresses on financial...
by Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
The Indian Media Business, Fourth Edition gives you detailed analysis, perspective and information on eight segments of the media business in India—print, TV, film, radio, music, digital, outdoor, and events. It presents the business history, current dynamics, regulation, economics, technology,...
Community Natural Resource Management and Poverty in India
The Evidence from Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
A comparative analysis of two contrasting strategies in the implementation of Community Natural Resource Management (CNRM) programmes in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh
This book examines whether the introduction of CNRM schemes in rural India made an impact on poverty alleviation. These programmes...
Sustainability and Human Settlements
Fundamental Issues, Modeling and Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2005
This book—an outcome of the authors’ ongoing research on the complex relationships between humans and water in an urban context—presents an integrated model for assessing and forecasting the sustainability of human settlements, particularly urban communities. After introducing the conceptual...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
India is, at present, embarking upon a major reform of its indirect tax system. This book highlights the importance of an integrated fiscal regime promoting innovations in efficient resource management, taxing polluting inputs and outputs, and spreading awareness about the problems facing the environment...
Police and Counterinsurgency
The Untold Story of Tripura’s COIN Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
How Good Policing Can Help Fight Insurgencies In Conflict-Ridden Societies.
Globally, the role of local police has been receiving increased attention following conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The criminalization of insurgent networks coupled with the growing nexus of warlords and drug lords...
Revisiting Nuclear India
Strategic Culture and (In)Security Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
A novel investigation in defining the country’s nuclear policy choices since 1947
Interrogating the socially constructed nature of a nation’s strategic culture to explain its nuclear security policies is not a common practice in the mainstream scholarships of strategic culture studies and...
Water First
Issues and Challenges for Nations and Communities in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
This book outlines the contemporary issues and challenges that confront both the nations and the communities of the South Asian region, particularly India, where control over water has always been a symbol of social and political power. It explores the adequacy of the competing and/or complementary...
Skill Training for Social Workers
A Manual
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Skill Training for Social Workers: A Manual, responds to the demand for indigenous textbooks and teaching materials for social work educators, scholars and students. Unlike theory books of social work which list the skills required for the practice of social work methods but do not enable the development...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
This volume is focused on Asian women who migrate either globally or across the Asian continent or within their respective countries in order to seek work. The contributors cover a broad terrain of issues including the changing gender composition of migration streams; the motivations of individual...
Social Sector Communication in India
Concepts, Practices, and Case studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
A first-of-its-kind book on social sector communication in India that combines concepts with hands-on skills
Social sector communication helps address issues by influencing policy and can be used to bring about desired behavioral change among the targeted public. This book not only highlights...
India Connected
Mapping the Impact of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
A first-of-its-kind analysis of the growth of new media in Digital India from a broad communications and interdisciplinary perspective
Can new media help in bringing about development or contribute to social movements? Who is left out of the new media equation? How is the public sphere affected...
Enlightenment and Violence
Modernity and Nation-Making
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Enlightenment and Violence is a history of ideas that proposes a multi-centred and non-Eurocentric interpretation of the Enlightenment as a human heritage. This comparative study reconstructs how modernity was negotiated in different intellectual and political contexts as a national discourse within...
by Manohar Pawar
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Social and Community Development Practice makes a persuasive case for employing a social development approach to community development practice at local and village levels. Towards this end, the book offers a conceptual clarity of social and community development (SCD) by adding new dimensions. It...