Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
My Half of the Sky
12 Life Stories of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
The 12 women who feature in this book come from diverse backgrounds. The thread that binds their stories is their resolve to change the circumstances of their lives, overcoming tremendous odds, and giving wings to their dreams. They are survivors and pathfinders, doers and dreamers, leaving in their...
Lynch Files
The Forgotten Saga of Victims of Hate Crime
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Mohammed Akhlaq and Rakbar lynched in the name of cow protection.
Chimma, a Dalit, lynched by the mob for entering a Hindu temple.
In the recent years, the cases of mob lynching of Muslims and Dalits have increased to an alarming extent. These cases are discarded and forgotten without any justice...
Women and Family Law Reform in India
Uniform Civil Code and Gender Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1992
The Constitution of India guarantees equality as a fundamental right. This, however, remains only at the level of theory as the various religious personal laws in force in the country and followed by different communities deny equality to women in personal matters. This inequitous contradiction is...
Coping with Life Stress
The Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
This book provides a new perspective to the theories of stress and coping. A holistic treatment related to stress and coping through Indian case reports and analyses makes this book unique.
This volume provides useful theoretical and practical inputs on effective coping under varying internal...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
This is the second volume containing high quality succinct papers covering current challenges in cognitive science linking it up with different interfacing disciplines like psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics and philosophy. Four different sections have highlighted the important...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Aging and dying are inevitable. However, coming to terms with this truth can be difficult, especially in the modern context with an excessive dependence and faith in biomedicine. Advances in biomedicine and life-prolongation strategies along with changes in social-cultural structures pose a different...
A Passage to Infinity
Medieval Indian Mathematics from Kerala and Its Impact
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
This book traces the first faltering steps taken in the mathematical theorisation of infinity which marks the emergence of modern mathematics. It analyses the part played by Indian mathematicians through the Kerala conduit, which is an important but neglected part of the history of mathematics.
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Bengaluru, Bangalore, Bengaluru
Imaginations and Their Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Probing into the history beyond mere historical facts, this book focuses on the 'imaginations' that have determined the course of Bengaluru over the last two-and-a-half centuries. It puts together contemporary accounts of the imaginations of those who were heard at each point of time. This approach...
by Surendra Munshi, Biju Paul Abraham, Soma Chaudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
As good governance becomes more and more important with societies all over adjusting to the reality of the emerging world, the good governance discourse paradoxically seems to be exhausting itself. This is the time to revive it.
The Intelligent Person's Guide to Good Governance is unique in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
This volume, the first in the series entitled Women and Migration in Asia, focuses on Asian women`s experience of immigration and the impact this has on their identity in the context of transnational migration. It highlights the gendered dimension of migration, the differential experience of men and...
Locating Cultural Change
Theory, Method, Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Locating Cultural Change: Theory, Method, Process is concerned with defining the 'local' through case studies of specific cultural processes. The thrust is on the institutionalization of 'local' concerns where the 'local' is the site of ideas and issues, and how these in turn influence us. The central...
Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India
Reconceptualizing the Indian Village
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2019
Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India: Reconceptualising the Indian Village investigates and presents a holistic view of today’s rural India by analysing different social aspects such as caste, migration, mobility, education and inequalities. It further studies the village social...
Assessment Centres
Identifying Potential and Developing Competency
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2002
Today`s knowledge-driven organisations recognise the importance of managing competence strategically. To harness potential and develop competencies, a technique which organisations are increasingly resorting to is—assessment centres. In this lucid book, the author covers in detail the evolution...
by Dr. Debarati Halder
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Child Sexual Abuse and Protection Laws in India presents in-depth research on the sexual abuse of children in India, the related protection laws and the gaps in current preventive measures. The book includes chapters on the nature of sexual offences theories that explain why they occur, and the laws...