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Special Economic Zones In India - Myths And Realities

by Amitendu Palit e Subhomoy Bhattacharjee

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 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are turning out to be one of the stiffest challenges for Indias economic policy reforms. Since the announcement of SEZ rules on 10 February 2006, these zones have aroused unprecedented controversy. The emotionally charged debate on SEZs has often produced inflexible positions on either side. The unusually strong public reaction has also forced policymakers to revisit several aspects of the policy in recent months.Why are SEZs so controversial? Will they really exacerbate income inequality, endanger food security and worsen regional imbalance? Or will they help Indian industry in taking its final leap onto the global arena? Only time will provide the answers. As the first book on Indias SEZs, this volume examines different popular perceptions both good and bad surrounding these zones. Apart from the international evidence and the Indian story, the book looks closely at critical issues like financial viability, land requirements, extant rules and the political economy of SEZs. Admitting that the last word on the subject is far from being spoken, the book contends that the SEZ saga will be a test of strength for the country's social and political consensus on its economic policies and future reforms. Introduced by eminent economist Bibek Debroy, this book is a must-read.
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Insider'S Experience Of Insurgency In India'S North-East

by J. R. Mukherjee

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 Written with empathy and lucidity, Mukherjees book combines hard fact with sensitive insight in his approach to the regions landscape, people and history. The author analyses problems intrinsic to this enigmatic area, offering viable solutions where possible. As former Chief of Staff of the Eastern Command, Mukherjee forms astute observations about the north-easts conditions. Drawing on his 41 years of experience with north-eastern soldiers, ex-servicemen and their families, he is able to explore the perspectives of both the north-eastern people and those who oppose them.
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Taiwan Today

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 The 1980s economic boom in East Asia drew the world’s attention towards Taiwan. The Four East Asian Tigers – South Korea Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan – hardly appeared as developing areas as they achieved phenomenal success in their growth-oriented strategies and effectively advanced the standard of living of their people. Taiwan’s outstanding economic performance was noticed and appreciated by both the government and non-government circles in India. East Asia today is undoubtedly the most dynamic region of the world in terms of economic growth and development. India’s ‘Look East Policy’, formed in the mid-1990s, has widened the arena for a multidimensional relationship with the greater East Asian region. India-Taiwan economic relations have been growing and the setting up of economic and cultural centres has promoted people-to-people contacts. Cultural and educational ties between the two nations are also increasing. This book is inspired by a conference titled ‘Taiwan Today’ organized by the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi. The Department of East Asian Studies is one of the few academic centres where all the entities in the East Asian region are studied and researched. This book will be very useful for those interested or engaged in research on East Asia.
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Science, Spirituality And The Modernization Of India

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 Spirituality played a key role in the construction of Indian modernity. While science has certainly been an agent of modernization in India and other non-Western countries, what makes Indian modernity somewhat special is that spiritual leaders have also been instrumental in the process. Moreover, leading Indian scientists and spiritualists have recognized the immense potential for dialogue between the two disciplines. Post-colonial India, with its ready access to a holistic spirituality and significant achievements in science and technology, is a fertile site for such a dialogue.Each of the books four sections addresses specific themes: (1) The tension not just between science and spirituality, but also between the East and West; (2) how some key figures in India became carriers of modern consciousness, and explored the relationship between science and spirituality in the very process of trying to reform their society; (3) significant areas of research in which science and spirituality are both deeply implicated; and (4) the relationship of both scientific and spiritual practice with gender and social justice.
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Fleeing People Of South Asia - Selections From Refugee Watch

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 This definitive collection of essays from 'Refugee Watch' is a comprehensive study of human displacement, covering many regions, addressing differing causes of refugee crises, and providing analysis on guiding principles, human rights and women's rights. 'Refugee Watch', in its decade-long 30-volume journey, has sought to capture the agony, tension and struggle of the refugees and internally displaced in South Asia in its different dimensions. The present Selections are a sincere attempt to grasp the multi-dimensionality of the journal within two covers.
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Renaissance Themes - Essays Presented To Arun Kumar Das Gupta

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 Essays Presented to Arun Kumar Das Gupta. Arun Kumar Das Gupta taught English literature for over 40 years, first at Presidency College, Kolkata, and then at the University of Calcutta. His interpretations of Western literature and thought, particularly of the Renaissance, shaped a whole generation of students. Some of them have produced this volume of essays in tribute to their mentor. NP Two essays directly address the intellectual milieu of the European Renaissance. Sukanta Chaudhuri examines the unusual merger of modes and registers in Renaissance philosophic discourse, while Niranjan Goswami looks at a particular
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Changing Identity Of Rural India - A Socio-Historic Analysis

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 The book explores the pattern of rural development in contemporary India from a multidisciplinary and historical perspective. The essays overcome the limits of disciplinary approaches to provide a comprehensive analysis of the processes of change and growth at work in the Indian countryside and to review the social and cultural dynamics that have led to the contemporary situation. Providing an analysis of the economic, political and social changes experienced in rural India, they examine the interactions between actors and institutions at different levels. Some contributions focus on the impact of state policies on rural development and on the rationale of capitalistic expansion in the Indian countryside, while others analyse how the changes are promoted, adopted and resisted at the local level.The general issue raised in the book refers to the assessment of the nature and working of contemporary Indian rural economy. In order to analyse the complexity of the rural economy and the forms it takes in different Indian contexts, this issue has been deconstructed considering, in turn, the process of rural change, the impact of rural growth on working and living conditions, and finally the categories of the inhabitants of rural areas and the construction of their identities in colonial and post-colonial rural India.
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South Asia 2060 - Envisioning Regional Futures

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 South Asia 2060 is a dialogue among 47 experts from a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds, ranging from policymakers to academia to civil society activists and visionaries, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asias future. The collection explores current regional trends, possible future trajectories, and the key factors that will determine whether these trajectories are positive or negative for the region, as a region. Departing from a purely security-based analysis, the volume considers factors such as development and human well-being to reveal not what will happen but what could happen, as well as the impact present conditions could have on the rest of the world.
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Stages Of Life - Indian Theatre Autobiographies

by Kathryn Hansen

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 Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.
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Religion And Identity In South Asia And Beyond - Essays In Honor Of Patrick Olivelle

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 This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
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An Introduction To Changing India - Culture, Politics And Development

by Minna Saavala e Sirpa Tenhunen

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 This book provides a comprehensive view on rapidly changing India. It covers Indian culture, politics, economy and technology, as well as population and environmental issues.
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Imagined Mobility - Migration And Transnationalism Among Indian Students In Australia

by Michiel Baas

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 This book critically examines the history and current issues on the migration of Indian students to Australia.
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Dialogics Of Self, The Mahabharata And Culture - The History Of Understanding And Understanding Of History

by Lakshmi Bandlamudi

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 'Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History' explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtinâ€™s theory of dialogics.
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South Asian Media Cultures - Audiences, Representations, Contexts

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 'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.
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Religion, Law And Power - Tales Of Time In Eastern India, 1860-2000

by Ishita Banerjee-Dube

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 Examines the interplay of distinct yet overlapping facets of history, Hinduism, the state and the nation in Eastern India.
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Bengal Partition Stories - An Unclosed Chapter

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 Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland.
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Essays In Indian History - Towards A Marxist Perception

by Irfan Habib

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 This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.
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Aboard The Democracy Train - A Journey Through Pakistan'S Last Decade Of Democracy

by Nafisa Hoodbhoy

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 'Aboard the Democracy Train' is a gripping front-line account of Pakistan's decade of turbulent democracy (1988-1999), as told through the eyes of the only woman reporter working during the Zia era for the nation's leading English language newspaper.
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The Retreat Of Democracy And Other Itinerant Essays On Globalization, Economics, And India

by Kaushik Basu

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 â€˜The Retreat of Democracyâ€™ presents an expanded and reworked selection of Basu's best journalistic writings on political and economic themes since the late 1990s.
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Mad Tales From The Raj - Colonial Psychiatry In South Asia, 1800-58

by Waltraud Ernst

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 This revised and enlarged reprint provides a comprehensive assessment of the British response to mental illness among both colonizers and the colonized during the East India Company's rule in India.
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India And The Global Financial Crisis - Managing Money And Finance

by Y. V. Reddy

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 â€˜India and the Global Financial Crisisâ€™ offers a collection of key speeches delivered by Reddy during his tenure as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and provides insights into the challenges facing the management of India's calibrated integration within the global economy.
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Empowering Visions - The Politics Of Representation In Hindu Nationalism

by Christiane Brosius

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 An examination of the politics of representation in Hindu nationalism.
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Empowering Visions - The Politics Of Representation In Hindu Nationalism

by Christiane Brosius

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 An examination of the politics of representation in Hindu nationalism.
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The Bengal Borderland - Beyond State And Nation In South Asia

by Willem Van Schendel

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 A look at South Asia beyond state and nation.
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