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Soft cover. Condición: As New. Social media produces numerous spaces and opportunities, globally, for people to link up, reach out, mobilise, assert their identity, build bridges. For those on the margins, this virtual alternative enables them to break down otherwise impenetrable social barriers and form close-knit digifams. Is social media, then, a credible space for building social movements? Who is using it to register dissent, affect change? How successful have such movements been in taking over the digital public sphere? Are the prejudices that exist offline, present online as well? What is the political fallout of multidirectional conversations on the Internet? What about the backlash from trolls and gatekeepers? Situating Social Media: Gender, Caste, Protest, Solidarity enquires into the possibilities and actual practices of activism and solidarity-building on social media, across the tropes of gender, caste, class, religion, political ideology and disaster. Its wide-ranging essays examine the reportage of incidents and issues by a path-breaking YouTube channel like Dalit Camera; analyse different movements that not only trended online but also thrived on the streets like #MeToo, Pink Chaddi and Gay for a Day campaigns; unpack the Help Uttarakhand mobilisation for climate disaster victims; and attempt a theory of what makes the digital public click.

Softcover. Condición: Very good condition. xiii, 157 pp. International Writers Center Series. Softcover. LCC: 99054687.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1975. Mammals, natural history. Dr. W. Junk, The Hague. Very good dark red cloth, good dust jacket 624p. 8/25 third floor.

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword by Ranabir Samaddar. The Grid: The stateless and the citizen/Paula Banerjee, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury and Atig Ghosh. 1. Words of law, worlds of loss: the stateless people of the Indo-Bangladeshi enclaves/Atig Ghosh. 2. The remains of partition? The citizenship question of stateless Hindus in India/Sahana Basavapatna. 3. Ordeal of citizenship: the up-country Tamils in Sri Lanka and India/Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury. 4. The Chinese of Calcutta: a case of statelessness/Suhit K. Sen. 5. The stateless Chakmas in Arunachal Pradesh/Samir Kumar Das and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury. 6. Elusive home-thoughts: the unstable world of the Lhotsampas in South Asia/Atig Ghosh and Pravina Gurung. 7. Ambiguous identities: statelessness of Gorkhas in North-East India/Anup Shekhar Chakraborty and Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty. Bibliography. Index. Statelessness is defined as the quality of being without a state, a nationality, or even the protection that nationality should offer. Addressing the lacuna in literature on stateless people in post-colonial South Asia, this study brings together the lived experiences of diverse stateless groups within a comparative framework. Through research conducted across dissimilar groups in different geographical locations-India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan-it asks some critical questions: How are certain groups and communities-often, the minorities-rendered stateless? Is the existing legal regime adequate to deal with the problem of statelessness? And do policymakers now need to think beyond legal terms, as judicial activism has clearly proved ineffective? Demonstrating that continued situations of dislocation and/or refugeehood can produce statelessness, the book elaborates a new way of thinking about this increasingly important field of study and suggests a way towards framing better and more inclusive international and national laws to deal with this issue. With its cross-disciplinary approach, this volume will be invaluable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of international relations, political science, law, history and refugee studies. It will also be useful to research centres and non-governmental organisations working on/with stateless and refugee groups across the world.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Contents: Preface. 1. Santimay Chatterjee/M.N. Saha, S.N. Bose and N.R. Sen. 2. Ramchandra--a pioneer among science popularisers in 19th century India/S. Irfan Habib. 3. Ray's life and experiences as a text on the history of science/Dhruv Raina. 4. George Sarton and the 'Two Cultures'/Ashish Lahiri. 5. Ram Brahma Sanyal and the Asiatic society/D.K. Mittra. 6. Satish Chandra's journey from nationalisation to nationalism/Subhendu Dasgupta. 7. Science and philosophy on symmetry and spirituality/D.P. Chattopadhyaya. 8. Search for new planets/Jayant V. Narlikar. 9. Susruta-Samhita : from Devil worship to modern surgery/R.L. Brahmachary. 10. History of meteorology and monsoons in India/N. Sen Roy and K. Prasad. 11. Teaching the history of technology/Bruce E. Seely. 12. Guatemalan blues : a social history of Indigo technology in colonial central America/Judith Vidal. 13. The changing gender authority in American home appliance technology : dishwasher and washing machine patents from 1860 to 1950/Orville R. Butler. 14. Environment concern through the ages/Prasad Ray. 15. A Canal-Wallah in India/William E. Trout, III. 16. Image inscriptions as source material for history of technology : a case study/Jagatpati Sarkar. 17. Orientalism and technology : a case study of introduction of voice-recording in India/Amitabha Ghosh. "The present volume is a mosaic of articles, a witness to the emergence of different schools of historiography who debate about bracketing science and technology together, about internal history (of viewing the scientific community as a society in itself) and external history (study of science in society at large) or even about whether sciences and not science in general merit their own history with regional variations. Some of the articles discuss personalities who have seen to the emergence of this country as a meaningful participant in the international sphere of scientific studies, relate science to other disciplines and also trace the rich heritage of endeavours in specific areas like medicine in the ancient period or voice recording technology in the early years of this century. Together with these, developments in technology in certain areas, beyond the frontiers of this nation have also been discussed. Nothing is too insignificant to be taken note of, not even dishwashers (gender issue in technology) or the canal system (industrial archaeology) in the broad canvas of history of sciences." (jacket).

Hardcover. Condición: Fair.

Soft cover. Condición: New. Contents: Foreword: Suniti Kumar Chatterji and the Contemporary Relevance of His Work/Pabitra Sarkar. Introduction. Part I: Reinstating Suniti Kumar Chatterji s Legacy in Contemporary Linguistics. 1. Suniti Kumar and Rabindranath: Bangla Linguistics/Krishna Bhattacharya. 2. Recuperating Suniti Kumar Chatterji s Opposition to the Structuralist Legacy/Probal Dasgupta. Part II: Languages and Cultures in South Asia. 3. Exploring Odia Culture: A Study of Some Odia Cultural Narratives and Practices/B. N. Patnaik. 4. Language, Violence and Power/Tariq Rahman. 5. Origin of Sinhala and Kalinga-Lanka Linguistic Affinities/Sandagomi Coperahewa. 6. Two Less-Studied Chapters of Indology: Kirata Jana and Ahira Jana/Suniti Kumar Pathak. Part III: Essays in Modern Linguistics. 7. A Comparative Note on the Bangla Particle to and the German Particle doch/Josef Bayer. 8. Splitting and Recombining Abstract Lexical Levels in Contact Phenomena/Carol Myers-Scotton. 9. Translation Theory as an Ever-Emerging Phenomenon/Udaya Narayana Singh. 10. Bengali Post lexical Rules: Lengthening and Shortening/Aditi Lahiri. Index. Suniti Kumar Chatterji, a magnificent luminary with profound erudition, logical perception, humanistic attitude and aesthetic sense, was one of the world s foremost linguists and a culture scientist . Reckoned as the doyen of Indian linguistics, his oeuvre spanned book-length publications, essays and lectures on diverse topics, profiles of distant nations, travelogues and sketches. His versatile knowledge and his holistic approach to language and linguistics made him a true ambassador of Indian scholarship and culture. Language, Culture and Linguistics: Essays in Honour of Suniti Kumar Chatterji is an homage to Professor Suniti Kumar Chatterji and to his contribution to the world of linguistics. The volume is a compilation eleven articles authored by eminent scholars, and not only recapitulates Chatterji s reputation as an erudite scholar, but also discusses contemporary developments in linguistics, complementing his work. The volume puts forward a range of modern and traditional approaches to understand language, linguistics and culture from a global perspective.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 187 pages, a very good plus hardback, publisher's original maroon cloth binding with bright gilt lettering to the spine and the publisher's logo in gilt to the front cover, from a uk university & appears unused [9061930804].

Hardcover. Condición: New. 204 pp.

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword by Pratap Bhanu Mehta. Introduction. Part I: 1. The judiciary and the right to environment in India: past, present and future/Lovleen Bhullar. 2. Procedural environmental rights in Indian law/Shibani Ghosh. Part II: 3. Sustainable development and Indian environmental jurisprudence/Saptarishi Bandopadhyay. 4. The polluter pays principle: scope and limits of judicial decisions/Lovleen Bhullar. 5. The precautionary principle/Lavanya Rajamani. 6. Public trust doctrine in indian environmental law/Shibani Ghosh. 7. The judicial implementation of environmental law in India/Dhvani Mehta. Notes on the contributors. Index. For more than three decades now, the Indian courts have delivered far-reaching judgments on a range of significant environmental matters. In their effort to adjudicate complex disputes with serious environmental repercussions, involving the interplay of multiple social, economic and political factors, the courts have developed a framework of environmental rights and legal principles, which now forms an integral part of Indian environmental jurisprudence. The judiciary invokes this framework creatively to identify constitutional, statutory and common law obligations of public and private actors to protect the environment, and to enforce the performance of related duties. There is, however, limited in-depth study of these crucial rights and principles in existing legal literature. Indian Environmental Law: Key Concepts and Principles fills this gap through its critical analysis of the evolution of this environmental legal framework in India. It studies the origins of environmental rights, substantive and procedural, and the four most significant legal principles- principle of sustainable development, polluter pays principle, precautionary principle and the public trust doctrine-and elaborates how Indian courts have defined, interpreted and applied them across a range of contexts. As environmental litigation and legal adjudication struggle to respond to this crisis, conceptual clarity about the content, application and limitations of environmental rights and legal principles is crucial for the improvement of environmental governance. This book explores the judicial reasoning and underlying assumptions in landmark judgments of the Supreme Court, the High Courts and the National Green Tribunal, and aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive understanding of this framework of rights and principles.

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Under the series Erotics in Kalidasa will be presented the first ever study of the seven world famous works of Dipasikha Kalidasa with reference to erotics in ten volumes. The present is the fifth volume entitled Nayaka nayika Nakha-Sikhanirupana which comprises the novel and the first ever detailed study of Angas of both males and females accomplished with reference to the greatest Sanskrit poet Kavi-Kulaguru Dipasikha Kalidasa. This study is divided into three stabakas. The first stabaka subdivided into three puspas, deals with the subject matter and theme of the study. The second stabaka divided into ten puspas deals with the sastric and technical analysis of all body parts (angas) of human body. The third stabaka divided into ten puspas presents an exhaushive and critical study of angas from the seven renowned works of Kavikula-siromani Dipasikha Kalidasa which is full of beautiful descriptions. Index and Sandarbhagranth-Anukramanika is also annexed with the volume. At the end is appended a detailed bibliography. This volume is presented to the scholars with humility. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condición: New. Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Is there a Taliban 2.0? Reflecting on the Past to Understand the Present/Anwesha Ghosh. 2. Taliban Takeover Afghanistan: What's Next?/Anwesha Ghosh. 3. The Taliban in 'Power': Twenty Years of US Involvement in Afghanistan/Stuti Banerjee. 4. Russia's Poised Strategic Ambivalence in Afghanistan/Vivek Mishra. 5. Swift Changes in Afghanistan and Central Asia's Response/Athar Zafar. 6. China's Domestic Debate and Strategic Objectives vis-a-vis Recent Developments in Afghanistan/Sanjeev Kumar. 7. The Iranian Approach to the Taliban: Understanding Changes and Continuities/Deepika Saraswat. 8. Taliban 2.0 and the Arab World: Past and Present/Fazzur Rahman Siddiqui. 9. Qatar's emergence as a key player in Afghanistan/Anwesha Ghosh. 10. Europe's Afghanistan Conundrum/Ankita Dutta. 11. Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan: Anxieties in Africa/Sankalp Gurjar. 12. Southeast Asia and the Return of Taliban in Afghanistan/Temjenmeren Ao. 13. Latin America and Afghanistan/Stuti Banerjee. 14. The Race to Fill the Strategic Vacuum in Afghanistan Portends Instability/Vivek Mishra. 15. G20 pledges aid to avert humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan/Anwesha Ghosh. Index. The Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi has been following the recent developments in Afghanistan closely and have been reflecting upon them through its various research publications. This edited volume, comprising research papers by the Research Faculty of ICWA, focuses on the recent crisis in Afghanistan, its fallout and the responses of the regional countries on the same. Discussions in this issue attempt to bring together fifteen research papers of ICWA on the developments in Afghanistan between July and November 2021.

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Premchand on National Language is a collection of his writings, translated from Hindi into English, spannin the years from 1931 to 1936. The debates over Hindi as national language in the Devanagari script and the nature of contestations with Urdu in the Persian script led to an intellectual polarization that furthered the split between Hindus and Muslims. The need for a common language was generally accepted but to consider Hindi as national language was not accepted easily as its most challenging contender was English. The views and opinions on the issue of Hindi as 'rashtrabhasha' by leaders and intellectuals like Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Madan Mohan Malaviya, Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Lady Abdul Qadir, and others, referred to by Premchand gives us an insight into the turbulence of the times. His writings are largely in the form of reports, observations and critical comments that trace the chequered and contested issue of the history of proposing Hindi as the national language and even almost nine decades after, its relevance remains. Hindi, along with English is still not the national language, but the official language of India. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condición: New. Contents: Introduction/Ritwick Bhattacharjee and Saikat Ghosh. 1. The Spectral Witness in Contemporary Indian Horror Cinema/Anhiti Pattnaik. 2. Conjuring an Atmosphere: A Study of Tumbbad as Folk Horror/Sakshi Dogra. 3. Embodying Horror: Corporeal and Affective Dread in Junji Ito's Tomie/Shweta Khilnani. 4. Feminine Sexuality and Sexual Trauma in Bengali Horror Fiction: The Emergence of the Goddess/Puja Sen Majumdar. 5. The Horror of Heteronormativity: The Supernatural in Vijay Detha's A Double Life/Aina Singh. 6. Historical Time and Mythical Monsters: Negotiating of Mortality in MT Vasudevan Nair's 'Little Earthquakes'/Meenu B. 7. Genres from the Orient: Instability in Shweta Taneja's Cult of Chaos/Samarth Singhal. 8. Funny Ghosts, Friendly Ghosts: A Study of How Indian English Pre-Teen Horror Fiction Turns Fear on its Head/Anurima Chanda. 9. Mythopoeia and Horror in the Global South: Reading Umpanyu Chatterjee's Fairy Tales at Fifty/Srinjoyee Dutta. 10. Spirits and Possessions/Rajarshi Bhattacharjee. 11. Oriental Vampires vs. British Imperialists: Looking into the Figure of the Vampire in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Richard Burton's Vikram and the Vampire/Meenakshi Sharma. 12. Monsters of the Caribbean: Haunting Histories and Haunted Bodies in The Rainmaker's Mistake and Soucouyant/Jarrel De Matas. 13. The Corporeality of Horror: Spectres of War Victims in the Post 2003 Gothic Narratives from Iraq/Sushrita Acharjee. 14. Horror at the Margins: Phobic Essence and the 'Uncanny' Home in Contemporary Asian Gothic Literatures/Soumyarup Bhattacharjee. 15. Terror and Wartime Cosmologies in Liu Cixin/Krushna Dande. Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures, Narratives, and Representations believes that the experiences of horror are not just individual but also/simultaneously cultural. Within this understanding, literary productions become rather potent sites for the relation of such experiences both on the individual and the cultural front. It's not coincidental, then, that either William Blatty's The Exorcist or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude become archetypes of the re-presentations of the way horror affects individuals placed inside different cultures. Such an affectation, though, is but a beginning of the ways in which the supernatural interacts with the human and gives rise to horror. Considering that almost all aspects of what we now designate as the Global North, and its concomitant, the Global South political, historical, social, economic, cultural, and so on function as different paradigms, the experiences of horror and their telling in stories become functionally different as well. Added to this are the variations that one nation or culture of the east has from another. The present anthology of essays, in such a scheme of things, seeks to examine and demonstrate these cultural differences embedded in the impact that figures of horror and specters of the night have on the narrative imagination of storytellers from the Global South. If horror has an everyday presence in the phenomenal reality that Southern cultures subscribe to, it demands alternative phenomenology. The anthology allows scholars and connoisseurs of Horror to explore theoretical possibilities that may help address precisely such a need.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Condition : Fair/very usable study copy. Hard cover, no jacket. Former university library copy with associated markings. 533pp. No highlighting or annotations to text. Originally a review copy. Shelf wear/edges bumped. Photo on request.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. The present volume brings together a collection of writings by eminent scholars that seek to interrogate the processes of development from theoretical and practical points of view. The treatment of development as a discourse in this book can be helpful to cross-examine possibilities as well as consequences of development from multiple, contextual and synoptic points of view and also to locate changes in the meaning of development over time and space. The sixteen essays in the volume focus on five vital areas: (a) the discourse of development; (b) state, market and civil society; (c) gender and development; (d) science, environment and development; and (e) society, community and development. The discussion not only raises certain critical issues on the subject today with particular reference to the Indian experience, it also suggests certain viable alternatives to resolve the impasse. Thought-provoking and comprehensive, this volume will appeal to a vast readership, ranging from students of development studies, sociology, gender studies, political science, social work, social anthropology and cultural studies to professionals like development planners, policy makers, politicians and activists. (jacket).

The global financial crisis that exploded around September 2008 was just one more in a series of crises that have affected more than sixty countries in the era of financial liberalization Of course the latest crisis is particularly significant in a number of ways it originated in the core of capitalism in the United States; it has spread dramatically across the world even to countries that earlier seemed to be relatively secure; it calls into question many of the mainstream economic dogmas that have dominated economic policy-making for more than two decades Yet in some other ways the current crisis is not very different from those that have preceded it in the recent pastJuly 2007 marked the completion of a decade since the onset of financial crisis in several East and Southeast Asian countries The crisis of 1997 focused attention on the dangers associated with a world dominated by fluid finance It brought home the fact that financial liberalization can result in crises even in so-called ?miracle economies? Prior to the crisis the pace and pattern of growth in many countries in that region were challenging the dominance of the original capitalist powers over the global economy The 1997 crisis set back that process and even after a decade many of these countries have not been able to recover their pre-crisis dynamismIn hindsight it is clear that currency and financial crises have devastating effects on the real economy The ensuing liquidity crunch and wave of bankruptcies result in severe deflation with attendant consequences for employment and the standard of living The adoption post-crisis of conventional IMF stabilization strategies tends to worsen the situation governments continue to adopt very restrictive macroeconomic policies and restrain public expenditure even in crucial social sectors Finally asset-price deflation and devaluation pave the way for foreign capital inflows that finance a transfer of ownership of assets from domestic to foreign investors thereby enabling a conquest by international capital of important domestic assets and resourcesThis book delineates the alternative trajectories of post-crisis development in different economies the lessons they offer and the implications they have for alternative policies It is important to take stock of these processes because it is becoming evident that the international financial system has still not evolved effective ways of preventing such crises among emerging economies and of reducing their damaging effects This book therefore has a wider focus than the East Asian ?crisis economies? alone it tries to situate post-crisis developments in a broader analysis of the recent political economy of international capitalism in particular the role of mobile finance It also offers comparative perspectives on post-crisis restructuring in other developing countries that have experienced crisis; as well as on the experience of other Asian countries that were affected by but did not experience the financial crisis While the essays in this book were originally written in 2007 they remain extraordinarily relevant to the present times not least because they anticipate the processes that led to the global financial meltdown in 2008 Many of them predict the severe impact the current global crisis is having on both financial variables and the real economy in developing countries in particular 316 pp.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Glazed decorated boards. Small scuff at head of spine. 335pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Cross-Cultural Networking in the Eastern Indian Ocean Realm examines the history of the Bay of Bengal and beyond, as initially documented in archaeological recoveries from AD 100 to AD 900 and subsequently the variety of regional historical evidence that demonstrates India's eastern Indian Ocean maritime and northern overland connections to the nineteenth century. In sum, the book highlights the importance and variety of consequence in east-coast India's linkage with the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal and the extended eastern Indian Ocean, especially India's eastern maritime and overland networking with South-East Asia and China. In the eighth century post-Gupta era the Buddhist religious centre at Nalanda in north-west Bengal assumed a major role as the destination of Indian and international Buddhist pilgrims who arrived by sea and land to study at Nalanda, and returned to promote Buddhist and Hindu religious and cultural exchanges in wider India and Sri Lanka, South-East Asia, and China through the fifteenth century. The book details India's long-term historical relationships with the legendary Sumatra-based Srivijaya Thalassocracy and its successors in the Straits of Melaka region, sequential Vietnam coastline-based polities c.6001800s, and the Andaman Islands and Tibet, as populations in northern and eastern Asia selectively localized South Asian culture.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Contents: Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area: 1. Reflections on the Great Himalayan National Park/Payson Stevens. 2. GHNP: The Wilds and Its People/Sanjeeva Pandey. Kaziranga National Park: 3. Kaziranga Diaries/Sonali Ghosh. 4. Kaziranga: The Gem of India/Asad Rahmani. 5. Back to the Future: One Hundred Years of Conservation/Bittu Sahgal and Ranjit Barthakur. Keoladeo National Park: 6. The Keoladeo Ghana of Bharatpur (Rajasthan)/Salim Ali. 7. A Bharatpur Aficionado Remembers/Peter Jackson. 8. Bharatpur: Brushstrokes from the Past/Ranjit Lal. Khangchendzonga National Park: 9. Securing Khangchendzonga: Healthy Forests, Happy People/Sandeep Tambe. 10. Aspiration/Francis Younghusband. Manas Wildlife Sanctuary: 11. Manas: Monkeys and Mysteries/E.P. Gee. 12. Monuments Men: A Story for Manas/Sonali Ghosh. 13. The Magic of Manas/Asad Rahmani. Royal Manas National Park: 14. Finding Culture through Nature/Tenzin Wangchuk. 15. Treasures of the Thunder Dragon/Ashi Dori Wangmo Wangchuck. Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks: 16. In the Shadow of Nanda Devi/Samir Sinha. 17. Becoming a Mountain/Stephen Alter. 18. On Doing Nothing/Frank S. Smythe. Sundarbans National Park: 19. The Sundarbans Inheritance: Protecting a People's Legacy/Bittu Sahgal. 20. Sundarban: A Mystical Tiger Swamp/Pradeep Vyas and Cheena Vyas. 21. An Epiphany/Amitav Ghosh. The Sundarbans: 22. The Lord of Mud and Tide/Ruth Padel. 23. The Princess of Angtihara/Samia Saif. Western Ghats: 24. Mountains of the Monsoon/Kamal Bawa and Sandesh Kadur. 25. A Wealth of Wildlife/Prerna Singh Bindra. 26. Cliff Goats/E.R.C. Davidar. 27. Kas Plateau: Tackling the Tourism Tsunami/Prerna Agarwal. 28. A Day in Periyar/M. Krishnan. 29. Nagarahole: A World of Predators/K. Ullas Karanth. 30. Sacred Groves: Memories of What Had Been/Erach Bharucha. 31. Silent Valley: Whispers of Reason/Sugatha Kumari. 32. A Sojourn through the Sahyadris/Girish Punjabi. 33. A More than Memorable Trek/A.J.T. Johnsingh. 34. Seasons in the Sun: An Avian Rhapsody/Manoj Nair. 35. For All Things Little/Anuranjan Roy. Band-e-Amir (Afghanistan): 36. Band-e-Amir National Park: A Sacred Land of Azure Lakes/Abdul Wali Modaqiq and Richard Paley. Central Highlands of Sri Lanka: 37. Wonders Hidden in the Mist/Dishane Hewavithana, Eric Wikramanayake, Manori Gunawardena and Dhiya Sathananthan. 38. Into the Wet: Field Notes from Sri Lanka's Wet Zone/Ian Lockwood. Chitwan National Park (Nepal): 39. Kingdom of the Unicorn/Alex Dudley. 40. Chitwan: A Heavenly Abode/Kanchan Thapa. Hukaung Valley Wildlife Sanctuary (Myanmar): 41. The Valley of Death/Alan Rabinowitz. Lut Desert (Iran): 42. Extreme: The Incredible Ecosystem of Earth's Hottest Spot/Richard Stone. Sagarmatha National Park (Nepal): 43. Mount Everest: Return of the Snow Leopard/Som B. Vale. Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries: Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains (China): 44. A Mountain of Treasure/George Schaller. Western Tien Shan (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan): 45. Tien Shan: Mountain of Heaven/Koustubh Sharma. The World Natural Heritage Sites protect over 286 million hectares of land and sea, including trans-boundary sites, signifying that heritage sites belong to all peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located. Wild Treasures is a selection of 45 carefully curated articles, channelling voices past and present to take you on a journey across Asia's most beautiful landscapes. Wet, evergreen forests of India's Western Ghats and Sri Lanka; the only mangrove forests, Sundarbans, where tigers roam across India and Bangladesh; the mystical tropical forests of Myanmar where tigers are revered as 'relatives' but are equally vulnerable to poaching pressures; the Lut Desert in Iran, the hottest place in the world; the snowy peaks of the Himalayas, the haunt of the elusive grey ghost the Snow Leopard; Keoladeo, a wetland dense with birds in the dry region of India's Rajasthan; the.

Hardcover. Condición: New. The book Ramayana in the North-East India is a collection of papers presented at a National Seminar, the first of its kind in this part of the country on "Ramayana in North-East" held at Silchar organised by the Bharatiya Ithihasa Sankalana Samiti to examine and discuss various aspects of Ramakatha tradition in the North-East India. The papers have been contributed by well known scholars from Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura and are highly illuminating in exploring the Ramakatha tradition in North-East India. It is hoped that the book will be well received by enlightened readers, and our efforts in the direction of rediscovering Ramakatha tradition in the North-East India will be most fruitful.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / Fourth Print (number 4 on copyright page). Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 398pp. B/w maps throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light creasing to spine. (49/6).

Hardcover. Condición: As New with no dust jacket. part of the Routledge Studies in Development Economics series. 229 pages. articles by Masudul Alam Choudhruy, Gale Summerfield, Randy Stringer, G. S. Gupta, M. R. Aggarwal, Shankaran Nambiar, Ozay Mehmet and others. ; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 ".

Hardcover. Condición: New. Contents: Foreword. Introduction. I. On D.C. Sircar: 1. D.C. Sircar as the Govt. epigraphist in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu/Gouriswar Bhattacharya. 2. The bird and the worm-the relevance of D.C. Sircar in the twenty-first century/Kumkum Roy. II. Inscriptions and agrarian issues: region oriented studies: I. Central and Western India, and the Deccan: 1. Transfer of agrarian resources and the functions and structure of the state apparatus as evident in the land charters of the pre-imperial branches of Rastrakutas (c. AD 500 c AD 750)/Shyam Narayan Lal. 2. Aspects of agrarian history in Gujarat and Rajasthan: reading the Maitraka and Guhila inscriptions/Nandini Sinha Kapur. 3. Agrarian issues in the Indravati Valley: a study of some Nagavamsi inscriptions/Sayantani Pal. 4. Changing the gaze: facets of sub-regional agrarian economies in early medieval Orissa/Bhairabi Prasad Sahu. II. South India: 1. Shift of trust from words to deeds: implications of the proliferation of epigraphs in the Tamil South/Rajan Gurukkal. 2. Landholders, cultivators, and slaves in the cola state/Y. Subbarayalu. 3. Landlordism in medieval Keala: its origin and development/Kesavan Veluthat. III. Eastern India: 1. Agrarian society of Kamarupa: early medieval period/Chitraekha Gupta. 2. Agrarian society and social groups in early medieval Bengal from a study of inscriptions/Ryosuke Furui. IV. North India: 1. Nature of Gahadavala land grants: a preliminary study/Suchandra Ghosh. This book is a collection of essays on agrarian history studied through the lens of epigraphy by scholars of early Indian history. The essays published here were presented at a seminar organized by the Asiatic Society to mark the birth centenary of Professor D.C. Sircar, the doyen of Indian epigraphy, in 2007. The rationale behind the choice of agrarian history lay in the fact that the single area of major historical debate in which Sircar participated was undoubtedly related to Indian agrarian history. Individual contribution has regional focus and the major themes addressed were agrarian economy, agrarian society, landlordism, landholders, agrarian resources and other relevant subjects. In a sense for the first time issues and perspectives related to agrarian history in different regions of early India are put together in the book. (jacket).

Soft cover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Pulses Scenario and status of resource conservation technologies in India. 2. Pulses in conservation agriculture and crop diversification. 3. Genetic approaches for harnessing conservation agriculture. 4. Integrated input management. 5. Climate change and carbon sequestration opportunities. 6. Residue management and farm mechanization. 7. Resource conservation technologies for abiotic stress management. 8. Resource conservation technologies for biotic stress management. 9. Indigenous technical knowledge, socio-economic consideration and impact assessment. Index. This book will bring together all recent and updated information on RCT in pulses and pulse based cropping system which will be of immense use to researchers, extension personnel, students, research scholars across the nation. This is first of its kind in which we are going to bring out different aspects of proposed book from subject matter specialists and eminent scientists working in their specialised areas from various national and international organizations. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Theme I: Engaging Community and other Stakeholders in Development and Evaluation: Field Building, Innovation in Processes and Utility Orientation: 1. Evaluations in Emergency, Recovery and Resilience Context: Lessons from Myanmar, The Philippines and South Sudan/Harvey John D. Garcia, Jacquelyn Pinat, Masahiro Igarashi, Luisa Belli and Marta Bruno. 2. Engaging Citizens for Evaluation of Public Services: Critical for an Effective Service Delivery System in India/Alok Srivastava. 3. Engaging Community and Other Stakeholders in Development and Evaluation: A Case Study of Aga Khan Foundation's Citizen's Voice in Devolved Governance in Kenya/Awuor Ponge. 4. A Review of Existing Care for Senior Citizens and Future Strategies for Preventive and Promotive Care/Sakshi Sharma, Nazish Parveen Siddiqui and Shalini Singh. 5. Mid-term Evaluation of Empowerment Programme on Women's Entitlements and Rights (EmPOWER) Project/Itishree Sahoo. Theme II: Inclusion: Social, Economic Cultural and Behavioural: 6. Assessment of ICF Framework: To Evaluate Social Inclusion in Disability and Disease/Abhishek Dadhich. 7. Economic Inequality in utilization of Maternal and Child Health Care in EAG states in India Findings from NFHS/Atanu Ghosh, Kajori Banerjee and Samik Ghosh. 8. A Review of HIV Programmes in India and their Impact: Key Learnings that can Guide Future Programmes in other Infectious Epidemics/Laxmi Verma. Theme III: Innovations: New Knowledge and Practice: 9. Changing and Evaluating Behaviours through Story Narration and Reaction/Rashmi Agrawal and Banda V.L.N. Rao. 10. Evaluating a Community-Led Health Education Video Intervention to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes/Sudip Mahapatra, Michelle Desmond, Richard Anderson,Anil Mishra and Kiersten Israel-Ballard. 11. Sense of Ownership as Capacity Building: Experience of Using SALT among Domestic Workers for Systematic Self-Assessment/Rajib Nandi, Rituu B. Nanda and Shiny Saha. 12. Evaluation and Learning by Peers and Fellow Travellers Access to Natural Resources and Energy for Forest Dependent communities/Avinash Singh. Theme IV: Ethics and Evaluations: 13. The Politics and Ethics of Writing up Evaluation Results: Personal Reflections/Cynthia M. Caron. New Directions for Evaluations: Visibility, Voice and Value is collection of writings of Evaluation of development programmes in both governmental and non-governmental settings. It has 13 papers on innovations, ethics and inclusion. The book is a collation of evaluation experience from across the world including fragile contexts. These writings distil the complexity of evaluation in different settings of development into clear, easy to understand learning papers. It gives the readers, development practitioners' insights to navigate and understand evaluation for a more evidence based programming focused on inclusion. (jacket).

Contents I Introduction 1 Agricultural Transformation Concepts and ProspectsSubir Ghosh 2 Farmer Participation in Private Sector Agricultural ExtensionDominic Glover 3 Effects of Agricultural Management on Soil Organic Matter and Carbon Transformation A ReviewXiaobing Lir SJ Herbert AM Hashemi X Zhang and G Ding 4 Agricultural Transformation Towards MarketizationNirbachita Karmakar 5 Ecosystem Approaches to Research on Agricultural Transformation Nutrition and Human Health 6 Agricultural Transformation and Changing Status of WomenP Narasimha Rao and R Venkata Rao II Country Perspectives 7 Post Communist Transformation in Bulgaria Implications for Development of Agricultural Specialization and Farming StructuresHrabrin Bachev 8 Agricultural Extension in Africa and Asia Carl K Eicher 9 Agricultural Transformation in Latin AmericaBasistha Chatterjee  10 Agricultural Transformation The Case of ChinaAsis Kumar Pain 11 Agricultural Transformation in IndiaBasistha Chatterjee and Visvarup Chakravarti 12 Contract Farming and Horticulture A Perspective on Agricultural Transformation in IndiaRahul Gupta  IndexLow agricultural growth and increasing population pressure raise the problem of poverty of a nation As agriculture is the only mainstay of most of the rural people of nation there is need to transform traditional agricultural practices to more specialized production oriented towards the market or other systems of exchange so as to ensure better standard of livingAgricultural transformation is a process through which a single farm shifts from traditional production system to a highly specialized production system towards market orientation Agricultural transformation not only creates output for final consumption but also supplies inputs for other manufacturing industries The process involves a greater dependence on input and output delivery systems and increased integration of agricultural transformation aims to create a market-oriented and internationally competitive agricultural production system through the adoption of new technologies so as to improve the socioeconomic status of the rural masses It is a broader process in which an increasing proportion of economic output and employment are generated by sectors other than agriculture In this way agricultural transformation can be a market-oriented production system through the structural transformation of rural masses which can create integrated rural developmentWith this background an attempt has been made in this book to introduce the concept of agricultural transformation and discuss the efforts made in different countries towards its implementation 204 pp.

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. This book is a comprehensive work on "Human Resource Management and Sustainable Growth". An attempt has been made in this book to study human resource management and its effect on sustainable growth. This book has shown some important policy implications. Researchers, students, Government executives, parliamentarians and legislators and the general readers will find the book immensely useful.

Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. The history of a place, no matter how small, cannot be understood without appreciating the connections - visible or invisible; random or methodical; haphazard or systematic - it forges with other places across time and space. Once these connections become consistent and durable, they transform into connectivities, and Rethinking Connectivity: Region, Place and Space in Asia urges us to discern not just connections but also connectivities. Starting with cases of highly visible and structured/networked connectivities from an overland route spanning Central Asia and a coastal polity on the far side of the Indian Ocean, the book showcases some of the remarkable links forged in Asian history. It gives three examples of ideologies and individuals negotiating connections already established in colonial Bengal, and, from these realms of the visible, moves to the more intangible domain of visual strategies to discern connectivities. Cultural icons celebrating the nation, and maps displaying increasingly novel conceptions of space and time, reinforce the idea of an Asia that is connected, braided and also contested from early times to the present.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. figs., tables Ilustrador. Contents Foreword Preface 1 Active deformation in the Darjiling Sikkim Himalaya based on 2000 2004 geodetic global positioning system measurements 2 Preliminary results of a study of crustal deformation in the Himalayan Frontal zone in North Bengal using GPS Geodesy 3 Spatial and temporal variations of the strain fields in orogenic belts an analysis based on kinematic models 4 Grain size distribution patterns of some rivers in the light of three model distributions 5 Estimation of shape changes of skull roof bones in Benthosuchus Sushkini a Temnospondyl amphibian from the Triassic of Russia 6 Spatial mathematical models for mineral potential mapping 7 Enterprise GIS in Geological Survey of India Index Understanding earth systems and its dynamic behaviour requires objective insights into the complex observational data sets and their interrelationships Drawing meaningful inferences from such data is not always an easy task as the deterministic relationships between various geological variables often remain obscured These interrelationships need to be determined empirically through the analysis of a large set of data and validated through numerical simulations The ever widening horizon of techniques of numerical analysis and simulation now provides a good number of tools to aid the interpretation However due to the inherent complexity of earth science data expert supervision is required at all stages of analysis from collection to dissemination This ensures that the most appropriate methodology is adopted and the results remain consistent with the geological principles Discussions on these practical issues often lie beyond the scope of textbooks and this is precisely where this book is placed In this book eminent geoscientists present their experiences in analysing and managing earth science data as well as in designing numerical models to simulate earth processes Apart from giving a discourse of their own approach towards a particular research problem they also discuss at length the relative merits of alternative methodologies These seven authoritative articles richly illustrated will be a valuable resource for research students and professionals interested in research and teaching in various branches of earth science like tectonics GPS geodesy semimentology geographical information science and evolutionary biology 146 pp.