Modern Times: India 1880s-1950s (Environment, Economy, Culture) By Sumit Sarkar
2014 | 476 Pages | ISBN: 8178244705 | PDF | 9 MB
Much has changed in the world of South Asian history-writing since Sumit Sarkars renowned classic, Modern India (1983). The passage of thirty years having rendered that work thoroughly dated, the futility of any attempt to revise it became increasingly clear to me, especially as over this period my own historical perspectives took new and unexpected directions, says the author. The present work is an entirely fresh view of the same period.Focusing on three huge areas - Economy, Environment and Culture - Professor Sarkar offers his magisterial perspective on these.Scientific discourses, laws, forest administration, peasants and adivasis, irrigation and conflicts over land-use are examined, as are agrarian relations, commercialization, indebtedness and famine. Trade, finance and industry are other major focus areas.Modern urban India is scrutinized via the literature on its big cities. Sociabilities, caste configurations and public culture (Theater, cinema and sports) are discussed, as are literature, dance, music and painting.In conclusion, says Professor Sarkar, 'I have within each chapter incorporated the relevant historiographical developments, changes and debates. Separate bibliographical sections will I hope facilitate the work of teachers and students.

An Intellectual History for India By Shruti Kapila; C.A. Bayly
2010 | 164 Pages | ISBN: 0521199751 | PDF | 12 MB
This volume addresses the power of ideas in the making of Indian political modernity. As an intermediate history of connections between South Asia and the global arena the volume raises new issues in intellectual history. It reviews the period from the emergence of constitutional liberalism in the 1830s, through the swadeshi era to the writings of Tilak, Azad and Gandhi in the twentieth century. While several contributions reflect on the ideologies of nationalism, the volume seeks to rescue intellectual history from being simply a narration of the nation-state. It does not seek to create a 'canon' of political thought so much as to show how Indian concepts of state and society were redrawn in the context of emergent globalized debates about freedom, the constitution of the self and the good society in the late colonial era. In so doing the contributions here resituate an Indian intellectual history that has long been eclipsed by social and political history. These essays were originally published in a Special issue of the journal Modern Intellectual History (CUP, April 2007).

33 Gurus Of Modern India - Spanning Over 200 Years Of Indian Spiritual Thought And Practice
epub | 4.51 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B01N2H65CT | Author: Williams, Dr. C. Norman | Year: 2016

English Language in India: A Dichotomy between Economic Growth and Inclusive Growth by Jaskiran Bedi
English | Aug 8, 2019 | ISBN: 1138384577, 0367655039 | 172 pages | PDF | 1 MB
This book examines the relationship between the English language and growth - economic and inclusive - in India. It explores why English continues to be the language of aspiration long after Independence. With the second largest English-speaking population in the world today, India is testimonial to how a linguistic legacy continues to cast a long shadow on its contemporary discourse in the economic arena.

Land Degradation in India: Linkages with Deforestation, Climate and Agriculture by Ratan Priya
English | EPUB | 2021 | 116 Pages | ISBN : 303068847X | 27.1 MB
This book discusses land degradation in India using statistical tools such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Regression Analysis (RA), and uses statistical analyses and graphical representations of the causal relationship between land degradation and land productivity to determine linkages with deforestation, climate change and agricultural productivity. While most studies of land degradation in India focus on economic outcomes and physical processes at macro and micro levels, this study addresses land degradation at the meso-level to fill in this gap and provide up-to-date information on often overlooked factors associated with land degradation issues using the latest available data.

Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India: Lessons from Small Firm Clusters and Beyond by R. Nagaraj
2021 | ISBN: 1108832334 | English | 303 pages | PDF | 24 MB
India initiated liberal economic reforms in 1991 to transform a slow-growing, state-led economy into an open, export-oriented industrialising economy. Though economic growth has accelerated, industrialisation has suffered from the manufacturing sector's share and labour intensive sectors failing to improve in India's exports. The government launched the Make in India initiative in 2015 aimed at raising the manufacturing sector's share in GDP to 25 percent, and to create an additional 100 million jobs by 2022. Though official estimates show an optimistic image of small scale industries, they do not explain why India failed to boost industrial production as expected of the reforms. Why did they fail to keep the domestic market, let alone expand exports? What would it take to meet the ambitious policy goals of the initiative? This book attempts to address these questions. It looks at a series of case studies of the small industry to obtain an in-depth understanding of specific industries and locations to draw meaningful conclusions.

India and the Arab Unrest: Challenges, Dilemmas and Engagements (Routledge Studies on Think Asia) by Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
2021 | ISBN: 0367618508 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book is a study of India's political, diplomatic and security challenges caused by the changing geopolitical and security dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Human Rights: India and the West By Ashwini Peetush; Jay Drydyk
2015 | 364 Pages | ISBN: 0199453527 | PDF | 2 MB
The idea of human rights has raised both hope and concern. The hope is for universality, that every person matters, and matters equally, and therefore that everyone has equal rights. The concern is that human rights are a Trojan horse concealing implicit attacks on non-Western cultures and values. Even though a delegate from India was included in the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Western thinking was regarded as the paradigm, and only a minority of the countries that now exist voted on the Declaration in 1948.An important contribution to resolving this conflict can be made by exploring the insights and rich resources offered for an intercultural understanding of human rights that come from India.This volume offers pioneering essays that approach the question from theoretical, social, legal and political perspectives, contributing to a global understanding of human rights. The contributors develop new methodologies for examining what all may learnaincluding the Westafrom Indian articulations of human rights.

33 Gurus Of Modern India: Spanning Over 200 Years Of Indian Spiritual Thought And Practice by Dr. C Norman Williams
English | August 30, 2016 | ISBN: 938274245X | 472 pages | EPUB | 4.51 Mb
Is life simply the flow of time? You are born... you get old... and you die. What is the Truth that pervades our existence? Here is a unique book that brings together the Truth as perceived by 33 Spiritual Masters of India who have influenced spiritual thought and practice - at home and abroad. The basic thrust of their messages remains the same. The eternal principles which are universal in nature are Satyam (Truth), Dharmam (Righteousness), Premam (Love), and Seva (Service to others). Spanning across 200 eventful years, 33 Gurus of Modern India features spiritual luminaries like Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, Anandamayi Ma, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma), and Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev, among others. Their teachings, which are relevant for all times, inspire you to realize and achieve your full potential as a human being.

Shakuntala Banaji, "Children and Media in India: Narratives of Class, Agency and Social Change "
English | ISBN: 1138929476 | 2016 | 246 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Is the bicycle, like the loudspeaker, a medium of communication in India? Do Indian children need trade unions as much as they need schools? What would you do with a mobile phone if all your friends were playing tag in the rain or watching Indian Idol? Children and Media in India illuminates the experiences, practices and contexts in which children and young people in diverse locations across India encounter, make, or make meaning from media in the course of their everyday lives. From textbooks, television, film and comics to mobile phones and digital games, this book examines the media available to different socioeconomic groups of children in India and their articulation with everyday cultures and routines. An authoritative overview of theories and discussions about childhood, agency, social class, caste and gender in India is followed by an analysis of films and television representations of childhood informed by qualitative interview data collected between 2005 and 2015 in urban, small-town and rural contexts with children aged nine to 17. The analysis uncovers and challenges widely held assumptions about the relationships among factors including sociocultural location, media content and technologies, and children's labour and agency. The analysis casts doubt on undifferentiated claims about how new technologies 'affect', 'endanger' and/or 'empower', pointing instead to the importance of social class - and caste - in mediating relationships among children, young people and the poor. The analysis of children's narratives of daily work, education, caring and leisure supports the conclusion that, although unrecognised and underrepresented, subaltern children's agency and resourceful conservation makes a significant contribution to economic, interpretive and social reproduction in India.