Representing the latest and most authoritative research on India and the subcontinent, the ACADEMIC programme publishes across a range of subjects. Books on economics and business, history, politics, law, and literature to philosophy and religion, sociology and anthropology, and gender studies reach out to students, teachers, and researchers. Alongside monographs, readers, handbooks, and edited volumes, the programme has launched online services and student-friendly textbooks. Key focus areas in GENERAL books include arts and architecture, wildlife and natural history, culture, media studies and cinema, Indian writing in translation, and ecology and environment. From accessible anthologies and bestselling paperbacks to full-colour glossies and affordably-priced illustrated editions—they cut across age and reading habit.
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| Author | : | NIKITA SUD | | ISBN | : | 9780198076933 | | Binding type | : | Hardback | | Price | : |  695.00 |
In this path-breaking account, Nikita Sud critically re-examines the post-independence history and politics of Gujarat, one of India's leading federal units. Today, Gujarat is known for its ...
This volume of essays by I.G. Patel, a distinguished economist and policymaker, focuses on the milestones in his work on issues of money, finance, trade, balance of payments, and economic ...
India faces the omnipresent reality of disaster vulnerability due to natural causes and human interventions including developmental initiatives. The current development policy is conducive to rapid industrialization and urbanization. Developmental interventions towards this effect tend to put at risk the safety of local ...
| Author | : | Romila Thapar | | ISBN | : | 9780198083764 | | Binding type | : | Hardback | | Price | : | 995.00 |
Culled from the writings of Romila Thapar, this ion of essays provides a fascinating account of the history of the subcontinent through a sensitive, thoughtful, and critical reading of the past. Uncovering the diverse influences on the shaping of Indian civilization through many centuries, the author brings various aspects of ...
An ambitious workfare scheme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), was launched by the Indian government in 2005 to respond to the needs of the country's poor. The scheme guarantees hundred days of employment in unskilled manual labour at a minimum wage to any rural household in a year.The ...
Religion is deeply intertwined with modern Indian society and polity. Boundaries of Religion is a collection of essays that brings together critical writings by Rowena Robinson spanning the past two decades that map the course of community interactions and ethnic and religious conflict in India. The author looks at Hindu-Muslim ethnic violence; ...
In a federal polity, reforms related to economic integration, deregulation, or natural resource management cannot be fully effective without the active participation of subnational governments. While most of the available literature in this area focuses on reform of federalism, this volume is about reform ...
| Author | : | Rajat Acharyya | | ISBN | : | 9780198079767 | | Binding type | : | Paperback | | Price | : | 395.00 |
Over the last three decades, there has been a greater interdependence between economies than ever before due to fragmentation and outsourcing of production processes, increasing mobility of people, international capital flows, and flexible exchange rate regimes. International Economics initiates students to these changes in the ...
Sale of goods is a classical field of law and principles constituting it have been there forever. Developed as a text, this book studies the principles from a contemporary perspective, explores the relationship among them, and knits them together. Since sale is a special form of contract deriving many of its principles from contract ...
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